What it’s about: Based on Patricia Highsmith’s crime novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, this show follows Tom Ripley, a down-and-out conman who’s hired to track down the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” the tale of how a young Donald Trump fell into the orbit and under the spell of the venal lawyer Roy Cohn in the 1970s, struggled to get ...