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Waterloo Road (PG)
1944 John Mills stars as a soldier who discovers his wife has betrayed him by having an affair, prompting him to head home and save his marriage. Wartime melodrama, with Joy Shelton, Alastair Sim and Stewart Granger as the good-looking love rival

2.25pm
Very Important Person (U)
1961 A stuck-up Allied scientist lands in a concentration camp during a reconnaissance mission over Germany. His bizarre attitude and a series of misunderstandings soon earn him the enmity of his fellow inmates, who suspect he's a spy — but luckily a plucky British officer vows to launch a rescue effort. World War Two comedy, with James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips and Eric Sykes

4.20pm
The Madness of King George (PG)
1995 Acclaimed drama, based on Alan Bennett's successful stage play The Madness of George III. Nigel Hawthorne won a well-deserved Bafta for his superb performance as the 18th-century monarch whose unbalanced behaviour almost cost him his power and position, with Helen Mirren as his loyal wife, Rupert Everett as the scheming prince of Wales and Amanda Donohoe as the subject of the king's desires. Brilliant, intelligent stuff

6.25pm
Oliver Twist (PG)
2005 Roman Polanski's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Orphan Oliver flees his harsh upbringing in the workhouse and seeks his fortune in London. Instead, he falls in with Fagin (Ben Kingsley) and his gang of young thieves. His first efforts as a pickpocket lead to him being taken in by the wealthy Mr Brownlow — an opportunity brutal crook Bill Sykes sets out to exploit. Starring Barney Clark and Jamie Foreman

9.00pm
The Full Monty (15)
1997 Blockbusting British comedy about a group of hard-up unemployed Yorkshiremen who try to make ends meet by becoming strippers, proving beyond doubt that there still is steel in Sheffield. Robert Carlyle stars as the leader of the unlikely dance troupe, while Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson, Hugo Speer and Paul Barber are among those mastering the subtle art of stripping in time to the music and shaking their funky stuff — not to mention giving their self-esteem a boost into the bargain

10.45pm
The Football Factory (18)
2004 Powerful and brutal documentary-style drama following a soccer fan immersed in a violent counter-culture, who begins questioning his actions when he's plagued by nightmares. Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Neil Maskell and Tamer Hassan star

12.25am
Resurrected (15)
1989 Paul Greengrass' directorial debut stars David Thewlis as a soldier who goes missing during the Falklands War and is presumed dead. However, he later reappears, claiming to be suffering from amnesia. In an attempt to save themselves the embarrassment of explaining the situation, the British Army label the young man a deserter, leading to a tragic outcome. Powerful drama, with Tom Bell

2.10am
The Warrior (12)
2000 Award-winning historical drama, starring Irfan Khan as a warrior who vows to give up his violent ways after a crisis of conscience. But his master is left fuming at this unexpected change of heart, and sends hired killers to exact a suitably bloody revenge. A trek through the Himalayas ensues, as the former champion sets out to find inner peace — with his pursuers hot on his tail. With Puru Chhibber and Sheikh Annuddin

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1.00pm
Sailor of the King (U)
1953 Gripping World War Two adventure based on a novel by CS Forester, starring Jeffrey Hunter as a dedicated Navy officer who risks life and limb in a single-handed attack on a well-armed German cruiser. With Michael Rennie, Bernard Lee and Wendy Hiller (888)

2.50pm
Black Narcissus (U)
1947 Five British nuns establish a school and hospital on a remote mountainside in the Himalayas, where loneliness, isolation and frustration soon take their toll. Stunning, stylised Oscar-winning drama from legendary directorial team Powell and Pressburger. Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson and Jean Simmons are among the superb cast

4.50pm
A Matter of Life and Death (U)
1946 David Niven stars as a World War Two bomber pilot who survives a plane crash and falls in love with a radio operator he'd first spoken to during the fateful flight. He later learns that he was destined to die in the disaster — but remains determined to continue his life on Earth, and insists on a trial to resolve the issue. Powell and Pressburger's acclaimed fantasy drama is a visually stunning and utterly compelling love story. With Roger Livesey, Marius Goring and Kim Hunter

6.50pm
Doctor in Clover (PG)
1966 Amorous medic Dr Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) gets up to more romantic shenanigans while enduring a refresher course with his former professor. The penultimate film in the series of seven based on Richard Gordon's comic novels, this hospital-based farce co-stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims and Shirley Anne Field

