Best films to watch on TV today, tonight and this week

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.

Friday 14th February

Notting Hill - 9pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. An American film star bumps into a humble bookshop owner and they begin an unlikely affair. But their relationship is put under strain when the press finds out. Read our full review

Bridget Jones’s Diary - 10pm, Channel 5

Romantic comedy adapted from the bestselling novel by Helen Fielding, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Weight-obsessed 30-something Bridget Jones is busy lamenting her lack of a good man when two come along at once: her flirtatious boss Daniel Cleaver and uptight childhood friend Mark Darcy. Unfortunately, in typical world-of-Bridget style, the two men have met before, and she finds herself thrust from being a wallflower to the centre of a bizarre love triangle. Read our full review

Blue Jean - 11:05pm, BBC One

Drama starring Rosy McEwen. A PE teacher in 1980s Newcastle hides her sexuality from her charges and co-workers. But crisis beckons when she spots her new pupil hanging out at the local gay bar. Read our full review

Three Thousand Years of Longing - 11:30pm, BBC Two

Dr Alithea Binnie is an academic, content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she encounters a djinn, who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Director George Miller's fantasy drama based on a short story by AS Byatt, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Read our full review

Saturday 15th February

Designing Woman - 1pm, BBC Two

Romantic comedy starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. The whole thing began out in Beverly Hills when sportswriter Mike Hagen met fashion designer Marilla. After a whirlwind romance the two are married, but soon their different lifestyles begin to cause problems and each has their side of the story to tell. Read our full review

Mr Malcolm’s List - 2:55pm, BBC Two

Period romance starring Freida Pinto and Sope Dirisu. In Regency-era England, socialite Julia Thistlewaite is humiliated by bachelor Jeremy Malcolm, and ropes in her cousin, Selina Dalton, to help exact revenge. But though Selina is tasked with merely pretending to court Mr Malcolm, setting him up for a public rejection, the pair begin to actually fall in love. Read our full review

Compartment No.6 - 10:45pm, BBC Four

A Finnish archaeology student boards a train from Moscow to Murmansk to study a series of rock carvings, only to find she must share a carriage with a drunken miner who is openly abusive and misogynistic. Drama, starring Seidi Haarla and Yura Borisov. In Russian, Finnish and English.. Read our full review

A Quiet Place - 11:20pm, Film4

Horror thriller starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. After blind insectoid monsters with super-sensitive hearing wipe out most of humanity, a family of survivors adapts to living in silence. But with a new baby on the way, their noiseless way of life is about to become a lot more difficult... Read our full review

Quo Vadis, Aida? - 1:25am, BBC Four

Historical war drama starring Jasna Djuricic. In July 1995, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica is invaded by Serb forces, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in a makeshift UN camp. With the town's male citizens under imminent threat of execution, local teacher and UN translator Aida Selmanagic is torn between her diplomatic responsibilities and ensuring the safety of her husband and two sons. Read our full review

Sunday 16th February

Stardust - 11am, Film4

Fantasy adventure based on the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. In Victorian England, young Tristan Thorne goes in search of a fallen star to prove his love to the village beauty. His quest takes him to a magical parallel world, where he faces competition from cunning witch Lamia and an assortment of dastardly princes - some living, some dead. Read our full review

Notorious - 6pm, Talking Pictures TV

Alfred Hitchcock's classic romantic thriller starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Willing to go to any lengths to prove her loyalty to the US government after her father is convicted of treason, Alicia Huberman agrees to travel to South America and risk her life by becoming involved with a ruthless Nazi spy ring. Read our full review

The Tin Star - 6:50pm, Great Movies Action

Western starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins. Former lawman Morg Hickman, now a bounty hunter, helps out a young inexperienced sheriff who is struggling to maintain law and order in the town he governs. Read our full review

Elizabeth: the Golden Age - 10pm, BBC Two

Historical drama, the sequel to Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Geoffrey Rush. Queen Elizabeth I is under pressure at both home and abroad to resolve the problem of her imprisoned Catholic cousin Mary. The matter gathers urgency following an assassination attempt on the Protestant monarch - and the realisation that King Philip of Spain is on the verge of invasion. Read our full review

Bridget Jones’s Baby - 10:05pm, Channel 5

Romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey. Forty-something Bridget is still viewing life through a glass of Chardonnay and getting on with being single until life takes a twist when she discovers she's pregnant. All she has to do now is find out who the father is. Read our full review

Monday 17th February

Canyon Passage - 12pm, 5Action

Western starring Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy and Susan Hayward. Oregon, 1854: a bank manager's addiction to gambling and his habit of using customers' money to pay off his debts lead to murder. Read our full review

