TCM Highlights: February 9-15 & Full February 2026 Calendar

This week on TCM, get out of those February doldrums with merry musicals, horror classics, and some swoon-worthy romances to get you in a Valentine’s state of mind.

On this week’s agenda: an Ernst Lubitsch marathon including The Shop Around the Corner and the Oscar-nominated One Hour With You, an evening dedicated to the eerie with Bride of Frankenstein and Robert Wise‘s The Haunting, a tribute to Walter Matthau, Olivier’s Wuthering Heights, 1950’s Cyrano de Bergerac, Doctor Zhivago, and the very beginning of the channel’s beloved 31 Days of Oscar programming.

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Monday, February 9

Six by Ernst Lubitsch

Beginning at 8pm

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Spend the night with one of the most acclaimed directors of the ’30s and ’40s, with a selection that runs the gamut from his silent work through his biggest Hollywood hits.

The marathon kicks off at 8pm with four of Lubitsch’s early American films shown in chronological order — and each so different, they’re truly a testament to the director’s range. First up is the Best Picture-nominated musical The Smiling Lieutenant, in which Maurice Chevalier plays the titular charming serviceman, whose friendly demeanor accidentally deposit him into a love triangle with a musician (Claudette Colbert) and a princess (Miriam Hopkins). Following it up is Lubitsch’s emotional drama Broken Lullaby, in which Philip Holmes plays a man so haunted by his actions during the war, he travels to Germany to meet the family of the man he killed in battle.

Next up is another Chevalier-starring Best Picture-nominated musical, 1932’s One Hour With You — Chevalier again plays a man thrust into a love triangle, when his wife (Jeanette MacDonald)’s best friend (Genevieve Tobin) makes a move on him. Then, in pre-Code rom-com Trouble in Paradise, Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall are two low-level Parisian criminals who team up to rob a wealthy widow (Kay Francis) … a situation made far more complicated when Marshall begins to fall in love with her.

Then, late in the early morning hours, you can catch one of Lubitsch’s most enduring works, the Jimmy Stewart-starring The Shop Around the Corner. Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play coworkers who can’t stand each other at work — but are secretly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.

Cap off the night with Lubitsch’s final silent film, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Ramon Navarro plays a young prince who falls for a beautiful commoner (Norma Shearer), without quite understanding that he won’t be able to place her into his royal life.

Daily Listings

6:45a Les Mistons (1957)
7:15a That Midnight Kiss (1949)
9a So This Is Love (1953)
11a The Kissing Bandit (1948)
1p Grounds for Marriage (1950)
2:45p The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
4:30p The Vanishing Virginian (1941)
6:15p Seven Sweethearts (1942)
8p The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
9:45p Broken Lullaby (1932)
11:15p One Hour With You (1932)
12:45a Trouble in Paradise (1932)
2:15a The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
4a The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

Tuesday, February 10

Goth Night

Beginning at 8pm

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For those who are enamored of movies tinged with horror and eerie beauty, TCM has a night of programming for you with a lineup of several classic films that veer toward the dark side. The evening begins with 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on Victor Hugo’s novel set in and around the Gothic architectural masterpiece of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral during the Middle Ages. The movie stars Charles Laughton as Notre Dame’s deaf bell ringer Quasimodo and Maureen O’Hara as Esmeralda, a gypsy under a death sentence, who Quasimodo takes (kidnaps?) to sanctuary in the cathedral. Following this is Bride of Frankenstein (1935), starring Laughton’s wife Elsa Lanchester as the titular female creation of Dr. Frankenstein.

Next are The Enchanted Cottage (1945), with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young, about a romance between a plain Jane and a disfigured war veteran; and the psychological romantic drama Undercurrent (1946), with Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor and Robert Mitchum. The night’s programming concludes with the Robert Wise-directed horror film The Haunting (1963), which relates the experiences of a small group of invitees to a country home with purported paranormal activity.

Daily Listings

6a The Lady Refuses (1931)
7:15a Hotel Reserve (1944)
8:45a Once a Thief (1965)
10:45a Fort Dobbs (1958)
12:30p The Yellow Canary (1943)
2p Billy Budd (1962)
4:15p The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
6:15p Fury (1936)
8p The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
10p Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
11:30p The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
1:15a Undercurrent (1946)
3:30a The Haunting (1963)
5a The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)

Wednesday, February 11

Starring Walter Matthau

Beginning at 8pm

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We all know actor Walter Matthau’s comedic work with Jack Lemmon (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men), but here’s an opportunity to appreciate Matthau’s film work on its own merit. Tonight’s featured movies include a Western, Lonely Are the Brave (1962), with Kirk Douglas; two dramas, Voice in the Mirror (1958) and the tense Charley Varrick (1973), showcasing Matthau in the title role as a bank robber who unwittingly steals money belonging to the Mafia; and the comedy Ensign Pulver (1964), interestingly, a follow-up to the Lemmon-starring Mister Roberts. The evening’s highlight film pairs Matthau once more with Odd Couple playwright Neil Simon for 1975’s The Sunshine Boys, the reunion tale of a famous vaudeville duo who parted ways years before on very curmudgeonly terms. Also starring George Burns (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), The Sunshine Boys earned Matthau his second and final Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Daily Listings

6a The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
7:30a Finishing School (1934)
8:45a Freshman Love (1936)
10a The Male Animal (1942)
12p Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
2p Dramatic School (1938)
3:30p The Happy Road (1957)
5:15p Bright Road (1953)
6:30p Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
8p Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
10p Charley Varrick (1973)
12a The Voice in the Mirror (1958)
2a The Sunshine Boys (1975)
4a Ensign Pulver (1964)

