JAWS (1975)

Sunday, 2 p.m., USA

A killer shark who is still crazy after all these years, terrorizes a Hamptons/Nantucket type-summer resort town. He eats assorted water-frolicking townies and tourists until the police chief (Roy Scheider), a crusty fisherman, (Robert Shaw) and a nerdy oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) team up to take him down. Terrifying.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (1961)

Friday, 11:15 a.m., TCM

One of the first “kitchen sink realism” films about how the other half – the working-class half — lives in England; until the 1960s, they were not often portrayed realistically in British films. Albert Finney is a factory worker in a grim town who lives for the weekends when he acts up, acts out and gets roaring drunk. Brilliant.

16 BLOCKS (2006)

Saturday, 8 p.m., HBO

A very burned-out cop (a very unglamorous Bruce Willis) has to escort a small-time crook (Mos Def), who can’t stop talking, to a grand jury which is sitting just 16 blocks away. But those 16 blocks are filled with dirty cops who want the witness dead. A much better film than you’d expect, and Willis and Mos Def are really, really good.

THE LONGEST DAY (1962)

Saturday, 11:15 p.m., TCM

Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller was turned into arguably into the best war movie – certainly the best WWII movie – ever made. With an international cast of stars from John Wayne to Richard Burton, and Sean Connery to Robert Mitchum, the film recounts and recreates the Normandy invasion. Great.