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 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

Saturday 22nd February

Whisky Galore - 1pm, BBC Two

Classic Ealing comedy starring Basil Radford. A Hebridean island community senses a chance to replenish its whisky stocks when a cargo ship full of the prized drink is stranded offshore. Read our full review

Howard’s End - 3:20pm, Film4

Period drama adapted from EM Forster's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter. Helen Schlegel, who lives in London with her sister Margaret and brother Tibby, is invited to stay at Howards End the country home of the affluent Wilcox family whom she has recently met. She falls in love with their younger son Paul, but it is the friendship that later develops between Margaret and the ailing Mrs Wilcox which has far-reaching consequences for both families. Read our full review

The Banshees of Inisherin - 9:15pm, Channel 4

Period comedy drama starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. In a small Irish community, shepherd Pádraic lives a peaceful life, until one day his best pal Colm abruptly breaks off their long-standing friendship. Hurt and confused, Pádraic can't let the issue go, and the situation soon escalates to an extreme degree. Read our full review

Godland - 10:40pm, BBC Four

Period drama starring Elliott Crosset Hove and Ingvar Sigurdsson. In the late 19th century, Danish Lutheran missionary Lucas is sent to a remote community in Iceland, where he is to build and establish a church. With the reluctant help of his gruff guide, Ragnar, Lucas weathers the challenges of the harsh rural climate, but the demands of his mission begin to take their toll. Read our full review

The Revenant - 11:35pm, Channel 4

Oscar-winning historical adventure starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rural Missouri in the 1820s: frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass acts as a guide for a hunting party when the men are attacked by a local tribe. The survivors head for Fort Kiowa but on the way Glass is savagely mauled by a bear. Although left for dead and severely injured, Glass is determined to make it back to the fort and have his revenge. But ahead of him lies hundreds of miles of tough terrain, bitter cold and murderous tribesmen. Read our full review

Sunday 23rd February

Cars 3 - 1:50pm, BBC One

Animated comedy adventure featuring the voice of Owen Wilson. Celebrated race car Lightning McQueen finds himself rendered obsolete in the face of a new generation of super-speedy racers. Determined to avoid an early retirement, he turns to an ambitious young race technician to help him regain his motoring mojo. Read our full review

The Devil Wears Prada - 4:05pm, Channel 4

Fashion-industry satire based on Lauren Weisberger's novel, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. When unstylish college graduate Andy Sachs gets a job as the editor's assistant on New York fashion bible Runway, she thinks it's a short cut to achieving her dream journalism career. Unfortunately her boss, Miranda Priestly, is a dragon lady, who makes Andy's existence a living hell. Read our full review

The Westerner - 4:40pm, Great Movies Action

Western starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan. After narrowly avoiding being hanged by Judge Roy Bean for a crime he didn't commit, a drifter joins a group of homesteaders whom the judge wants driven off their land. Read our full review

All the President’s Men - 10pm, BBC Two

Political thriller starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Based on the real-life investigation by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, this film painstakingly reconstructs the events surrounding the most significant political scandal of the 1970s which led to the Watergate hearings. Read our full review

20 Days in Mariupol - 1am, Channel 4

Documentary. In February 2022, Russian forces began mounting an invasion of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Reporter and film-maker Mstyslav Chernov captures the first three weeks of this bombardment and reflects on the historical role played by such footage. Read our full review

Monday 24th February

Silverado - 3:15pm, Great Movies Action

Western starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner. After surviving an ambush by mysterious gunmen as he travels to Silverado to visit his sister and her family, Emmett discovers that his relatives in the town are being terrorised by a corrupt rancher. Read our full review

Nomadland - 6:50pm, Film4

Road movie starring Frances McDormand. Following the death of her husband and the loss of her job, a sixty-something Nevadan sells her belongings and buys a van, which she uses to travel the States while working odd jobs. Along the way, she meets a number of fellow travellers and starts to embrace America's "nomad" communities. Read our full review

