The Painted Veil

Lords of Chaos

September 2018 •English

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

The Lovers

May 2017 •English

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

The Power of the Dog

October 2021 •English

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

April, Come She Will

March 2024 •Japanese

Shun Fujishiro is a psychiatrist and works at a university hospital in Tokyo. He is engaged to Yayoi Sakamoto. One day in April, when he is about to marry Yayoi Sakamoto, he receives a letter from his first love Haru Iyoda. They dated 10 years ago. Suddenly, his fiancé Yayoi Sakamoto disappears.

Blood Meridian

Invalid date •English

On the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, a 14-year-old Tennesseean nicknamed The Kid stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

December 2023 •Japanese

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

Where Would You Like to Go?

July 2023 •Korean

Do-gyeong jumped in to save his student Ji-yong from drowning. After the two pass away, Myeongji, Do-gyeong's wife, and Ji-eun, Ji-yong's sister, are left alone in the world, having to cope with the loss of their loved ones. Myeongji travels to Warsaw, Poland, to avoid her harsh reality. She meets an old friend and hides her husband's death as if trying to reject the tragedy.

Kořist

May 1979 •Czech

V hodině nejtěžší...

October 1978 •Czech

The Great Gatsby

June 1958 •English

Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Oh, Canada

December 2024 •English

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

October 2024 •Spanish

When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging many dangers.

Ashes in the Sky

April 2023 •Catalan

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.

Oblomov

January 1964 •Slovak

Zenovo vedomie

November 1976 •Slovak

Television adaptation of the novel by the Italian writer Italo Svevo. His hero is Zeno Cosini, the son of a merchant in Trieste. He is a type of useless person, defeated by life and incapable of action. The ironic insight with which the author draws a picture of the townspeople of Trieste at the turn of the century sounds like an accurate diagnosis of a social class that is doomed with its entire lifestyle and morality.

After Sundown

July 2023 •Thai

To control their fate and avert a tragedy foretold by a mystic, two men must live under one roof — but a vicious spirit threatens their bond.

Thesis on a Domestication

October 2024 •Spanish

A successful transgender actress and her lawyer husband decide to adopt a child, defying the conservative community in Argentina. But their attempt for a domestic happiness is thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.

The Girl Martyr

November 2022 •Spanish

Ávila, Spain, March 28, 1526. With the help of her cousins, Teresa, who is eleven years old, writes a letter to her mother with the purpose of asking her to allow her to change her name to that of her favorite saint.

1984

November 2023 •Russian

In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked and destroyed, and imagination is considered a serious illness. In this grim world, a brilliant mathematician engages in a forbidden romance with a colleague and learns about a secret resistance. He is faced with a choice - to join or betray it.

Accidental Texan

March 2024 •English

Erwin blows his first acting job and finds himself stranded in Texas, where he's taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle and his cohort Faye. The three set off on a wild adventure to outwit the bank and a corrupt oil company to hit pay dirt before Merle's dreams are foreclosed.