Yes, Mark of the Vampire is approximately a remake of LAM. It's been a few years, but I recall there being lesbian vampires and some other neat stuff, almost all of which was driven out of my mind by a memorably atrocious ending, of the one step up from "It was all a dream" variety. Feel free to headcanon the last few minutes off the movie.

Your take on the end of Nadja makes me retroactively like it more (thanks!), but I'm still unlikely to sit through that pixelvisiom again.

I also want to see more Almareyda, but much of his work is very obscure. It took me a year to get my hamds on The Eternal. And no one but IMDB seems to have even *heard* of New Orleans. Mon Amour (with Christopher Eccleston!)