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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