Movies on TV

Monday, Aug. 16

Dr. No

The first James Bond film takes 007 to Jamaica, where a criminal mastermind plots to disrupt the U.S. space program. Sean Connery and ­Ursula Andress star. (1962) 6:10 p.m., Encore

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Tuesday

M*A*S*H

Director Robert Altman’s ­anti-war comedy, set in a U.S. medical unit during the Korean War, inspired the classic sitcom. With Donald Sutherland. (1970) 11 a.m., AMC

Wednesday

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Terence Stamp earned a Golden Globe nomination as an aging transsexual who ­reflects on his life while traveling across Australia in a drag revue. (1994) 8 p.m., IFC

Thursday

Maria Full of Grace

In her film debut, Catalina Sandino Moreno earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination as a Colombian teenager who becomes a drug mule. (2003) 2:45 p.m., IFC

Friday

Woman of the Year

Romantic sparks fly between a sportswriter and a foreign-affairs columnist in the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who was Oscar-nominated. (1942) 8 p.m., TCM

Saturday

The Informant!

Kurt Eichenwald’s book about a real-life price-fixing scandal in the food-additive market becomes a dark comedy starring Matt Damon as the executive for Archer Daniels Midland who blew the whistle. (2009) 8 p.m., HBO

Sunday

Gandhi

Eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director (Richard Attenborough), and Actor (Ben Kingsley), went to this biopic about the Indian independence crusader who became an icon of nonviolent protest. (1982) 4:30 p.m., TCM