In the classic 1967 Bonnie and Clyde...

In the classic 1967 Bonnie and Clyde (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.), director Arthur Penn beautifully re-creates a Depression-era Midwest--abandoned farms, drowsy sun-baked towns, crackling cornstalks and people with Walker Evans faces, and then blows it to smithereens. An excellent cast, including the young and beautiful Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles plus Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard and Gene Wilder.

Ghost (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a 1990 blockbuster, struck a seductive chord: a lover (Patrick Swayze, in an unlikely portrayal of a New York banker) from the afterlife hovering over his beloved (Demi Moore) to keep her from harm, trying to communicate the love he couldn’t express in life. Whoopi Goldberg walked off with an Oscar here as an extremely reluctant spirit go-between.

The crowning pleasure of watching Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in the rollicking 1993 version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (KCET Sunday at 9 p.m.; KOCE Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is seeing the English-speaking world’s reigning acting couple at the top of their game. Directed and adapted by Branagh, “Much Ado” is a merry yet pointed tale of lovers at cross-purposes. With Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard and Michael Keaton.

Point Break (KTLA Thursday at 7:30 p.m.) is a beautiful but dumb 1991 movie starring Keanu Reeves as a college quarterback turned FBI agent who infiltrates the surfer subculture in an attempt to solve a series of bank robberies. Gary Busey is his partner, Patrick Swayze an unintentionally amusing surfer mystic.

Pale Rider (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.), Clint Eastwood’s 1985 variation on “Shane,” is a pleasant enough diversion marred by the unlikely plot point of a pretty teen-ager (Sydney Penny) trying to seduce Eastwood’s grizzled stranger, who is set to take on a ruthless hydraulic gold-mining company.

Oliver Stone’s 1986 Platoon (KCOP Saturday at 9 p.m.) brought home the Vietnam War at last with a fiery implacability impossible to ignore or forget. Charlie Sheen stars as Viet vet Stone’s alter ego, caught between two rival sergeants, the brutal Tom Berenger and the humane Willem Dafoe.

KCET’s Saturday-night double feature offers a pair of evergreen romantic comedies, George Cukor’s 1938 Holiday ( at 10 p.m.), with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and Howard Hawks’ 1934 Twentieth Century (at 11:30 p.m.).