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

There are plenty of options – old and new – to pick from this weekend, from James Cameron's iconic epic Titanc to David Cronenberg's recent body horror Crimes of the Future, so there really is something for everyone.

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 25th April

The Old Man and the Gun - 7:10pm, Film4

Forrest Tucker, a criminal since the age of 15, has escaped from most of the prisons that tried to hold him. At the end of his career, he has become a gentleman bank robber. However, cop John Hunt becomes determined to catch him. Fact-based crime drama, starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek. Read our full review

Scarface - 9pm, Film4

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

Relic - 11pm, BBC Two

Supernatural horror mystery starring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote. When elderly Edna is reported missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam begin searching her large, rural house for clues. But then Edna emerges, confused and disoriented. Is her dementia getting worse, or is something more sinister going on? Read our full review

Amores Perros - 12:25am, Film4

The actions of three men struggling to survive become inextricably linked by two dogs and a car crash, set against the backdrop of chaotic and violent Mexico City. Controversial drama, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Emilio Echevarria and Alvaro Guerrero. In Spanish. Read our full review

Saturday 26th April

West Side Story - 1:50pm, BBC Two

Film version of the classic musical with songs by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is updated to late-1950s New York where two rival gangs, the American "Jets" and the Puerto Rican "Sharks" are preparing for confrontation. The tension is heightened when Maria, the sister of "Sharks" leader Bernardo, falls in love with a former "Jet", Tony. Read our full review

Downton Abbey: A New Era - 9pm, ITV3

Period drama sequel starring Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and Maggie Smith. It's 1928, and Downton Abbey has been chosen as the setting for a new silent film, much to the excitement of the staff. Meanwhile, the Crawleys set off for the South of France, where the Dowager Countess is set to come into possession of a glamorous villa. Read our full review

The Terminator - 10:30pm, ITV4

Sci-fi action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton. In the not-too-distant future, machines rule the Earth and are locked in combat with a gallant band of freedom fighters led by John Connor. Back in present-day Los Angeles, his mother Sarah is unaware of her role in the struggles to come, until the arrival of a Terminator, a terrifying robot assassin whose only purpose is to kill her and thereby change the future. Read our full review

Benedetta - 11:15pm, Film4

Historical drama starring Virginie Efira and Charlotte Rampling. In 17th-century Italy, a young nun experiences disturbing religious visions, causing upheaval in her convent, and her growing sexual relationship with a fellow nun only complicates matters. Read our full review

Carlito’s Way - 11:20pm, Channel 4

Gangster drama starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller. Heroin dealer Carlito Brigante is released from prison after serving five years of a 30-year sentence, and wants to go straight. But old acquaintances conspire to turn him back to crime. Read our full review

Sunday 27th April

Sing - 11:35am, ITV1

Animated comedy musical featuring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson and Reese Witherspoon. Buster Moon, the koala owner of a failing theatre, decides to hold a talent show to save it. However, a printing error adds two zeroes to the $1,000 prize, resulting in a stampede of contestants - and a big headache for Buster. Read our full review

My Best Friend’s Wedding - 4:15pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney and Cameron Diaz. When food critic Julianne Potter learns that her best friend and ex-lover, sportswriter Michael O'Neal, is getting married, she vows to sabotage the wedding. Thwarted in her initial efforts, she resorts to more underhand methods when she introduces her gay friend George (Rupert Everett) as her fiancé! Read our full review

The Silence of the Lambs - 10pm, ITV4

Classic psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is assigned to help in the search for the serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill", a brutal murderer who skins the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks the assistance of Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. Read our full review

The Beach - 10pm, BBC Two

Adventure thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Richard, an American backpacker, arrives in Thailand looking for adventure. One night he meets Daffy, a deranged Scotsman who talks of a beautiful unspoilt island. In the morning Daffy is found dead, but has left Richard a map that leads to the idyllic beach. Together with a young French couple, Richard embarks on a hazardous journey to reach the island, but will they really find paradise? Read our full review

Monos - 1:20am, Film4

Thriller starring Sofia Buenaventura and Julianne Nicholson. A group of teens undergo military training at a remote South American location. When they are tasked with guarding a hostage, incompetence, mistrust and infighting threaten to tear them apart. Read our full review

Monday 28th April

Titanic - 7pm, Film4

James Cameron's Oscar-winning blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. During the Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912, penniless artist Jack Dawson falls in love with socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, who is travelling with her fiancé. Years later, Rose relives the affair and the tragic events that followed, while a salvage crew searches for a priceless diamond said to have been lost in the shipwreck. Read our full review

