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Monday, April 14

The English Patient

Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas play the romantic leads in the Oscar-winning adaptation of a poetic Michael Ondaatje novel about four war refugees in 1940s Italy. (1996) 6 a.m., IFC

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Tuesday, April 15

Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks made an indelible mark as a slow-witted, pure-hearted Alabama native whose life unspools like a highlight reel of the American Century. (1994) 7 p.m., AMC

Wednesday, April 16

The Remains of the Day

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson are both stellar as British servants whose feelings for each other are muted by a -culture of repression. (1993) 8 p.m., TCM

Thursday, April 17

Friday Night Lights

The sacred rites of Texas high school football give shape and purpose to the lives of several families in a small town yearning for a state championship. (2004) 11 a.m., AMC

Friday, April 18

North by Northwest

Cary Grantwas never better than as Roger O. Thornhill, an ad executive mistaken for a spy in this Alfred Hitchcock classic. (1959) 11 a.m., TCM

Saturday, April 19

The Abyss

Navy SEALs encounter an intelligent species in the ocean depths while investigating the sinking of a nuclear submarine. From director James Cameron. (1989) 7:30 p.m., Cinemax

Sunday, April 20

The Wild Bunch

A gang of aging outlaws learn that their way of life is fading in this violent, potent Western from Sam Peckinpah. (1969) 10 p.m., Sundance