Best films to watch on TV today, tonight and this week
While there are more than enough streamers and streaming options for movie lovers out there, nothing quite beats the feeling of finding a hidden gem while flicking through the TV.
There are plenty of options – old and new – to pick from this week, from Hitchcock classic North by Northwest to modern horror masterpiece Hereditary, so there really is something for everyone.
If you’re wondering where to find some of the best films on the terrestrial channels this week, we’ve got you sorted with our picks for the next seven days.
With so many amazing films airing, we’ve compiled a list of the best flicks for you to choose from below.
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Friday 28th June
Lawrence of Arabia – 12:35pm, Film4
Epic adventure starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Jack Hawkins. During the First World War, the enigmatic Lieutenant Lawrence yearns to escape his desk job in military intelligence and experience some action. His chance arrives when he is appointed British liaison officer to the Arab Revolt against the Turks. Read our full review
A Quiet Place: Part II – 9pm, Film4
A Quiet Place Part II Paramount Pictures
Horror thriller starring Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. More than a year after humanity was attacked by monsters with sensitive hearing, the surviving members of the Abbott family hold the secret to killing the creatures. Followed by a troubled neighbour, hearing-impaired Regan sets out to an island radio tower, hoping to broadcast their discovery – but it isn’t only the monsters she has to watch out for. Read our full review
Let Him Go – 10:50pm, Film4
Retired sheriff George Blackledge and his horse trainer wife Margaret live on a ranch in 1960s Montana, with their son James, his wife Lorna and their son Jimmy. A freak riding accident takes James’ life, and the Blackledges watch helplessly as Lorna eventually marries Donnie, who communicates with his fists. Without warning, Donnie spirits Lorna and three-year-old Jimmy away to his family home in North Dakota. Crime drama, starring Diane Lane, Kevin Costner and Kayli Carter. Read our full review
Chopper – 1:15am, Channel 4
Biographical crime drama starring Eric Bana as Mark “Chopper” Read, the notoriously violent Australian hoodlum who became a bestselling author. Read our full review
Saturday 29th June
A Hard Day’s Night – 3:35pm, BBC Two
Musical comedy starring the Beatles in their movie debut. John, Paul, George and Ringo set off for London, where they are due to take part in a live TV show. But the antics of Paul’s mischievous grandfather throw the performance into jeopardy. Includes the classic songs A Hard Day’s Night, Tell Me Why, I Should Have Known Better, She Loves You, This Boy, Can’t Buy Me Love, I Wanna Be Your Man and All My Loving. Read our full review
Steel Magnolias – 3:50pm, Film4
Comedy drama starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts. In a small Louisiana town, a diverse group of women connected by their local beauty salon draw upon each other’s friendship when they are confronted by tragedy. Read our full review
Spencer – 9pm, Channel 4
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Spencer Prime
Biographical drama starring Kristen Stewart. December 1991: Diana, Princess of Wales, arrives at Sandringham to mark Christmas with the royal family. Ignored by her husband, treated coldly by her in-laws, and subjected to a torrent of media attention, the former Lady Spencer begins to reckon with the realities of her situation and her marriage. Read our full review
Taxi Driver – 10pm, Great Movies
Martin Scorsese’s controversial psychological drama starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster. Travis Bickle is an alienated ex-Marine, working nights as a New York cabbie. Haunted by the squalor of what he sees around him, he is drawn to the beautiful – and “pure” – Betsy. But his attempts to woo her prove to be disastrous, and he begins an inexorable descent into a personal hell, a descent that can only end in the bloodiest of climaxes. Read our full review
Hereditary – 11:10pm, Film4
Horror starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. Following the death of their reclusive grandmother, the Graham family experiences an escalating series of terrifying events. Read our full review
Sunday 30th June
On the Waterfront – 1:15pm, BBC Two
Classic crime drama starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb and Rod Steiger. One-time boxing hopeful Terry Malloy idles his time away on New York’s dockside, protected by his brother Charley while “working” as a strong-arm man for the corrupt leader of the dockers’ union. But Terry begins to question his loyalties after a neighbour is murdered and he falls in love with the dead man’s sister, Edie. Read our full review
North by Northwest – 3pm, BBC Two
Classic spy thriller starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill finds his life in deadly peril when he is mistaken for the mysterious “Mr Kaplan” by ruthless members of an enemy spy network. Failing to convince them of his identity, Thornhill tracks down the one man who can prove his story only to find himself accused of murder. Read our full review
Little Women – 3:20pm, Channel 4
Period drama starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh. New England, 1860s: with their father away fighting in the Civil War, the four March sisters, each smart, strong-willed and with different aspirations, are brought up by their mother. Soon they are experiencing the joys and pains of romance, and an unexpected tragedy. Read our full review
My Best Friend’s Wedding – 4:40pm, Film4
Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney and Cameron Diaz. When food critic Julianne Potter learns that her best friend and ex-lover, sportswriter Michael O’Neal, is getting married, she vows to sabotage the wedding. Thwarted in her initial efforts, she resorts to more underhand methods when she introduces her gay friend George (Rupert Everett) as her fiancé! Read our full review
Rocky – 8pm, ITV4
Oscar-winning sports drama written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky Balboa is a down-on-his-luck boxer scraping a living collecting debts for a Philadelphia loan shark. But when heavyweight champion Apollo Creed puts his title up for grabs in a US Bicentennial publicity stunt, Balboa receives an unexpected shot at the big time. Read our full review
Monday 1st July
An Inspector Calls – 4:05pm, Talking Pictures TV
