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

There are plenty of options – old and new – to pick from this week, from classic romcoms like Sleepless in Seattle to sci-fi gems such as Children of Men, 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 28th March

10 Things I Hate About You - 7:05pm, 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

Bridget Jones's Baby - 9pm, 5Star

Romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey. Forty-something Bridget is still viewing life through a glass of Chardonnay and getting on with being single until life takes a twist when she discovers she's pregnant. All she has to do now is find out who the father is. Read our full review

Get Out - 11:40pm, BBC One

Oscar-winning horror mystery starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams. Chris, a young African-American photographer, is understandably anxious when he's invited to stay with his wealthy white girlfriend's parents at their family estate. Admitting she hasn't told them he's black only adds to Chris's apprehension, but mum and dad are warm and welcoming. However, as the weekend unfolds, Chris begins to suspect all is not as it seems. Read our full review

Saturday 29th March

How the West Was Won - 1:45pm, BBC Two

Epic western starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds and Henry Fonda. Heading west in the 1830s, New England farmer Zebulon Prescott and his family begin a mammoth journey. From the rivers to the plains, through conflict with Indian tribes and the Civil War, the building of the railroad and encounters with legendary outlaws, their journey is a spectacular chronicle, and the great American adventure. Read our full review

Shrek - 3:15pm, BBC One

Animated fantasy comedy featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz. Shrek is a grumpy green ogre whose swamp is overrun with homeless traditional fairy-tale characters. To get them evicted by evil Lord Farquaad, he must rescue Princess Fiona from her dragon-guarded tower, with only a talking donkey for company. Read our full review

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - 9:15pm, Channel 4

Period comedy drama starring Lesley Manville. Working as a cleaner in 1950s London, war widow Ada Harris sets her heart on a client's Christian Dior dress. When she comes into some money, she travels to Paris with the intention of purchasing one of the designer gowns, but will she be able to win over the snobby House of Dior? Read our full review

The Martian - 10:20pm, BBC One

Science-fiction drama based on the novel by Andy Weir, starring Matt Damon. After a manned mission to Mars is hit by a ferocious storm, Mark Watney is left behind when his fellow crew members make their escape. Using scientific knowledge, ingenuity and drawing on seemingly inexhaustible levels of resolve, Mark must find a way to survive long enough to be rescued. Read our full review

Luzzu - 12:55am, BBC Two

A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry. Drama, starring Jesmark Scicluna, David Scicluna and Michela Farrugia. In Maltese and English. Read our full review

Sunday 30th March

Murder on the Orient Express - 9pm, Film4

All-star murder mystery starring Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp. En route from Istanbul to London, luxury train the Orient Express gets stuck in the snow and one of the passengers is found dead. Everyone on board falls under the suspicion of famed detective Hercule Poirot, but who is the culprit? Read our full review

Dracula - 9pm, Legend Xtra

Classic horror starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Jonathan Harker mysteriously disappears when he pays a visit to the feared Count Dracula. His old friend Van Helsing discovers Harker's diary, leading him to the conclusion that the Count is a vampire who has risen from the grave and seeks the blood of the living to keep himself alive. Read our full review

Children of Men - 10:30pm, BBC One

Futuristic thriller starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. In 2027, humanity is facing inevitable extinction due to 18 years of infertility and Britain has become a quasi-fascist state. A ray of hope arrives with the discovery of a young woman who is pregnant, but can she be protected from a political group that wants to use her to further its own ends? Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 11:15pm, 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

Letter to Brezhnev - 11:35pm, BBC Two

Comedy starring Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Margi Clarke and Alexandra Pigg. Teresa works in a frozen chicken factory, and her best friend, Elaine, is on the dole. To escape their dreary daily lives, the two girls decide to paint the town red. During their night out, the Liverpudlian lasses meet two Russian sailors in a disco and Elaine falls in love. Read our full review

Monday 31st March

In the Line of Fire - 9pm, Great Movies

Thriller starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan comes across the apartment of a man obsessed with assassination victims - especially John F Kennedy. Later he is contacted by the man, who boasts of his scheme to murder the current president and seems to have a disturbingly detailed knowledge of Horrigan's past. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation - 9pm, Film4

