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
