The best John Karlen’s movies

John Karlen

John Karlen

28/05/1933- 22/01/2020
Today we present the best John Karlen’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best John Karlen’s movies.
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Native Son

Native Son
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1986
  • Character: Max
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Daughters of Darkness

Daughters of Darkness
6.5/10
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

Trilogy of Terror

Trilogy of Terror
6.5/10
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven
6.5/10
A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.

Racing with the Moon

Racing with the Moon
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/03/1984
  • Character: Mr. Nash
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.

House of Dark Shadows

House of Dark Shadows
6.2/10
The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
6/10
A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.

Hostage Flight

Hostage Flight
6.5/10
  • Genre: TV Movie
  • Release: 17/11/1985
  • Character: DiSalvo
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

Surf Ninjas

Surf Ninjas
5/10
Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance are magically-induced martial arts prowess. Using their new powers they act to overthrow the island's current dictator, a despotic madman.

Impulse

Impulse
5.9/10
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...

The Cover Girl and the Cop

The Cover Girl and the Cop
5/10
Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

Cagney & Lacey: The Return
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/11/1994
  • Character: Harvey Lacey
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.

Night of Dark Shadows

Night of Dark Shadows
5.4/10
A newlywed painter and his wife move into his family's ancestral home and find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.

Daddy

Daddy
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/04/1987
  • Character: Mike Burnette
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
7.1/10
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.

Express to Terror

Express to Terror
5.3/10
A gambling addict, mobsters, movie producers and others are plagued with murder while aboard a high-speed rail train. This pilot episode for the short-lived "Supertrain" series (which lasted just 9 episodes) was released to home video as a independent feature.

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
6.8/10
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.

Babycakes

Babycakes
6.7/10
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
5.6/10
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves, train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
5.8/10
  • Release: 18/05/1992
  • Character: John Garner
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.

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