Cold in July - 9pm, Legend

Thriller starring Michael C Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson. Texas family man Richard Dane is awoken in the night by a noise in his house but while investigating, he accidentally shoots the unarmed intruder dead. It's deemed an act of self-defence but when Richard discovers the deceased is the son of notorious ex-con Ben Russell, he's forced to take extreme steps to protect his wife and son. Read our full review

The Quiet Girl - 12:10am, Channel 4

Drama starring Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett. In rural Ireland during the summer of 1981, nine-year-old Cait is sent to stay with her distant cousin Eibhlin while her mother is pregnant. Cait, long neglected by her parents, is shy and withdrawn, but slowly begins to bond with Eibhlin and her husband Sean. Read our full review

Tuesday 18th February

Long Shot - 9:20pm, BBC One

Romantic comedy starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen. Political journalist Fred Flarsky quits his job in protest at a corporate takeover and is hired as a speechwriter by his childhood babysitter Charlotte Field. She has grown up to become the US Secretary of State and is now planning a presidential run. As the two grow closer on the campaign trail, their burgeoning romance is threatened by their differing approach to politics. Read our full review

Snowpiercer - 10pm, ITV4

In a snow-ravaged world, a group of travellers fight for survival on a train that perpetually circumnavigates the globe. The vehicle's occupants are divided into a military ruling elite and their dishevelled captives. But now, 17 years after the train set out on its seemingly never-ending journey, the downtrodden, abused captives have had enough. Revolution is afoot. Bong Joon-ho's fantasy thriller, starring Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell and Octavia Spencer. Read our full review

Die Hard - 11:25pm, Film4

Action thriller starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. New York cop John McClane gets caught up in a terrorist plot after arriving in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his estranged wife Holly and his two children. When Holly is taken hostage in the offices of the Japanese corporation she works for, McClane launches a daring rescue attempt. Read our full review

Wednesday 19th February

An Affair to Remember - 1:35pm, Film4

Romantic drama starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Playboy Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay, the girlfriend of a wealthy man, fall in love on board a luxury liner bound for New York. They agree to meet in six months' time at the top of the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident threatens their planned future. Read our full review

The Father - 9pm, Film4

Psychological drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Anthony, an 80-year-old man with dementia, has increasing difficulty recognising the world around him and the people who care for him, including his daughter Anne. Matters grow more distressing as Anthony begins to suspect the people around him of malevolent intent. Read our full review

The Fury - 10:55pm, Film4

Second World War drama starring Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman and Shia LaBeouf. In the final days of the conflict, a young tank driver gets a baptism of fire when he joins a battle-hardened crew led by the uncompromising "Wardaddy". Read our full review

Thursday 20th February

Anastasia - 2:40pm, Film4

Oscar-winning period drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner. Impostor, or Grand Duchess of Russia? A destitute young exile in 1920s Paris claims to be Anastasia, daughter of the last Tsar. Read our full review

Nothing Like a Dame - 7:45pm, BBC Three

Documentary. With a combined age of over 300 years, Dames Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins have a wealth of acting experience to share as they gather for a talk about their remarkable careers and extraordinary lives. Unsurprisingly, there is much wit and wisdom on display as the quartet's observations are illustrated with clips of their most famous performances, and even as they reflect back on lives filled with drama, they are still young at heart. Read our full review

Stan & Ollie - 11:45pm, BBC Four

Biographical comedy drama starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. In 1953, years after a bitter split with the Hollywood studios, a washed-up Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a tour of Britain's music halls. With attendance low and Stan struggling to sell a new screenplay, old resentments begin to flare up, threatening both the tour and the pair's friendship. Read our full review

Friday 21st February

Nothing but the Best - 2:20pm, Film4

Black comedy starring Alan Bates and Denholm Elliott. Humble estate agent's clerk Jimmy Brewster, determined to become a gentleman whatever the cost, asks a sleazy ex-public schoolboy to teach him social graces. Read our full review

A Room with a View - 4:25pm, Channel 5

Period drama based on the novel by EM Forster, starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands and Daniel Day-Lewis. A young Englishwoman's first grand tour of Europe turns into an unexpectedly complicated journey of discovery. Arriving in Florence with her cousin as her chaperone, they take up their rooms at the Pensione Bertolini and begin to meet the other guests. Read our full review

The Godfather - 9pm, Film4

Francis Ford Coppola's epic crime drama, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan. In New York following the Second World War, Don Corleone is determined that his family should keep control of the American crime world. His daughter Connie is to be married, an occasion that draws guests pledging gifts to the couple in the hope that they will be granted favours by the "Godfather". Read our full review

God’s Creatures - 11:05pm, BBC TwoAileen's willingness to help her recently returned son, Brian, has major repercussions in their struggling County Donegal fishing community. Drama, starring Emily Watson, Paul Mescal and Aisling Franciosi. Read our full review

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