Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Cult TV: 65 Films to Buy & Rent
- Kingdom, The (Riget) (1994)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby…
- A Danish medical soap opera from the director of BREAKING THE WAVES that's a bizarre yet compulsive combination of ghost story, TV drama and…
- Beavis and Butthead (TV Series) (1993-1997)
- Dir. Mike Judge
- Once rejected by our television networks on moral grounds, this might've been your only chance to catch America's favourite miscreants in animated…
- X-Files, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (1993)
- Dir. Robert Mandel, Daniel Sackheim, Harry Longstreet
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny
- The first series of the sci fi TV phenomenon – not quite finding the shape of the mythology of later seasons, but with some excellent episodes…
- Fishing with John (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. John Lurie
Feat. Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper…
- Neo–beatnik musician John Lurie hosts his own candid, off–beat TV show in which he takes a hipster celebrity pal on an exotic fishing…
- Wild Palms (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt, Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon
Feat. James Belushi, Dana Delany, Angie Dickinson…
- Grandly stylised mini–series heavily inspired by TWIN PEAKS yet almost as worthy in spite of big lug James Belushi in the lead role. After…
- Eerie Indiana (TV Series) (1991-1992)
- Feat. Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow
- Short–lived, cult TWIN PEAKS–offshoot follows the arrival of a young boy to Eerie, Indiana, a town overrun with urban legends, a living…
- Ren and Stimpy (TV Series) (1991-1995)
- Dir. John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp
- The ground–breaking cartoon misadventures of a hyper chihuahua and a stupid cat that turned animation and good taste on its ear, and inspired a…
- Twin Peaks - Season 2 (TV Series) (1991)
- Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- Second and final season of the cult nineties serial, with Kyle MacLachlan as an eccentric, mystical FBI agent arriving in a small Pacific Northwest…
- Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series) (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- An eccentric, mystical FBI agent arrives in a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the murder of a young high school girl. Iconic, influential…
- Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Richard Boden
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Final official series, set on the Western Front 1917. Six episodes contained on a single DVD or two tape volumes: 'Captain Cook', 'Corporal…