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The Love Parade (AMC Sunday at 1:30 & 9 p.m.): Operetta with a knowing wink: a great 1929 Ernst Lubitsch musical, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald as a rake and his queen. (2:00)

Summer (Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m.): Eric Rohmer’s limpid study of a young woman seeking romantic transcendence on a vacation that offers only lascivious play. (1:40)

Destry Rides Again (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.): The lusty 1939 comic Western, directed by George Marshall, with shy lawman Jimmy Stewart and back-room belter Marlene Dietrich. (2:00)

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The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.): John Fowles’ pastiche 19th-Century romantic novel, refracted through scenarist Harold Pinter’s bleak, brilliant sensibility. Meryl Streep stars; Karel Reisz directs. (2:00)

Black Orpheus (Channel 28 Saturday at 10 p.m.): Joyous sambas by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luis Bonfa ignite Marcel Camus’ 1959 update of the Orpheus legend, set at a Rio carnival. (1:40)

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