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 26th July

The Fugitive - 9pm, Channel 5

Thriller starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Despite protesting his innocence, Richard Kimble is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. En route to prison, he is caught up in a disastrous escape attempt, and finds himself on the run. In order to clear his name, he must find the mysterious one-armed man with whom he struggled on the night of the murder, but the law is hot on his trail. Read our full review

The Beach - 11:30pm, BBC One

Adventure thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Richard, an American backpacker, arrives in Thailand looking for adventure. One night he meets Daffy, a deranged Scotsman who talks of a beautiful unspoilt island. In the morning Daffy is found dead, but has left Richard a map that leads to the idyllic beach. Together with a young French couple, Richard embarks on a hazardous journey to reach the island, but will they really find paradise? Read our full review

Freaky - 1:35am, Film4

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler spends her days trying to survive high school and the cruel actions of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the latest target of the Butcher, the town's infamous serial killer, her senior year becomes the least of her worries. When the Butcher's mystical dagger causes him and Millie to magically switch bodies, the frightened teen learns she has just 24 hours to get her identity back before she looks like a middle-aged maniac for ever. Comedy horror, starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. Read our full review

Saturday 27th July

Doctor Zhivago - 12:30pm, BBC Two

David Lean's epic romantic drama, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. Doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago is brought up in the family of Alexander Gromeko, whose daughter Tonya he marries. But his true love is the beautiful Lara, the mistress of a political opportunist. With the outbreak of the Great War, and with Moscow transformed by the Revolution, their romance is disrupted by the social upheaval surrounding them. Read our full review

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - 4pm, ITV1

Fantasy adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe. Harry Potter lives a miserable existence with his loathsome aunt and uncle. That is until he learns from a giant named Hagrid that he is the orphaned son of powerful wizards. Harry is offered a place at the prestigious Hogwarts boarding school for wizards and soon embarks on a new life filled with magic and mystery. Read our full review

Le Mans ‘66 - 11:20pm, Channel 4

Motor-racing drama based on a true story. In the early 1960s, automobile designer Carroll Shelby is enlisted by Ford Motors to build a car that will beat Ferrari in the annual Le Mans race. Shelby recruits hot-headed Brit Ken Miles as his test driver and the two commence work on a project that proves dangerously underfunded. Will all their efforts come undone during the gruelling 24-hour motoring marathon? Read our full review

Hell or High Water - 11:40pm, BBC One

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

County Lines - 12:30am, BBC Two

Crime drama starring Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe and Harris Dickinson. Bullied London schoolboy Tyler finds a welcome older brother figure in the enigmatic Simon. However, when Tyler starts delivering strange packages on his new friend's behalf, he begins to wonder if the "work" he's carrying out is entirely legal. Read our full review

Sunday 28th July

High Society - 3:35pm, BBC Two

Musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Time is short if playboy composer CK Dexter-Haven is to reclaim his beautiful ex-wife Tracy Lord before she marries another, especially with cynical reporter Mike Connor caught up in the romantic complications. Read our full review

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 5:05pm, ITV1

Fantasy adventure sequel to The Philosopher's Stone, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. When Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a new term, they discover a sinister message written in blood on a wall. Is it a sign that the dark forces of Lord Voldemort have infiltrated the school? Read our full review

Logan - 9pm, 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

The Shining - 10pm, BBC Two

Stanley Kubrick's chilling horror, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance takes on the job of winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, despite a warning about the psychological strain the long months of isolation can cause. Jack's wife Wendy only hopes that Jack will finally find the time to write, but his psychically gifted son Danny has visions of a terrifying ordeal for the family. Read our full review

The Invisible Man - 10:20pm, ITV1

Horror starring Elisabeth Moss and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. After escaping her abusive, controlling partner Adrian, Cecilia hopes that she can put her traumatic past behind her. Then Cecilia is told that Adrian has killed himself - but a series of terrifying events lead her to suspect that her ex has somehow faked his own death and found a chilling way to torment her without being seen. Read our full review

