Movies on TV

Monday, Oct. 10

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

This culture-clash comedy about a Greek-American bride and her WASP groom was a sleeper hit and earned star Nia Vardalos an Oscar nomination for her screenplay. (2002) 8:15 p.m., Cinemax

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Tuesday, Oct. 11

La Métamorphose des Cloportes

After serving a prison sentence for a botched heist, a crook goes after the “lice” (cloportes) who betrayed him: his accomplices. Lino Ventura stars in this comic crime thriller. (1965) 4:30 p.m., FMC

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Tadpole

A precocious 15-year-old schemes to seduce his new stepmother in this indie comedy. Aaron Stanford and Sigourney Weaver star. (2002) 4:20 p.m., IFC

Thursday, Oct. 13

Wages of Fear

A gripping existentialist thriller about drivers transporting nitroglycerine to a South American oil-well fire. With Yves Montand. (1953) 9:45 a.m., TCM

Friday, Oct. 14

Far From the Madding Crowd

Julie Christie stars in John Schlesinger’s acclaimed adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel about a young beauty and her three suitors in rural 19th-century England. (1967) 5 p.m., TCM

Saturday, Oct. 15

The Shining

Stephen King is not a fan of this adaptation of his thriller about a family holed up in a haunted hotel, but Stanley Kubrick’s celebrated film features one of Jack Nicholson’s most iconic performances. (1980) 10 p.m., AMC

Sunday, Oct. 16

Ronin

Superb car-chase sequences punctuate this John Franken­heimer–directed action thriller, in which rival agents vie for a mysterious suitcase. Robert De Niro stars. (1998) 9:45 p.m., Encore