Mikey & Nicky (Bravo Monday at 5...

Mikey & Nicky (Bravo Monday at 5 p.m., again at 11 p.m.) In Elaine May’s 1976 rough-around-the-edges project, Peter Falk and John Cassavetes have a field day as small-time hoods, childhood friends whose loyalty to each other may be wanting.

Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (KCET Monday at 10 p.m.). Mick Csaky’s 1986 documentary is as infectious as its subject, the legendary St. Louis-born entertainer who became the toast of Paris in the ‘20s.

I Love You, Rosa (ABC Tuesday at 2 a.m.) Moishe Mizrahi’s tender, poignant Israeli film centers on an unusual test of the spirit: A 20-year-old, childless turn-of-the-century widow (Michel Bat-Adam) must, according to Old Testament doctrine, be betrothed to her brother-in-law to produce sons to carry on the family name; the hitch here is that the brother-in-law (Gabi Otterman) is only 11!

The Lady Vanishes (Disney Tuesday at 9 p.m., again at 4 a.m. Wednesday). The 1938 Hitchcock classic, one of the best mysteries set aboard a train, finds pretty Margaret Lockwood caught up in a dangerous puzzle once sweet old lady Dame May Whitty unaccountably disappears.

Five Star Final (TMC Wednesday at 8 a.m.) Mervyn LeRoy’s trend-setting 1931 film from the Louis Weitzenkorn play remains powerful and timely as an indictment of the sensationalist press. However, it is much more effective when it stays within the offices of a tabloid--said to be inspired by Bernarr MacFadden’s infamous New York Graphic, with self-loathing editor Edward G. Robinson and his acerbic, silently adoring secretary Aline MacMahon--than with an insufferably noble family cruelly victimized by the paper’s needless dredging up of the mother’s past.