The Guest - 9pm, Legend Xtra

Thriller starring Dan Stevens. When a soldier calling himself David turns up at the Peterson house claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action, they welcome him into their home. But is David all he seems? Read our full review

Signs - 9pm, Great Movies

Sci-fi fantasy thriller starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. When a 500ft crop circle appears on his isolated Pennsylvania farm, Graham Hess is at a loss to explain the phenomenon. Hiding his fears from his three small children, who are still mourning the death of their mother, Graham increasingly begins to suspect that an alien lifeform is preparing to reveal itself. Read our full review

Tuesday 29th April

An Inspector Calls - 3:35pm, Talking Pictures TV

Mystery based on the play by JB Priestley and starring Alastair Sim. A police officer uncovers dark secrets when he interviews an affluent family in connection with the death of a young girl. Read our full review

Ride Lonesome - 4:15pm, Film4

Western starring Randolph Scott. When bounty hunter Ben Brigade seeks to bring a killer to justice, ostensibly to collect the reward, he meets up with two outlaws who have their own reason for wanting to turn in the wanted man. Read our full review

The Bridge on the River Kwai - 5:45pm, Film4

Second World War epic starring Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins. Despite being held in a Japanese PoW camp in Burma, Colonel Nicholson still runs his regiment by the military textbook. However, Nicholson meets his match in the equally stubborn prison commander Colonel Saito, and the two find themselves on a collision course when Saito gets orders to build a strategically important railway bridge. Read our full review

Wednesday 30th April

Sleepless in Seattle - 6:55pm, Film4

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

Octpopussy - 8pm, ITV4

Spy adventure starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan. A British agent killed in East Germany is found dressed as a clown, clutching a priceless Fabergé egg. James Bond sets out to solve the mystery and finds himself pitted against Octopussy, a rich businesswoman with her own private army and an interest in priceless antiques. Read our full review

Welcome to the Punch - 9pm, Legend

Crime thriller starring James McAvoy and Mark Strong. Hardcase criminal Jacob Sternwood pulls off a heist and escapes, but leaves young cop Max Lewinsky badly injured. So, years later, when Sternwood is forced to return to London for family reasons, a bitter Max is determined to capture him at all costs. Read our full review

Thursday 1st May

Notorious - 4:30pm, 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

Mad Max 2 - 9pm, ITV4

Futuristic action adventure starring Mel Gibson. In the aftermath of a Third World War, petrol has become the world's most valuable commodity. Rival gangs battle for possession of the precious liquid, and caught in the conflict is Max Rockatansky, a former cop and now an embittered road warrior. Read our full review

Nope - 9pm, Film4

Sci-fi horror starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer. Siblings OJ and Em Haywood have taken over their late father's California ranch, where they train horses for use in Hollywood productions. After a series of bizarre occurrences around their property, OJ and Em take measures to record and capture the source of the chaos: a monstrous UFO. Read our full review

Friday 2nd May

Far From the Madding Crowd - 11am, Film4

Period romantic drama adapted from the novel by Thomas Hardy, starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates. Rural England in the late 19th century: Bathsheba Everdene is a captivating and headstrong young woman who inherits her uncle's farm and has a profound effect on the three men in her life - the dashing Sergeant Troy, the rich and ageing William Boldwood and the ever-faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak. Read our full review

The Rock - 9pm, ITV4

Action thriller starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. When a disaffected war hero takes hold of the island of Alcatraz and threatens to use chemical warfare to destroy San Francisco, a mild-mannered FBI biochemist and an ex-British spy - notorious for escaping from the maximum-security facility - are called in to tackle the threat. Read our full review

Crimes of the Future - 11pm, BBC Two

Futuristic sci-fi drama starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux. In a near-future where humans are evolving in strange ways, Saul Tenser has turned his ability to grow extra internal organs into a grisly performance art. But he begins to question the direction humanity is taking after he is contacted by a sinister radical group. Read our full review

I’m Your Man - 1:05am, Channel 4

Sci-fi romance starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens. In order to get funding for her research, academic Alma takes part in an unusual study: she is paired with a robot, named Tom, who is designed to embody her "ideal man". Initially unsettled by her new partner, Alma reacts with hostility, but over time her feelings unexpectedly evolve. Read our full review

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