Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates…
- Above–board portrait of the relationship between George VI and future wife Elizabeth Bowes–Lyon – better known as the 'Queen…
Born and Bred (TV Series) (2002-2005)
- Feat. James Bolam, Michael French
- Comforting drama series, set in 1950's Britain, centred on a son who moves back home to a Lancashire village to help his father establish a medical…
Crime and Punishment (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. John Simm, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont…
- Lyrical TV adaptation of the great Dostoevsky novel focused on a young murderer struggling to escape his feelings of guilt and paranoia before they…
Cutting It (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Amanda Holden, Sarah Parish
- Set in the snippily stylish world British hair salons, this television series concerns the competition between two salons facing each other across…
Daniel Deronda (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Barbara Hershey…
- Faithful and reasonably stylish BBC adaptation of George Eliot's final novel, in which the titular young man (Dancy), an orphan raised by a guardian…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006)
- Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer
- Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul, David Moore
Feat. Rupert Graves, Damian Lewis, Gina McKee
- Opulent adaptation of John Galsworthy’s cycle of novels by Granada television, with the saga of the squabbling, all–too–human Forsyte…
Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- Feat. Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
Linda Green (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Liza Tarbuck
- Surprisingly endearing comic drama, follows the life of swinging single girl Linda (played by former TV presenter Liza Tarbuck) from work to home to…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox…
- Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…