Topic: Anthology Series

Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Woody Harrelson · Michelle Monaghan · Michael Potts

Plot TV Series (2014). 8 Episodes. Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new...

Direction Charlie Brooker · Owen Harris · Carl Tibbetts · Otto Bathurst

Cast Rory Kinnear · Lindsay Duncan · Lydia Wilson · Tom Goodman-Hill

Plot TV Series (2011-2019). 5 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.

Direction Noah Hawley · Adam Bernstein · Randall Einhorn · Colin Bucksey

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Martin Freeman · Allison Tolman · Colin Hanks

Plot TV Series (2014). 10 Episodes. In 2006, a drifter named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) arrives in Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon...

Direction Noah Hawley · Randall Einhorn · Michael Uppendahl · Keith Gordon

Cast Jesse Plemons · Kirsten Dunst · Patrick Wilson · Bokeem Woodbine

Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 10 Episodes. Second season. An unexpected turn of events at a diner disrupts the lives of the citizens in a small Minnesota town.

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock · Robert Stevens · Paul Henreid · Herschel Daugherty

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Harry Tyler · John Williams · Patricia Hitchcock

Plot TV Series (1955-1965). 10 seasons. 363 episodes. Running time: 30 minutes (seasons 1-7); 60 minutes (seasons 8-10). Broadcast: CBS (1955-1964) - NBC (1964-1965). Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for...

Direction Scott Alexander · Larry Karaszewski · Ryan Murphy · Anthony Hemingway

Cast Cuba Gooding Jr. · John Travolta · Sarah Paulson · Courtney B. Vance

Plot There are few truly unifying events in American life. When something happens that makes the entire country stop and take notice, we remember it forever. Everybody remembers where they were...

Direction Mike Flanagan

Cast Michiel Huisman · Carla Gugino · Henry Thomas · Timothy Hutton

Plot TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. A modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson‘s iconic novel, "The Haunting of Hill House" explores a group of siblings who, as children, grew up in what...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock · Allan King · Timothy Bond · René Bonnière

Cast Bernard Behrens · Cynthia Belliveau · David B. Nichols · Kathleen Quinlan

Plot TV Series (1985-1989). Alfred Hitchcock Presents, also known as The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a 1985 updated re-imagining of the classic series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1985, the NBC...

Direction Ryan Murphy · Brad Falchuk · Bradley Buecker · Michael Uppendahl

Cast Jessica Lange · Sarah Paulson · Zachary Quinto · Lily Rabe

Plot TV Miniseries (2012-2013). 13 Episodes. American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the American horror television series American Horror Story. Announced on October 31, 2011 and premiering on...

Direction Noah Hawley · Michael Uppendahl · John Cameron

Cast Ewan McGregor · Carrie Coon · Mary Elizabeth Winstead · Michael Stuhlbarg

Plot TV Series (2017). 10 Episodes. The third season is set in Minnesota in 2010. Hawley said, "There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to...

Direction Noah Hawley

Cast Jon Hamm · Juno Temple · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Lamorne Morris

Plot 10 Episodes. A Sheriff in North Dakota named Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) who’s hot on the trail of Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Juno Temple), a seemingly run-of-the-mill housewife who finds herself...

Direction Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

Cast Narciso Ibáñez Menta · Narciso Ibáñez Serrador · Estanis González · Lola Lemos

Plot TV Series (1966-1982). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes.

Direction Tim Miller · Dave Wilson · Víctor Maldonado · Alfredo Torres

Plot A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy. 2nd Season: 2021.

Direction Sabine Thor-Wiedemann · Sönke Wortmann

Cast Alicia von Rittberg · Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider · Justus von Dohnanyi · Matthias Koeberlin

Plot The series describes the accomplishments of several famous German physicians and scientists at the prestigious Charité hospital in Berlin during its history.

Direction Reece Shearsmith · Steve Pemberton · David Kerr · Guillem Morales

Cast Reece Shearsmith · Steve Pemberton · Helen McCrory · Gemma Arterton

Plot An anthology of six comedies stuffed with dark humour and unexpected twists created, from the creators of League Of Gentlemen and Psychoville.

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Plot It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of...

Direction Herschel Daugherty · John Brahm · Ida Lupino

Cast Boris Karloff · Richard Peel · Henry Daniell · David Frankham

Plot Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on...

Direction Sabine Thor-Wiedemann · Anno Saul

Cast Mala Emde · Jannik Schümann · Ulrich Noethen · Artjom Gilz

Plot TV Mini-series (2019). 6 Episodes. A German hospital in 1943 has to deal with the effects of WWII and the cruel policies of the Nazi regime.

Direction Val Guest · John Hough · Peter Sasdy · Gabrielle Beaumont

Cast Dirk Benedict · Jenny Seagrove · Deborah Raffin · Mary Crosby

Plot TV Series. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived (one season) anthology television series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in...