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What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Icarus’ and ‘Rachel Getting Married’

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Bryan Fogel in “Icarus.”

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In “Icarus,” Bryan Fogel sets out to test doping in cycling and ends up embroiled in an international scandal. And the movie “Rachel Getting Married,” Jonathan Demme’s loving tale of family dysfunction, comes to Hulu.

What’s Streaming

ICARUS on Netflix. After learning that his idol, Lance Armstrong, had used banned performance-enhancing drugs, the filmmaker and amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel decided to devise a doping regimen for himself that could go undetected and record the results of his experiment. In the process, he consulted with Grigory Rodchenkov, then the director of Russia’s antidoping laboratory. And when it was discovered that Dr. Rodchenkov participated in a state-run doping program to ensure dominance at the Sochi Olympics, the doctor ran for his life — and sought help from Mr. Fogel to get him out of Russia. “Mr. Fogel could be considered either daring or foolhardy for his initial plan,” Ken Jaworowski wrote in The New York Times. “But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.”

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Anne Hathaway, left, and Rosemarie DeWitt in “Rachel Getting Married.”

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RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (2008) on Hulu, iTunes and Amazon. Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) may be the one marrying, but this film is mostly about her younger sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway, in an Oscar-nominated performance), “a bottomless repository of guilt, destructiveness and general bad feeling,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. Furloughed from rehab, Kym arrives at the rambling Connecticut clapboard house of her father (Bill Irwin). Tensions soon boil over. Debra Winger plays the mother, who has never quite come to terms with Kym’s past. And while this film, directed by Jonathan Demme, may have its faults, Mr. Scott added, it is “so persuasively forgiving of the flaws of its inhabitants that you can only respond, in like spirit, with love.”

IN THE DARK on BritBox. In this new British thriller, MyAnna Buring plays Helen Weeks, a Manchester detective inspector in the early stages of pregnancy when the abduction of two teenage girls leads her back to the Derbyshire town where she grew up — and to a suspect who happens to be the husband of a childhood friend.

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A scene from “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”

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THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) on Fandor. Six friends try to have dinner together — but find that they can’t — in this surrealist dreamscape from Luis Buñuel, which won an Oscar for best foreign-language film. “In addition to being extraordinarily funny and perfectly acted,” Vincent Canby wrote in The Times, “‘The Discreet Charm’ moves with the breathtaking speed and self-assurance that only a man of Buñuel’s experience can achieve.”

What’s on TV

THE ESSENTIALS: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) 8 p.m. on TCM. Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey discuss why this musical, with Gene Kelly as a silent-screen swashbuckler who adjusts to talkies, is required viewing. It’s part of a “Summer Under the Stars” tribute to Kelly, a 12-movie run starting at 6 a.m., including “Brigadoon” and “Anchors Away.”

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