Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 995 Films to Buy & Rent
Rebus (TV Series) (2000-2007)
- Feat. John Hannah
- John Hannah takes on the now familiar role of a Scottish Detective Inspector in the first few episodes of this whodunit crime series set on the…
Sally Hemings - An American Scandal (Mini Series) (2000)
- Dir. Charles Haid
Feat. Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo
- Provocative mini–series telling the allegedly true story of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's thirty–eight year affair with…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
Wives and Daughters (2000)
- Dir. Nicholas Renton
Feat. Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Michael Gambon…
- A BBC adaptation of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell's neglected masterpiece, in which the daughter of a widower is thwarted by her new…
Wyvern Mystery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2000)
- Dir. Alex Pillai
Feat. Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi
- Naomi Watts plays the adopted daughter of a prickly Squire (Derek Jacobi) with more than just fatherhood on his mind. Pseudo–haunted house…
All the King's Men (1999)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. David Jason, Maggie Smith
- BBC dramatisation of one of WWI's most enduring enigmas, in which the Sandringham Company, made up from King George's private staff, disappeared into…
Aristocrats (TV Mini-series) (1999)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Sian Phillips, Alun Armstrong, Ben Daniels…
- BBC costumer set in 18th–century England and Ireland tells the story of four beautiful, privileged sisters who are the…
Audrey Hepburn Story, The (1999)
- Dir. Steven Robman
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Keir Dullea
- Gallant, but workmanlike TV biopic about timeless Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn, whose sparkle and perkish good looks carried her from a childhood in…
Bad Girls (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Simone Lahbib, Mark Pegy, Jack Ellis
- Top rating and dramatically juicy ITV series set in a British women’s prison, which directly confronts bisexuality, female violence, drugs and the…
Great Expectations (Mini-series) (1999)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell…
- The Charles Dickens novel, about a young lad's progress into society with the aid of a mysterious benefactor, has already been twice–filmed,…