Thursday, February 12

Unrequited Love

beginning at 8pm

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Not every paramour ends up with the love of his or her life but, oh, how sweet the yearning. Tonight, get swept up in some of filmdom’s most heart-wrenching tales of unrequited love, beginning with the epic tale Doctor Zhivago (1965), with Omar Sharif as Zhivago alongside his mistress Lara (Julie Christie). Set during the Russian Revolution, director David Lean‘s beautiful film chronicles the pair’s ill-fated love affair through to a winter hideout in an abandoned mountain country home. Next is 1939’s Wuthering Heights, based on Emily Brontë’s English moor-dominated novel of Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Cathy’s (Merle Oberon) obsession-tinged love story. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) follows, featuring José Ferrer in an Oscar-winning performance as the title poet, who harbors a secret love for his Roxane. Finally, 1961’s Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, relates a poignant and more contemporary (early 20th century) tale of teenage first love that never truly gets resolved, with each person going on to marry someone else.

Daily Listings

6a The Yellow Canary (1943)
7:30a Blithe Spirit (1945)
9:30a The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
11:15a The Runaway Bus (1954)
12:45p Just My Luck (1957)
2:15p The V.I.P.s (1963)
4:30p Murder, She Said (1961)
6p Murder Most Foul (1964)
8p Doctor Zhivago (1965)
11:30p Wuthering Heights (1939)
1:30a Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
3:30a Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Friday, February 13

31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes to a Wedding

beginning at 8pm

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Turner Classic Movies is again airing its popular annual 31 Days of Oscar event, beginning this month and running until this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, which airs live Sunday, March 15, on ABC. Long ago abandoning the (yawn) alphabetical programming format, this year TCM has scheduled daytime and primetime blocks based on the theme “And the Oscar Goes to …”. Today’s Valentine’s Eve primetime lineup highlights Oscar-winning and -nominated films featuring weddings, beginning with the heartwarming Spencer Tracy– and Elizabeth Taylor-starring Father of the Bride (1950). The night’s eclectic offerings continue with the British ensemble comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and 1967’s groundbreaking The Graduate (well, yes, there is a wedding in it). More conventional is 1956’s High Society, the musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly. The wedding-themed programming concludes with 1932’s pre-Code film Smilin’ Through, with Norma Shearer and Fredric March leading the cast.

Daily Listings

6a Cabin in the Sky (1943)
7:45a The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
10:15a The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
12:15p Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
2:45p Lili (1953)
4:15p 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
6p Brigadoon (1954)
8p Father of the Bride (1950)
9:45p Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
12a The Graduate (1967)
2a High Society (1956)
4a Smilin’ Through (1932)

Saturday, February 14

31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes to Paris

Beginning at 6am

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Fittingly, TCM spends all Valentine’s Day with Oscar-winning and -nominated films set in La Ville de l’Amour (the City of Love): Paris. Some of the movies you won’t want to miss are 1942’s Casablanca (“We’ll always have Paris.”); Gigi (1958), with Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron; and 1951’s An American in Paris, with Caron and Gene Kelly. The 17-minute closing ballet, featuring the dance pair and set to George Gershwin’s symphonic poem of the same title, is as nuanced as it is colorful, and has influenced countless other artistic film passages, including the fantasy sequence of 2016’s La La Land. Also worth tuning in for is the Baz Luhrmann-directed musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor as lovers ostensibly occupying the bohemian Montmartre neighborhood in 1899, but really existing in a fluid, era-bending nightclub setting. Plus, enjoy another notable 2001 offering set in modern-day Montmartre, the TCM premiere of Amélie, starring Audrey Tautou (The Da Vinci Code).

Daily Listings

6a Roberta (1935)
8a The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
10a Ninotchka (1939)
12p Casablanca (1942)
2p Midnight in Paris (2011)
3:45p Gigi (1958)
6p Charade (1963)
8p An American in Paris (1951)
10p Moulin Rouge (2001)
12:15a Amelie (2001)
2:30a Irma La Douce (1963)
5a Camille (1936)

Sunday, February 15

31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes Bad

Beginning at 7am

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Some of Oscar’s most frequent recognitions go to films portraying the very worst of human nature, and today, TCM allows you to settle in and live vicariously through others’ bad behavior. Some highlights in this best of the best in the crime genre include 1944’s Double Indemnity, with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, the granddaddy of all double-crossing tales. Two Alfred Hitchcock-directed classics are also featured, 1951’s Strangers on a Train, starring Robert Walker as a suitably creepy psychopath, and Rear Window (1954), with James Stewart as a bored, injured and confined photographer who believes his neighbor (Raymond Burr) is a murderer. There’s also 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, a modern retelling of the adventures of the bank-robbing pair, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as the partners in crime. Plus, there are two films set in 1970s New York City: Dog Day Afternoon (1975), with Al Pacino, based on a real 1972 bank robbery; and 1971’s Shaft, starring Richard Roundtree as the fictional private detective John Shaft, whose beat involves frequent interactions with the seedier elements of society.

Daily Listings

7a Little Caesar (1930)
8:30a The Letter (1940)
10:15a Key Largo (1948)
12p Double Indemnity (1944)
2p Strangers on a Train (1951)
4p Rear Window (1954)
6p Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
8p White Heat (1949)
10p In Cold Blood (1967)
12:30a Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2:45a Shaft (1971)
4:45a The Window (1949)

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