8.50pm
Happy-Go-Lucky Preview
A look at Mike Leigh's new comedy-drama, introduced by the director and star Sally Hawkins

9.00pm
Vera Drake (12)
2004 Imelda Staunton won a well-deserved Bafta for her remarkable performance in this acclaimed drama by director Mike Leigh. She stars as a woman living in Fifties London who carries out discreet illegal abortions for girls in trouble. However, when her activities are discovered by the police, she's faced with prosecution and persecution. Phil Davis, Alex Kelly, Eddie Marsan and Daniel Mays co-star

11.25pm
Festival (18)
2005 Annie Griffin's dark take on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival follows an array of colourful characters as they descend on the city, leading to a series of comical and uncomfortable situations as judges use their influence for sexual gain, performers try to make their mark and locals observe the goings-on with stoical confusion. Comedy, starring Amelia Bullmore, Billy Carter, Raquel Cassidy and Megan Dodds

1.30am
My Name Is Joe (15)
1997 A recovering alcoholic becomes romantically involved with a health service worker as he struggles to resist the temptation of the bottle — but their burgeoning relationship begins to falter when his willpower fails and he falls off the wagon. Sombre affecting drama, directed by Ken Loach and starring Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay and Anne Marie Kennedy

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The Spy in Black (U)
1939 A German spy falls for an apparently sympathetic schoolteacher during a World War One mission. But he doesn't suspect the object of his affections is actually an English double agent, a revelation which jeopardises an operation to destroy the British fleet in the Orkneys in 1917. This out-of-the-ordinary romantic melodrama was Powell and Pressburger's first collaboration. Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Marius Goring are among the cast

2.35pm
Reach for the Sky (U)
1956 Kenneth More stars in this inspiring biopic as renowned World War Two hero Douglas Bader. A plane crash in 1931 cost the aspiring pilot both his legs, but he refused to give up his dreams of learning to fly and, after learning to walk on artificial limbs, rose to the rank of squadron leader in the RAF. However, more misfortune was in store when he was shot down over occupied France and taken prisoner. Muriel Pavlow and Alexander Knox also star

5.10pm
Brief Encounter (PG)
1945 David Lean's classic romantic melodrama, telling the story of a suburban housewife who finds herself falling in love with a married doctor she meets by chance at a railway station. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are superb, underplaying the star-crossed pair to perfection in a gorgeous, timeless tale that still retains the power to enchant. Stanley Holloway, Cyril Raymond and Valentine Dyall also star

7.00pm Riddle of the Sands (U)
1978 Thriller set before World War One, in which a yachtsman discovers a plan to invade England while sailing round the coast of Germany and calls on a friend to help thwart the dastardly plot. Reverent adaptation of Erskine Childers' novel, starring Simon MacCorkindale, Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Michael Sheard

9.00pm
Birth (15)
2004 Premiere. A widow finds her world turned upside down by an encounter with a mysterious 10-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of her dear departed husband. Intriguing mystery drama, starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright and Danny Huston

11.00pm
Sexy Beast (1
2000 A retired gangster, enjoying the high life in Spain, becomes the target of unwanted attention when a psychotic former partner in crime resolves to enlist his expertise for a major bank robbery. Stylish crime thriller, starring Ray Winstone as the harassed ex-safecracker who just wants to enjoy a peaceful retirement, alongside Ben Kingsley, who received an Oscar nomination for his scene-stealing performance as the deranged mobster who refuses to take no for an answer

12.40am
Welcome to Sarajevo (15)
1997 Gritty, atmospheric drama following the exploits of a foreign correspondent covering the unrest in Bosnia as he attempts to smuggle a refugee out of the country to safety in Britain. Director Michael Winterbottom uses film, video and archive news footage to illustrate the strife tearing the country apart. Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei star

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1.00pm
The Spy in Black (U)
1939 A German spy falls for an apparently sympathetic schoolteacher during a World War One mission. But he doesn't suspect the object of his affections is actually an English double agent, a revelation which jeopardises an operation to destroy the British fleet in the Orkneys in 1917. This out-of-the-ordinary romantic melodrama was Powell and Pressburger's first collaboration. Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Marius Goring are among the cast

2.35pm
Reach for the Sky (U)
1956 Kenneth More stars in this inspiring biopic as renowned World War Two hero Douglas Bader. A plane crash in 1931 cost the aspiring pilot both his legs, but he refused to give up his dreams of learning to fly and, after learning to walk on artificial limbs, rose to the rank of squadron leader in the RAF. However, more misfortune was in store when he was shot down over occupied France and taken prisoner. Muriel Pavlow and Alexander Knox also star

