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Forbidden Planet (Channel 5 Sunday at 10 a.m.): Celebrated 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” starring Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis. (2:00)

The Evil Mind (Channel 11 Monday at 10 a.m.): Sounds intriguing: Claude Rains plays a phony mind-reader whose predictions start coming true. Made in England in 1934 as “The Clairvoyant.” (2:00)

Lucky Luciano (TMC Tuesday at 2 p.m.): Francesco Rosi’s engrossing 1973 English-language production, with the Italian director’s characteristic convoluted structuring, expansive scope and easy elegance of style--and with Gian Maria Volonte in the title role. (2:00)

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The Spider’s Stratagem (Z Friday at 9:30 a.m.): In this stunning, ambitious 1970 adaptation of a Jorge Luis Borges story, Bernardo Bertolucci tells of a man (Giulio Brogi) caught up in a tantalizing quest for the truth about the death of his father, an anti-fascist martyr. (2:00)

Before the Revolution (Z Saturday at 3 p.m.): Bertolucci took his inspiration from Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” for his rich and astonishing 1964 film about youth and politics. (2:00)

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