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Best films to watch on TV today, tonight and this week
Whatever your taste, there's a movie on for everyone.
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- Patrick Cremona
Published: Friday, 6 November 2026 at 11:30 am
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There may be plenty of movies available on streaming platforms and released weekly in cinemas, but nothing quite beats the feeling of finding a hidden gem while flicking through the TV.
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With such a raft of options – old and new – to pick from this week, it can often feel like a bit of an insurmountable task to find one that really tickles your fancy.
But that's where we come in to do the hard work for you, picking out some of the most stellar options available to tune into.
This week's selection includes everything from classic comedies like Some Like it Hot to major blockbusters like Dune: Part One to recent French gems like The Taste of Things.
There's something for everyone, so if you're wondering where to find some of the best films on the terrestrial channels this week, we've got you sorted.
Read on for an expertly compiled list of the best flicks airing across the coming week.
Friday 6 November
Sink the Bismarck! - 4:40pm, Film4
Second World War naval drama starring Kenneth More. In 1941, Captain Jonathan Shepard, director of operations at the British Admiralty, begins planning the destruction of Germany's seemingly invincible battleship, the Bismarck. When the vessel moves into the north Atlantic war zone, the success of Shepard's mission becomes imperative. Read our full review
Django Unchained - 9pm, Film4
Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained Sony Pictures Releasing
Western directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz. After being freed from slavery and trained in the ways of a bounty hunter by Dr King Schultz, Django sets out to free his wife from a vicious plantation owner. Read our full review
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - 10pm, BBC Two
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
Body Double - 10:50pm, Talking Pictures TV
Erotic thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith. An out-of-work actor is offered the chance to house sit a luxury apartment. When he starts spying on an alluring female neigbour, he is drawn into a depraved and dangerous world. Read our full review
Saturday 7 November
Grand Hotel - 11:20am, BBC Two
Oscar-winning drama starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford. The guests at a luxurious Berlin hotel include a famous but unhappy ballerina, a hard-up baron who has turned thief, a dying clerk, a ruthless businessman and an ambitious secretary. Their contrasting stories unfold during their stay at the hotel. Read our full review
Dune: Part One - 8pm, ITV2
Epic sci-fi drama starring Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson. In the year 10,191, Paul Atreides and his mother, Lady Jessica, accompany Paul's father the Duke after he is made steward of the resource-rich desert planet Arrakis. Paul begins to feel that his destiny is entwined with that of the planet, but powerful enemies of House Atreides are plotting the family's destruction. Read our full review
The Bride Wore Black - 9:10pm, BBC Four
A vengeful woman sets her sights on tracking down the five men who killed her husband, and dispatches each with ruthless efficiency. François Truffaut's psychological thriller, starring Jeanne Moreau, Michael Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner and Claude Rich. In French. Read our full review
The Taste of Things - 11:50pm, BBC Two
Period romantic drama starring Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche. On a beautiful estate in late 19th-century France, renowned gourmet Dodin works alongside his lover, the talented cook Eugénie. But despite the harmony of their unconventional relationship, all he really wants is her hand in marriage. Read our full review
Rush - 12:05am, BBC One
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
Sunday 8 November
War Horse - 1:45pm, BBC Two
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's First World War drama, starring Emily Watson, David Thewlis and Jeremy Irvine. Dartmoor, 1914: when Ted Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse for his farm, his son Albert soon bonds with the animal who he names Joey. However, when the harvest fails and war is declared on Germany, Ted is forced to sell Joey to the British Army. Albert enlists but can he and Joey survive the horrors of the Front to be reunited? Read our full review
The Simpsons Movie - 6pm, E4
Feature-length outing for America's most dysfunctional family, with the voices of Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner. When Homer adopts a pig, he doesn't count on the amount of excrement it produces. Deciding to dump a silo of the stuff in the local lake, he precipitates an environmental disaster that has dire consequences for the whole of Springfield. Read our full review
Some Like It Hot - 8pm, Sky Arts
Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot. BFI
Classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Chicago, 1929, the era of Prohibition and tough racketeers. When two underemployed musicians witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre, they nearly become victims themselves. Their only escape is a jazz band heading for Florida, but there's a problem - it's an all-girl orchestra. Read our full review
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 10:45pm, BBC Two
Spy thriller adapted from John le Carré's novel and based on the classic television series, starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. After a mission goes wrong and an agent is shot, information is received that a Soviet mole is operating at the heart of the British secret service. Veteran operative George Smiley is called out of retirement to try to uncover the spy and he soon discovers that you can trust no one - not even those closest to you. Read our full review
The Kitchen - 11:30pm, Channel 4
Sci-fi adventure starring Kane Robinson and Jedaiah Bannerman. In a near-future London, social housing barely exists except for "The Kitchen", an estate on the outskirts of the city which is populated by a community of people who have nowhere to go and are threatened by new owners. Izi is a loner who works at a funeral home and keeps to himself, but that all changes when he befriends recently orphaned Benji. Read our full review
Monday 9 November
Jubal - 4:30pm, Film4
