Movies on TV

Monday, April 4

Get Shorty

John Travolta plays a mobster hawking a screenplay in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s darkly comic take on Hollywood. Travolta won a Golden Globe. Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito co-star. (1995) 9:40 p.m., Encore

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Tuesday, April 5

The Major and the Minor

Billy Wilder’s first Hollywood feature was a comedy hit despite its Lolita-like theme: Ginger Rogers disguises herself as an adolescent, and Ray Milland takes a shine to her. (1942) 8 p.m., TCM

Wednesday, April 6

Hombre

A gritty revisionist Western featuring a fine Paul Newman as an Apache-raised white man protecting a stagecoach from bandits. From an early Elmore Leonard novel. (1967) 3 p.m., FMC

Thursday, April 7

Hello, Dolly!

Barbra Streisand is the titular Gilded Age matchmaker in director Gene Kelly’s film version of the hit Broadway musical. (1969) 8 p.m., FMC

Friday, April 8

Baby Boom

Diane Keaton stars in this hit comedy as a hard-driving Manhattan career woman whose priorities are upended by an unwanted legacy of distant, deceased relatives: a baby girl. (1987) 9:45 a.m., AMC

Saturday, April 9

The Namesake

Kal Penn portrays an American-born son who spurns his parents’ Bengali heritage in director Mira Nair’s award-winning adaptation of a Jhumpa Lahiri novel. (2006) 3:30 p.m., IFC

Sunday, April 10

Butterfield 8

Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar as a hedonistic model who falls for a married man. The film will be airing deep into a 24-hour memorial tribute to the late actress. (1960) 8 p.m., TCM