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 17th January

Gunfight at the OK Corral - 12:55pm, Film4

Classic western starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. US Marshal Wyatt Earp tries to keep the peace in the lawless West of the 1870s. His chief adversary is the Clanton gang, but he also finds himself up against Doc Holliday, a dentist turned gambler, with a dim regard for the law. Doc's attitude changes when Earp rescues him from a mob, and the two join forces against the Clantons. After chasing the gang from Dodge City to Tombstone, both sides face each other in the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral. Read our full review

Taken - 9pm, Film4

Action drama starring Liam Neeson as former CIA operative Bryan Mills, who calls upon his tried-and-tested skills in a race-against-time bid to rescue his daughter from the sex traffickers who have kidnapped her during a holiday in France. Read our full review

Sexy Beast - 10:50am, Film4

Crime drama starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. Former crook Gary Dove has put his life of crime behind him and is enjoying an idyllic retirement at his Spanish villa. But the peace is shattered when former associate Don Logan arrives from London to persuade Gary to do one last job - and he's not about to take no for an answer. Read our full review

Kursk: the Last Mission - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Disaster drama based on a true story, starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux and Colin Firth. A torpedo aboard the Russian submarine Kursk prematurely explodes during a training exercise, sending the vessel to the bottom of the sea. Nearby British Commodore David Russell offers help, but the Russian command drag their feet on accepting while oxygen is fast running out for the Kursk's surviving crew members. Read our full review

Saturday 18th January

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 1pm, BBC Two

Drama based on Tennessee Williams's play, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives. Strained emotions mark the birthday celebration of southern plantation owner and patriarch Big Daddy. Read our full review

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 2:40pm, BBC Two

Oscar-winning western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the eponymous outlaw heroes, who have a knack for robbing banks. Their most audacious plan yet is for a daring robbery of the Union Pacific railroad, but the authorities have a surprise in store for the lovable rogues. Read our full review

Babe - 3pm, Film4

Fantasy comedy starring James Cromwell. Babe, an orphaned pig, is raised on a farm by the sheepdog Fly. Although he is destined for the dinner table, Babe astonishes Farmer Hoggett and his fellow farmyard animals when he shows talent as a "sheep-pig". Read our full review

A Few Good Men - 9pm, Film4

Courtroom drama starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee is assigned to defend two marines accused of killing a colleague at their base in Cuba. As he gathers evidence for the case, Kaffee encounters strong opposition from the base's disciplinarian commanding officer. Read our full review

Eastern Promises - 11:40pm, BBC One

Thriller starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. A London midwife gets tangled up with Russian mobsters when she tries to identify the body of a child prostitute by way of the girl's diary. Read our full review

Sunday 19th January

The Book of Life - 2:05pm, BBC One

Animated comedy featuring the voices of Diego Luna, Zoë Saldana and Channing Tatum. A young man competes with his best friend for the hand of their childhood sweetheart, but first must travel through three dimensions to prove his worth. Read our full review

The Tall T - 2:30pm, Great Movies Action

Western starring Randolph Scott, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Sullivan. The courageous Pat Brennan and newlyweds Doretta and Willard Mims are taken hostage at a stagecoach station by bandits, whose ruthless leader, Usher, has no qualms about killing anyone who gets in his way. Read our full review

The Spider and the Fly - 6pm, Talking Pictures TV

A cunning Parisian safecracker manages to stay one step ahead of his police chief pursuer, until matters are complicated by the outbreak of the First World War and their attraction to the same woman. Drama, starring Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, George Cole and Maurice Denham. Read our full review

Deepwater Horizon - 9pm, Legend

Disaster drama based on a true story, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell. When a devastating accident befalls an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, chief electrical engineer Mike Williams and his team must battle to prevent an ecological catastrophe. Read our full review

The Shining - 10pm, BBC Two

Stanley Kubrick's chilling horror, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance takes on the job of winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, despite a warning about the psychological strain the long months of isolation can cause. Jack's wife Wendy only hopes that Jack will finally find the time to write, but his psychically gifted son Danny has visions of a terrifying ordeal for the family. Read our full review

Monday 20th January

Aliens - 9pm, ITV4

Science-fiction thriller, a sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver. Having overcome a terrifying alien predator, Ripley has spent 57 years asleep, drifting through space in a life-pod. She is rescued, but discovers that the planet where the creature was originally found has been colonised. When contact with the planet is lost, Ripley and a platoon of marines are sent to investigate. Read our full review

