Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2929 Films to Buy & Rent
One Foot in the Grave (TV Series) (1990-2000)
- Feat. Richard Wilson, Annette Crosby
- Victor and Margaret Meldrew endure the creeping indignities of old age in this Much–watched British TV Series. The quality of scripting varied…
Portrait of a Marriage (TV Mini-series) (1990)
- Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. Janet McTeer, Cathryn Harrison, David Haig
- TV mini–series detailing the real–life love affair between Vita Sackville–West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's…
Seinfeld - Season 1 & 2 (TV Series) (1990-1991)
- Feat. Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards…
- The quintesssential 1990s sitcom in which four apartment–dwelling New Yorkers discuss the deceptively trivial minutiae of their lives.
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Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series) (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- An eccentric, mystical FBI agent arrives in a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the murder of a young high school girl. Iconic, influential…
Waiting for God (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole
- Two stoic geriatrics refuse to give in to their retirement village sentence in this stubborn comedy of staying young. Crowden is particularly…
You Rang, M'lord? (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland, Su Pollard
- An 'upstairs, downstairs' sitcom from TV writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry (DAD'S ARMY), featuring much of the cast that appeared in the creators'…
A Bit of a Do (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett…
- A curly class comedy based the books by REGINALD PERRIN author David Nobbs, this gets good mileage out of its premise of two families – one…
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (1989-2002)
- Feat. David Suchet
- Solid TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's series of detective novels featuring the fussily eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he goes about…
Alien Nation (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint
- From the creator of "V" comes this sci–fi police procedural series based on the 1988 feature film about an LA police officer reluctantly…
Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov…
- Mostly delightful version of Jules Verne's light adventure yarn, in which Phileas Fogg (Brosnan) attempts the titular feat for a bet. More complete…