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Highlights for each day of the week

Monday, Oct. 25

Pan’s Labyrinth

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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

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