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 15th November

The Last Duel - 9pm, Film4

Historical drama starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. In the late 14th century, French knights Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris prepare for a duel to the death over the honour of Carrouges's wife, Marguerite, who has accused Le Gris of sexual assault. Le Gris has strenuously denied the charge. Who is telling the truth? Read our full review

Four Weddings and a Funeral - 10:40pm, BBC One

Romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. Together with a group of his friends, 30-something Charles is regularly invited to weddings, but he wonders if he will ever be ready to tie the knot himself. Then, at a country marriage, he meets the beautiful but elusive Carrie, who seduces him that night and leaves him utterly bemused when she returns to America the following day. Read our full review

Women Talking - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley. The women of a small, isolated religious community discover that the menfolk have been drugging and sexually assaulting them. When the men travel into the city for a legal matter, the women have 48 hours to themselves, to debate and decide on their next steps. Will they stay quiet, fight back, or flee? Read our full review

Assault on Precinct 13 - 11:25pm, Channel 4

Cult thriller starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston. In the Los Angeles ghetto of Anderson, six young gang members are shot dead by police. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Ethan Bishop is given the easy job of caretaking the last few hours of a precinct police station. But when he gives refuge to a man on the run, a nightmare begins. Read our full review

Saturday 16th November

Laura - 10am, BBC Two

Classic film noir starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Detective Mark McPherson investigates the brutal murder of a young woman. As he begins interviewing suspects, including a sardonic newspaper columnist and a debonair playboy, he finds himself becoming strangely attracted to the victim. Read our full review

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - 1:30pm, BBC Two

Classic period drama starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. Clive Candy VC is the quintessential English gentleman whose belief in "clean fighting and honest soldiering" has served him since the Boer War. But his principles seem out of place as Britain takes on the Nazis in the Second World War. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible - 4pm, ITV1

Action spy thriller based on the 1960s TV series, starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight and Emmanuelle Béart. The elite Impossible Mission Force's latest assignment is to recover stolen information that threatens to blow the cover of US spies throughout the world. But the plan goes disastrously wrong. Read our full review

I Know Where I’m Going - 4:10pm, BBC Two

Romantic comedy starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey. A headstrong young woman is determined to marry an elderly millionaire, against the wishes of her father. But, marooned on the Isle of Mull en route to her wedding, she meets the local laird and is no longer so sure of her destiny. Read our full review

Atonement - 11:10pm, BBC One

Period romantic drama starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Romola Garai. At a magnificent country house in 1935, sisters Cecilia and Briony Tallis clash over Cecilia's affair with servant's son Robbie Turner, leading to a life-changing flashpoint that cruelly splits up the young lovers. As Turner goes to war, eventually finding himself stranded on Dunkirk beach, Cecilia must live in hope that one day they will be reunited. Read our full review

Sunday 17th November

The Jungle Book - 3:15pm, BBC One

Adventure based on the story by Rudyard Kipling, starring Neel Sethi and featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Idris Elba and Ben Kingsley. Raised in the jungle by wolves, "man cub" Mowgli flees his home after the arrival of terrifying tiger Shere Khan. Could Mowgli's new friends Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther help him to learn the bare necessities of life and reclaim the jungle from Khan? Read our full review

Duel - 4:35pm, 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

Cromwell - 6pm, Talking Pictures TV

Historical drama starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness. The divide between Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I becomes a feud that takes them from Parliament into a full-scale battle between their two mighty armies, the Roundheads and the Cavaliers. Read our full review

Made in England - 10pm, BBC Two

Documentary celebrating the life and career of film-making duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose partnership produced some of Britain's finest and most distinctive films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. Presented by Martin Scorsese, who befriended Powell in the 1970s. Read our full review

The Day Shall Come - 12:55am, Channel 4

Satirical comedy starring Marchánt Davis and Anna Kendrick. Moses al Shabazz is an impoverished preacher who, along with family and followers, brings his particular brand of religion to the Miami projects. Little does he know that he has been targeted to unwittingly help FBI agent Kendra Glack in setting up a false flag operation. Read our full review

Monday 18th November

The Cockleshell Heroes - 1:15pm, Film4

Second World War drama directed by and starring José Ferrer, and also starring Trevor Howard. Major Stringer heads a group of Royal Marines on a dangerous secret mission that involves planting mines on enemy ships moored in Bordeaux. Read our full review

2 Guns - 9pm, Great Movies

Crime drama starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Two undercover agents working for different organisations are planted in the same criminal gang, unaware of each other's true identity. While getting in each other's way, the danger is that a powerful Mob boss will escape justice. Read our full review

