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 3rd January

Planet of the Apes - 2:30pm, BBC Two

Science-fiction adventure starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter. Four American astronauts hurtle into the far reaches of space and time and crash-land in the wilderness of an unidentified planet. It is a place where evolution has taken a strange turn - apes are the dominant species and man is the beast. Read our full review

Bullitt - 9pm, ITV4

Crime thriller starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. A San Francisco police lieutenant is forced to use unorthodox methods when an assignment to protect a government witness goes awry. Read our full review

1917 - 10:30pm, BBC Two

First World War drama starring George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman. Two young British corporals are tasked with delivering an urgent warning about an enemy ambush to a battalion further along the Western Front. The quickest way to do this is to go over the top, through the abandoned German trenches and across the French countryside - but they soon run into peril and face an increasingly fraught race against time... Read our full review

Saturday 4th January

10 Things I Hate You - 5pm, Film4

Romantic comedy, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Bianca Stratford is banned by her parents from going on a date until her older sister Katarina has a boyfriend, but unfortunately big sister has an excessively aggressive personality and only manages to send most boys running for cover. However, when a new guy arrives in town, Bianca's suitor Joey hits on a plan that could be the answer to their problem. Read our full review

Nobody - 9:10pm, Channel 4

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

Jailhouse Rock - 9:35pm, Channel 4

Rock 'n' roll drama starring Elvis Presley. Sentenced to jail for manslaughter, Vince Everett is taught to play the guitar by his cellmate. After he is freed, he starts up a record company and soon a sensational new rock 'n' roll star is born. Read our full review

The Man Who Would Be King - 9:45pm, BBC Four

Adventure based on a story by Rudyard Kipling, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. In 1880s India, two impoverished former British army soldiers make plans to travel to the remote wilderness of Kafiristan, where they intend to establish themselves as rulers. But their journey is fraught with difficulties. Read our full review

Scarface - 11pm, Channel 4

Gangster drama starring Al Pacino. Having lied his way into the US from Cuba, two-bit criminal Tony Montana murders a political agitator in order to get a green card. From then on he pursues the American Dream with violent, ruthless efficiency - no matter what the cost. Read our full review

Sunday 5th January

The Fugitive - 12:45pm, Channel 5

Thriller starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Despite protesting his innocence, Richard Kimble is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. En route to prison, he is caught up in a disastrous escape attempt, and finds himself on the run. In order to clear his name, he must find the mysterious one-armed man with whom he struggled on the night of the murder, but the law is hot on his trail. Read our full review

The Mask - 3:55pm, BBC One

Fantasy comedy starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. Clumsy and shy bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers an ancient mask that has the power to transform him into a lime green cartoon character in a zoot suit, who just thrives in the spotlight. Read our full review

Sleepless in Seattle - 4:10pm, Channel 4

Romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in. Read our full review

Walk the Line - 10pm, BBC Two

Oscar-winning musical biographical drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. John R Cash emerges from humble farm beginnings to become country-and-western legend Johnny Cash. But the road to stardom for the "Man in Black" is not without hardship and heartbreak, although salvation appears in his dependable soulmate, June Carter. Read our full review

No Time to Die - 10:20pm, ITV1

Spy adventure starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek and Léa Seydoux. After narrowly surviving an attempt on his life, James Bond believes his lover, Madeleine Swann, has betrayed him. Five years later, he is drawn out of retirement and back into her life when a new global threat - a deadly biological weapon - emerges. But with Bond's nemesis, Blofeld, behind bars, who is the mysterious figure intent on using this terrifying new technology? Read our full review

Monday 6th January

Enemy Mine - 11am, Film4

Sci-fi fantasy starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. In the distant future, the population of Earth is at war with the reptilian Draconians. Two pilots, one from each side, crash-land on a desolate planet after a battle in space. To ensure their survival, they have to overcome the hostility they feel towards each other. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 9pm, Film4

Action spy thriller starring Tom Cruise. The elite Impossible Missions Force is officially disbanded after being blamed for a botched operation, forcing agent Ethan Hunt and his crack team to go off grid to prevent a terrorist from causing a nuclear disaster. Read our full review

