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

And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from classic comedy-dramas like The Graduate to moderns gems such as The Phantom of the Open – 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 7th June

The Ghost and Mrs Muir - 11am, Film4

Romantic fantasy starring Gene Tierney as a widow who befriends the mischievous ghost of a sea captain (Rex Harrison) when she moves into the isolated coastal house where he used to live. Read our full review

Apocalypse Now - 9pm, Film4

Epic war drama starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall. In Vietnam, war-weary Captain Willard is drawn into a nightmarish world when he is ordered to assassinate a rebel American officer, Colonel Kurtz, who has established his own private army deep in the Cambodian jungle. Read our full review

The Others - 11:10pm, BBC One

Period horror thriller starring Nicole Kidman. In a remote mansion on the Channel Island of Jersey at the end of the Second World War, Grace is praying for news of her husband, who has been declared missing in action. Her children have an allergy to sunlight and cannot leave the house, so Grace advertises for some home help. Three people respond to her request, but their arrival coincides with a series of sinister occurrences. Read our full review

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse - 12:40am, Film4

Documentary charting the making of Francis Coppola's movie Apocalypse Now. Coppola's extraordinary odyssey survived appalling trials and tribulations thanks to his amazing vision. Beset by typhoons, wars, heart attacks, nervous breakdowns and drugs, he emerged with a masterpiece. The documentary includes interviews with the major protagonists, the observations of Eleanor Coppola and some of her own revealing film footage. Read our full review

Saturday 8th June

An Ideal Husband - 2pm, BBC Two

Comedy of manners, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde, starring Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver and Rupert Everett. A successful MP is bribed into pushing a scheme through the House of Commons by a woman whom he once had dealings with, placing both his career and his marriage in jeopardy. Read our full review

Sleepless in Seattle - 4:35pm, Film4

Romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in. Read our full review

Skyfall – 8pm, ITV1

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

Bram Stoker’s Dracula - 11:25pm, Film4

Horror starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves. Fifteenth-century Romania: returning from the Crusades, Count Dracula discovers his wife Elisabeta has taken her own life, believing him to have been killed in battle. As a result, Dracula renounces his faith and becomes a vampire. Four centuries later, estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to sell the Count a London property, but when he sees a picture of Harker's fiancée Mina, he believes she is the reincarnation of his dead wife and imprisons Harker in his castle while he travels to England. Read our full review

Predator - 11:40pm, Channel 4

Science-fiction action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. A rescue mission deep in the Central American jungle turns into a fight for survival as a crack commando unit, led by Major "Dutch" Schaeffer, comes up against an unseen enemy - a predator able to resist the most up-to-date weaponry and kill with relentless efficiency. Read our full review

Sunday 9th June

Pride and Prejudice - 4:15pm, BBC Two

Period romantic drama based on Jane Austen's novel, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. England in the 18th century: with five daughters and no fortune, class-obsessed Mrs Bennet is determined to marry off her brood and goes into a match-making frenzy with the prospect of wealthy bachelor Mr Bingley in residence nearby. But one of her girls, the spirited, intelligent Elizabeth, seems more interested in verbal sparring than romance, particularly when she meets Bingley's arrogant friend Mr Darcy... Read our full review

A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood - 6:50pm, Film4

Drama based on a true story starring Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys. In the late 1990s, journalist Lloyd Vogel is assigned to interview the beloved children's TV host, Fred Rogers. The cynical Vogel sets out to expose "Mr Rogers" as a fraud, but as he spends more time with the gentle and avuncular presenter, Vogel instead begins to reflect on his own deep-seated problems. Read our full review

Total Recall - 9pm, ITV4

Science-fiction thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and featuring Sharon Stone. After suffering a series of nightmares about Mars, construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers that the planet may in fact hold the key to his true identity. Read our full review

The Phantom of the Open - 10pm, BBC Two

Golfing comedy drama based on a true story, starring Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins. Despite having no experience with golf, shipyard crane operator Maurice Flitcroft decides to enter the 1976 British Open. With the encouragement of his wife Jean, Maurice embarks on an unlikely quest to achieve his dream - with surprising results. Read our full review

Blue Story - 10pm, BBC Three

Crime drama starring Stephen Odubola and Micheal Ward. Timmy, a smart but shy kid from Deptford, goes to a school in Peckham where he meets streetwise local boy Marco. The two become friends despite hailing from rival parts of London. However, as they get older, their bond is put under increasing strain by a volatile turf war. Read our full review

Monday 10th June

Went the Day Well - 11am, Film4

Second World War drama based on a story by Graham Greene, starring Leslie Banks and Elizabeth Allan. A group of German soldiers parachute into England disguised as a British platoon and infiltrate the sleepy village of Bramley End. They meet with stern opposition from the locals but find an unlikely ally. Read our full review

