Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 995 Films to Buy & Rent
Lorna Doone (1990)
- Dir. Andrew Grieve
Feat. Polly Walker, Clive Owen, Sean Bean…
- British television film set in the West Country during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 (though actually filmed in Scotland). John Kidd seeks to avenge…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Bernard Hill
- Alan Bleasdale's series of plays vividly encapsulates the bleaker side of life in Thatcher's Liverpool.
Beginning with the feature–length…
Christabel (1989)
- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Geoffrey Palmer
- Set during the rise of Nazism, a German lawyer and his English wife plot against Hitler. Written by Dennis Potter.
Come In Spinner (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Robert Marchand
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Rebecca Gibney, Gary Day
- Something of an Australian TV classic, this revolves around three women working in a Sydney beauty salon during the closing years of WW2 and the…
Press Gang (TV Series) (1989-1993)
- Feat. Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher
- Much–loved British TV series follows the fortunes of a newspaper, the 'Junior Gazette', run by a troublesome crowd of teenage students in North…
Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
- BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…