Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
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
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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
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