Monday, Oct. 19
Rain Man
Four Oscars, including Best Picture and Actor (Dustin Hoffman), went to this drama about an acquisitive yuppie (Tom Cruise) saddled with an autistic savant half-brother. (1988) 8 p.m., AMC
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Tuesday
Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster won a Best Actor Oscar for his dynamic performance as Sinclair Lewis’ hypocritical evangelist. Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones (Best Supporting Actress) co-star. (1960) 8:30 a.m., TCM
Wednesday
Dreamboat
In one of his funniest roles, Clifton Webb portrays a button-down professor whose secret past as a silent movie idol comes to light. (1952) 10:30 a.m., FMC
Thursday
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Even the credits are absurd as the British comedy troupe demolishes Arthurian legend. (1975) 10 p.m., IFC
Friday
The Night of the Hunter
In Charles Laughton’s dark classic, Robert Mitchum is at his best as a psychotic preacher who courts a widow (Shelley Winters) to locate stolen loot. A National Film Registry selection. (1955) 8 p.m., TCM
Saturday
Milk
Sean Penn won a Best Actor Oscar as Harvey Milk, the San Francisco politician and activist for gay rights who was felled by an assassin’s bullet. Directed by Gus Van Sant, from an Oscar-winning screenplay by Dustin Lance Black. (2008) 8 p.m., HBO
Sunday
Land of Plenty
A young woman newly returned from abroad and her uncle, a paranoid Vietnam veteran, prowl post-9/11 Los Angeles in this thriller from director Wim Wenders. (2004) 1:35 p.m., IFC
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