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
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