Breakfast, Dutch, Ludwig

Doc Films has scheduled three foreign films: “Van Gogh,” a French film directed by Maurice Pialat with Jacques Dutronc portraying the painter; “Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King” director Hans Jurgen Syberberg’s German film in 28 chapters about Ludwig II of Bavaria, a drug addict and homosexual who was a fan of Richard Wagner’s operas and loved to build magnificent castles; and the award-winning Mexican film “Chronicle of a Breakfast,” in which director Benjamin Cann examines a dysfunctional family.

“Van Gogh,” 7 p.m. Sun.; “Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King,” 7 p.m. Mon.; “Chronicle of a Breakfast,” 7 p.m. Wed., Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., University of Chicago campus, $4; 773-702-8575.