Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

2017 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

《红字》是霍桑的第一部长篇小说，一八五○年该书问世后，霍桑一举成名，成为当时公认的最重要的作家。《红字》故事的背景，是一六五○年前后的波士顿，当时的居民是一六二○至一六三○年间来此定居的第一代移民。他们都是在英格兰故土受詹姆斯一世迫害而抱着创建人间乐土的理想来新大陆的清教徒（加尔文主义者），史称“清教徒国父”（又译作“天路客国父”）。清教徒在英国最初是反抗罗马教皇专制、反对政教合一、反对社会腐败风气的，他们注重理智，限制感情，推崇理想，禁绝私欲；后来其中某些教派在北美殖民地却发展到极端，不但迫害异端，甚至连妇女在街上微笑都要处以监禁，儿童嬉戏也要加以鞭笞。