Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, Nov. 28
Stage Fright
Alfred Hitchcock blends comedy with suspense in this tale of an aspiring actress (an excellent Jane Wyman) who uses her skills to try to prove a man’s innocence. With Marlene Dietrich. (1950) 4 p.m., TCM
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Tuesday, Nov. 29
The Pianist
Star Adrien Brody and director Roman Polanski both won Oscars for this poignant drama about a Jewish musician’s struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. (2002) 3:45 p.m., Encore
Wednesday, Nov. 30
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The Three Faces of Eve
An Oscar-winning Joanne Woodward plays a Georgia housewife afflicted with multiple-personality disorder. (1957) 6 a.m., Cinemax
Thursday, Dec. 1
The Kennel Murder Case
A pre–Thin Man William Powell stars as dog-fancying detective Philo Vance in this brisk whodunit, an exemplar of the locked-room mystery genre. (1933) 9:30 p.m., TCM
Friday, Dec. 2
A Price Above Rubies
Though seemingly miscast, Renée Zellweger is surprisingly effective as a young woman frustrated by the restrictions on her life in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. (1998) 11:30 a.m., IFC
Saturday, Dec. 3
Barney’s Version
Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe for his performance as a picaresque anti-hero who meets the love of his life as he’s marrying someone else. Adapted from a Mordecai Richler novel. (2010) 9 p.m., Starz
Sunday, Dec. 4
The Towering Inferno
At the peak of the disaster-film craze, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman led a star-studded cast in an epic battle against a skyscraper fire. (1974) 7 p.m., FMC
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