Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, April 8
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War–era black satire about mutually assured annihilation is as fun as riding a nuclear warhead into oblivion. With Peter Sellers and George C. Scott (1964) 6 p.m., IFC
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Tuesday, April 9
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton play drunken, razor-tongued dinner hosts in this still thrilling adaptation of Edward Albee’s acerbic stage drama. (1966) 1:30 p.m., TCM
Wednesday, April 10
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A River Runs Through It
Director Robert Redford put many men in their first pair of waders with this lyrical film about brotherhood and the virtues of fly-fishing. Brad Pitt stars. (1992) 10 p.m., Sundance
Thursday, April 11
Hope Springs
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are the reasons to watch this bittersweet film about a couple trying to reconnect after decades of drifting apart. (2012)7:45 p.m., Starz
Friday, April 12
Finding Nemo
A clown fish dad embarks on a perilous ocean journey to rescue his son from a distant fish tank in this modern animation classic from Pixar. (2003) 8 p.m., Encore
Saturday, April 13
The American
George Clooney plays a brooding assassin trying to lay low in Italy in this atmospheric suspense thriller. Violante Placido gives our hero a love interest. (2010) 9:45 a.m., Cinemax
Sunday, April 14
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Greed isn’t good for Humphrey Bogart and friends as they prospect for Mexican gold in this classic John Huston film. (1948) 8 p.m., TCM