5.10pm
Brief Encounter (PG)
1945 David Lean's classic romantic melodrama, telling the story of a suburban housewife who finds herself falling in love with a married doctor she meets by chance at a railway station. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are superb, underplaying the star-crossed pair to perfection in a gorgeous, timeless tale that still retains the power to enchant. Stanley Holloway, Cyril Raymond and Valentine Dyall also star

7.00pm Riddle of the Sands (U)
1978 Thriller set before World War One, in which a yachtsman discovers a plan to invade England while sailing round the coast of Germany and calls on a friend to help thwart the dastardly plot. Reverent adaptation of Erskine Childers' novel, starring Simon MacCorkindale, Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Michael Sheard

9.00pm
Birth (15)
2004 Premiere. A widow finds her world turned upside down by an encounter with a mysterious 10-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of her dear departed husband. Intriguing mystery drama, starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright and Danny Huston

11.00pm
Sexy Beast (1
2000 A retired gangster, enjoying the high life in Spain, becomes the target of unwanted attention when a psychotic former partner in crime resolves to enlist his expertise for a major bank robbery. Stylish crime thriller, starring Ray Winstone as the harassed ex-safecracker who just wants to enjoy a peaceful retirement, alongside Ben Kingsley, who received an Oscar nomination for his scene-stealing performance as the deranged mobster who refuses to take no for an answer

12.40am
Welcome to Sarajevo (15)
1997 Gritty, atmospheric drama following the exploits of a foreign correspondent covering the unrest in Bosnia as he attempts to smuggle a refugee out of the country to safety in Britain. Director Michael Winterbottom uses film, video and archive news footage to illustrate the strife tearing the country apart. Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei star

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1.00pm
Waterloo Road (PG)
1944 John Mills stars as a soldier who discovers his wife has betrayed him by having an affair, prompting him to head home and save his marriage. Wartime melodrama, with Joy Shelton, Alastair Sim and Stewart Granger as the good-looking love rival

2.25pm
Chariots of Fire (U)
1981 Stirring Oscar-winning drama based on the true story of contrasting British runners — Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams — going for gold at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson are brilliant as the sportsmen, who are driven to run for very different reasons, while Nigel Havers, John Gielgud and Ian Holm are among the stiff upper-lipped co-stars. Vangelis's evocative soundtrack serves to raise viewers' spirits

5.10pm
An Ideal Husband (PG) 1999 A London diplomat is blackmailed into pushing a dubious scheme through Parliament by a crafty former love, threatening both his career and marriage. Turning to an old and trusted friend for advice, he soon realises he's only managed to drag him into the mire of lies, temptations and secret liaisons as well. Excellent Oscar Wilde comedy, bolstered by a perfect cast, which includes Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Jeremy Northam and Julianne Moore

6.55pm
Local Hero (PG) 1983 An American oil company representative is sent to buy a Scottish coastal village so it can be demolished to make way for a new refinery, but gradually takes a shine to the place. Bill Forsyth's offbeat comedy drama, starring Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, Jenny Seagrove and Fulton Mackay

9.00pm
League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (15) 2005 Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and the non-appearing Jeremy Dyson bring their twisted comedy series to the big screen for a feature-length spin-off. The town of Royston Vasey is facing destruction, as its creators plan to move on to other projects. However, their freakish inventions aren't about to take oblivion lying down. Surreal comedy, that's unmissable for fans of the show. With Michael Sheen, David Warner, Bernard Hill, Simon Pegg and Peter Kay (888)
10.40pm Six Shooter Oscar-winning live action short by Martin McDonagh, in which a widower encounters suicide, a shoot-out and an exploding cow during an eventful train journey with a psychopath. Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy star

11.20pm
The Business (18) 2005 A British gangster swaps the mean streets of London for the sun-drenched beaches of Malaga, but before he knows it he's being dragged back into a life of crime by a loud-mouthed ex-convict. Nick Love's gritty and witty comedy drama, set in the 1980s, starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Geoff Bell

1.05am
The Firm (18) 1988 Disturbing drama about an estate agent named Bex who leads a double life as the head of a band of organised football thugs. Bex hatches a plan to unite the various gangs in his area and lead them on a trip to Germany to confront their Dutch hooligan rivals at the 1988 European Championship. Gary Oldman stars, with Phil Davis and Lesley Manville

