Barbra Streisand’s absorbing 1991 film, The Prince...

Barbra Streisand’s absorbing 1991 film, The Prince of Tides (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.), from Pat Conroy’s vast family saga, unfolds through the wounded eyes of South Carolinian Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte, superb in what must be the most demanding role of his career). He’s an aging scamp who has come to New York to meet with the psychiatrist (Streisand) of his twin sister (Melinda Dillon), who has attempted suicide. In dredging up a troubled past in order to help her, Wingo finds himself confronted with his own demons. Notable portrayals all around--and that includes Blythe Danner and Kate Nelligan as Wingo’s wife and mother, respectively--help sustain the story when it swerves into an inappropriate romance.

An often murderously funny 1988 chase comedy, Midnight Run (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.) stars Robert De Niro as a hard-case bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as a soft-shelled embezzler, who are a kind of Laurel and Hardy on the run.

Andrew Davis’ 1992 cheerfully wacky high-tech thriller Under Siege (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) takes its simple hooks--”Die Hard” on a battleship--and keeps pouring on the blood and glitz, trying to blast you out of your seat. Steven Seagal’s the good guy, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey the bad guys, and all three crack jokes between massacres.

One of the juiciest romantic comedies of the ‘80s, Moonstruck (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is the 1987 film that provided Cher a role that let her comic sensibilities out for a romp as a young widow whose dull life suddenly shifts 180 degrees under the spell of an extraordinarily full moon. With Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello and an Oscar for Olympia Dukakis as Cher’s clear-eyed mother, as well as one for Cher herself.

A confident caper movie with a pleasant sense of humor, the 1992 Phil Alden Robinson’s Sneakers (ABC Monday at 8:30 p.m.) offers an ensemble cast: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, David Straithairn and River Phoenix. It finds Redford playing the head of a group of San Francisco-based renegades who hire themselves out to companies eager to see if their security systems really are secure.

Starring Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe and directed by the underrated Jonathan Kaplan, the 1992 urban paranoia thriller Unlawful Entry (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a cut above the rest. A beautiful friendship between an affluent couple (Kurt Russell and Stowe) and Liotta’s cop seems to be in the offing after Liotta investigates the case of an intruder menacing the couple.

No Way Out (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a sleek and sexy 1987 reworking of the much better “The Big Clock” (1948), with a misfired surprise twist. Kevin Costner stars in this thriller set in Washington, D.C.