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Pascali’s Island (TMC, Monday at 5:45 a.m.):...

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Pascali’s Island (TMC, Monday at 5:45 a.m.): Writer-director James Dearden’s subtle, literate 1988 film from a 1979 Barry Unsworth novel stars Ben Kingsley as a Turkish spy, becalmed some 20 years on a Greek isle in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, whose serene life unexpectedly unravels with the arrival of a British archeologist (Charles Dance). (1:45)

Madame Satan (TNT, Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.): Strictly for film buffs, this is a delirious 1930 Cecil B. DeMille talkie with an unforgettable finale, involving a costume ball aboard a blimp. (2:15)

Splendor in the Grass (KCOP, Saturday at 2 a.m.): Elia Kazan’s poetic 1961 film of William Inge’s poignant coming-of-age drama, set in a small, repressive Midwestern town in the U20s, memorably teams Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. (2:00) Edited.

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