Peter Mullan
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Orphans (1997)
- Dir. Peter Mullan
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Rosmarie Stevenson
- The writer/directing debut of Peter Mullen, star of MY NAME IS JOE,is an expectedly raw and bleakly humorous journey through the darker side of…
- My Name Is Joe (1998)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall
- Dir. Ken Loach revisits his mainstay – the not–working–class of urban Britain, this time extending further north to the slums of…
- Miss Julie (1999)
- Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Mary Doyle Kennedy
- The puritan 19th century Swedish setting of August Strindberg's one–act play yields dramatic dividends in its fraught affair between flighty…
- Escort, The (Mauvaise Passe) (1999)
- Dir. Michel Blanc
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Noah Taylor…
- A ruffled Frenchman (Auteuil) – family man and professor – in the throes of a mid–life crisis travels to London, where he enjoys…
- Claim, The (2000)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley…
- On the mountainous frontier of the 1860s California goldrush, dir. Winterbottom (JUDE, WONDERLAND) reimagines Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of…
- Ordinary Decent Criminal (2001)
- Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan…
- Fairly decent, but ordinary rerun of the same events covered by Boorman's THE GENERAL, detailing the colourful life of Irish gangster Martin Cahill…
- Session 9 (2001)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Josh Lucas…
- A “haunted house” movie with a difference, this is an intense, thinking person’s spook session involving a team of tradesmen hired to clean up…
- Magdalene Sisters, The (2002)
- Dir. Peter Mullan
- Devastatingly sober and straight–forward account of three young women who in 1965 were incarcerated in an Irish Roman Catholic centre for…
- Young Adam (2003)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
- Evocatively set amid the grimy canal barges of post–WW2 Scotland, this follows the shady fortunes of a failed writer (McGregor), whose…
- Kiss of Life (2003)
- Dir. Emily Young
Feat. Peter Mullan, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, David Warner
- While an aid–worker (Mullan) cut adrift in wartorn Eastern Europe tries to make his way home to London, his waiting family seem lost in a limbo…
- Shoebox Zoo (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Justin Molotnikov
Feat. Vivien Endicott Douglas, Jason Connery, Rik Mayall…
- An imaginative British fantasy series for children, has a Canadian exchange student (Douglas) living in Edinburgh inherit a box of toy animals, that…
- Criminal (2004)
- Dir. Greg Jacobs
Feat. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A reasonably successful American replay of the Argentian thriller NINE QUEENS, this sees a con artist (Reilly) take an apprentice (Luna) under his…
- On a Clear Day (2005)
- Dir. Gaby Dellal
Feat. Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley…
- Smoothly delivered feelgooder has Peter Mullan (MY NAME IS JOE) playing a middle–aged Glaswegian dockworker who decides to affirm himself and…
- Children of Men (2006)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- Clive Owen is pursued across a dystopian England of 2027 in this stimulating, pertinent sci–fi parable, rendered with stunning virtuosity by…
- True North (2006)
- Dir. Steve Hudson
Feat. Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis
- Devastating thriller concerning the crew of a Scottish trawler in financial strife who smuggle Chinese immigrants in appalling conditions across the…
- Boy A (2007)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran
- Celebrated British drama following a young man's struggle to adjust to everyday life in Manchester after spending most of his teenagehood in…
- Fixer, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Andrew Buchan, Tamzin Outhwaite, Peter Mullan
- Punchy, well executed thriller in the tradition of SPOOKS sees a team of misfits, all with shady pasts, collaborate to bring down Britain's most…
- Neds (2010)
- Dir. Peter Mullan
Feat. Connor McCarron
- Dark coming–of–age story where a promising young student becomes dangerously entwined in Glasgow's violent gangland. Director Peter…
- War Horse (2011)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson…
- Steven Spielberg revives the magic of Old Hollywood with this rousing saga of a plucky farm stallion who goes on to inspire soldiers and citizens…
- Tyrannosaur (2011)
- Dir. Paddy Considine
Feat. Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
- A violent alcoholic is drawn to a saintly thrift shop worker in this harrowing but redemptive kitchen sink drama from…
- Top of the Lake (TV Series) (2013)
- Dir. Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Peter Mullan, David Wenham…
- An unnerving, atmosphere–rich 'feminist' policier from Australasian auteur Jane Campion, centred on the mystery of a 12–year–old…
- Welcome to the Punch (2013)
- Dir. Eran Creevy
Feat. James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough…
- James McAvoy and Mark Strong square off as obsessive cop and elusive criminal mastermind respectively in this high–performance thriller set in…
- Sunshine on Leith (2013)
- Dir. Dexter Fletcher
Feat. Antonia Thomas, Peter Mullan, Jason Flemyng…
- Bouncing off the solid catalogue of hits from died–in–the–wool Scots popsters The Proclaimers, this jubilant musical inspires with…
- Hercules (2014)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt…
- Entertaining sword–and–sandals schlock, with Dwayne Johnson muscling up as the legendary Greek demigod.
- Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd…
- Frances McDormand is superb as the forbidding Olive Kitteridge in this exemplary HBO adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize–winning…
- Sunset Song (2015)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie
- Dir. Terence Davies applies his refined visual sensibility to this luminescent adaptation of the Scottish literary classic of the 1930's by Lewis…
- Quarry (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Greg Yaitanes, John Hillcoat
Feat. Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman…
- A dark yet realistic crime drama series in which a disillusioned Vietnam War vet returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny,…
- Tommy's Honour (2016)
- Dir. Jason Connery
Feat. Jack Lowden, Peter Mullan, Sam Neill…
- Father and son camaraderie and rivalry lies at the heart of this bittersweet tale of the real–life founders of the modern game of golf set in…
- Mum (TV Series) (2016-2019)
- Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Lesley Manville, Peter Mullan
- Quality British character comedy following twelve months in the life of a newly widowed mother in her late fifties who attempts to rebuild her life…
- Gunpowder (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Kit Harington, Peter Mullan, Mark Gatiss…
- Three–part BBC dramatisation of the famous Gunpowder Plot in London of 1605 where activist Guy Fawkes conspires with a group of provincial…
- Vanishing, The (Keepers) (2018)
- Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler
- Windswept psychological thriller set on the remote Flannan Isles, where three lighthouse keepers find a hidden trunk of gold, then mysteriously…