Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 997 Films to Buy & Rent
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,…
Joan of Arc (1999)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Maximilian Schell…
- The French heroine, brought to the small–screen with a big name cast.
Judging Amy (TV Series) (1999-2005)
- Feat. Amy Brenneman, Richard T. Jones, Tyne Daly…
- Wholesome drama with Amy Brenneman as a family court judge, focuses on the trials and tribulations of three generations of women living together.…
Longitude (1999)
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry…
- Adapted from the book by Dava Sobel, this tells the intriguing story surrounding the 18th century search for an accurate way to calculate longitude,…
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Brian Grant
Feat. Gerard Butler
- Romantic drama based on the top selling chick lit novel by Marian Keyes following the life and loves of a twenty–something living in London.…
Oliver Twist (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Alan Bleasdale, Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay…
- Charles Dickens' enduring classic of orphan Oliver's hardships in Victorian London.
Here the timeless story gets the lavish six hour treatment at…
Queer as Folk (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam…
- Groundbreaking television drama that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Eight…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Mini Series) (1999)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern
- A lively television adaptation of the Baroness Orczy's famous novel set around the bloody chaos of post–revolutionary France and one English…
Shopgirls (TV Series) (Commesse) (1999)
- A haute couture boutique in Rome is the playground for six headstrong, fiercely independent women in this colorful, empowering Italian soap opera…