Midnight (TMC Tuesday at 4:05 p.m.). Claudette...

Midnight (TMC Tuesday at 4:05 p.m.). Claudette Colbert is at her most enchanting as a Bronx chorine who arrives in Paris dressed in a gold lame gown but with only 25 centimes in its matching purse. A 1939 film of timeless wit and charm directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.

Ride in the Whirlwind (TBS Wednesday at 9:05 p.m.). Monte Hellman’s darkly ironic and austere 1966 existentialist western, written by and starring Jack Nicholson as one of three cowhands who are mistaken for stagecoach robbers.

Husbands (CMAX Thursday at 2 p.m.) In this 1979 film, one of John Cassavetes’ finest, he examines the impact of the death of a 40ish man upon his best friends (played by Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk).

Loulou (Bravo Thursday at 6 p.m., again at 11 p.m.) Maurice Pialat’s subtle and unabashedly erotic 1981 film is a sizzling yet wry love story between a petty bourgeois Parisienne (Isabelle Huppert) and an ex-con stud (Gerard Depardieu).

Charles Chaplin Retrospective: Each night at 6 p.m. this week, AMC is offering classics that are essential viewing for anyone who cares about the movies: Modern Times (Monday, airing again at 11 p.m.), The Gold Rush (Tuesday, again at 11:30 p.m.), The Great Dictator (Wednesday, again at midnight), Limelight (Thursday, again at midnight) and Monsieur Verdoux (Friday, again at midnight).