Peter Mullan Filmography

The Last Legion

Actors: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd

Synopsis: Co-adapted by Tom Butterworth and Jez Butterworth from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's bestselling historical adventure novel, Doug Lefler's period epic The Last Legion unfurls c. 470 A.D., just prior to the fall of the colossal Roman Empire. As the most recent in a long line of Caesars, a young Roman Read More

Dog Altogether

Actors: Peter Mullan

The Trial of Tony Blair

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter Mullan, Alexander Armstrong

Children of Men

Actors: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Claire-Hope Ashitey

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate. The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of Read More

On a Clear Day

Actors: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Billy Boyd

Synopsis: A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and technology makes his position unnecessary. While Frank Read More

True North

Actors: Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis, Martin Compston, Steven Robertson, Angel Li

Synopsis: Writer/director Steve Hudson patterned his debut feature, True North, after classic Greek tragedy. This bleak and despairing drama concerns the Skipper (Gary Lewis) and Sean (Martin Compston), a father and son from the U.K. who co-pilot a small fishing boat called Providence. Though the Read More

Cargo

Actors: Peter Mullan, Daniel Bruehl, Luis Tosar, Gary Lewis, Samuli Edelmann

Criminal

Actors: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: A con artist finds family squabbles are getting in the way of a major payday in this sharp blend of comedy and suspense, based on the Argentinean hit Nueve Reinas (aka Nine Queens). Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) is a smart-suited confidence man who knows how to run a big con but prefers to pull Read More

Young Adam

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone

Synopsis: An amoral young man wends his way into the lives of a handful of damaged souls in this adaptation of British Beat Generation writer Alexander Trocchi's first novel. Written for the screen and directed by David Mackenzie, Young Adam begins with the discovery of a barely dressed woman's corpse by Read More

Kono Yo No Soto E

Actors: Masato Hagiwara, Jô Odagiri, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Jun Murakami, Mitch

The Magdalene Sisters

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne-Marie Duff, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Nora-Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan

Synopsis: One of the Catholic Church's most infamous institutions is the focus of this controversial independent feature from Scottish actor and erstwhile director Peter Mullan. Set in 1964, The Magdalene Sisters hones in on the Magdalene convent, a place where purportedly wayward young women have been sent Read More

This Little Life

Actors: Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey, David Morissey, Peter Mullan, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi

Kenneth Loach: Portrait

Actors: Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Barry Ackroyd, Paul Laverty, Jonathan Morris

Kiss of Life

Actors: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Peter Mullan, David Warner, Millie Findlay, James E. Martin

Session 9

Actors: Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Josh Lucas, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: Writer/director Brad Anderson, known for whimsical romantic comedies like Next Stop, Wonderland, was inspired by the astonishing, creepy visage of an abandoned mental hospital in Danvers, MA, to make the intense psychological horror film Session 9. The film stars the redoubtable Scottish actor Read More

The Claim

Actors: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America. In 1867, Dillon (Peter Mullan) is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of Read More

Orphans

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Stephen Cole, Rosemarie Stevenson, Frank Gallagher

Synopsis: Following his Cannes award-winning performance in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe, Scottish actor Peter Mullan made his feature script and directorial debut with this British dark comedy-drama about four adult siblings on the eve of their mother's funeral in Glasgow. Eldest son Thomas (Gary Lewis) Read More

Miss Julie

Actors: Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy

Synopsis: August Strindberg's once-controversial play is brought to the screen in this adaptation directed and co-written by Mike Figgis. Miss Julie is set on the estate of a wealthy Swedish family in 1894, where the servants live a life of uncomfortable poverty while the masters of the house enjoy their Read More

My Name Is Joe

Actors: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Annemarie Kennedy, David Hayman

Synopsis: Actor Peter Mullan won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" award with this film, directed by Ken Loach (Carla's Song, Ladybird, Ladybird). The drama is set in Possilpark, one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, a rough section where half the population is out of work. Unemployed reformed Read More

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman

Synopsis: Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, Michael Lynch, a thief, bigamist, liar, and criminal genius who robs from the rich to give to the poor. Michael is suave, sardonic, and sexy. When his Read More

Mauvaise Passe

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Francis Barber

Synopsis: Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an Read More

Bogwoman

Actors: Rachel Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown, Maria McDernottroe

Synopsis: Set in 1958, this drama chronicles the raising of an Irish housewife's socio-political consciousness over a ten year period. Desiring a better life for her son, the unmarried Maureen crosses the border into Northern Ireland to live in the town of Bogside in Derry. There she marries the easy-going Read More

Trainspotting

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life Read More

Nightlife

Synopsis: An agoraphobic woman has to put her fear to the test in this British made-for-television movie. Katrin Cartidge stars as Robin, a woman who lives in Scotland near a dangerous park. Afraid to leave her home, Robin spends her days and nights locked inside her home, taking photos of the passersby Read More

Braveheart

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story Read More

Ruffian Hearts

Synopsis: This British comedy chronicles the entangled relationships between an eccentric group of people. Marie works in a night club owned by a flamboyant mock-Italian, Grazetti. Marie's mother Beatti runs a dog parlor. Also involved is Mick, a depressive guitar player, and two horny art students who are Read More

Shallow Grave

Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Keith Allen, Ken Stott

Synopsis: The feature film debut of Scottish director Danny Boyle was a dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), and meek accountant David (Christopher Eccleston Read More

Crossing the Line

Actors: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a bare-knuckle boxing match. Crossing the Line's Read More

Riff-Raff

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman, George Moss, Ricky Tomlinson, Willie Ross

Synopsis: Socialist-leaning British director Ken Loach kicked off a decade's worth of acclaimed cinema with this surprisingly comic tale of working class laborers at a North London building site, written by Bill Jesse, a real-life construction worker who died before the film's release. Scottish ex-con Read More