TCM Schedule for Sunday November 17, 2024 - Passion and Purpose: Lives Devoted to Film

Plus: 2 silents from Ernst Lubitsch and Imports has a pair from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
2h 9m | Epic | TV-G
Fanciful biography of the German fairy-tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories.
Director: Henry Levin. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Claire Bloom

8:30 AM Fantastic Planet (1973)
1h 12m | Science Fiction | TV-14
A runaway slave uses alien technology to lead a revolt against his masters.
Director: Rene Laloux. Cast: Jean Valmont, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart

10:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
1h 29m | Crime | TV-PG
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Director: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy

11:45 AM D.O.A. (1950)
1h 23m | Suspense | TV-14
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Director: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler

1:15 PM Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
2h 27m | Drama | TV-PG
True life story of Robert Stroud, who spent fifty-three years in Alcartaz prison and became a world-famous ornithologist.
Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

4:00 PM Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
1h 49m | Comedy | TV-PG
A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples.
Director: Jack Arnold. Cast: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige

6:00 PM Sweet November (1968)
1h 54m | Romance | TV-PG
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller. Cast: Anthony Newley, Sandy Dennis, Theodore Bikel

8:00 PM The Movie Man (2024)
1h 29m | Documentary | TV-PG
Amid a global pandemic, an entrepreneur looks back on his life's work owning and operating an idiosyncratic cinema in the forest of northern Ontario.
Director: Matt Finlin. Cast: Keith Stata

10:00 PM Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! (2024)
1h 42m | Documentary | TV-PG
Explores the vanishing world of private film collecting - an obsessive, secretive world of basement film vaults, piled-high with forgotten reels, and inhabited by passionate cinephiles devoted to the rescue and preservation of photochemical film.
Director: Peter Flynn. Cast: Louis DiCrescenzo, Stan Taffel, Geoffrey Curtis

12:00 AM Three Women (1924)
1h 23m | Comedy | TV-G
A frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, Marie Prevost

1:15 AM The Doll (1919)
1h 4m | Comedy | TV-G
Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig

2:30 AM The Other Side of Hope (2017)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-14
A Syrian refugee and the owner of a restaurant in Helsinki become friends and decide to form a utopian union with workers from the restaurant.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki. Cast: Kaija Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji

4:15 AM The Match Factory Girl (1990)
1h 10m | Drama | TV-PG
A plain young woman, by day an unskilled laborer in a match factory, is oppressed by her parents and ignored by men at the local dances.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki. Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari