Green Card (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.),...

Green Card (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), Peter Weir’s effortlessly engaging 1990 love story, boasts Gerard Depardieu as its ace in the hole. He’s a soulful sometime composer whose need of a green card brings him into the home and then the heart of a skittish, beautiful Andie MacDowell, who needs a spouse to hold on to her cherished Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan. The stars seem to share an uncommon honesty and generosity of spirit, which allows the film to float to its heady conclusion.

The Miami of the Miami Blues (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is an overheated griddle of shifty, sun-drenched outlaws and hangdog lawmen. Adapted from the late Charles Willeford’s smart 1984 novel by director George Armitage, the 1990 film is a highly entertaining, deliciously pulpy joy ride starring Alec Baldwin as a live wire who manages to be appealing even when you’re recoiling from his brutality.

A lot was made of the fact that with the 1990 Blue Steel (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), director Kathryn Bigelow invaded the men’s club of the bloody action-thriller. Ron Silver is the upscale psychopath who gets slack-jawed when he sees a woman cop (Jamie Lee Curtis in a strong portrayal) who can kill with the same cool he’d like to have.