While there are so many streaming sites that boast a seemingly endless collection of movies, isn't it great when you stumble across an absolute classic while browsing the TV guide?

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If you're wondering where to find some of the best films, both old and new, on the terrestrial channels this week, then we've got you sorted with our picks for the next seven days.

And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from the very first Bond film Dr No to modern gems like Christopher Nolan's stunning war epic Dunkirk, 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.

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Friday 15th March

The Man in the White Suit - 5:10pm, Film4

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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

Skyfall - 9pm, ITV4

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Spy adventure starring Daniel Craig as agent James Bond. When an operation to retrieve a computer hard drive containing the names of agents goes wrong, the authority of MI6 boss M comes under scrutiny. Her only ally seems to be Bond, who is assigned to track down the mastermind behind the theft. It's a mission that will reveal long-hidden secrets from M's and Bond's pasts. Read our full review

Rocky II - 11:15pm, ITV1

Boxing drama written and directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky Balboa became famous after going the distance with world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. But with no job and no future, his only chance is to bow to Creed's taunts and re-enter the ring for a return fight, even though it could cost him his sight. Read our full review

Planes, Trains and Automobiles - 11:35pm, Film4

A stressed businessman just wants to make it home to spend Thanksgiving with his family. However, when his flight is forced to land miles from its destination, he finds himself sharing a disaster-strewn journey across America with an amiable but slobbish salesman. Comedy road movie, starring Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Kevin Bacon and Michael McKean. Read our full review

Saturday 16th March

Now, Voyager - 1:15pm, BBC Two

Classic romantic drama starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains. Following a nervous breakdown, dowdy and repressed Charlotte Vale undergoes psychiatric treatment and emerges transformed. However, beauty and confidence are no defence against the heartache she experiences when she falls in love with Jerry Durrance, a married man. Read our full review

Miss Congeniality - 3:55pm, Channel 5

Action comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine. Hard-nosed FBI agent Gracie Hart is about as far removed from a beauty queen as you could find. But when a terrorist threatens the Miss United States beauty contest, she is the only person available to go under cover and thwart the attack. As time ticks away, former pageant consultant Victor Melling is given the unenviable job of transforming Gracie into a plausible contestant. Read our full review

Dr No - 6:45pm, ITV4

The first in the series of screen adventures based on Ian Fleming's famous fictional secret agent, James Bond, starring Sean Connery. Bond is sent to Jamaica to find out more about the mysterious killing of a fellow agent. With the help of CIA man Felix Leiter, he discovers the evil Dr No's plan to hold the United States to ransom by threatening its space programme. Read our full review

Bridget Jones’s Diary - 9pm, 5 Star

Romantic comedy adapted from the bestselling novel by Helen Fielding, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Weight-obsessed 30-something Bridget Jones is busy lamenting her lack of a good man when two come along at once: her flirtatious boss Daniel Cleaver and uptight childhood friend Mark Darcy. Unfortunately, in typical world-of-Bridget style, the two men have met before, and she finds herself thrust from being a wallflower to the centre of a bizarre love triangle. Read our full review

Out of Sight – 11:35pm, BBC One

Romantic crime drama starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. Jack Foley is a career bank robber who's regularly in and out of jail, but still determined to try one last heist. So when he encounters US Marshal Karen Sisco during a prison escape, their mutual attraction is destined to see them cross paths again. Read our full review

Sunday 17th March

Three Men and a Baby - 12:45pm, ITV1

Comedy starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as three confirmed bachelors, who learn parenting skills the hard way when an abandoned baby turns up on their doorstep. Read our full review

Knives Out - 9pm, E4

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Murder mystery comedy starring Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas and Chris Evans. "Gentleman detective" Benoit Blanc is summoned to the home of a wealthy author who has been found with his throat slit. As he learns more about the deceased's eccentric family and their likely motives for murder, he forms a bond with the dead man's nurse, Marta, who also has something to hide. Meanwhile, one key question continues to gnaw at Blanc: who actually hired him? Read our full review

War of the Worlds - 9pm, Film4

Sci-fi thriller based on HG Wells's novel, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. When aliens invade Earth, divorced dock worker Ray Ferrier attempts to save his estranged family from the rampaging extraterrestrials. Read our full review

Dunkirk - 10pm, BBC Two

Second World War drama starring Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh. During the 1940 British evacuation at Dunkirk, three individuals each fight to survive. As young soldier Tommy waits to escape the wartorn beach, a civilian sailor from Weymouth aids in the rescue efforts, while a Spitfire pilot provides air support and gains a singular perspective on the chaos taking place below. Read our full review

Phantom Thread - 11:40pm, BBC Two

Romantic drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville. In 1950s London, obsessive designer Reynolds Woodcock lives solely for fashion. When he courts an independently minded young waitress, though, his carefully structured life begins to unravel. Read our full review

