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

And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from classic Ealing Comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets to recent animated gem Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – 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 26th April

3:10 to Yuma - 11am, Film4

Classic psychological western based on an Elmore Leonard story, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Rancher Dan Evans holds notorious outlaw Ben Wade at gunpoint while he waits for the train that will transport Wade to prison. At stake for the impoverished Evans is a $200 reward, but there are mind games and battles to be won before he can collect. Read our full review

Ice Cold in Alex - 3:25pm, Film4

Second World War drama starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle. Libya 1942: an army officer with a drink problem leads a small party in an ambulance on a hazardous cross-desert journey to Alexandria. Read our full review

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - 11:35pm, BBC One

Comedy drama starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce. Two drag artists and a transgender woman set off on a bus journey from Sydney to the town of Alice Springs where they have been invited to perform in a club. Crossing the desert, they leave chaos in their wake. Read our full review

X - 1:10am, 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

Saturday 27th April

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 11:35am, Channel 4

Animated action adventure featuring the voices of Shameik Moore and Jake Johnson. Teenager Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive arachnid and develops superhuman abilities like those of local hero Spider-Man. When Spidey is taken out of action by villain Kingpin, Miles must step up to prevent an unstable supercollider from sending New York into another dimension. But he soon finds he's not the only spider-being in town... Read our full review

The Shop Around the Corner - 2pm, BBC Two

A letter-writing shop assistant is surprised to learn his mysterious lonely hearts pen-pal is actually the workmate he constantly bickers with. Romantic comedy, starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. Read our full review

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 6:45pm, Film4

Action adventure starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen. Indiana Jones's outrageous exploits take him around the world in search of the legendary Ark of the Covenant, a religious artefact of unspeakable power wanted by the Nazis. With the help of an old flame, Indy takes on his enemies in a terrifying and death-defying battle to the finish. Read our full review

The Good the Bad and the Ugly - 10pm, ITV4

Comedy starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as Seth and Evan, two boys bonded by their lack of popularity. When the pair finally get invited to a party they embark on a quest to procure alcohol in the hope that it will not only lay to rest their geeky reputation but also improve their chances with the opposite sex. Read our full review

Hereditary – 11:20pm, Film4

Horror starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. Following the death of their reclusive grandmother, the Graham family experiences an escalating series of terrifying events. Read our full review

Sunday 28th April

Galaxy Quest - 12:50pm, Film4

Sci-fi spoof starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. Almost 20 years after the cancellation of their TV show, the actor crew of the spaceship Protector encounters a strange group of fans at a convention. These turn out to be real-life aliens who, unaware of the difference between fact and fiction, believe that only the cast of Galaxy Quest can save them from Sarris, a ruthless warmonger. Read our full review

The Secret Life of Pets 2 - 1:50pm, BBC One

Animated comedy sequel featuring the voices of Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart and Harrison Ford. Life changes for Max the dog when his owner has a child, turning Max into something of an overprotective worrier. However, a family trip introduces him to grizzled farm dog Rooster, who helps him overcome his fears. Meanwhile, Max's rabbit pal Snowball angers a tyrannical circus owner, plunging the pet gang into imminent danger. Read our full review

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 9pm, Film4

Harrison Ford returns as intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones in the second entry in Steven Spielberg's action adventure series. On the trail of fortune and glory in Shanghai, Indy is launched on a dangerous new quest that takes him to India via the Himalayas. With his faithful companion Short Round and nightclub singer Willie Scott, Indy goes in search of the magical Sankara stone and uncovers an ancient evil that threatens all who come into contact with it. Read our full review

Panic in Year Zero - 10:05pm, Talking Pictures TV

A family flees into the hills when their city is destroyed by a nuclear attack, and try to find a way to survive. Thriller, directed by and starring Ray Milland, with Jean Hagen.. Read our full review

AI: Artificial Intelligence - 11:20pm, Film4

Science-fiction fantasy drama directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment. In the future, a prototype robot child called David is programmed with emotions and delivered to the Swinton family. But can David replace the sick son that the family has had cryogenically frozen until his terminal illness can be cured? Read our full review

