Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Inspector Wexford Collection, The (TV Mini-series) (1996-2000)
- Feat. George Baker, Sadie Frost
- Collection of commended adaptations based on the Ruth Rendell novels and centred on the recurring Rendell character of Inspector Wexford – an…
More Tales of the City (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson…
- The second series of the much–loved TV show set among the varied folk of San Francisco.
Our Friends in the North (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig…
- British TV show following four friends living in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England over a period of 31 years from 1964 to 1995.…
Rhodes (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw
- Lengthy but worth–it biopic telling the story of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th–Century businessman who was sent to Africa to die, but came back…
Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy, Jackson Leach
- Tara Fitzgerald plays the new tenant of a decaying Yorkshire manor, who ruffles the feathers of the rural community with her independent spirit and…
This Life (TV Series) (1996-1997)
- Feat. Jack Davenport, Ramon Tikaram
- Subdued but truthful drama set around the 1990s conflicts, problems, successes and romances of a crowd of young London urbanites – mainly…
Vanity Fair (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Frances Grey
- BBC adaptation of William Thackery's 19th century satire of class snobberies in which social–climbing Natasha Little socially negotiates the…
American Gothic (TV Series) (1995)
- Dir. Mike Binder
Feat. Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Jake Weber…
- Mordant supernatural thriller set in the small town of 'Trinity', South Carolina, where despite outward appearances of normality, much of the town's…
Bramwell (TV Series) (1995-1998)
- Feat. Jemma Redgrave, Ruth Sheen, David Calder
- TV series set in the Victorian era about a courageous young woman who defies social rules and gender roles to study medicine, and begins her own…
Buccaneers, The (1995)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott…
- Four blue–blooded American girls search in England for the fortune and success denied to them back home. A BBC production, from Edith Wharton's…