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Monday, Oct. 17

Night of the Living Dead

Director George Romero needed only a shoestring budget to create his nightmare vision of a world overrun by zombies. A National Film Registry selection. (1968) 9 a.m., AMC

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Tuesday, Oct. 18

Wind Across the Everglades

This unusual drama about a Florida game warden’s battle against poachers has an equally unusual cast, including Christopher Plummer, Burl Ives, Gypsy Rose Lee, and circus clown Emmett Kelly. (1958) 11:30 p.m., TCM

Wednesday, Oct. 19

The Runaways

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart give fine performances as trailblazing female rockers of the 1970s in this biodrama. With Michael Shannon as the band’s Svengali. (2010) 6:10 p.m., Encore

Thursday, Oct. 20

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Comedian Steve Coogan plays both the title role and a conceited version of himself in this madcap film-within-a-film inspired by Laurence Sterne’s “postmodern” 18th-century novel. (2005) 2 p.m., IFC

Friday, Oct. 21

The Hanging Tree

In a thinking man’s Western, Gary Cooper is first-rate as a doctor turned gunfighter who cares for a robbery victim in a Montana mining town. With Maria Schell and Karl Malden. (1959) 10 a.m., TCM

Saturday, Oct. 22

Gladiator

Russell Crowe won a Best Actor Oscar and the producers received a Best Picture statue for Ridley Scott’s hit revival of the sword-and-sandal genre. (2000) 6:15 p.m., Cinemax

Sunday, Oct. 23

Black Widow

Debra Winger plays an FBI agent who becomes ensnared in the web of a seductive serial murderess (Theresa Russell). Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces) directed. (1987) 10 p.m., FMC