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Monday, Nov. 2

The Full Monty

Five unemployed British steelworkers attempt to relaunch their careers as male strippers in this sleeper comedy smash. Starring Robert Carlyle. (1997) 8 p.m., IFC

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Tuesday

East of Eden

James Dean earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role as the troubled son of a California farmer. Elia Kazan directed the film ­version of John Steinbeck’s Cain-and-Abel saga. (1955) 8 p.m., TCM

Wednesday

My Cousin Vinny

Joe Pesci is funny as a brash New York lawyer defending­ his cousin on a murder rap in the Deep South. Co-star Marisa Tomei won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. (1992) 10:30 p.m., FMC

Thursday

Fourteen Hours

A troubled young man’s threat to jump from a Man­hattan hotel ledge affects­ many lives in this entertaining­ thriller. It was Grace Kelly’s film debut. (1951) 8 p.m., TCM

Friday

The Razor’s Edge

Tyrone Power stars as a ­disillusioned World War I ­veteran on a spiritual quest, in the first film version of the W. Somerset Maugham novel. Anne Baxter won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. (1946) 6 a.m., AMC

Saturday

Frost/Nixon

Frank Langella won Oscar and Golden Globe nominations as Richard Nixon in this dramatization of the ­disgraced president’s 1977 ­interviews with David Frost. (2008) 10 p.m., Cinemax

Sunday

Ghajini

This Bollywood action thriller, based on the 2000 film Memento, follows an amnesiac’s quest to avenge the murder of his girlfriend. (2008) 10 a.m., IFC