Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2937 Films to Buy & Rent
Heat of the Sun (TV Mini-Series) (1998)
- Feat. Trevor Eve
- The seedier side of Kenya's expatriate community is laid bare in this classic British police procedural set in 1930s Nairobi.
I'm Alan Partridge (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Dominic Brigstocke
Feat. Steve Coogan
- This is possibly British comedian Steve Coogan’s finest achievement to date, a spot–on portrait of a failed middle–aged TV host…
King of Queens, The (TV Series) (1998-2006)
- Feat. Kevin James, Jerry Stiller, Patton Oswalt
- Warm–hearted neighbourhood comedy series set on the streets of Queens, NYC, which gets going when a rotund and happily–settled delivery…
Kings in Grass Castles (TV Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. John Woods
Feat. Max Cullen, Fionnula Flanagan, Essie Davis…
- Chronicles the hard life of an Irish peasant family who flee the potato famine and emigrate to Australia in the second half of the 19th century.…
Magnificent Seven, The (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Dale Midkiff…
- Detailed spin–off series from the 1960 movie THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, continuing with the premise of seven cowboys each with a unique set of…
Martial Law (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Feat. Sammo Hung, Arsenio Hall
- Action–comedy series starring prolific Hong Kong actor/director/producer Sammo Hung (and frequent Jackie Chan collaborator) as a Chinese law…
Our Mutual Friend (Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes
- Adapted by the BBC, Charles Dickens' last novel opens on a forlorn family who earn a crust fishing corpses out of the Thames, before sifting upwards…
Planet Ustinov - Following the Equator with Peter Ustinov (1998)
- Mark Twain's 1898 account of his epic journey around the globe is traced by Peter Ustinov in this part travelogue, part history lesson, which takes…
Royle Family, The (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Dir. Mark Mylod, Steve Bendelack
Feat. Ricky Tomlinson
- "Real–life" comedy that places the viewer as a fly–on–the–wall of the living room of an average working class family living…
Scrapheap Challenge (TV Series) (1998-2008)
- This bizarre game show sends rival teams of mechanics and engineers into a sprawling junkyard. Each week, the teams set out against the clock and one…