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The Painted Veil
A shy English bacteriologist, betrayed by his unfaithful wife, drags her to a cholera-stricken village in remote China, where amid the epidemic and their frozen marriage something unexpected begins to grow. A handsome period drama adapted from Somerset Maugham.
Why it’s here
A China-set cholera and marriage drama centered on colonial-era interior China.
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Mood
- romantic · thoughtful
- Entry
- some context
- Best for
- character-driven drama