Sunday, August 24th TV listings for FX Movie Channel HD
The Story of Ruth (1960)
The Old Testament Moabite heroine (Elana Eden) converts to Judaism, flees to Bethlehem and falls in love.
Modesty Blaise (1966)
An archcriminal (Dirk Bogarde) wants diamonds being guarded by a British secret agent (Monica Vitti) and her partner (Terence Stamp).
Bad Girls (1994)
Gunslinging floozies (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell) flee town to avoid a hanging and meet an outlaw with a score to settle.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Crew members (Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup) of the colony ship Covenant encounter a hostile alien life-form after traveling to a dark and dangerous planet on the far side of the galaxy.
Alien (1979)
Crewmembers (Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver) aboard an interstellar freighter encounter a merciless monster that crawls around their ship's dark corridors and service ducts as it kills them one by one.
Aliens (1986)
Ripley reawakens from cryogenic sleep a half-century after a narrow escape from her alien foe, only to be sent to a remote colony to help battle an infestation of Xenomorphs.
Alien 3 (1992)
The survivor (Sigourney Weaver) of several alien attacks is the only woman on a prison planet with a doctor (Charles Dance), thugs, zealots and a horrific monster.
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Two hundred years after she made the ultimate sacrifice, scientists clone Ripley and the Alien queen inside her.
An examination of the process of making movies follows a production from script to screen.
Project X (1987)
An Air Force pilot (Matthew Broderick) rescues smart chimps from lab experiments at a strategic-weapons research center.
Backlash (1947)
A police detective (Larry Blake) questions a lawyer's wife (Jean Rogers) and others about a murder case.
Dressed to Kill (1941)
Private eye Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) uses 25-year-old clues to solve a double murder in a theater.
Man in the Attic (1953)
A Scotland Yard inspector (Byron Palmer) follows an actress (Constance Smith) to her fellow lodger, Jack the Ripper (Jack Palance).
Compulsion (1959)
In a retelling of the Leopold and Loeb murders, two men murder a younger boy and are subsequently put on trial.