Nowhere Special - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama starring James Norton and Daniel Lamont. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, single dad John sets out to find an adoptive family for his four-year-old son Michael. As the two meet with prospective parents, John struggles with the burden of deciding who is best placed to raise his boy after his death - and how to prepare Michael for the impending tragedy. Read our full review

Tuesday 7th January

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - 4pm, Fim4

Science-fiction adventure based on Jules Verne's classic story, starring James Mason and Pat Boone. A geology professor and a young student travel to Iceland where they plan to descend to the centre of the Earth through a volcano. On their perilous expedition they encounter magnetic storms, prehistoric monsters and underground seas. Read our full review

Jaws - 10pm, ITV4

Steven Spielberg's classic adventure thriller, starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss. The Atlantic resort of Amity Island is preparing for its lucrative summer season when death strikes in the form of a Great White shark. Rather than turn away business, Mayor Vaughn orders police chief Brody to keep the beaches open. Read our full review

Ghost - 11:05pm, ITV1

Romantic drama starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. Soon after swearing his undying love to girlfriend Molly Jensen, investment banker Sam Wheat is killed by a mugger. Sam's troubled spirit refuses to leave Molly and he becomes her ghostly guardian, but how can he warn her that her life is in danger? Read our full review

Wednesday 8th January

Dr No - 9pm, ITV4

The first in the series of screen adventures based on Ian Fleming's famous fictional secret agent, James Bond, starring Sean Connery. Bond is sent to Jamaica to find out more about the mysterious killing of a fellow agent. With the help of CIA man Felix Leiter, he discovers the evil Dr No's plan to hold the United States to ransom by threatening its space programme. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation - 9pm, BBC One

Spy adventure starring Tom Cruise. After the CIA chief persuades a Senate committee to disband the Impossible Missions Force, Ethan Hunt and his team are forced to act covertly. Their mission is to thwart a shadowy organisation known as the Syndicate, a network of rogue operatives plotting a series of global terror attacks. Read our full review

The Shallows - 10:40pm, BBC One

Thriller starring Blake Lively. An emotional journey to her late mother's favourite beach turns into a nightmare for a young woman when she becomes stranded on a rocky outcrop after being attacked by a great white shark that isn't going to give up on its prey. Read our full review

Thursday 9th January

Fantastic Voyage - 5:05pm, Film4

Sci-fi adventure starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. When Jan Benes, an important Czech scientist, suffers a brain injury while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain, vital information he is carrying is put at risk along with his life. General Carter, of the Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces (CMDF), decides on the ultimate cranial experiment; a submarine and medical crew are shrunk so that they can be injected into Benes's bloodstream to operate from within. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Fallout - 9pm, Film4

Action spy thriller starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson and Henry Cavill. Ethan Hunt is sent to Berlin to buy three stolen plutonium cores before a terrorist group can get a hold of them. But after a hostage crisis leads to the failure of the mission, Hunt is targeted by a CIA assassin who could derail the IMF for good. Read our full review

Moulin Rouge - 10:40pm, BBC One

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 10th January

Beverly Hills Cop - 9pm, ITV4

Action comedy starring Eddie Murphy. An old friend's murder leads impulsive Detroit detective Axel Foley to glamorous Los Angeles in search of information about the killing. A law unto himself, Foley's streetwise attitude soon makes him enemies among the cops and the crooks. Read our full review

Colette - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Biographical period drama starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West. In belle époque Paris, provincial girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette marries the rakish "Willy" and writes stories that are published under his name. When the novels become bestsellers, Willy's demands escalate, and Colette begins an affair with a Louisiana debutante. Read our full review

Boogie Nights - 10pm, Comedy Central

Drama starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore. Dishwasher Eddie Adams reinvents himself as Dirk Diggler and becomes a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. As a protégé of director Jack Horner he rides the wave of wealth and fame, but the party can't last for ever. Read our full review

Border - 12:55am, Channel 4

Nordic noir psycho-drama starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff. Customs officer Tina transgresses everything she stands for when she develops a strange friendship with Vore, the suspect she senses is hiding something. Read our full review

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