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Monday, Oct. 14

Nights of Cabiria

A streetwise prostitute wanders Rome and suffers a series of heartbreaks in Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning neo-realist masterpiece.(1957) 8 p.m., TCM

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Tuesday, Oct. 15

The Master

Scientology’s early days provided inspiration for this bizarre, affecting film about a drifter ensnared by a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman star.(2012) 7:30 p.m., Showtime

Wednesday, Oct. 16

L.A. Confidential

Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Kevin Spacey probe the intersection of vice and corruption in a tightly plotted neo-noir. With an Oscar-winning Kim Basinger.(1997) 10:50 a.m., Cinemax

Thursday, Oct. 17

Apollo 13

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton ride a damaged space capsule toward potential disaster in Ron Howard’s tense re-creation of the Apollo 13 moon mission. (1995) Noon, HBO

Friday, Oct. 18

Lolita

Stanley Kubrick puts his own dark spin on Vladimir Nabokov’s story about a well-mannered pedophile. With James Mason.(1962) 11:15 a.m., Sundance

Saturday, Oct. 19

The French Connection

There’s never been a better chase scene than the one that punctuates this drug-heist thriller, the first R-rated film to win Best Picture. (1971) 10:30 p.m., Sundance

Sunday, Oct. 20

Wuthering Heights

William Wyler’s 1939 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic, starring Laurence Olivier as the dark hero Heathcliff, remains the definitive film version.(1939) 4 p.m., TCM