HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (2015) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. The filmmaking brothers Josh and Benny Safdie are in theaters this weekend with “Uncut Gems,” a New York thriller with Adam Sandler that has gotten some terrific reviews. This earlier movie from the directors also tells a New York story. It centers on Harley (Arielle Holmes), a young woman who is addicted to heroin and lives on the streets of Manhattan. It’s also a love story: The film is largely built around Harley’s attempts to win back the affection a fellow addict, Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones). The Safdie brothers “capture a density of activity as endemic to the city as it is to Harley’s daily hustle,” Nicolas Rapold wrote in his review for The Times. He called the movie “a small, beautiful classic of street theater.”

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MEL BROOKS: UNWRAPPED 9 p.m. on HBO. There’s a moment late in this documentary when Mel Brooks listens to tape of himself being introduced as an “American film director, producer, writer, actor and comedian” on a radio show in the late 1970s. “They left out composer,” he says. Brooks’s career, which included creating movies like “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein,” is explored here through interviews that the British TV presenter Alan Yentob has conducted with Brooks periodically since the 1980s.