Bill Douglas

My Childhood recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children's home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs. (wikipedia.org)

'My Ain Folk' is the second of three autobiographical films written and directed by Bill Douglas, recounting his childhood and adolescence. In all three films, the protagonist is cried Jamie. The name change warns us that some fictionalisation is in the works, but we're never told precisely at which points in the story, nor how extensively. The most famous case of this sort of substitution would be the example of Francois Truffaut and his cinematic alter ego Antoine Doinel. (imdb)

The third of three autobiographical films written and directed by Bill Douglas.

Telling the story of the Dorset labourers whose transportation to Australia became central to trade union history, the film has a much broader canvas than Douglas's earlier work, but retains a focus on individual suffering and intimate personal detail. While events such as the Tolpuddle martyrs' trial are not directly portrayed, space is given to the daily existence of the village community at the film's centre. (screenonline)

Two men meet on Southend Pier one foggy afternoon in what at first appears to be a gay pick up. (imdb)