Movies on TV

Monday, Jan. 11

Nollywood Babylon

A lively look at the world’s third-largest film industry (after the U.S. and India)—in Nigeria, where film­­-making has boomed since the early 1990s. (2008) 8 p.m., Sundance

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Tuesday

Moulin Rouge!

Director Baz Luhrmann wove familiar pop hits into this color­ful musical, loosely based on Verdi’s La Traviata. With Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. (2001) 7:45 p.m., Cinemax

Wednesday

Blood and Wine

Five Easy Pieces director Bob Rafelson and star Jack Nicholson reunited for this dark crime thriller about a wine merchant pursuing a diamond necklace. Michael Caine co-stars. (1996) 9:45 p.m., IFC

Thursday

The Flight of the Phoenix

Stranded in the Sahara when their plane crashes, a group of survivors struggles to build a new one out of the wreckage. James Stewart and Richard Attenborough star. (1965) Noon, FMC

Friday

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Actually, this is Francis Ford Coppola’s ornate, feverish version, with Gary Oldman playing the vampire as romantic antihero. Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins co-star. (1992) Noon, AMC

Saturday

Love Comes Lately

Three stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer inspired this wry drama, starring Otto Tausig as an elderly writer with a busy romantic life, both real and fictive. With Barbara Hershey. (2008) 8 p.m., Sundance

Sunday

Cyrano de Bergerac

José Ferrer won a Best Actor Oscar as the lovesick poet with the prodigious nose and the deadly sword. (1950) 10 p.m., TCM