Movies on TV this week
Highlights for each day of the 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
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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
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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
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