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British Films 1980's onwards
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Black Jack - 1981
During an attempted Casino heist a hostage situation developes
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Peter Cushing, Claudine Auger, Brian Murphy, Hugo Stiglitz
Castaway - 1986
True story of a girl who answers an ad placed my a middle-aged adventurer and travels with him to a desert island for a year. Great Kate Bush theme song 'Be Kind To Our Mistakes'
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale
Buddy's Song - 1990
Teenager Buddy takes refuge in music but not the Rock 'n' Roll oldies his Dad loves, but his own original material
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Chesney Hawkes, Sharon Duce, Michael Elphick
The Godsend - 1980
A family takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth in their remote country house. They raise the baby girl as their own but their other children meet untimely deaths through a series of mysterious accidents
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence, Wilhelmina Green
The Girl In A Swing - 1988
A London art dealer goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a multilingual secretary. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. Then some strange supernatural occurences begin to surface
Quality: 7.5/10, UK
Stars: Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Lynsey Baxter, Elspet Gray, Helen Cherry
Dir: Gordon Hessler
The Innocent - 1985
Period drama about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips with his squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalise him and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way
Quality: 8/10, UK
Stars: Andrew Hawley, Kika Markham, Miranda Richardson, Kate Foster, Tom Bell, Lian Neeson
Dir: John Mackenzie
Jamaica Inn - 1983
The respected Squire of a village is also the leader of a band of smugglers and wreckers who will stop at nothing the capture valuable cargoes
Quality: 7/10 (slight movement blur/region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Billie Whitelaw, Trevor Eve
The Franchise Affair - 1988
Two reclusive women are accused by a servant girl of keeping her prisoner in the attic of their home, in this classic rare BBC tv adaptation. 6 episodes
Quality: 7.5/10 (2hrs 28mins)
Stars: Patrick Malahide, Joanna McCallum, Rosalie Crutchley, Miranda Bell
Lipstick and Blood - 1984
A weird sex-crazed psycho becomes obsessed with a nightclub stripper and kidnaps her in his Fiat Panda. Super-zero budget plus an 80's music soundtrack makes for some unbelievable entertainment
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Jane Linter, Joseph Peters
The Magic Toyshop - 1987
After her parents are killed in a plane crash over the Grand Canyon, a teenage girl and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to live with their uncle Philip, a toy maker, who through his extraordinary powers, is able to make them come to life
Quality: 7.5/10, UK
Stars: Tom Bell, Caroline Milmoe, Kilian McKenna
Menace Unseen - 1988
A gripping three part tv mini series about a nuclear power industry conspiracy
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Judi Bowker, Ian Ogilvy, John Sessions, Brenda Bruce
Paris By Night - 1988
Clara Paige is a busy Euro Member of Parliament with a husband and child at home and a high powered career, but on a trip to Paris, her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Iain Glen, Robert Hardy, Jane Asher
Runners - 1983
When his daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her
Quality: 8/10
Stars: James Fox, Jane Asher, Kate Hardie
Screamtime - 1983
Good compendium comprising three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?"
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Vincent Russo, Michael Gordon, Marie Scinto, Ann Lynn
Secret Places - 1984
A German refugee girl tries to fit in at an English school during World War II
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Marie Theres Relin, Tara MacGowran, Claudine Auger, Jenny Agutter