Monday 29th July

The Red Title - 11am, Film4

Animated fantasy produced by Studio Ghibli. A man wakes up stranded on a desert island and attempts to sail home, only to find his escape blocked by a mysterious, impassive creature. Read our full review

Summertime - 4:05pm, Talking Pictures TV

Romantic drama starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi. Ohio spinster Jane Hudson takes a European holiday in Venice where an affair with an antiques-shop owner offers temporary respite from her loneliness. Read our full review

The Road - 9pm, 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

Tuesday 30th July

Sister Act - 6:55pm, Film4

Comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg. After seeing her gangster boyfriend Vince LaRocca murder an informant, cabaret singer Deloris Van Cartier becomes a marked woman. When she agrees to testify against Vince, Deloris is sent by the police to hide in a San Francisco convent where she has trouble adapting to the nuns' way of life. Read our full review

Deadpool 2 - 9pm, 4Seven

Fantasy action adventure starring Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin. In the wake of a personal tragedy, Deadpool joins forces with a couple of fellow mutants, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. They come to the aid of an unstable pyrokinetic orphan who is being targeted by Cable, a cybernetic soldier from the future, but is Deadpool really up to the task? Read our full review

Filth - 11:20pm, Film4

Comedy drama based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, starring James McAvoy. Corrupt police officer Bruce Robertson will stop at nothing to attain the promotion he thinks is coming his way, including the moral destruction of his colleagues. But with a debilitating drink and drugs habit plus a personality disorder, Bruce has to fight a host of inner demons first. Read our full review

Wednesday 31st July

The Man in the White Suit - 5:20pm, Film4

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

Nobody - 9pm, Film4

Action thriller starring Bob Odenkirk. After his home is broken into and his family threatened, mild-mannered suburbanite Hutch Mansell resolves to track down the culprits and, in doing so, makes himself the target of an even deadlier gang. However, this apparently unassuming family man may have a secret skill or two up his sleeves... Read our full review

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Historical drama, the sequel to Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Geoffrey Rush. Queen Elizabeth I is under pressure at both home and abroad to resolve the problem of her imprisoned Catholic cousin Mary. The matter gathers urgency following an assassination attempt on the Protestant monarch - and the realisation that King Philip of Spain is on the verge of invasion. Read our full review

Thursday 1st August

This Happy Breed - 5:35pm, Talking Pictures TV

Drama directed by David Lean and based on the play by Noël Coward, starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson and John Mills. Life between the two World Wars is viewed through the eyes of a south London family. Read our full review

Starman - 3pm, Film4

Sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. A visiting extraterrestrial takes refuge in the home of recently widowed Jenny Hayden, who wakes to find that the alien has assumed the form of her late husband. Read our full review

The Theory of Everything - 11:35pm, BBC Two

Biographical drama starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. Based on a memoir by Stephen Hawking's first wife, Jane, this story about the personal and professional life of the renowned scientist follows him from his undergraduate days at Oxford, to the onset of his crippling motor neurone disease and his ground-breaking work in the field of physics. Read our full review

Friday 2nd August

The Spiderwick Chronicles - 2:35pm, Film4

Fantasy adventure based on the books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, starring Freddie Highmore and Sarah Bolger. When twins Jared and Simon Grace and their sister Mallory move into their aunt's dilapidated house in the country, they are drawn into a magical world that reveals the strange history of the property and of their family. Read our full review

Woman in a Dressing Gown - 3:55pm, Talking Pictures TV

Drama starring Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms. After 20 years of marriage, Amy Preston finds she cannot compete with an attractive younger woman for the affections of her husband. Read our full review

For Your Eyes Only - 10:45pm, ITV1

Spy adventure starring Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet and Topol. When a secret surveillance device is lost at sea, James Bond is called in to recover the instrument before it falls into Russian hands. Read our full review

Pride - 12am, BBC One

Comedy drama based on a true story, starring Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine. At the height of the 1984 miners' strike, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to show their solidarity with the striking colliers by raising money for their families. Despite little enthusiasm from the National Union of Mineworkers, the activists decide to deliver their donation in person and head off in a mini-bus for the Welsh village of Onllwyn. Read our full review

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