The Silence of the Lambs - 10:40pm, ITV4

Classic psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is assigned to help in the search for the serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill", a brutal murderer who skins the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks the assistance of Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. Read our full review

The Grey - 11:05pm, Film4

Action drama starring Liam Neeson. A grief-stricken oil rig worker is among a group of men stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash. Apart from the biting cold, their lives are endangered by a pack of bloodthirsty wolves who stalk them across the tundra. Read our full review

Tuesday 11th June

True Grit - 11am, Film4

Oscar-winning western starring John Wayne as one-eyed US marshal "Rooster" Cogburn. When a young girl discovers that her father has been robbed and murdered, she persuades the hard-drinking Cogburn to track down the killer. Read our full review

Jason and the Argonauts - 4:25pm, Film4

Fantasy adventure starring Todd Armstrong and featuring special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Twenty years after his father's death, Jason embarks on a fantastic voyage, fraught with dangers, to find the Golden Fleece that will enable him to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his. Read our full review

Effie Gray - 11:05pm, BBC Two

Period drama based on a true story, starring Dakota Fanning, Tom Sturridge, Greg Wise and Emma Thompson. In 1848, 19-year-old Euphemia "Effie" Gray marries acclaimed art critic and historian John Ruskin, but a combination of her innocence and his sexual dysfunction means their relationship is fraught with frustration. However, when Effie falls in love with Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, the result is a scandalous court case that outrages Victorian society. Read our full review

Wednesday 12th June

The Proud Rebel - 2:45pm, Great Movies Action

A Confederate veteran (Alan Ladd of 'Shane') living in the Yankee North struggles with his son's shock induced muteness and the hatred of the Northern town led by Best Actress Academy Award, Olivia de Havilland. Read our full review

Hobson’s Choice - 4:45pm, Film4

Classic comedy starring Charles Laughton and John Mills. While his three unmarried daughters run his business, boot-shop owner Henry Hobson passes the time drinking. But Hobson's livelihood is threatened after his eldest daughter marries his assistant, meek Willie Mossop. Read our full review

The Conversation - 11:30pm, BBC Two

Classic psychological thriller starring Gene Hackman. Harry Caul is a professional eavesdropper, a wire-tapper and industrial spy for hire. He is also an intensely neurotic man, obsessed by his work and his own privacy. Following a particularly difficult surveillance job in San Francisco, he believes a young couple are about to be murdered. Gradually Caul becomes embroiled in a mystery even more complex and dangerous than he anticipates. Read our full review

Thursday 13th June

The Blue Lamp - 12:45pm, Film4

Classic crime drama starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley and Dirk Bogarde. When veteran London policeman George Dixon is shot trying to arrest a couple of crooks, new recruit Andy Mitchell takes up the case with a vengeance. Read our full review

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - 9pm, BBC Four

Comedy starring Steve Coogan. Norwich DJ Alan Partridge is unconcerned when his local radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is bought out by a multinational. But when he finds out that it's either himself or fellow DJ Pat Farrell who must go, Alan makes sure that it's his colleague who gets the boot. However, when a shotgun-wielding Farrell decides to hold the staff hostage, it's up to Norwich's most famous son to save the day. Read our full review

The Graduate - 10:30pm, BBC Four

Classic comedy drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home and discovers a new "tutor" in the attractive form of Mrs Robinson. The alcoholic, older married woman decides that Benjamin needs instruction in more physical matters following all those demands on his intellect. Then Benjamin meets Mrs Robinson's daughter Elaine... Read our full review

Friday 14th June

Rio Grande - 2:35pm, Film4

Classic John Ford western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. On the Mexican border in the 1880s, Lieutenant Colonel Yorke of the US cavalry is conducting a lonely, vain campaign against marauding Apaches. When his trooper son arrives at the fort, followed by Yorke's estranged wife, family conflict adds to his troubles. Read our full review

Mission: Impossible – Fallout - 9pm, Film4

Action spy thriller starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson and Henry Cavill. Ethan Hunt is sent to Berlin to buy three stolen plutonium cores before a terrorist group can get a hold of them. But after a hostage crisis leads to the failure of the mission, Hunt is targeted by a CIA assassin who could derail the IMF for good. Read our full review

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 11:25pm, BBC One

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

Terminator 2: Judgement Day - 11:30pm, ITV1

James Cameron's science-fiction action thriller sequel to The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Tormented by the imminent threat of a nuclear holocaust from which intelligent machines will emerge to crush the last vestiges of human existence, Sarah Connor has been institutionalised and separated from her son. Informed of the future, she knows that young John Connor will survive and become leader of the human race. However, the machines of 2029 know it too, and once again they send a cyborg assassin back through time to terminate the potential saviour. Read our full review

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