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Monday, Feb. 11

SwingTime

Fred Astaire is a groom with cold feet that warm significantly when he falls for a dance instructor. Ginger Rogers matches him step for step in the magical duo’s sixth movie together. (1936) 10 a.m., TCM

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Tuesday, Feb. 12

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

It may not be Blazing Saddles, but Mel Brooks’s spoof of the Robin Hood tale has a deserved cult following. (1993)12:30 p.m., AMC

Wednesday, Feb. 13

Mighty Joe Young

Stop-motion effects guru Ray Harryhausen got his big break animating Joe, a gorilla working on a Hollywood stage, in this underrated film from the team that made 1933’s King Kong. (1949) 4:30 p.m., TCM

Thursday, Feb. 14

Gone With the Wind

Gary Cooper as Rhett and Lucille Ball as Scarlett? It could have happened. On Valentine’s Day, savor the chemistry that Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh instead brought to those iconic roles.(1939) 8 p.m., TCM

Friday, Feb. 15

Hoosiers

Movies about sports underdogs don’t get better than this oft-screened tale about an Indiana high school hoops team. Gene Hackman stars.(1986) 9:15 a.m., AMC

Saturday, Feb. 16

Layer Cake

Before he was James Bond, Daniel Craig starred as a cocaine dealer who has to fight his way out of the business. With Sienna Miller. (2004) 3:15 p.m., IFC

Sunday, Feb. 17

Apollo 13

Tom Hanks leads an all-star cast in Ron Howard’s fictionalized account of a 1970 lunar mission that nearly ended in disaster. (1995) 7:30 p.m., Cinemax