Monday 29th April

The Caine Mutiny - 1:20pm, Film4

Courtroom drama based on Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Humphrey Bogart as martinet skipper Philip Queeg who's put in charge of the naval minesweeper Caine. But the strain of maintaining discipline among his restless crew begins to affect his ability to command. Read our full review

Kind Hearts and Coronets - 3:55pm, Film4

Classic Ealing comedy starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood. Louis Mazzini is whiling away the eve of his execution by working on his memoirs. Born the distant heir to a dukedom, he recalls his vow to avenge his wronged mother by planning the murder of all the members of her noble family who stood between him and the title he covets. Read our full review

Catch Me If You Can - 6:05pm, Film4

Comedy drama, based on the true story of conman Frank Abagnale Jr, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Shattered by the news that his parents are divorcing, 16-year-old Frank runs away to New York. For six years he lives a life of fraud, cashing over $2 million in bad cheques while impersonating an airline pilot, a paediatrician and a lawyer, and always staying one step ahead of tenacious FBI agent Carl Hanratty. Read our full review

Tuesday 30th April

An Affair to Remember - 12:35pm, Film4

Romantic drama starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Playboy Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay, the girlfriend of a wealthy man, fall in love on board a luxury liner bound for New York. They agree to meet in six months' time at the top of the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident threatens their planned future. Read our full review

The Running Man - 4:40pm, Film4

Crime drama starring Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Alan Bates. When pilot Rex Black fails to qualify for an insurance payout after an accident, he stages his own death so that his wife can make a false claim. Rex flees to Spain and assumes a new identity, but when his wife joins him with the money, both are alarmed to meet Stephen Maddox, the insurance man who dealt with the case. Read our full review

Smokey and the Bandit - 8pm, ITV4

Comedy starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason. Bandit is a maverick driver who never refuses a challenge, and no cop - or "smokey" - is going to stop him. However, Sheriff Buford T Justice has other ideas, and the chase is on as the Bandit and his friends try to get a truckload of illicit beer from Texarkana, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia. Read our full review

Wednesday 1st May

The Remains of the Day - 6:20pm, 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

The Invisible Woman - 10pm, BBC Four

Biographical drama based on the book by Claire Tomalin, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and also starring Felicity Jones. Author Charles Dickens is at the height of his popularity and has become the toast of literary society. But the great writer's private life is far from idyllic. Having grown apart from his wife Catherine, Dickens embarks on a relationship with 18-year-old actress "Nelly" Ternan, despite the damage it might do to his reputation. Read our full review

Cape Fear - 11:40pm, BBC One

Thriller starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange. After 14 years behind bars, brutal rapist Max Cady is free to exact revenge on the man who could have kept him out of jail, lawyer Sam Bowden. Too clever to attack his victim directly, the devious ex-convict begins a reign of terror that threatens Bowden's wife and teenage daughter. Determined to crush the family, Cady's sadistic campaign causes underlying tensions to explode with devastating results. Read our full review

Thursday 2nd May

Taken - 9pm, Film4

Action drama starring Liam Neeson as former CIA operative Bryan Mills, who calls upon his tried-and-tested skills in a race-against-time bid to rescue his daughter from the sex traffickers who have kidnapped her during a holiday in France. Read our full review

The Prestige - 10pm, Quest

Period mystery thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. Victorian magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden have been bitter rivals since an onstage tragedy when they were learning their trade. However, their determination to ruin each other's reputation will only stop when one of them is dead. Read our full review

The History Boys - 10pm, BBC Four

Drama based on the hit play by Alan Bennett, starring Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and Stephen Campbell Moore. Sheffield, 1983: the ambitious headmaster of Cutler's Grammar School engages Irwin to coach his eight star pupils for the Oxbridge entrance exams. In contrast to his eccentric colleague, Hector, the new recruit has an iconoclastic approach to education that meets with suspicion and resistance. Read our full review

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

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