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Carmilla - 1989 Vampire Mini Series
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks
Quality: 7.5/10, US TV Mini Series in 3 parts / from the Nightmare Classics run
Stars: Roy Dotrice, Roddy McDowall, Ione Skye, Meg Tilly
The Chinese Bungalow - 1940
An affluent Chinese financier marries a British singer. However, an unforeseen but dangerous liaison with a plantation owner threatens to transform their once-peaceful life. Is revenge the only solution?
Quality: 7/10, slight blue tint
Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Walsh, Jane Baxter
Fair Game - 1994 (UK TV Film Set During World Cup '70)
Set in 1970 during the World Cup and Parliamentary elections about a couple hiking across England. The girl meets a rich Italian with an expensive sportscar, and of course there are parallels to how this all relates to soccer and politics. Funny, nostalgic and highly recommended
Quality: 8.5/10, UK tv film
Stars: Lena Headey, Julian Kerridge, Massimo Bellinzoni, Prunella Scales
John & Irene - 1949 (Danish Noir, do not miss!)
John and Irene are a professional dancing couple, getting what gigs they can in clubs but struggling to make ends meet. John forms a plan when seeing a wealthy guy flashing his money at a party and finds himself involved in a killing. This is a superb Danish Film Noir, highly recommended
Quality: 9/10, Denmark, subs
Stars: Bodil Kjer, Ebbe Rode, Ib Schønberg
The Jungle Princess - 1936
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead
Quality: 6.5/10, US
Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff
Mother Goose A-Go-Go - 1966
A young couple's honeymoon is disrupted by the groom's childhood obsession with Mother Goose. Unable to consummate the marriage, they head off to the psychiatrist, where the fun really begins (LSD as a treatment!)
Quality: 7.5/10, US aka Unkissed Bride
Stars: Tommy Kirk, Anne Helm, Henny Youngman
Night Of The Strangler - 1972
In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders
Quality: 8.5/10, occasional logo
Stars: Micky 'Monkees', Dolenz, James Ralston, Michael Anthony, Susan McCullough, Katie Tilley
Paperback Hero - 1973
A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West
Quality: 7.5/10, Canada
Stars: Keir Dullea, Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck
Riddle Of The Stinson - 1988 tvm
In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins a search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors
Quality: 7/10, Australian TV Movie
Stars: Jack Thompson, Helen O'Connor, Mary Haire
The Thief - 1952 (Ray Milland)
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist selling top secret material to the Russians to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run. 'Hats off to Ray Milland and the wonderful music score because just as in the early films of the silent period, all the plot points of the film are understood through purely visual means, pushing the film to the level of pure cinema'
Quality: 7.5/10, US
Stars: Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson