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

And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from Oscar-winning classic Silence of the Lambs to classic romcom My Best Friend's Wedding – so there really is something for everyone.

With so many amazing films airing, we've compiled a list of the best flicks for you to choose from below.

Friday 3rd May

The Guns of Navarone - 3:55pm, Film4

Classic Second World War adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's bestseller, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn. Buried deep in the solid rock of a cliff and impregnable to assault by plane or ship, the German guns on the Greek island of Navarone must be destroyed if the lives of two thousand British soldiers are to be saved. A crack team of commandos is assembled for this perilous mission, each with a special and deadly talent. Read our full review

Saint Maud - 10:50pm, Film4

A nurse finds herself at a crossroads in both her personal life and career when a patient in her care dies after her attempts to give them CPR fail. She decides to make some wholesale changes, including becoming a devout Roman Catholic and even going so far as to change her name. She finds a job caring for a terminally ill atheist woman and resolves that her new mission in life is to not only provide palliative care her, but to also save her charge's 'godless soul' from an eternity with Satan. Horror, starring Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle. Read our full review

Step Brothers - 11:05pm, Channel 4

Comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C Reilly. When their respective parents get married, step brothers Brennan and Dale are forced to share a room. The problem is that these guys are in their 40s and should have flown the nest long ago. Read our full review

Man Up - 12:10am, BBC One

Romantic comedy starring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg. Thirty-something singleton Nancy is fed up with her friends' attempts at matchmaking. But when she's mistaken for a blind date by divorcee Jack, she decides to go with the flow. It proves to be a memorably chaotic evening. Read our full review

Saturday 3rd May

Henry V - 1:15pm, BBC Two

Shakespearean drama, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. At the age of 27, Henry V, ruler of the most powerful country in the medieval world, embarks on a bloody campaign to win the throne of France. Read our full review

Sense and Sensibility - 1:25pm, Film4

Period romantic drama, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Emma Thompson writes and stars with Kate Winslet in the story of the Dashwood sisters, who are disinherited following the death of their father and find that their reduced circumstances have an adverse effect on their romantic aspirations. Read our full review

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 10:10pm, ITV1

Sci-fi action adventure starring James Franco and Freida Pinto. When scientist Will Rodman's programme of drug experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease is shut down he secretly takes an offspring from one of the chimpanzees he was using into his home and names him Caesar. Caesar has inherited the effects of the trial drug and begins to show remarkable intelligence, a development that will put him on a violent collision course with the humans who have abused him. Read our full review

Scarface - 10:55pm, 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

We Need to Talk About Kevin – 12 midnight, BBC Two

Drama based on the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver, starring Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly and Ezra Miller. Eva is a former travel writer who gave up her career for her husband and two children, but her home is not a happy one. She is driven to the edge of sanity by her son, Kevin, who appears to have sociopathic tendencies that eventually bring the family - and their surrounding community - to snapping point. Read our full review

Sunday 5th May

Stuart Little - 12:45pm, ITV1

Part-animated fantasy adventure based on EB White's children's story, starring Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis, and featuring the voice of Michael J Fox. The Littles want to adopt a younger brother for their son, George. At the orphanage they are charmed by a young mouse called Stuart, and decide to take him home. While George is stunned by his new companion, the family cat, Snowbell, is delighted. 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 fiance Read our full review

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 6:25pm, Film4

Action adventure starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Denholm Elliott. When archaeologist Henry Jones disappears, his son Indiana joins in the search for him. In a desperate race against time, Indy encounters some old enemies and once again finds himself in pursuit of an ancient religious artefact. Read our full review

The Road - 11:05pm, Great Movies

Futuristic drama based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Charlize Theron. In a post-apocalypse America, a father and his son head south towards the coast, but their journey is fraught with danger as cannibals and marauding gangs roam the land. Read our full review

Senna - 11:20pm, Channel 4

Documentary charting the career of Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, who was killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994. Senna's arrival on the Formula One stage in 1984 marked the beginning of a ten-year battle for supremacy in the motor-racing game. Read our full review

Monday 6th May

Silverado - 3:40pm, Great Movies

Western starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner. After surviving an ambush by mysterious gunmen as he travels to Silverado to visit his sister and her family, Emmett discovers that his relatives in the town are being terrorised by a corrupt rancher. Read our full review

