Movies on TV this week

Monday, June 8

Dirty Harry (1971)

Clint Eastwood played a brutal San Francisco cop in what is arguably his most iconic film, spawning four sequels as well as an entire urban-avenger genre. 8 p.m., AMC

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Tuesday

Away From Her (2006)

Julie Christie was Oscar-nominated for this moving drama about a long-married couple facing Alzheimer’s, adapted by director/screenwriter Sarah Polley from an Alice Munro story. 11 a.m., Showtime

Wednesday

The Lady Eve (1941)

Superb Preston Sturges comedy starring Henry Fonda as a bookish heir who strays into the crosshairs of a cunning con woman (Barbara Stanwyck, at her best). 8 p.m., TCM

Thursday

The Pianist (2002)

Star Adrien Brody and director Roman Polanski both won Oscars for this poignant drama about a Jewish musician’s struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

11:45 a.m., IFC

Friday

Cat People (1942)

The classic of atmospheric suspense concerns a young fashion artist (Simone Simon) struggling with a strange legacy. Part of the National Film Registry. 6:30 p.m., TCM

Saturday

The Dark Knight (2008)

Christian Bale dons the cape and cowl of Batman for the second time; Heath Ledger won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar as his deranged nemesis, the Joker. 8 p.m., HBO

Sunday

Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980)

New Wave auteur Alain Resnais based this award-winning intellectual satire on the theories of philosopher Henri Laborit, who appears as himself. Gérard Depardieu stars. 8 a.m., IFC