Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (Channel 13 Sunday...

Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.) is such a tense and stunning World War II adventure, set aboard a German U-boat on a dangerous mission, that its anti-war sentiments become all the stronger when we’re deliberately reminded at the finish that we’ve been rooting for the Germans.

Despite heavy-handedness and contrivance, Finish Line (Channel 5 Sunday at 8 p.m.), a 1989 TV movie, nicely defines the perils of steroids and the pressures underlying their use. James and Josh Brolin star.

Lassiter (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is an elegant and entertaining 1984 light-weight fantasy adventure starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour.

Rent-a-Cop (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) is a pleasant, by-the-numbers genre fare that finds endangered hooker Liza Minnelli hiring ex-cop Burt Reynolds to protect her.

Better Off Dead (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.), an inventive, oddball 1985 teen comedy, stars John Cusack as a teen-ager badly in need of self-esteem.

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) is a routine 1989 TV docudrama about the pursuit of serial killer Richard Ramirez. Richard Jordan and A Martinez star.

Borderline (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), one of the first (in 1980) of the Hollywood movies to deal with the plight of illegal aliens, stars Charles Bronson as a border patrol chief in a sympathetic portrayal of a shrewd old pro who does his job well, if unwillingly.

If Against All Odds (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), Taylor Hackford’s stylish 1984 remake of the 1947 film noir classic “Out of the Past,” doesn’t entirely succeed, it’s because the convoluted plot is still a tangle at the finish and because we are on to the central villain from the outset. Keeping that from mattering too much is the sheer intensity of the love triangle created by Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Rachel Ward.

The solid, efficient 1988 mystery Messenger of Death (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) finds Charles Bronson playing a Denver-based reporter investigating the slaughter of a polygamous farmer and his family.

The Enforcer (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.), the third (1976) of the “Dirty Harry” movies, is memorable mainly for pairing Clint Eastwood’s laconic Harry with a new partner, Tyne Daly, in a warm-up for “Cagney & Lacey.”

In the 1987 hit Throw Momma From the Train (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.), Danny DeVito plays a frenzied, blue-collar butterball imprisoned in a hellish relationship with his tyrannical mother (the late Anne Ramsey). What ensues is another Hitchcock parody--in this instance, of “Strangers on a Train”--but done with more depth and humor than usual. With Billy Crystal.