Mystery based on the play by JB Priestley and starring Alastair Sim. A police officer uncovers dark secrets when he interviews an affluent family in connection with the death of a young girl. Read our full review
Clueless – 7:05pm, Film4
Clueless Paramount Pictures
Romantic comedy updating Jane Austen’s Emma to the present day, starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd. Cher and her best friend Dionne are going on 16 and know everything about being gorgeous, popular, and always in vogue. But everything changes when Tai, a new transfer student, arrives. She is, in a word, “clueless”, and Cher sees it as her mission in life to give Tai a complete makeover. Read our full review
My Week with Marilyn – 11:50pm, BBC One
Drama based on a true story, starring Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne. In 1956, Hollywood sex symbol Marilyn Monroe arrives in Britain to co-star with Laurence Olivier in his film adaptation of The Prince and the Showgirl. But as the behaviour of the notoriously mercurial Monroe begins to drive Olivier to distraction, she’s befriended by young production runner Colin Clark and the two become confidantes. Read our full review
Tuesday 2nd July
The Guns of Navarone – 1:40pm, Film4
Classic Second World War adventure, based on Alistair MacLean’s bestseller, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn. Buried deep in the solid rock of a cliff and impregnable to assault by plane or ship, the German guns on the Greek island of Navarone must be destroyed if the lives of two thousand British soldiers are to be saved. A crack team of commandos is assembled for this perilous mission, each with a special and deadly talent. Read our full review
Brighton Rock – 2:20pm, Talking Pictures TV
Crime drama based on Graham Greene’s novel, starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley and William Hartnell. Daily Messenger journalist Kolley Kibber arrives in Brighton, where his paper is offering a cash prize to the first member of the public to spot him. However, the members of a gang led by ruthless delinquent Pinkie Brown believe he murdered one of their number and are hot on his trail. Read our full review
The Sisters Brothers – 10:50pm, BBC One
Western starring John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal. Gunslingers Charlie and Eli Sisters are hired to find and kill a kindly chemist who possesses a unique method for gold prospecting. However, the chemist is being protected by the brothers’ supposed associate, detective John Morris, which makes this simple bounty hunt far more complicated than expected. Read our full review
Wednesday 3rd July
Sink the Bismarck! – 4:35pm, Film4
Second World War naval drama starring Kenneth More. In 1941, Captain Jonathan Shepard, director of operations at the British Admiralty, begins planning the destruction of Germany’s seemingly invincible battleship, the Bismarck. When the vessel moves into the north Atlantic war zone, the success of Shepard’s mission becomes imperative. Read our full review
Kill Bill Vol 1 – 9pm, Great Movies
Martial arts drama starring Uma Thurman and directed by Quentin Tarantino. A deadly assassin known as “Black Mamba” swears revenge on the traitorous fellow killers who left her for dead on her wedding day. Read our full review
Escape Room – 9pm, BBC Three
Horror thriller starring Taylor Russell and Logan Miller. Six strangers sign up to take part in a mysterious competition that offers a $10,000 cash prize. Upon arrival, they realise their challenge has already begun – and is far more terrifyingly immersive than they could have imagined. Read our full review
Thursday 4th July
Comanche Station – 2:35pm, Film4
Western starring Randolph Scott and Nancy Gates. After rescuing a settler’s wife from the Comanches, Jefferson Cody encounters three outlaws who plan to kill him and collect a reward for the woman’s return. Read our full review
Inglourious Basterds – 9pm, Film4
Inglourious Basterds Universal
Second World War action adventure directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt. After a Jewish woman’s family are slaughtered by the Nazis, she changes her identity and flees to Paris, only to come face to face with the man responsible for the massacre. Meanwhile, Lt Aldo Raine leads a guerrilla squad of Jewish Americans into occupied territory to carry out a series of raids on the enemy, earning a fearsome reputation in the process. Read our full review
Moulin Rouge! – 10:25pm, BBC Two
Musical romantic drama directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. Montmartre, 1899: Christian, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris with ambitions to become a writer. Befriended by a group of bohemian actors, he comes into contact with Zidler, the unscrupulous manager of the Moulin Rouge, and the beautiful Satine, who immediately captures his heart. But as Christian celebrates his new-found love, tragedy waits in the wings. Read our full review
Friday 5th July
The Cockleshell Heroes – 2:15pm, Film4
Second World War drama directed by and starring José Ferrer, and also starring Trevor Howard. Major Stringer heads a group of Royal Marines on a dangerous secret mission that involves planting mines on enemy ships moored in Bordeaux. Read our full review
Hidden Figures – 6:20pm, Film4
Drama based on a true story, starring Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Three African-American women working as Nasa mathematicians in the 1960s do their bit for the space race, battling institutionalised racism and sexism in the process. Read our full review
Django Unchained – 9pm, Film4
Western directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz. After being freed from slavery and trained in the ways of a bounty hunter by Dr King Schultz, Django sets out to free his wife from a vicious plantation owner. Read our full review
48 HRS – 12:20am, Film4
Action thriller starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. With vicious escaped convict Albert Ganz loose in San Francisco, bullish cop Jack Cates needs all the help he can get to track him down. Unfortunately, that “help” comes in the form of smart-mouthed young prisoner Reggie Hammond, who has his own reasons for stopping Ganz’s rampage, and only a 48-hour release from jail in which to do it if he and Cates don’t kill each other first! Read our full review
If you have Netflix, we have rounded up the best movies on Netflix and the best series on Netflix to watch now – and Disney Plus viewers can check out our best movies on Disney Plus guide. Got Prime Video? We also have the best movies on Amazon Prime.
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