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

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 February

Last Train from Gun Hill - 12:15pm, 5 Action

Western starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. After his wife is raped and murdered, lawman Matt Morgan is determined to find the culprit, but he is shocked when he finds out who was responsible for the crime. Read our full review

23 Paces from Baker Street - 12:55pm, Film4

Thriller starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles. Blind playwright Phillip Hannon overhears a kidnap and murder being planned, but when he approaches the police they politely dismiss his evidence. Assisted by his fiancée and his secretary, he attempts to solve the crime himself. Read our full review

Nightmare Alley - 9pm, Film4

Period thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. On the run from the law, mystery man Stan Carlisle joins a travelling carnival and learns the tricks of the trade. Years later, while performing a successful psychic act for the wealthy, Stan encounters sceptical psychologist Dr Lilith Ritter. Can she expose him as a fraud? Read our full review

Pretty Red Dress - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama starring Natey Jones and Alexandra Burke. Aspiring singer Candice lands an audition for a major new stage musical, and is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Travis, buys her a beautiful garment to celebrate. The couple soon faces a challenge, though, when Travis tries on the dress and finds that he enjoys wearing it. Read our full review

Saturday 1st March

Enemy Mine - 2:40pm, Film4

Sci-fi fantasy starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. In the distant future, the population of Earth is at war with the reptilian Draconians. Two pilots, one from each side, crash-land on a desolate planet after a battle in space. To ensure their survival, they have to overcome the hostility they feel towards each other. Read our full review

Swallows and Amazons - 3:25pm, BBC One

Adventure based on Arthur Ransome's classic children's novel, starring Rafe Spall and Kelly Macdonald. England in the 1930s: while on holiday in the Lake District, the four Walker children dub themselves the "Swallows" (after their sailboat) and lay claim to a nearby island where they set up camp. However, the local Blackett sisters ("the Amazons") consider that spot to be their domain, so before long battle lines are drawn. Read our full review

Prey - 9:20pm, Channel 4

Sci-fi action prequel starring Amber Midthunder and Dane DiLiegro. Eighteenth-century Comanche healer Naru wishes to hunt and fight like the men in her tribe. When a mysterious entity that leaves strange tracks begins to attack the local wildlife, Naru has a chance to prove herself - but this predator is unlike anything on Earth... Read our full review

A Fistful of Dollars - 10:45pm, ITV4

Classic spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood. A mysterious gunfighter arrives in a lawless town on the Mexican border. The town is run by two rival families and, after witnessing the stranger's lethal gunfighting prowess, both are eager to recruit him to their cause. Read our full review

Sicario - 12:30am, BBC One

Crime thriller starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro. With the war between Mexican drug cartels and the American authorities becoming increasingly vicious, highly regarded FBI agent Kate Macer is sent to join an operation to bring down one of the more ruthless gangs. But Kate soon learns that her by-the-book approach to the job might not work in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Read our full review

Sunday 2nd March

Richard III - 1:30pm, BBC Two

Classic film version of Shakespeare's play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, co-starring Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom and John Gielgud. The scheming Richard will stop at nothing in his quest to become King of England. Read our full review

Clueless - 4:55pm, Film4

Romantic comedy updating Jane Austen's Emma to the present day, starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd. Cher and her best friend Dionne are going on 16 and know everything about being gorgeous, popular, and always in vogue. But everything changes when Tai, a new transfer student, arrives. She is, in a word, "clueless", and Cher sees it as her mission in life to give Tai a complete makeover. Read our full review

Training Day - 10pm, BBC Two

Police drama starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Idealistic rookie cop Jake Hoyt is given the opportunity of trying out with an elite Los Angeles undercover narcotics squad. Hoyt joins Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris for a day working the streets, but quickly realises that his superior's approach to law enforcement is not strictly by the book. Read our full review

Calendar Girls - 10:30pm, BBC One

Comedy drama based on a true story, starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. Chris and Annie are best friends and members of the local Women's Institute in Knapely, Yorkshire. When Annie's husband dies from leukaemia, Chris suggests they and their fellow WI colleagues raise money for the local hospital by posing nude for a calendar. The media interest that follows leads to the project becoming a worldwide sensation. Read our full review

Lynn + Lucy - 11:55pm, BBC Two

Drama starring Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley. Lynn, married with a child, is thrilled when her lifelong best friend Lucy also becomes a mother. But when unimaginable tragedy strikes, the fallout creates a rift between the two women that tests their friendship to its limits. Read our full review

