Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, June 10
V for Vendetta
Put on a Guy Fawkes mask to get in the spirit of this dazzling action film about revolution in an alternative Britain. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore. (2006) 8 p.m., IFC
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Tuesday, June 11
His Girl Friday
A newspaper editor tries to win back his wife—who is also his star reporter—in this classic screwball comedy. With Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. (1940) 10:45 p.m., TCM
Wednesday, June 12
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The Virgin Suicides
In her directorial debut, Sofia Coppola evocatively adapted Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about five blond sisters and the spell they cast on the neighborhood boys.(1999) 8 p.m., Sundance
Thursday, June 13
Best in Show
Christopher Guest and his band of improv players perfected the art of the mock-umentary with this behind-the-scenes look at a fictional dog show.(2000) 8 p.m., Encore
Friday, June 14
Dark Passage
Bogey and Bacall’s third film together was an offbeat noir about an escaped convict who undergoes plastic surgery and sets out to clear his name. (1947) 8 p.m., TCM
Saturday, June 15
Moneyball
This story about baseball-stat geeks could have been a bore, but Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill give Oscar-nominated performances in a fun adaptation of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book. (2011) 4:20 p.m., Starz
Sunday, June 16
The Constant Gardener
Ralph Fiennes stars as a British diplomat bent on solving his wife’s murder in Nairobi. Based on a novel by John le Carré.(2005) 10:30 a.m., Showtime
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