Snowpiercer - 9pm, 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

Tuesday 25th February

School of Rock - 6:45pm, Film4

Musical comedy starring Jack Black as Dewey Finn, an out-of-work heavy metal guitarist who cons his way into a job teaching at an expensive private school. Introducing the uptight students to the joys of rock music, Finn sets about grooming them for a battle-of-the-bands contest. Read our full review

Everything Everywhere All at Once - 9pm, Film4

Sci-fi action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh. Evelyn Wang has reached a crossroads in her life. Her business is failing, her marriage is crumbling, she doesn't get along with her daughter or her father and the IRS is auditing her accounts. When a rift in the multiverse suddenly opens, revealing a plethora of parallel realities, Evelyn is plunged into a high-stakes battle against a terrifying force - one that is surprisingly close to home. Read our full review

Clemency - 11:05pm, BBC Two

American prison warden Bernadine Williams has presided over a dozen executions. However, as the 13th looms, she grapples with complex emotions while bonding with a death-row inmate who maintains his innocence. Writer/director Chinonye Chukwu's drama, starring Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks and Michael O'Neill. Read our full review

Wednesday 26th February

The Colditz Story - 2:35pm, Film4

Second World War drama starring John Mills and Eric Portman. The heavily guarded Colditz castle in Germany is considered escape-proof by the Nazis. But the Allied prisoners of war, all veterans of other escape attempts, refuse to admit defeat. Read our full review

The Bedford Incident - 4:35pm, Film4

Cold War adventure starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. A journalist joins the crew of a destroyer assigned to hunt down enemy submarines in the north Atlantic. But the relationship between the authoritarian captain and his meek, young ensign has disastrous results. Read our full review

Ema - 1am, Film4

Drama starring Mariana Di Giroamo and Gael García Bernal. Dancer Ema and her husband Gastón decide to "return" their troubled adopted son, leading to fissures in their marriage, their work and their social lives. Read our full review

Thursday 27th February

Patton - 12:40pm, Film4

Oscar-winning biographical drama starring George C Scott as General George Smith Patton, one of the greatest and most controversial military leaders of the Second World War. Read our full review

Roman Holiday - 4pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Joe Bradley, a journalist at an American news bureau in Rome, discovers a pretty girl apparently in a drunken stupor and reluctantly takes her home. Next morning, he is amazed to discover that his guest is a princess on a state visit. Read our full review

The Hunt for Red October - 6:20pm, Film4

Cold War action thriller starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn. The trial voyage of new Soviet submarine Red October does not go as expected. Equipped with an experimental new propulsion system that makes it virtually impossible to track and captained by the enigmatic Marko Ramius, the heavily armed vessel heads for America. Is Ramius about to launch an undetectable, pre-emptive nuclear strike? Read our full review

Friday 28th February

Last Train from Gun Hill - 12:15pm, 5 Action

Western starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. After his wife is raped and murdered, lawman Matt Morgan is determined to find the culprit, but he is shocked when he finds out who was responsible for the crime. Read our full review

23 Paces from Baker Street - 12:55pm, Film4

Thriller starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles. Blind playwright Phillip Hannon overhears a kidnap and murder being planned, but when he approaches the police they politely dismiss his evidence. Assisted by his fiancée and his secretary, he attempts to solve the crime himself. Read our full review

Nightmare Alley - 9pm, Film4

Period thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. On the run from the law, mystery man Stan Carlisle joins a travelling carnival and learns the tricks of the trade. Years later, while performing a successful psychic act for the wealthy, Stan encounters sceptical psychologist Dr Lilith Ritter. Can she expose him as a fraud? Read our full review

Pretty Red Dress - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama starring Natey Jones and Alexandra Burke. Aspiring singer Candice lands an audition for a major new stage musical, and is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Travis, buys her a beautiful garment to celebrate. The couple soon faces a challenge, though, when Travis tries on the dress and finds that he enjoys wearing it. Read our full review

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