Western drama starring Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine. Drifter Jubal Troop's arrival at Shep Horgan's cattle ranch causes tension when he attracts advances from Horgan's young wife. Read our full review
Brighton Rock - 4:35pm, Talking Pictures TV
Crime drama based on Graham Greene's novel, starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley and William Hartnell. Daily Messenger journalist Kolley Kibber arrives in Brighton, where his paper is offering a cash prize to the first member of the public to spot him. However, the members of a gang led by ruthless delinquent Pinkie Brown believe he murdered one of their number and are hot on his trail. Read our full review
Mud - 11pm, BBC Two
Drama starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan and Reese Witherspoon. Two 14-year-old boys are messing about on the Mississippi River when they encounter a charismatic fugitive on the run for murder. The boys agree to keep his whereabouts a secret and to help reunite him with his estranged lover. Read our full review
Tuesday 10 November
In Which We Serve - 2:40pm, BBC Two
Second World War drama starring Noël Coward and John Mills. HMS Torrin is lost after being dive-bombed in the Battle of Crete. However, the memories of her surviving crew re-create the inspiring story of the ship, and those who served on board her. Read our full review
Paths of Glory - 3:25pm, Great Action
First World War drama from director Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou. Ordered to attack an impregnable German position, French troops fall back after only a few yards. When it is decided to court-martial three men for cowardice, their colonel does his best to defend them but discovers that political manoeuvring can be just as deadly as the front line. Read our full review
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri - 11pm, Film4
Crime drama starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Seven months after Mildred Hayes's daughter was found raped and murdered, no suspect has come to light. A frustrated Mildred erects three signs publicly accusing the police chief of incompetence, which only turns the town against her. Read our full review
Wednesday 11 November
My Cousin Rachel - 1:55pm, Talking Pictures TV
Romantic mystery starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton. A man is puzzled by his cousin's death in Italy and suspects the dead man's wife may have murdered him. But when his cousin's widow returns to England and arrives at his country estate, he finds himself falling in love with her. Read our full review
Knocked Up - 10:45pm, BBC Three
Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen Universal Studios
Romantic comedy starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. Alison Scott's career as a television journalist is going from strength to strength. Out on the town to celebrate a promotion, she ends up in bed with amiable slacker Ben Stone and their one-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy that turns Alison's world upside down. Read our full review
Beast - 10:50pm, Film4
Adventure thriller starring Idris Elba. Grieving widower Dr Nate Samuels takes his two daughters to a South African game reserve, hoping that the trip will be a healing experience for them. But when the family crosses paths with a huge, rogue lion, Nate realises that the predator will stop at nothing to claim its prey. Read our full review
Thursday 12 November
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - 9pm, BBC Three
Action adventure starring Jennifer Lawrence. Having survived two Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is taken to the underground District 13. There she meets the rebel leader President Alma Coin who asks the inspirational Katniss to become a spearhead in their push against the might of the Capitol. Read our full review
Hell or High Water - 11pm, BBC Two
Crime drama starring Ben Foster, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges. Toby and his loose-cannon brother Tanner put aside their differences to carry out a series of robberies. They target branches of the Texas Midlands Bank, an institution that is threatening to foreclose on their family farm. However, the predictable nature of the thefts allows a veteran ranger to second-guess their moves. Read our full review
Clear and Present Danger - 11pm, TLC
Political thriller starring Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe. When Jack Ryan is asked to investigate the murder of a friend of the US President, he finds himself up against not only a Colombian drugs cartel but also corrupt American government officials. Read our full review
Friday 13 November
Scanners - 10pm, Rewind TV
A man with dangerous psychic powers is recruited by a sinister corporation to infiltrate and destroy an underground movement led by a fanatical renegade telepath intent on taking over the world. David Cronenberg's sci-fi thriller, starring Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside and Jennifer O'Neill. Read our full review
Die Hard with a Vengeance - 10pm, BBC Two
Action thriller starring Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons and Samuel L Jackson. Following a terrorist explosion in a New York department store, suspended police officer John McClane and Harlem shopkeeper Zeus Carver become unwitting players in a deadly game of "Simon Says". Read our full review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - 11:30pm, BBC One
Action adventure prequel starring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler and Viola Davis, set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games. In the run-up to the Tenth Annual Hunger Games, ambitious future president Coriolanus Snow is tasked with mentoring Lucy Gray Baird, a poor but self-confident tribute from District 12 with a determination to win. But their relationship becomes more complex than Snow had anticipated. Read our full review
This Is England - 12:10am, Channel 4
Drama set during the early 1980s, starring Thomas Turgoose and Stephen Graham. After losing his father in the Falklands War and being bullied at school, young Shaun Fields finds friendship with Woody and his gang of skinheads. But when an old friend of Woody's appears on the scene, the group's loyalties become divided. 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+ viewers can check out our best movies on Disney+ guide. Got Prime Video? We also have the best movies on Amazon Prime.
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Patrick CremonaSenior Film Writer
Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
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