The Blue Boy - 1994
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck they end up at the hotel Joe uses for his other activities. An eerie tale of love and deception
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Eleanor Bron
Close Relations - 1998
Many hidden secrets and desires come to light amongst the various Hammond Family members following the near-fatal heart attack of Gordon Hammond.
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Amanda Redman, Kate Buffery, Honeysuckle Weeks
The Clothes In The Wardrobe - 1993
Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can be done?
Quality: 6.5/10, BBC Screen two
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Catherine Schel
Coast To Coast - 1987
An American Army deserter and a black British guy meet, find they share a love of classic Soul music and plan to start a mobile disco using an old ice-cream van. But trouble soon comes their way
Quality: 8/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Lenny Henry, John Shea, Peter Vaughan, Cherie Lunghi, Pete Postlethwaite
The Cormorant - 1993
Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not the Cormorant that comes with the house, but vice versa
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger, Thomas Williams
Do Not Disturb - 1991
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont, other forces start to stir
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Frances Barber, Peter Capaldi, Éva Darlan
The Insurance Man - 1986
A young man working in a dye factory in Prague, notices a skin-rash growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body so he attempts to secure compensation from his former employers
Quality: 7.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Trevor Peacock, Alan MacNaughtan, Teddy Turner, Vivian Pickles, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer
Life After Life - 1990
A 70 year old man gets shunted into a retirement home and finds himself sharing his new world with two mystic sisters
Quality: 8/10, BBC Screen Tw
Stars: George Cole, Mary Wimbush, William Fox, Leslie Phillips
The Lorelei - 1990
A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague. A brilliantly weird tale.
Quality: 8/10, UK tv film (time-coding onscreen throughout, but don't let it put you off)
Stars: Amanda Redman, Michael Maloney, Ellie Haddington
Memento Mori - 1992
A group of Elderlys start to receive distressing anonymous phone calls, the caller giving only one message; 'remember you must die'. A macabre tale with a killer cast!
Quality: 7/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Maggie Smith, Michael Hordern, Renée Asherson, Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird
Poppyland - 1985
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time
Dir: John Madden / BBC Screen Two
Quality: 6/10, rough copy but so good you have to get through it
Stars: Alan Howard, Phoebe Nicholls, John McEnery, Richard Wilson, Isla Blair