Movies on TV

Monday, Feb. 15

Dave

Kevin Kline plays two roles in this warmhearted comedy about a look-alike secretly put in the White House after the real president suffers a stroke. (1993) 8 p.m., AMC

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Tuesday

Panic in the Streets

Richard Widmark stars in this thriller about the race to stop an outbreak of pneumonic plague. Director Elia Kazan made the most of real New Orleans locations and residents. (1950) 10 a.m., FMC

Wednesday

Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin Williams is a divorced dad who finds a novel way to stay in the lives of his children—disguised as their female housekeeper. (1993)

6 p.m., FMC

Thursday

Solaris

James Cameron (Avatar) ­produced this brooding remake of a Soviet science-fiction classic set aboard a haunted space station. George Clooney stars. (2002) 4:20 p.m., IFC

Friday

Big

Tom Hanks earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination as a 13-year-old boy magically transformed into a full-grown—but childish—man. (1988) 10:15 a.m., Cinemax

Saturday

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were both Oscar-nominated for the film version of Edward Albee’s searing play about a college professor and his shrewish wife; Taylor won. (1966) 10:30 a.m., TCM

Sunday

Doctor Zhivago

Five Oscars went to this epic romance, set during the tumultuous years preceding the birth of the Soviet Union. From the novel by Boris Pasternak. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie star. (1965) 4:30 p.m., TCM