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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

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