Monday, Nov. 30
Compulsion
Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, and Orson Welles shared a Best Actor award at Cannes for this taut courtroom drama inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. (1959) 9 a.m., FMC
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Tuesday
Union Station
This gritty crime thriller stars William Holden as a Los Angeles railway policeman out to save a blind woman kidnapped for ransom. With Barry Fitzgerald. (1950) 8 a.m., TCM
Wednesday
Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen won Oscar nominations for both directing and writing this comedy, in which he plays a small-time talent agent saddled with the girlfriend of a jealous mobster. Mia Farrow co-stars. (1984) 3 p.m., IFC
Thursday
Ghostbusters
An insouciant Bill Murray ambles into action against the spooks infesting Manhattan in this good-natured comedy hit. With Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver. (1984) 5:30 p.m., AMC
Friday
Edge of the City
This earnest urban drama stars John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier as railroad workers who join forces against their corrupt supervisor. (1957) 6:15 p.m., TCM
Saturday
Adaptation
Nicolas Cage plays two roles in this surrealistic satire about screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s struggle to adapt Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are) directed. (2002) 10 p.m., Sundance
Sunday
Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this drama about a bitter Korean War veteran forced to confront his own prejudice when a Hmong teenager tries to steal his car. (2008) 8 p.m., Cinemax
