A Thousand Pieces of Gold (KCET Sunday...

A Thousand Pieces of Gold (KCET Sunday at 1 p.m.) is short on style but strong on conviction and performances. The 1990 film tells of a young Chinese woman’s struggle for survival and dignity in a 19th-Century Oregon gold-mining village.

The Comfort of Strangers (Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m.; Tuesday at 5 and 9 p.m.; Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and next Sunday at 1 a.m.) is an elegant 1990 Paul Schrader film about a jaded couple (Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren) zeroing in on a younger couple (Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett). It may feel hollow, but it’s a fascinating study of seductive evil, set in Venice.

Carnival of Souls (A&E; Tuesday at 11 a.m., Wednesday at 1 a.m.), Herk Henry’s genuinely creepy 1962 low- , low-budget horror film, revolves around a young woman (Candace Hilligoss) who seems to be in a trance after she survives a horrible car crash.