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In the Mood (HBO Monday at 11:15 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 p.m.): In 1987, writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, whose latest film is “Field of Dreams,” made this amusing and lively movie about a local legend, Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey), who as a 14-year-old Willowbrook youth eloped with a 21-year-old mother of two (Talia Balsam) a month before D-day. Beverly D’Angelo plays yet another older woman in Sonny’s life. Sweet, funny and rueful. (1:40)

The Rosary Murders (Bravo Tuesday at 11 p.m.): Fred Walton’s engrossing 1987 mystery illuminates a complex and special world of the Catholic Church while steadily building suspense. Donald Sutherland excels in one of the most substantial, reflective roles of his career as a Detroit priest confronted with a serial killer who murders only nuns and priests. With Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer and Josef Sommer. (1:41)

Monsieur Verdoux (TNT Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.): In Charles Chaplin’s staggeringly pitch-dark 1947 satire, he bids farewell to The Tramp to play a dapper, devoted family man who systematically marries and murders a series of women--including, hilariously, Martha Raye--for their money. Chaplin’s point was that the ruthlessness of his Bluebeard mirrors the values of the world in which he struggles to survive. (2:45)

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