Movies on TV

Monday, Sept. 20

Benny & Joon

Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as an eccentric Buster Keaton fan who finds romance with a mentally ill young woman. With Mary Stuart Masterson. (1993) 9:15 p.m., IFC

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Tuesday

That Hamilton Woman

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, then husband and wife, starred in this handsome biodrama about Emma Hamilton, who went from dance-hall girl to mistress of Adm. Horatio Nelson. (1941) 9:45 p.m., TCM

Wednesday

Greed

A restored, four-hour version of director Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic about three lives destroyed by a lottery windfall. (1925) 8:30 a.m., TCM

Thursday

Che

Benicio del Toro won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance as Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Steven Soderbergh directed the impressionistic, four-hour portrait of the Argentine revolutionary and counterculture icon. (2008) 1 p.m., IFC

Friday

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Nominated for 10 Oscars, this dazzling martial-arts epic won four. Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) directed. With Chow Yun-Fat. (2000) 8 p.m., AMC

Saturday

The Hurt Locker

Six Oscars, including Best Picture and Director (Kathryn Bigelow), went to this taut drama about a trio of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs in post-invasion Iraq. (2008) 8 p.m., Showtime

Sunday

The Big Lebowski

In this cult comedy from Joel and Ethan Cohen, Jeff Bridges stars as an L.A. slacker who runs afoul of gangsters due to mistaken identity. (1998) 9:35 p.m., Encore