Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, May 9
Birdman of Alcatraz
Burt Lancaster was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Robert Stroud, a real-life federal inmate who became a renowned ornithologist while serving his sentence. (1962) 6:20 a.m., Cinemax
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Tuesday, May 10
All This, and Heaven Too
The governess to the children of a French duke incurs the jealousy of the duke’s wife in this period romance. Bette Davis and Charles Boyer star. (1940) 1:30 p.m., TCM
Wednesday, May 11
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Tumbleweeds
Janet McTeer won a Golden Globe playing a peripatetic single mom in this intimate drama; Kimberly J. Brown, playing her young daughter, earned an Independent Spirit award. (1999) 10:30 a.m., IFC
Thursday, May 12
Heaven Can Wait
Not the 1978 Warren Beatty film but a different fantasy-comedy, starring Don Ameche as a man trying to talk his way into Hell. It was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. (1943) 10 a.m., FMC
Friday, May 13
Seraphim Falls
Intelligent, well-acted Western about the cat-and-mouse game between a vengeful bounty hunter and his quarry. Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan star. (2006) 5:30 p.m., AMC
Saturday, May 14
Easy A
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter inspired this teen comedy about a high school girl pretending to be less virtuous than she actually is. Emma Stone stars. (2010) 9 p.m., Starz
Sunday, May 15
Rasputin and the Empress
The only film to co-star three famous Barrymore siblings—John, Ethel, and Lionel—is this entertaining, if historically inaccurate, drama about the final days of imperial Russia. (1932) 8 p.m., TCM
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