Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Showtime...

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Showtime Monday at 12:50 a.m.) Eleanor Coppola’s documentary of her husband Francis Coppola making “Apocalypse Now” may well be unique as a filmmaker’s journal in that it unfolds like the record of a spiraling descent into clinical depression, which it may have been for Coppola as he watched his planned 16-week shoot into its 200th day of filming in the Philippines.

Peppermint Soda (Bravo Monday at 10 p.m.) is the first (1977) installment in French writer-director Diane Kurys’ intimate autobiographical trilogy, dealing with early adolescence experienced by two sisters.

Chocolat (Bravo Thursday at 6 p.m., again at 11 p.m.). Set in the late ‘50s, in the waning days of French colonial Africa, French filmmaker Claire Denis’ exquisite and subtle 1988 debut feature focuses on a tender relationship between a pair of outsiders, the daughter (Cecile Ducasse) of a white French district officer and the family’s black servant (Isaach de Bankole). Through them Denis reveals the colonial structure to be as fragile as it is unjust.