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Monday, April 5

Le Doulos

In this French crime drama from auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo portrays an underworld police informant who has his own code of honor. (1962) 10 p.m., Sundance

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Tuesday

Camille

Greta Garbo gave one of her best performances in this version of Alexandre Dumas’ much-adapted tragedy about a glamorous Paris courtesan. With Robert Taylor. (1936) 10 p.m., TCM

Wednesday

Tsotsi

A young Johannesburg hoodlum tries to care for an infant after murdering the baby’s mother. This Best Foreign Film Oscar winner is based on a novel by Athol Fugard. (2005) 1:15 p.m., IFC

Thursday

Libeled Lady

Screwball comedy ensues when a newspaper publisher hires a ladies’ man to scuttle a libel suit. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow star. (1936) 8 p.m., TCM

Friday

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Clint Eastwood was both director and star of this revisionist Western, about a Confederate guerrilla

pursued after the Civil War. A National Film Registry selection. (1976) 8 p.m., AMC

Saturday

Night and the City

This film noir classic stars Richard Widmark as a grifter out to seize the reins of London’s professional wrestling circuit. Gene Tierney co-stars. (1950) Noon, FMC

Sunday

The Quiet American

A romantic triangle in 1950s Saigon becomes a metaphor for America’s involvement in Vietnam, in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. Michael Caine was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. (2002) 3 p.m., IFC