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Hum Tum
Today, RaiUno, 9.20 p.m.

In this Indian film, a cartoonist meets a fashion designer on a six-hour flight. They talk for hours, but say goodbye when the plane lands. They bump into each other over the next few years, leading them to fall in love - despite their numerous differences.

Flight of the Phoenix
Tomorrow, Canale 5, 9.10 p.m.

A pilot on a routine trip is out to investigate some remote oil rigs in the Gobi Desert, but things go wrong and he makes a crash landing in the middle of nowhere. For him, and the men along for the ride, a slow, tortured, thirsty death seems certain, unless the plucky mechanic in the crew can design a whole new plane from the wreckage.

Sleepy Hollow
Monday, Canale 5, 11.15 p.m.

Ichabod Crane is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always rational Crane arrives at the little Dutch village, he finds that most of the townsfolk believe the culprit to be the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a monstrous Hessian soldier, who seems to be mysteriously tied in to one of the town's most prominent families.

Sleepers
Thursday, RaiTre, 9.05 p.m.

Four young teenage punks grow up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and sadistically violated and tortured by four guards - the most menacing being Noles. Fifteen years later, the foursome is still dealing with the emotional repercussions of their abuse.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Friday, Canale 5, 9.10 p.m.

The idyllic beauty of Greece's coast has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia, the daughter of the village doctor. While at first offended by the Italian soldier's behaviour, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father's home. When Pelagia's fiancé, a local fisherman, heads off to war, the friendship between Antonio and Pelagia grows even stronger.