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

Funny Pages - 11:40pm, Film4

Black comedy starring Daniel Zolghadri. Following a brief run-in with the law, Robert, a 17-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, drops out of high school and moves out of his parents' home. Now settled in a dingy city apartment with a pair of unsettling older roommates, Robert meets a troubled former comics colourist who he hopes can help his artistic dreams come true. Read our full review

Tuesday 1st April

Rio Grande - 4:45pm, Film4

Classic John Ford western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. On the Mexican border in the 1880s, Lieutenant Colonel Yorke of the US cavalry is conducting a lonely, vain campaign against marauding Apaches. When his trooper son arrives at the fort, followed by Yorke's estranged wife, family conflict adds to his troubles. Read our full review

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

Moon - 9pm, Film4

Science-fiction drama starring Sam Rockwell. Lone mining engineer Sam Bell is cut off from humanity on the far side of the Moon with only a computer for company, but is looking forward to returning to Earth and his family after three long years of solitude. But with only weeks to go before his departure, an accident out on the surface causes Sam to suspect everything is not what it seems. Read our full review

Wednesday 2nd April

My Man Godfrey - 10:25am, Film4

A spoiled aristocratic woman hires a tramp as her butler, little anticipating how valuable he will prove - or what effect his charms will have on her. Comedy, starring William Powell, Carole Lombard and Alice Brady. Read our full review

Easy A - 9pm, BBC Three

Comedy starring Emma Stone. When a little white lie about losing her virginity makes the previously anonymous Olive Penderghast the talk of school, she decides to exploit her new-found notoriety to improve her social standing. But being "easy" comes with mixed blessings. Read our full review

The Outsiders - 11:10pm, Film4

Drama starring Matt Dillon and Ralph Macchio. In 1960s small-town America, two rival gangs are involved in the usual confrontations. The "Socs", the rich college kids, are at war with the "Greasers" from the other side of town. But their rivalry takes a serious turn when one fight ends with the death of a boy. Read our full review

Thursday 3rd April

Operation Petticoat - 3:25pm, Film4

Comedy starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. Determined to get his submarine back into the war, Admiral Matt Sherman agrees to the unorthodox schemes dreamed up by his enterprising first officer Lt Holden. However the admiral soon regrets his relaxation of naval regulations when he finds himself in command of a cargo of attractive nurses, abandoned children and a goat! Read our full review

The Wrong Arm of the Law - 4:30pm, Talking Pictures TV

A criminal mastermind joins forces with Scotland Yard and the best of Britain's crime bosses to stop a gang of Australian crooks disguised as policemen from taking over the London underworld. Comedy, starring Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Nanette Newman, Bernard Cribbins, Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier. Read our full review

Braveheart - 9pm, Film4

Oscar-winning historical drama directed by and starring Mel Gibson. Scotland at the end of the 13th century: the young William Wallace sees his father and brother killed by the English. Later, when his sworn enemies execute his wife, Wallace leads the clans in the fight for Scottish independence. Read our full review

Friday 4th April

Born Free - 2:40pm, Great Movies Action

Biographical wildlife adventure, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. George Adamson, a game warden in Kenya, brings home three lion cubs whose mother he has shot. With his wife Joy he sets about rearing them and Joy becomes particularly attached to the smallest cub, Elsa. Read our full review

Us - 11:40pm, BBC One

Horror thriller starring Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke. Decades after she suffered a traumatising experience at a Santa Cruz seaside funhouse, Adelaide Wilson returns to the area for a vacation with her husband Gabe and their children. Following a troubled day at the beach, the Wilsons are terrorised in their holiday home by feral doppelgangers, plunging the family into a fight for their lives. Read our full review

Withnail and I - 1:50am, Film4

Cult black comedy starring Richard E Grant, Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths. It is 1969 and as the turbulent decade draws to a close, two out-of-work actors share a cold and cluttered, run-down north London flat. With no money and in poor physical and mental shape, they visit Withnail's wealthy, eccentric uncle who gives them the keys to his country cottage for what turns out to be an eventful weekend. Read our full review

Climax - 1:55am, Channel 4

Psychological horror starring Sofia Boutella. A modern dance troupe decamp to an abandoned school to rehearse a routine. Part-way through, they discover their sangria has been spiked with LSD, which makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish hallucinations from reality. Read our full review

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