Monday 3rd March

Roman Holiday - 2:35pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Joe Bradley, a journalist at an American news bureau in Rome, discovers a pretty girl apparently in a drunken stupor and reluctantly takes her home. Next morning, he is amazed to discover that his guest is a princess on a state visit. Read our full review

The Last Duel - 9pm, Film4

Historical drama starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. In the late 14th century, French knights Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris prepare for a duel to the death over the honour of Carrouges's wife, Marguerite, who has accused Le Gris of sexual assault. Le Gris has strenuously denied the charge. Who is telling the truth? Read our full review

The Death of Stalin - 11:55pm, BBC One

Historical satire starring Steve Buscemi and Simon Russell Beale. In the immediate aftermath of Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, his cabinet jockey for position in the hope of becoming the next Soviet leader. As they argue over everything from funeral arrangements to the fate of the dictator's offspring, the divided government struggles to maintain order. Read our full review

Tuesday 4th March

Patton - 1:05pm, Film4

Oscar-winning biographical drama starring George C Scott as General George Smith Patton, one of the greatest and most controversial military leaders of the Second World War. Read our full review

The Hunt for Red October - 6:20pm, Film4

Cold War action thriller starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn. The trial voyage of new Soviet submarine Red October does not go as expected. Equipped with an experimental new propulsion system that makes it virtually impossible to track and captained by the enigmatic Marko Ramius, the heavily armed vessel heads for America. Is Ramius about to launch an undetectable, pre-emptive nuclear strike? Read our full review

No Other Land - 11:15pm, Channel 4

Documentary. Basel Adra, a lifelong resident of Masafer Yatta - a West Bank Palestinian community, occupied since the 1960s by the Israeli military - films his day-to-day experiences. In 2019, the government announces plans to claim more of the region's land and displace its residents, which swiftly causes turmoil for its citizens. Read our full review

Wednesday 5th March

The Lady from Shanghai - 12:10pm, Talking Pictures TV

Romantic crime drama starring Rita Hayworth, and produced, written, directed by and co-starring Orson Welles. Michael O'Hara is hired by lawyer Arthur Bannister to work on his yacht, and during a cruise finds himself drawn to Arthur's younger wife, Elsa. However, Michael and Elsa's movements are being watched by a private detective, while the arrival of Arthur's business partner sees events take a murderous twist. Read our full review

Jubal - 4:35pm, 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

Live and Let Die - 9pm, ITV4

Spy adventure that marks Roger Moore's debut as James Bond. Investigating the deaths of three British agents, Bond finds himself up against the mysterious "Mr Big", a New York drug baron with plans for world domination. The trail leads to New Orleans and the Caribbean, where Bond discovers a sinister voodoo cult and the beautiful tarot-card reader Solitaire. Read our full review

Thursday 6th March

Hue and Cry - 3:30pm, Film4

Ealing comedy starring Alastair Sim and Harry Fowler. In London, a gang of East End lads discover their favourite comic, The Trump, is being used by a bunch of crooks to pass coded information. Read our full review

Malta Story - 5:55pm, Talking Pictures TV

Second World War drama starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. A reconnaissance pilot is forced to land in Malta where he becomes involved in the islanders' efforts to repel a German invasion. Read our full review

In the Loop - 9pm, BBC Four

Political comedy based on the BBC TV sitcom The Thick of It, starring Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi and James Gandolfini. With war in the Middle East seemingly on the cards, naive junior minister Simon Foster incurs the wrath of the prime minister's cynical director of communications Malcolm Tucker when his comment that conflict is "unforeseeable" is picked up by the US antiwar lobby. Read our full review

Friday 7th March

Mandy - 1:05pm, Film4

Drama starring Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Mandy Miller. A couple become divided over whether their daughter, who's born deaf, should be sent to a special school. Read our full review

High Plains Drifter - 9pm, ITV4

Western starring Clint Eastwood. A mysterious and laconic stranger rides into the small American frontier town of Lago, and within minutes kills three men who provoke him. Terrified of the gunman, yet even more afraid of a gang who intend to wipe out the town, the townspeople beg the stranger to become sheriff, little realising that this is just the start of their descent into "Hell". Read our full review

Aisha - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Drama starring Letitia Wright and Josh O'Connor. Aisha, a young Nigerian woman, is attempting to seek asylum in Ireland. Struggling to navigate bureaucratic obstacles, she forms a bond with Conor, a security guard at the Dublin detention centre where she is living in limbo. But as their friendship develops, Aisha's future in the country remains uncertain. Read our full review

X - 1:10pm, Channel 4

Horror starring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow. The cast and crew of an adult film show up at the remote farm that they have booked for their shoot. But something weird is going on with the farm's elderly owners, and bodies soon start to pile up... Read our full review

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