Movies on TV

Highlights for each day of the week

Monday, Feb. 14

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges won a Best Actor Oscar, a Golden Globe, and other honors as a washed-up country singer trying to turn his life around. (2009) 9 p.m., HBO

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Tuesday, Feb. 15

The Lodger

The third of five film adaptations of Marie Belloc Lowndes’s classic Jack the Ripper novel is arguably the best, with the fine Laird Cregar in the title role. (1944) 8 a.m., FMC

Wednesday, Feb. 16

It Might Get Loud

An entertaining documentary about the electric guitar and three of the trade’s foremost practitioners: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, U2’s The Edge, and Jack White of the White Stripes. (2009) 10 p.m., Encore

Thursday, Feb. 17

Anna Christie

“Garbo talks!” was the tagline for this, Greta Garbo’s first sound film, adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s play about a prostitute fleeing her past. Garbo garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination. (1930) 4 p.m., TCM

Friday, Feb. 18

Thank You for Smoking

Aaron Eckhart shines as a cheerfully unrepentant lobbyist for the tobacco industry in this smart take on Christopher Buckley’s satirical novel. (2005) 8 p.m., IFC

Saturday, Feb. 19

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This epic spaghetti Western was the final and best part of the Sergio Leone trilogy that began with A Fistful of Dollars. With Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach, and a haunting Ennio Morricone music score. (1966) 11 p.m., AMC

Sunday, Feb. 20

My Fair Lady

Eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, went to the film adaptation of Lerner and Loewe’s musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn star. (1964) 10 p.m., TCM

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