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The Madness of King George (PG)
1995 Acclaimed drama, based on Alan Bennett's successful stage play The Madness of George III. Nigel Hawthorne won a well-deserved Bafta for his superb performance as the 18th-century monarch whose unbalanced behaviour almost cost him his power and position. Helen Mirren stars as his loyal wife, Rupert Everett as the scheming prince of Wales and Amanda Donohoe as the subject of the king's desires

3.05pm
Cottage To Let (U) 1941 A British inventor devises a revolutionary new bombsight, which could have a serious effect on the outcome of World War Two. However, it's not long before news of his creation reaches the enemy — and a host of new arrivals bring suspicion in their wake. Enjoyable thriller, with a top-notch cast including Alastair Sim, John Mills, Leslie Banks and a young George Cole in his screen debut

4.45pm
The Riddle of the Sands (U)
1978 Period action adventure set before World War One, in which a yachtsman discovers a plan to invade England while sailing round the coast of Germany and calls on a friend to help thwart the dastardly plot. Adaptation of Erskine Childers' novel, starring Simon MacCorkindale, Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Michael Sheard

6.50pm
The Land Girls (12)
1997 Three very different Land Army agricultural volunteers are sent to work on a farm — where they all fall head over heels for the owner's son, leading to romance, heartbreak and tragedy. Wartime drama, with Catherine McCormack, Anna Friel and Rachel Weisz as the attractive trio of leading ladies. Tom Georgeson, Steven Mackintosh, Maureen O'Brien and Lucy Akhurst co-star

9.00pm
Elizabeth (15)
1998 Sumptuous historical drama following the strict upbringing of the self-styled Virgin Queen as she is prepared by her tutors to take on the responsibilities of royalty. It explores her thwarted romance with childhood sweetheart Robert Dudley, and chronicles events up until her famous decision to rule alone instead of marrying. Cate Blanchett shines as the monarch, while Christopher Eccleston, Kathy Burke, Geoffrey Rush and Joseph Fiennes co-star

11.25pm
Dead Man's Shoes
2004 A man returns to his Derbyshire home town with his younger brother in tow — but it soon becomes clear he has a dark purpose for revisiting his old stamping ground, and the local drug dealers have plenty of reason to be nervous. Stark and powerful psychological thriller from acclaimed director Shane Meadows, starring Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch and Stuart Wolfenden

1.10am
Dog Altogether Bafta-winning short directed by Paddy Considine, about a man plagued by a self-destructive rage who seeks refuge in a charity shop in the hope of finding redemption. Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Karl Johnson star

1.30am
Shane's World
TwentyFourSeven director Shane Meadows introduces three of his short films and offers advice for up-and-coming movie-makers

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Victim
(1961) Basil Dearden's classic film stars Dirk Bogarde as a gay barrister who is being blackmailed.A successful barrister falls victim to blackmailers who are threatening to expose his homosexuality in this vintage drama starring Dirk Bogarde
Victim When it was first released in 1961, Victim was banned in the United States. Watching the film in the 21st century, it's hard to imagine what our American cousins could find offensive about a movie directed by The League Of Gentlemen's Basil Dearden and starring Ealing veteran Dennis Price and that nice Dirk Bogarde from the Doctor movies. But the problem for the US censor focused not on the cast or crew. Even the subject matter wasn't strictly taboo. No, the bone of contention was a word which, to that point in time, had never been uttered on a movie screen. What was this abomination to the English language, this affront to the world's decent, clean-living people? The word was "homosexual".

15:05
Black Magic
(1949) Orson Welles stars as an opportunistic charlatan plotting to use his mysterious hypnotic abilities to overthrow Marie Antoinette.Orson Welles stars in this lavish historical drama as an opportunistic charlatan plotting to use his mysterious hypnotic abilities to overthrow Marie Antoinette (Nancy Guild) and become the ruler of France.

17:05
Cowboy
(1958) Entertaining, light-weight western. Jack Lemmon plays a wannabe cowboy who quickly discovers that life on the big trail is anything but fun.An Irish-born writer travels to the American West to become a cowboy. Light western drama starring Jack Lemmon and Glenn Ford
He was an interesting man, Frank Harris. Born in Galway to Welsh parents, James Thomas Harris would become the dictionary definition of a renaissance man, enjoying success as a war reporter, newspaper editor, publisher, novelist, playwright, essayist and biographer. Good friends with the great Irishmen of letters - Wilde, Shaw, Bram Stoker - he'd become famous for his globe-trotting and his sexually frank memoirs entitled 'My Life And Loves'. His notable exploits included his unlikely befriending of arch-diabolist Aleister Crowley and his spell spent working as a cow poke on the American plains.