The Krays - 10pm, ITV4

Crime drama portraying the life of the infamous twins who became powerful underworld figures in 1960s London, starring Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp and Billie Whitelaw. Born in London's East End, Ronnie and Reggie Kray are brought up by their resilient mother Violet and her sisters, to whom they become staunchly devoted. Involved in bullying at school, the twins grow increasingly violent following their national service and spells in prison. Read our full review

Tuesday 19th November

Creed - 9pm, ITV4

Boxing drama starring Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone. Life comes full circle for former heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa when he's called upon to mentor and train a hungry new fighter - the son of his old adversary Apollo Creed. Read our full review

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - 6:20pm, Film4

Period adventure drama based on the novels by Patrick O'Brian, starring Russell Crowe. In 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, British frigate HMS Surprise is out-gunned by a French warship and badly damaged. Despite severe injuries to his crew and his opponent's greater fire power, uncompromising captain Jack Aubrey patches up the Surprise and sets off to seek revenge. Read our full review

Inglourious Basterds - 10:20pm, Channel 4

Second World War action adventure directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt. After a Jewish woman's family are slaughtered by the Nazis, she changes her identity and flees to Paris, only to come face to face with the man responsible for the massacre. Meanwhile, Lt Aldo Raine leads a guerrilla squad of Jewish Americans into occupied territory to carry out a series of raids on the enemy, earning a fearsome reputation in the process. Read our full review

Wednesday 20th November

The Man in the White Suit - 12:55pm, Film4

Classic satirical comedy from Ealing, starring Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood. The seemingly haphazard experiments of eccentric scientist Sidney Stratton have a far-reaching effect on the textile industry when he invents an indestructible cloth that never gets dirty. Read our full review

The Three Musketeers - 1:50pm, 5Action

Swashbuckling comedy adventure starring Michael York, Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed. Country boy D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with a dream of joining King Louis XIII's elite personal guard, but his provincial manners soon land him in trouble with Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Preparing to defend his honour against the best swordsmen in France, D'Artagnan's destiny is changed by the arrival of the villainous Cardinal Richelieu's guards. Read our full review

Creed II - 9pm, ITV4

Boxing drama starring Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone. Three years after he began training with the legendary Rocky Balboa, Adonis "Donnie" Creed has taken the title of world heavyweight champion. When Russian fighter Viktor Drago, whose father Ivan killed Donnie's dad in the ring decades prior, challenges the young American to a show bout, Donnie and Rocky find their relationship strained. Can the pair work things out? And can Donnie find the inner strength to avenge his father? Read our full review

Thursday 21st November

Capricorn One - 9pm, Legend Xtra

Conspiracy thriller starring Elliott Gould and James Brolin. As the world watches on TV, Capricorn One, the first manned mission to Mars, lands on the Red Planet. But deep in the Arizona desert, three threatened astronauts plant the American flag on a film set, aware that their mission is a fake, a top secret cover-up. Read our full review

Jojo Rabbit - 11:05pm, Film4

Wartime satire starring Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie and Scarlett Johansson. Jojo Betzler, an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth, is so fanatical in his devotion to the Third Reich that he often imagines the Führer himself popping up to offer friendly advice. But the boy's beliefs are seriously challenged when he discovers that his loving mother has been hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Read our full review

Scott of the Antarctic - 11:10pm, Talking Pictures TV

Adventure based on the true story of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912, starring John Mills and Derek Bond. After commanding the unsuccessful National Antarctic Expedition of 1904, Scott attempts to raise funds for a return trip to the region. Read our full review

Friday 22nd November

The Green Man - 2:20pm, Film4

Comedy starring Alastair Sim and George Cole. A professional hitman finds his attempts to complete his latest assignment frustrated by an incompetent vacuum cleaner salesman. Read our full review

23 Paces to Baker Street - 3:55pm, 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

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum - 9pm, E4

Action thriller starring Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry and Laurence Fishburne. With a bounty on his head making him the target of the world's top assassins, famed hitman John Wick goes on the run. Heading for Casablanca, he meets an old friend who may be able to help him with his predicament. Read our full review

48 Hrs - 1:05am, Channel 4

Action thriller starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. With vicious escaped convict Albert Ganz loose in San Francisco, bullish cop Jack Cates needs all the help he can get to track him down. Unfortunately, that "help" comes in the form of smart-mouthed young prisoner Reggie Hammond, who has his own reasons for stopping Ganz's rampage, and only a 48-hour release from jail in which to do it if he and Cates don't kill each other first! Read our full review

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