The Revenant - 9pm, Film4

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

Dark Waters - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama based on a true story, starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway. Corporate defence lawyer Robert Bilott is approached with evidence that seems to connect the DuPont chemical corporation to a spate of farm animal infections, disabilities and deaths. As the case builds over the next several years, Bilott's job becomes ever tougher. But with the revelation that human lives are at stake, too, his resolve only grows. Read our full review

Tuesday 21st January

The Enemy Below - 3:55pm, Great Movies

Second World War drama starring Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. A game of cat and mouse is played out between Murrell, the captain of a destroyer, and his deadly rival beneath the waves, Von Stolberg, the captain of a U-boat who is leading his vessel to an important rendezvous. Read our full review

Blade Runner 2049 - 11:10pm, BBC One

Futuristic sci-fi thriller starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. Los Angeles blade runner Officer K uncovers a shocking secret that puts him on the trail of Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years. Meanwhile, corporate magnate Niander Wallace seeks the truth about so-called replicant reproduction in order to further his plans for interstellar colonisation. Read our full review

Lola - 11:40pm, Film4

In 1940, two friends build a machine that can intercept radio and television broadcasts from the future. Co-writer/director Andrew Legge's sci-fi drama, starring Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini. Read our full review

Wednesday 22nd January

Footsteps in the Fog - 12:45pm, Film4

Period thriller starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. In Victorian London, the schemes of wife murderer Stephen Lowry to get rid of the maid who is blackmailing him do not go according to plan. Read our full review

Nicholas Nickelby - 2:45pm, Film4

Period drama, based on Charles Dickens's classic novel, starring Derek Bond and Cedric Hardwicke. A young man is sent to teach at a brutal boys school by his wicked uncle. There he befriends one of the students who has suffered particularly badly, and together they decide to escape the cruel regime. Read our full review

Hamburger Hill - 10:55pm, Legend

War drama starring Dylan McDermott. Vietnam, 1969: a platoon from the Bravo Company of the 101st Airborne Division is ordered to take Hill 937 in the Ashau Valley, despite it being heavily defended by North Vietnamese army regulars. Read our full review

Thursday 23rd January

The History of Mr Polly - 4:30pm, Talking Pictures TV

Period drama adapted from the novel by HG Wells, starring John Mills and Sally Ann Howes. Reflecting on a life of missed opportunities, draper Alfred Polly hits upon a drastic solution to his seemingly insurmountable problems. Read our full review

Pitch Perfect - 10:45pm, ITV1

Musical comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Skylar Astin. New girl Beca doesn't care about being popular on campus, but her singing voice makes her the centre of attention when she signs up to become part of the college's all-female a cappella group, the Barden Bellas. Determined to outshine them are their male counterparts, the Treblemakers. Read our full review

Starred Up - 10:50pm, Film4

Prison drama starring Jack O'Connell, Rupert Friend and Ben Mendelsohn. Violent young offender Eric Love is so out of control that he is transferred from the youth facility where he is being held to an adult prison. There he must not only deal with brutal treatment from both inmates and guards but also come to terms with a shocking revelation. Read our full review

Friday 24th January

The Black Swan - 11am, Film4

Swashbuckling adventure starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. A reformed buccaneer joins forces with the new governor of Jamaica, himself a former pirate, in an effort to rid the island of piracy. Read our full review

Kind Hearts and Coronets - 4:35pm, Film4

Classic Ealing comedy starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood. Louis Mazzini is whiling away the eve of his execution by working on his memoirs. Born the distant heir to a dukedom, he recalls his vow to avenge his wronged mother by planning the murder of all the members of her noble family who stood between him and the title he covets. Read our full review

Face/Off - 10:45pm, BBC One

John Woo's action thriller, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Terrorist Castor Troy is apprehended after an FBI operation, but in his coma-ridden state is unable to divulge the whereabouts of a bomb that is primed to blow up Los Angeles. With the clock ticking, Detective Sean Archer undertakes a face-transplant operation in order to impersonate Troy and locate the device. But things take a turn for the worse when Troy regains consciousness, steals Archer's face and assumes the lawman's identity. Read our full review

Before I Go To Sleep - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Mystery thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Following a serious accident, Christine Lucas wakes up every morning with no memory of the life she has made with her husband Ben. But despite his patience and the help of a neurologist, Christine begins to question everything she is told about what happened to her. Read our full review

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