Trainspotting

1996 Directed by Danny Boyle

Choose life.

Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Kevin McKidd Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch Shirley Henderson Stuart McQuarrie Keith Allen Kevin Allen Irvine Welsh Eddie Nestor Annie Louise Ross Billy Riddoch Dale Winton Hugh Ross Victor Eadie Kate Donnelly Fiona Bell

Country

Language

English

Alternative Titles

Trainspotting: Sin límites, 迷幻列车, Trejnspoting, 定位的火车, Trainspotting - Din Viata Scapa Cine Poate, Trainspotting 1, Trainspotting: La vida en el abismo, 트레인스포팅

crime drama

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Popular reviews

Review by Steve G 🐝 ★★★★½ 230

Choose Letterboxd. Choose films. Choose downloading the app. Choose paying money for a membership just so you don’t have to see some fucker adding 500 films to their watchlist. Choose following a few thousand people and then never reading a fucking word they say. Choose writing “Read the full review on my website!” knowing full well no cunt is ever going to follow that link. Choose asking Sally Jane Black to watch Rogue Nation and then seeing her do a Chantal Akerman marathon instead. Choose mithering the cunts on Twitter that you can’t get your lists to work. Choose refreshing it seven dozen times in the evening because it’s fucking broke again. Choose getting death threats over your opinions on…
Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★ 4

ewan mcgregor: choose this choose that choose choose choose choose choose
me, indecisive as fuck: uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Review by Larry ★★★★★ 9

The word "trainspotting" can mean alot of things.
It literally translates to the phyisical act of watching trains, whether it be for a hobby or for recreation.
It's also commonly used among junkies to signal the track marks it leaves on the arms of addicts.
In the context of Danny Boyle's masterpiece, the word means all of the above. The life of a heroin addict could be summed up as the act of watching trains. You are watching hundreds of lives pass you by as the train speeds past. There are people going many different places. There are people coming from heartbreaks and there are people heading towards a new life. The addict isn't a part of all this. He…
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 9

you know how you can smell certain movies? yeah, this one smells like cigarettes and feces.
Review by teddy ★★★★★ 1

ewan macgregor in a crop top saved cinema just saying
Review by suzanne by leonard cohen ★★★ 9

what the fuck was anyone saying
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★½ 5

there’s a character in the book of mormon who, after visiting uganda for the first time, declares that AFRICA IS NOTHING LIKE THE LION KING! similarly, after spending 90 minutes w this film, i have concluded that outlander may not be the most universal depiction of scotland
Review by kayla ★★★★½ 6

“1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.”
Review by maria ★★★★ 4

weel noo a'm feelin' an overwhelming urge tae clean mah toilet 'n' then masell
Review by sophie ★★★★★ 2

"wow, trainspotting has really changed my life. It's made me decide I'm never gonna do drugs" -me, a bitch who was never gonna do heroin anyway
Review by muriel ★★★★½ 3

ewan mcgregor wearing a crop top did more for the film industry than spielberg's entire filmography
Review by Jay ★★★★ 5

ye ever wanty just tie yer arm up nice and cosy and then just fucking get right inty the heroin and blow yersel up tae fuck

Recent reviews

Review by lafleurju ★★

na metade do filme eu já não aguentava mais de tão entediante
Review by evaline valentine ★★★★★

LOVE LOVE LOVE
Review by 🧸amelia ★★★★½

i feel sick
Review by cavinb11 ★★★★

I canny even describe how good this film was like. I'm writing this review in a Scottish accent because like the film was fucking great innit.
Review by Jack ★★★★★

This film would probably be far more shocking and impactful at the time. But it still holds up as one of the best British films
Review by Adrian Moviez ★★★★★

Rewatched for it’s 25th Anniversary:
Trainspotting is an extremely uncomfortable, gritty, dirty, hilarious, imaginative film packed with exceptional use of drugs which makes it mindblowing because of the film's incredible dialogue and directing—all packed with brilliant energy. All of that really does make this film one of my favourites of all time.
(it really was uncomfortable watching this with my dad as I haven’t really watched anything at the same impact at this film but it was fine I guess)
Review by margot ★★★★½

choose friendship, peace and love <3
Review by dusmer ★★★★½

This movie kind of does it all, funny and terrifying, while filmed with amazing style. 20 years later and we're even deeper in the opioid epidemic, which makes the movie hit harder now then the first time I saw it.
Review by Andie Martian ★★★½

That toilet scene.
Review by MDFade ★★★★½

Scottish SLC Punk and I am here for it. Yes I know SLC Punk came out after this.
Review by tess ★★★★★

lol scottish accents
Review by ForemanEmily ★★★★★

POV: You just got into the Britpop fandom