THE HANGOVER, 2009

PARIS, TEXAS, 1984

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN, 1981

Quo Vadis,1951

Monday, 5 p.m., TCM

If you love camp and more over-the-top Technicolor makeup than a cartload of Kardashians, this is the one for you. Robert Taylor (right) is Marucs, a fierce Roman general who falls for Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a beautiful Christian hostage who wants nothing to do with him or his boss, the horrible Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov). Even so, Marcus convinces Nero to “give” him Lygia, who in turn, makes him question his loyalty to the tyrannical Nero.

The Hangover, 2009

Friday, 9 p.m., TNT

The funniest movie of 2009 takes a simple premise: a bunch of guys go to Vegas for a bachelor party — and then it veers off into crazy hilarity. After a night of binge drinking, the pals (all groomsmen), wake with a tiger in the bathroom, a stripper bride and a missing groom. With (left to right) Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper, who are all so funny you won’t be able to breathe. Co-starring Ken Jeong.

Paris, Texas
, 1984

Saturday, 11:35 a.m., FLIXe

Wim Wenders’ bizarre film from Sam Shepard about a man (Harry Dean Stanton) who is lost and alone in the desert with no memory of his past and then wanders into a settlement with a doctor. The film retraces the man’s life before he wandered off, leaving his young wife (Nastasska Kinski, left) and son. Even though it takes place in the American West, not everyone for once is a hokey American cowpoke.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981

Saturday, 9 p.m., PBS

Harold Pinter’s screenplay from the John Fowles’ novel about two actors (Jeremy Irons, right and Meryl Streep, far right), who fall in lust while making a Victorian-era movie. The movie-within-a-movie, about an engaged, unhappy man who is drawn into a torrid affair with a wily outcast, parallels the affair of the actors. Nominated for five Oscars.