Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Empire Falls (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Conventional and well–handled drama series set in the once–booming factory town of Empire Falls, Maine, and mostly getting down in among…
Funland (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Phillip Jackson, Sarah Smart, Daniel Mays
- A dark–edged 'comedy' from the creators of LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, this true original melds surreal humour and coarse drama in equal parts,…
Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim
- Further primetime paranormal activity, with a prissy Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small town newlywed overcoming her initial skepticism at being able to…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 1 (2005-2006)
- Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl…
- Unusually female–driven spin on the hospital soap genre, follows the overcomplicated lives of five interns at Seattle's Grace Hospital as they…
Human Trafficking (2005)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Remy Girard…
- Tough, at times miserly two–part telemovie detailing the efforts of an Immigration Enforcement agency fighting to curb the Eastern European…
Insiders Guide to Love, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kate Elliot, Will Hall, Ryan O' Kane…
- Adopting the whimsical style of series forerunner INSIDERS GUIDE TO HAPPINESS, this spiffy companion–piece assembles an entirely new set of…
Inspector Soneri: Fog and Crimes (Nebbie e delitti) (2005)
- Feat. Luca Barbareschi, Natasha Stefanenko
- Inspired by the best–selling crime novels by Valerio Varesi, this atmospheric policier set along the river Po, with Barbareschi as the brooding…
Into the West (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Feat. Matthew Modine, Graham (Actor) Greene, Beau Bridges…
- The tale of the settlement of the American West between 1820 and 1890 is laid out in sprawling confusing detail in this epic mini–series told…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
- Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann…
- A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
Macbeth (Shakespeare Retold) (2005)
- Dir. Mark Brozel
Feat. James McAvoy, Richard Armitage, Keeley Hawes
- An updated version of Shakespeare's tragedy by the makers of THE CANTERBURY TALES (2003) series, shifting the Scottish renegade into the…