Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Breaking Bad - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Breaking the Mould (2009)
- Dir. Peter Hoar
Feat. Dominic West, Denis Lawson
- Historical teledrama following the development of penicillin in the 1930's and 40's by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of…
Darwin's Brave New World (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Feat. Socratis Otto, Richard Jongejan, Nicola Bowman
- Three–part dramatized series tells the story of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace,…
Desperate Romantics (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Feat. Rafe Spall, Samuel Barnett, Aidan Turner…
- Ribald treatment of the controversial art movement pays only cursory attention to their work and instead largely on their adventures in the bodice…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (Mini-series) (2009)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Kate Ashfield, Tamsin Greig, Iain Glen…
- Superlative BBC adaptation of Anne Frank's enduring story is sensitively written and perfectly cast. Told over five half–hour episodes, one of…
Dollhouse (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Eliza Dushku
- Joss Whedon's short–lived sci–fi series set in a futuristic laboratory that assigns different tasks to its various residents, who then…
Drop Dead Diva (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Kate Levering…
- A vacant fashion model is killed in a car accident, only to be resurrected in the body of a plus–sized lawyer, in this far–fetched, if…
Emma (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Feat. Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon…
- The BBC's latest update of Jane Austen's comic classic, centred on the titular beauty's dangerous game of matchmaking. Regarded as the best Austen…
Garrow's Law (TV Series) (2009-2011)
- Feat. Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong, Rupert Graves
- Legal drama based around the true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved…
Go Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Anna Hutchison, Bronwyn Turei, Alix Bushnell…
- A North Shore equivalent of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE perhaps, but with considerably less bite, this follows four middle–class 20–somethings as…