Rush - 10pm, BBC Two

Motor-racing drama based on a true story, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl. The 1976 Formula One season is dominated by the intense rivalry between two brilliant drivers: the maverick James Hunt and the methodical Niki Lauda. As their quest for dominance of the sport grows more intense, tragedy seems almost inevitable. Read our full review

The Last of the Mohicans - 11:10pm, 4Seven

Period adventure inspired by James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. Hawkeye and Uncas are the sons of Chingachgook. They fight as mercenaries in the power struggle between the French and British in the New World, but suddenly find themselves involved in bitter intrigue and betrayal, where far more than land is at stake. Read our full review

Tuesday 7th May

The Remains of the Day - 11am, Film4

Period drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Mr Stevens, a butler, spent the period prior to the Second World War working for Lord Darlington, a politician who owned a glorious country estate. Now that the lord is dead and the property is owned by Lewis, an American diplomat, Stevens starts to reassess his life there and, in particular, his relationship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. Read our full review

Lonely Are the Brave - 1:45pm, Film4

Western starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. Even though there are jets in the skies, Jack Burns is an old-fashioned cowboy who finds it difficult to adapt to the modern world. So when he misguidedly gets himself thrown in jail, the lone cowboy has no choice but to make a defiant bid for freedom. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible - 6:45pm, Film4

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

Wednesday 8th May

The Quiet Man - 3:45pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Sean Thornton returns to his native Galway to settle down in peace after growing up in America. The quiet life still eludes him, however, as he finds himself reluctantly sparring with his neighbours, his sweetheart and his conscience. Read our full review

War for the Planet of the Apes - 9pm, Film4

Sci-fi adventure sequel starring Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis. In the third instalment of the rebooted franchise, ape leader Caesar embarks on a quest for revenge after the crazed Colonel McCullough kills Caesar's family in a bid to assassinate him. Read our full review

The Shape of Water - 11:45pm, Film4

Romantic fantasy drama starring Sally Hawkins and Michael Shannon. Elisa, a non-speaking woman, works as a cleaner in a top-secret US government facility during the Cold War. When she forms a connection with a mysterious being who is imprisoned there, she decides to help him escape, despite the close watch kept on him by the creature's obsessive captor. Read our full review

Thursday 9th May

Deep Impact - 4:05pm, Film4

Science-fiction drama starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni and Morgan Freeman. A reporter believes that she has discovered a sex scandal in the US government. As it turns out, "Ele" isn't a mistress, but something used to describe an event so cataclysmic that it could destroy the planet. Read our full review

Ronin - 9pm, Film4

A freelance former US intelligence agent is recruited alongside a team of fellow mercenaries to take part in an international plot to capture a briefcase from a gang of criminals. However, after the mission is completed, one member of the crew decides to betray his equally ruthless comrades-in-arms - with inevitably explosive results. John Frankenheimer's action thriller, starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Sean Bean, Stellan Skarsgard and Jonathan Pryce. Read our full review

The Silence of the Lambs - 10:45pm, ITV1

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

Friday 10th May

The Swimmer - 11am, Film4

Drama starring Burt Lancaster. On a summer's day in Connecticut, Ned Merrill begins a journey of self-discovery when he decides to swim home via the pools of various neighbours. Read our full review

Little Women - 6:40pm, Great Movies

Period drama starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh. New England, 1860s: with their father away fighting in the Civil War, the four March sisters, each smart, strong-willed and with different aspirations, are brought up by their mother. Soon they are experiencing the joys and pains of romance, and an unexpected tragedy. Read our full review

There’s Something About Mary - 9pm, Channel 4

Romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller. Although still mortified by a disastrous prom date with the beautiful Mary Jenson years earlier, Ted Stroehmann still harbours feelings for his teenage sweetheart, so he sends private investigator Pat Healy to Miami to track her down. But is Pat's information about his findings reliable? Read our full review

Ferris Buller’s Day Off - 12:10am, Channel 4

Comedy starring Matthew Broderick. Ferris Bueller is smart, and when he plays truant from high school he does it with style. An illicit trip to downtown Chicago involves girlfriend Sloane, best friend Cameron and Cameron's father's prized red Ferrari. Out to foil Ferris are sister Jeanie and Dean of Students Ed Rooney. Will Ferris's luck run out? Read our full review

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