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
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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