Monday 18th March

55 Days at Peking - 1pm, 5 Action

Historical drama starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven. In early 1900, Major Matt Lewis is assigned to protect the American embassy in Peking and becomes a key figure during the Boxer rebellion. Read our full review

Everest - 9pm, ITV4

Adventure thriller based on a true story, starring Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Robin Wright. In 1996, climbers from two expeditions simultaneously embark on a final push to reach Everest's summit. But with this being one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on earth where too long on the mountain will kill you, the last thing the explorers need is a life-threatening blizzard. Read our full review

Name Me Lawand - 12:05am, Channel 4

Documentary. Six-year-old Lawand moves with his family from Iraqi Kurdistan to the UK. Lawand, who is deaf, initially struggles to adapt, but with the help of his older brother Rawa, as well as his teachers and friends at a specialist school, he is able to blossom. Read our full review

Tuesday 19th March

The Cockleshell Heroes - 11am, 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

Genevieve - 4:15pm, Talking Pictures TV

Comedy starring Kenneth More, John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, and Kay Kendall. Two couples taking part in the London to Brighton veteran car rally suffer various misadventures, not least when personal rivalries make the return journey even more competitive. Read our full review

Undergods - 11:10pm, Film4

In a post-apocalyptic Europe, two men, K and Z, roam the streets in a van, looking for corpses and something more valuable - fresh meat. Dystopian fantasy drama featuring loosely interwoven stories, starring Kate Dickie, Ned Dennehy and Geza Rohrig. Read our full review

Wednesday 20th March

Brighton Rock - 1:10pm, Talking Pictures TV

Adaptation of the Graham Greene novel, starring Helen Mirren, Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough. Brighton, 1964: as gangs of mods and rockers gather in the town, babyfaced hoodlum Pinkie makes a play to take over the gang of his murdered boss. But when shy waitress Rose witnesses the death of a rival at Pinkie's hands, the young sociopath is forced to woo the girl to keep her quiet. But how long will it be before he must silent her permanently? Read our full review

The Blues Brothers - 9pm, ITV4

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Musical comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as brothers Jake and Elwood Blues who re-form their legendary band to raise money for their old orphanage, which is threatened with closure. But the pair find themselves pursued across country by a mysterious woman, a band of neo-Nazis, an irate country and western group and the police, culminating in one of the biggest and most spectacular car chases in movie history. Read our full review

Logan - 11:20pm, Film4

Action adventure starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. In the future, the X-Men are gone, no new mutants have been born in decades and a world-weary Wolverine is now lying low south of the American border in the company of a mentally frail Professor X. However, their seclusion is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a mutant child with some familiar-looking powers. Read our full review

Thursday 21st March

The Devil Wears Prada - 6:50pm, Film4

Fashion-industry satire based on Lauren Weisberger's novel, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. When unstylish college graduate Andy Sachs gets a job as the editor's assistant on New York fashion bible Runway, she thinks it's a short cut to achieving her dream journalism career. Unfortunately her boss, Miranda Priestly, is a dragon lady, who makes Andy's existence a living hell. Read our full review

Pig - 9pm, Film4

A chef-turned-reclusive-truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. First-time director Michael Sarnoski's drama, starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin. Read our full review

Here We Are - 10:20pm, BBC Four

Drama starring Shai Avivi and Noam Imber. Divorced father Aharon has given up his job to care for his son, Uri, who is on the autism spectrum. Uri's mother enrols the young man in an assisted-living home, but on the way there Aharon decides to abscond and take his son on the run instead. Read our full review

Friday 22nd March

An Inspector Calls - 12:35pm, 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

Son of Frankenstein - 1pm, Legend

Horror starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, son of the notorious scientist, returns to the family castle. More than 25 years have elapsed, but evidence of his father's terrifying work still remains. Read our full review

Pain and Glory - 12:10am, BBC Two

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Drama starring Antonio Banderas. Ageing film director Salvador Mello, struggling with a creative impasse and his own mortality, is invited to a screening of one of his early works. He reconnects with his old leading man whose drug problems caused the pair to fall out decades previously, and in turn finds himself tempted by heroin as a way to numb his pain. Read our full review

The Wife - 12:30am, BBC One

Drama starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. Author Joe Castleman travels to Sweden with his wife, Joan, to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, the couple's relationship begins to crumble as they're forced to confront an uncomfortable rumour. Read our full review

If you have Netflix, we have rounded up the best movies on Netflix and the best series on Netflix to watch now - and Disney Plus viewers can check out our best movies on Disney Plus guide. Got Prime Video? We also have the best movies on Amazon Prime.

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