Movies on TV this week

Monday, Dec. 15

Hamlet (1948)

Laurence Olivier’s version of the Shakespeare classic won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Olivier’s only Best Actor Oscar. With Jean Simmons. 10:45 p.m., TCM

The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

Tuesday

River’s Edge (1986)

Crispin Glover and Keanu Reeves star in this unsettling, fact-inspired drama about a group of teens indifferent to the fact that one of their own lies murdered beside a river. Midnight, IFC

Wednesday

Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains (2007)

A complex personality emerges as director Jonathan Demme follows the former president on a tour promoting Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter’s controversial analysis of the Middle East. 8:15 a.m., Starz

Thursday

Brute Force (1947)

In this gritty film noir classic, Burt Lancaster stars as a tough inmate determined to escape a harsh prison. Hume Cronyn plays a memorably sadistic guard. 8:30 a.m., TCM

Friday

Dances With Wolves (1990)

Seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, went to Kevin Costner’s epic Western, in which he plays a U.S. Cavalry officer who joins a band of Sioux. With Mary McDonnell. 9 a.m., Encore

Saturday

Bride and Prejudice (2004)

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is cleverly restaged as a Bollywood musical by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Aishwarya Rai, a megastar in India, plays the lead. 8 p.m., Ovation

Sunday

Space Cowboys (2000)

Director/star Clint Eastwood shares the screen with Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland in this amiable drama about four aging astronauts sent to repair a space station. 10 p.m., Cinemax