Five things for you to watch this weekend

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE — SHOWMAX

Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain shine in this difficult but intelligent examination of modern marriage. It’s adapted by Israeli creator Hagai Levi from the 1973 Swedish TV series directed by the legendary Ingmar Bergman. It’s a talkheavy, emotionally draining two-hander that explores the devastating consequences of an infidelity on the marriage of a middle-class couple. Isaac and Chastain throw themselves into the material and offer complex and compassionate portraits that keep you coming back in this provocative, often uncomfortable piece of voyeurism.

THE POWER OF THE DOG — NETFLIX

Jane Campion breaks her 12year feature film hiatus with this dark psychodrama set in the 1920s against the spectacular backdrop of the New Zealand landscape (here standing in for Montana). When the relationship between two wealthy rancher brothers, George (Jesse Plemons) and Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch), is threatened by the arrival of George’s new wife Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and her effete son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), things look poised for a terrifying showdown. Instead what we get is a powerful meditation on desire and loss that never quite goes where you say it will.

CRIME OF THE CENTURY — SHOWMAX

Alex Gibney’s extensive twopart documentary examines the shameful behaviour of big pharma giants Purdue and Insys Therapeutics. Purdue, run by the Sackler family, pushed their dangerously addictive drug OxyContin on the unsuspecting US public through a campaign that lured the medical fraternity into complicity for creating the worst drug epidemic in history. Insys bribed doctors to oversubscribe their equally addictive drug Fentanyl with similarly disastrous results.

THE WHOLE TRUTH — NETFLIX

This is an Asian cinematic twist on the haunted house horror genre from Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng. When siblings Pim and Putt’s mother is hospitalised, the children discover that they have a set of grandparents they never knew and, what’s worse and terrifying, that a horrific truth is hidden in a hole in the wall of their grandparents’ house which is about to unleash demonic mayhem.

HELLBOUND — NETFLIX

Playing on the appetite for South Korean social issue fantasy created by Squid Game, creator Sung-ho Yeon’s crazy but imaginative fable explores the limits of faith and the value of collaboration.