Bravo is airing on Tuesday an extraordinary...

Bravo is airing on Tuesday an extraordinary R.W. Fassbinder marathon: Katzelmacher (1969, 5 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 a.m.), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972, 6:30 p.m.), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971, 8:35 p.m.), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, 10 p.m.) and The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977, 11:30 p.m.).

Triumph of the Spirit (Cinemax Thursday at 4:55 a.m.) Although the 1989 film never resolves its schism between drama and melodrama, inspiration and uplift, it holds you with its story of an actual Greek Jew (Willem Dafoe) who strives to survive Auschwitz as a boxer.

Pascali’s Island (Showtime Friday at 2 p.m.) Writer-director James Dearden’s subtle, literate 1988 film from a 1979 Barry Unsworth novel stars Ben Kingsley as a Turkish spy, becalmed some 20 years, on a Greek isle in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire; his serene life unexpectedly unravels with the arrival of a British archeologist (Charles Dance).

The Comfort of Strangers (Cinemax Friday at 9:30 p.m.). There may be a hollow feel to this elegant Paul Schrader film about a jaded couple (Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren) zeroing in on a younger couple (Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett), but it’s still a fascinating study of seductive evil, set in Venice.