Monday, May 31
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Tuesday
The Crossing Guard
Jack Nicholson portrays a father obsessed with taking vengeance against the drunken driver who killed his daughter. With Anjelica Huston. (1995) 8 p.m., IFC
Wednesday
The Turning Point
Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft both received Best Actress Oscar nominations as former ballerinas who reunite after many years. (1977) 7:30 p.m., FMC
Thursday
Dodsworth
Walter Huston was Oscar-nominated for his performance in the film version of Sinclair Lewis’ novel, as an automobile magnate whose marriage unravels after he and his wife travel to Europe. (1936) 11 p.m., TCM
Friday
Married to the Mob
Michelle Pfeiffer shows her comic skills as a Mafia widow pursued romantically by both an FBI agent and her husband’s killer. With Matthew Modine and Dean Stockwell. (1988) 6:30 p.m., Cinemax
Saturday
District 9
This sci-fi thriller, set around a Johannesburg ghetto inhabited by aliens, was an ingenious way of looking at South Africa’s history of apartheid. Nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. (2009) 9 p.m., Starz
Sunday
The Yearling
The classic family drama about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in post–Civil War Florida. From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. (1946) 9:30 p.m., TCM
