Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, Sept. 7
I’m Not Scared
In 1970s Italy, a young boy discovers a child chained at the bottom of a hole. Gabriele Salvatores directed this psychological thriller. (2003) 10 p.m., TCM
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Tuesday
Leave Her to Heaven
Gene Tierney received her only Oscar nomination, as a jealousy-crazed femme fatale. Cornel Wilde co-stars as her husband. (1945) 11 a.m., FMC
Wednesday
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The Nutty Professor
Jerry Lewis does his Jeckyll and Hyde act, as a nerdy chemist who unleashes his inner id in the form of a suave hipster. (1963) 6 a.m., AMC
Thursday
A Letter to Three Wives
Which wife has lost her husband to a friend—Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, or Linda Darnell? Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s satire was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. With Kirk Douglas in a supporting role. (1949) 10 a.m., FMC
Friday
Wall Street
This iconic drama by director Oliver Stone made “greed is good” a catchphrase for the 1980s. Starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen,
and Daryl Hannah. (1987) 8 p.m., FMC
Saturday
Body of Lies
Ridley Scott’s topical espionage thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent caught in murky machinations in the Middle East.
With Russell Crowe. (2008) 10 p.m., Cinemax
Sunday
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese’s epic about a 19th-century gang war between Irish immigrants and nativist New Yorkers, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, and Daniel Day-Lewis. (2002) 8 p.m., IFC
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