Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 995 Films to Buy & Rent
Planman, The (2003)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
- Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
Reagans, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. James Brolin, Judy Davis, Zeljko Ivanek
- Biographical drama about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family, spanning the time period 1949–1989, with James Brolin as Ronald Reagan…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft…
- Reasonably solid telemovie version of Tennessee Williams' only novel, with Mirren here playing the aging actress lured into an affair after the…
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
- Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
Shark Net, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Feat. William McInnes, Angie Milliken, Tim Draxl
- Based on the memoir by Robert Drewe, this Australian mini–series focuses on Drewe's move to Perth as a young, excitable boy and his gradual…
Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005)
- Feat. Eliza Dushku
- Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
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…