And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from Powell and Pressburger classics like A Matter of Life and Death to modern gems like The Power of the Dog, so there really is something for everyone.
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 5th April
Splash – 6:45pm, Great! Movies
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Romantic fantasy comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah. A mermaid saves the young Allen Bauer from drowning and, years later, taking on human form, leaves the sea to seek him out in New York. Read our full review
The Lost City of Z – 9pm, Great! Movies
Period adventure based on a true story, starring Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson. In the early 1900s, British explorer Percy Fawcett embarks on a quest through the Amazon jungle, meeting with intrigue and frustration as he attempts to uncover evidence of an ancient civilisation. Read our full review
Blinded by the Light – 9pm, BBC Three
Comedy drama starring Viveik Kalra and Kulvinder Ghir. Luton, 1987: outcast Javed, the son of Pakistani immigrants, is introduced to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Through his love of music, Javed grows in confidence and finds the inspiration to pursue an interest in writing, ask out his crush and stand up to racism in his community. But there’s one crucial thing he craves: winning the approval of his father, Malik. Read our full review
Saturday 6th April
A Matter of Life and Death – 1pm, BBC Two
Classic romantic fantasy starring David Niven and Kim Hunter. With his plane ablaze, Squadron Leader Peter Carter holds a last radio conversation with an American servicewoman before baling out. Amazingly, he survives, and later meets her and falls in love. But in heaven, a mistake is discovered. Read our full review
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad – 4:50pm, Film4
Fantasy adventure starring Kerwin Mathews. Blown off course to the monster-infested island of Colossa, Sinbad and his crew rescue a sorcerer from the clutches of a cyclops. The voyage continues to Baghdad, but the sorcerer has been forced to leave stolen property behind, and hatches a wicked plan to force Sinbad to return to Colossa. Read our full review
Star Trek – 6:45pm, Film4
Science-fiction adventure starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. Rebellious youth James Kirk is persuaded to join the Starfleet Academy, where he befriends Dr Leonard “Bones” McCoy and clashes with officer Spock. When an evil Romulan arrives from the future, the young crew of the USS Enterprise find themselves in the thick of the action. Read our full review
The Lost City – 9pm, Channel 4
Action comedy adventure starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe. Bestselling author Loretta Sage is promoting the latest in her series of Dash McMahon adventure novels with handsome cover model Alan Caprisan when she is kidnapped by a billionaire who believes she knows the location of a lost treasure. Alan steps up to rescue her, but he’s just a book-cover model, nothing like the heroic Dash. Read our full review
Captain Phillips – 11:55pm, BBC One
Drama based on a true story, starring Tom Hanks. A tense stand-off ensues between Captain Richard Phillips and Muse, the leader of Somali pirates who hijack his container ship. But both men are also subjected to outside political forces. Read our full review
Sunday 7th April
Guys and Dolls – 2pm, BBC Two
Musical comedy based on Damon Runyon’s short stories, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra. Hustler Nathan Detroit searches for a new location for his dice game while being pursued by the police. When he finds a suitable garage, he makes a $1,000 bet with slick gambler Sky Masterson to raise the necessary finance. However, that means Sky must persuade a pious young missionary to go to Havana to have dinner, or else he loses the wager. Read our full review
The Mitchells vs The Machines – 3pm, ITV2
Animated sci-fi comedy featuring the voices of Abbi Jacobson and Danny McBride. Katie Mitchell is ready to leave for college, but then her fretting father has the bright idea to drive her there himself, and packs the whole family into the car for a cross-country road trip. This enforced bonding experience is somewhat hampered by a robot uprising, as a scheming AI plots to launch every human being into space. Can the family – and the population of Earth – survive? Read our full review
On Chesil Beach – 10pm, BBC Two
Romantic drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle. In the early 1960s, a young couple meet, fall in love and marry. However, on their honeymoon a series of unspoken personal issues threatens to ruin their life together. Read our full review
Nowhere Boy – 11:20pm, Film4
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a 15-year-old John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biographical drama. The young Lennon, who lives with his aunt and uncle, is prompted to visit his real mother after his uncle dies from a heart attack. While forming a complex relationship with his mother, their shared love of music leads to the rebellious John getting his first guitar and forming a band called the Quarrymen. Read our full review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – 11:30pm, BBC One
Epic war drama starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall. In Vietnam, war-weary Captain Willard is drawn into a nightmarish world when he is ordered to assassinate a rebel American officer, Colonel Kurtz, who has established his own private army deep in the Cambodian jungle. Read our full review
Monday 8th April
Nighthawks – 9pm, ITV4
Action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams. When an evil international terrorist arrives in New York, Deke DaSilva and Matthew Fox – tough city cops newly assigned to the Anti Terrorist Action Command – are put on the case. With the body count rising and a threat made to the United Nations, time is fast running out for DaSilva and Fox to catch the ruthless killer before he strikes again. Read our full review
