Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, Oct. 25
Pan’s Labyrinth
A young girl flees the cruelties of fascist Spain to a fantastic underground realm in this dazzling political fable, winner of three Academy Awards. (2006) 12:45 p.m., IFC
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Tuesday
Clear and Present Danger
Harrison Ford played the CIA’s Jack Ryan for the second and final time in this adaptation of Tom Clancy’s thriller, noteworthy for a gripping ambush sequence. (1994) 9:30 p.m., HBO
Wednesday
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True Romance
Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette play a young couple on the run with a stash of stolen cocaine in this colorful crime thriller written by Quentin Tarantino. With Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken. (1993) 10 p.m., Encore
Thursday
Suspiria
“Italian Hitchcock” Dario Argento directed this vivid violent horror classic about witchcraft at a German dance academy. Jessica Harper stars. (1977) 8 p.m., FMC
Friday
I Walked With a Zombie
Cat People producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur reteamed for this atmospheric thriller, which cleverly transplants Jane Eyre to a Caribbean sugar plantation awash in voodoo. Frances Dee stars. (1943) 4:45 p.m., TCM
Saturday
Alien
Essentially a haunted-house movie set in outer space, director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller made Sigourney Weaver Hollywood’s first feminist action hero. A National Film Registry selection. (1979) 8 p.m., IFC
Sunday
The Haunting
Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House, about a team of paranormal investigators, became a classic in psychological horror under the direction of Robert Wise. With Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. (1963) 10 a.m., TCM
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