The best Jake D'Arcy’s movies

Jake D'Arcy

Jake D'Arcy

02/12/1945- 30/05/2015
Today we present the best Jake D'Arcy’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jake D'Arcy’s movies.
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What We Did on Our Holiday

What We Did on Our Holiday
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/09/2014
  • Character: Smokey
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...

The Little Vampire

The Little Vampire
5.7/10
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures
5.8/10
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

Staggered

Staggered
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/07/1994
  • Character: Pilot
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?

Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/04/1981
  • Character: Phil Menzies
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his schoolfriends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory's younger sister.

Heavenly Pursuits

Heavenly Pursuits
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/07/1986
  • Character: Wee Man at Bar
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis

Just Another Saturday

Just Another Saturday
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/07/1975
  • Character: Jackie
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.

The Bogie Man

The Bogie Man
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic book series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.

A Sense of Freedom

A Sense of Freedom
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1979
  • Character: Robbie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.

A Passage to England

A Passage to England
7.7/10
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.

A View of Harry Clark

A View of Harry Clark
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 21/03/1989
  • Character: Peter Taylor
Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?

The Silly Season

The Silly Season
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1982
  • Character: Eddie
Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.

It Could Happen to Anybody

It Could Happen to Anybody
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/08/1984
  • Character: Det Con Newman
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.

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