The Two Faces of January – 11:15pm, BBC Two
Thriller starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. In 1962, the charismatic Chester and his young, attractive wife, Colette, arrive in Athens and befriend Rydal, a young tour guide. Rydal is something of a swindler, and it soon becomes clear that the glamorous American couple have a few secrets of their own. Read our full review
To Live and Die in LA – 12:40am, Film4
A determined FBI agent sets out to gain revenge on the counterfeiter who murdered his partner. Director William Friedkin’s crime thriller, starring Willem Dafoe, William Petersen, Dean Stockwell and John Pankow, featuring a score by Wang Chung. Read our full review
Tuesday 9th April
Capricorn One – 11am, Legend
Historical epic starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles. France, 1814: with defeat looming, Napoleon Bonaparte bows to pressure and steps down as Emperor of France. He’s banished to the island of Elba, but his exile doesn’t last long, leading the rulers of Europe to join forces against the threat of Bonaparte and his army. Read our full review
One Millions Years BC – 11am, Film4
Adventure starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson. In prehistoric times, a member of the tribe known as the Rock People is banished for fighting his father and given refuge by the Shell People. But his aggressive manner is soon at odds with the ways of the peaceful tribe. Read our full review
Molly’s Game – 11:15pm, BBC Two
Drama based on a true story starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner. Following a career-ending injury, skier Molly Bloom makes ends meet as a waitress. However, after discovering the world of high-stakes poker, she builds her own gambling empire, which makes her rich – and attracts a major federal investigation. Read our full review
Wednesday 10th April
Sister Act – 2:50pm, Film4
Comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg. After seeing her gangster boyfriend Vince LaRocca murder an informant, cabaret singer Deloris Van Cartier becomes a marked woman. When she agrees to testify against Vince, Deloris is sent by the police to hide in a San Francisco convent where she has trouble adapting to the nuns’ way of life. Read our full review
Nobody – 9pm, Film4
Action thriller starring Bob Odenkirk. After his home is broken into and his family threatened, mild-mannered suburbanite Hutch Mansell resolves to track down the culprits and, in doing so, makes himself the target of an even deadlier gang. However, this apparently unassuming family man may have a secret skill or two up his sleeves… Read our full review
Fight Club – 10:50pm, Film4
Satirical drama starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Meeting by chance, soap salesman Tyler Durden and a frustrated office worker conceive the Fight Club, where disaffected young men seeking release from their frustrations can beat each other up with bare knuckles. Their idea is hugely successful, but as Tyler becomes a cult hero, his actions grow increasingly reckless. Read our full review
Thursday 11th April
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 5:35pm, Talking Pictures TV
The sole survivor of a shipwreck must battle to survive when he becomes marooned on a tropical island. Adventure, starring Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez and Felipe de Alba.. Read our full review
The Silence of the Lambs – 10:05pm, ITV4
Jodie Foster is Clarice Starling
Classic psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is assigned to help in the search for the serial killer known as “Buffalo Bill”, a brutal murderer who skins the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks the assistance of Dr Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. Read our full review
Julius Caesar – 10:40pm, Film4
Drama based on William Shakespeare’s play starring James Mason, Marlon Brando and John Gielgud. It’s 44 BC and Caesar, having returned to Rome after defeating Pompey in the Civil War, has been elected Dictator for life by his countrymen. But a number of statesmen, fearing Caesar’s abuse of his power, plan to assassinate him. Read our full review
Friday 12th April
Duel – 3pm, Legend
Thriller starring Dennis Weaver. Travelling salesman David Mann is used to driving long distances, but on an isolated stretch of road he encounters a smoke-spewing tanker truck whose sole purpose seems to be to crush him and his car under its gigantic wheels. Read our full review
The Mask of Zorro – 6:20pm, Film4
Swashbuckling action adventure starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Twenty years after his last appearance, legendary hero Zorro returns to battle Don Rafael Montero, now the self-styled ruler of mid-19th-century California. But is this the original “Robin Hood of Mexico” or a younger incarnation who now defends the rights of peasants? Read our full review
The Martian – 9pm, BBC Three
Science-fiction drama based on the novel by Andy Weir, starring Matt Damon. After a manned mission to Mars is hit by a ferocious storm, Mark Watney is left behind when his fellow crew members make their escape. Using scientific knowledge, ingenuity and drawing on seemingly inexhaustible levels of resolve, Mark must find a way to survive long enough to be rescued. Read our full review
The Power of the Dog – 11:05pm, BBC Two
Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Montana, 1925: ranch owner George Burbank meets and falls in love with widowed restaurant proprietor Rose Gordon. Though the two marry and make a home together, George’s tyrannical brother, Phil, determines to make life hell for Rose and her sensitive son, Peter. 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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