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Stevie (Bravo Sunday at 5 p.m., again at 11:30 p.m.): In Robert Enders’ splendid 1978 film of Hugh Whitemore’s play on the life of acerbic poet Stevie Smith, Glenda Jackson, in the title role, and Mona Washbourne as Stevie’s doughty aunt, brilliantly re-create their stage roles.

Variety Lights (Bravo Monday at 8 p.m., Tuesday at 1 a.m.): Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada co-directed this wonderfully atmospheric 1949 comedy about a young woman’s struggle for stardom in seedy Italian music halls.

The River (Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m.), Jean Renoir’s 1951 master work of serenity, heat, music and golden light was based on Rumer Godden’s memoir of British girls growing up in India.

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Mama, There’s a Man in Your Bed (Cinemax Tuesday at 2 p.m.): Coline Serreau’s charming 1989 fairy tale, an interracial romantic comedy about a yogurt tycoon (Daniel Auteuil) who unexpectedly falls for Antilles-born cleaning woman (Firmine Richard) after she tips him to a plot against him within his own company.

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