Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 1000 Films to Buy & Rent
My Family and Other Animals (2005)
- Dir. Sheree Folkson
Feat. Imelda Staunton
- Delightfully unassuming BBC telemovie with Imelda Staunton as the matriarch of an eccentric British family living on the Greek isle of Corfu. Based…
Over There (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
- Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show
- Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…
Rome (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kevin McKidd, Polly Walker, Ian McNeice…
- Lavish, handsomely–mounted cable television series chronicling dark goings–on in ancient Rome.
The wide canvas of characters ranges…
Search for the Northwest Passage (2005)
- Dir. Louise Osmond
- A partially dramatised documentary examines the two most famous expeditions which attempted to find a passage around the northern–most…
Showbands (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon
Feat. Liam Cunningham, Kerry Katona
- Rich, rambunctious revival of the showband era propelled by the story of a lowly Irish bar cleaner determined to work her way up to singing stardom.…
Six Feet Under - Season 5 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Fifth and final season of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
12 episodes over 5 discs: A Coat of White Primer, Dancing for Me,…
Wallis and Edward (2005)
- Feat. Joely Richardson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Miriam Margolyes
- A condensed tele–feature dramatisation of the royal scandal that shocked the world following Prince Edward from the time when he meets the…
24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Agatha Christie - A Life in Pictures (2004)
- Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Olivia Williams, Anna Massey
- BBC teledrama that focuses on the real life disappearance of detective–writer Agatha Christie in 1926, which has already spawned at least one…