19:00
The First Wives Club
(1996) When a husband decides that he would prefer someone younger to keep him entertained, his wife commits suicide.When a husband decides that he would prefer someone younger to keep him entertained, his wife commits suicide. Her three surviving friends realize that they are in the same boat and decide to seek revenge. Hawn, Midler and Keaton do a reasonable job of delivering the script's feeble gags, but they never seem at ease with each other. Ultimately First Wives Club fails as a piece of feminist film-making just as miserably as it does as Hollywood entertainment.

21:00
Fantastic Four
(2005) Four astronauts sent out to investigate a cosmic radiation storm find their bodies changed to superhuman effect.The first family of superheroes finally make it to the big screen in this action-adventure starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans and Julian McMahon
If ever a Marvel comic deserved the utmost attention when being adapted for the big screen, it's 'Fantastic Four'. The 'Fantastic Four' is at the heart of Marvel's universe, both historically and in fictional terms. Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the founding fathers of Marvel as we know it today, created the title in 1961. Its success revived the flagging company, and Lee, Kirby, and other collaborators such as Steve Ditko, went on to create such classic characters as the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Avengers and the X-Men.

23:00
Once Upon a Time in America
(1984) Brutal, elegaic and utterly compelling, Sergio Leone's sombre epic is one of the finest commentaries on the birth pangs of modern America.A truly magnificent piece of cinema. Brutal, elegaic and utterly compelling, Sergio Leone's sombre epic is one of the finest commentaries on the birth pangs of modern America
The third and final film in director Leone's notional trilogy of movies about the birth of modern America, which began with the iconic Once Upon A Time In The West and continued with A Fistful of Dynamite (which Leone later explained was originally to have been titled 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico').

01:00
Carmen Jones
(1954) The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a GI.Otto Preminger directs an all African-American cast in a 1950s update of Bizet's opera 'Carmen'. Stars Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte
The original Broadway musical of Carmen Jones was a hit in the mid 1940s: the novelty of an all African-American cast coupled with lyrics from Oscar Hammerstein (also responsible for Carousel and Oklahoma!) proved a big enough draw to convince Fox to fund this lavish widescreen version directed by Preminger. The title performance by Dorothy Dandridge made her the first black woman to gain an Oscar nomination. Sadly, the rest of the film stinks.
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Carmen Jones (U) 1954 A sultry female military worker attracts attention from her colleagues, but has her eye on an engaged pilot. Hollywood adaptation of Bizet's opera, with modernised lyrics. Leading stars Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte sizzle on screen, even if they mimed most of the songs, while the rest of the cast provide plenty of sing-along moments

3.10pm
Cloak and Dagger (PG) 1946 Superior spy adventure, starring Gary Cooper as a physics professor who undertakes a secret mission to acquire information on Germany's atomic research programme during World War Two. Directed by the excellent Fritz Lang, with Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda and Vladimir Sokoloff

5.20pm
Bus Stop (U) 1956 Comedy drama, starring Marilyn Monroe as a cafe singer who is romantically pursued by a rodeo cowboy determined to win her hand in marriage, if only by sheer persistence. Don Murray, Betty Field and Arthur O'Connell also star

7.15pm
Cheaper By the Dozen (PG) 2003 A large family move to a new town, hoping it'll be the fresh start they need — but nothing goes according to plan, and unlucky dad Steve Martin is soon left to look after the twelve rowdy kids. Remake of the 1950 family comedy. Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling and Hilary Duff co-star. A sequel followed two years later

9.00pm
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (15) 1987 Steve Martin plays Neal Page, a stressed businessman who just wants to make it home to spend Thanksgiving with his family. However, when his flight is forced to land miles from its destination, Neal finds himself sharing a disaster-strewn journey across America with a slobbish salesman (John Candy). John Hughes' comedy road movie also stars Laila Robins, Kevin Bacon and Spinal Tap's Michael McKean

10.40pm
Personal Services (1 1987 Julie Walters stars in this witty look at British attitudes toward sex. Loosely based on the life of celebrated madam and media celebrity Cynthia Payne, the film charts a woman's rise from struggling cafe waitress to supplier of kinky sexual services for the rich, famous and needy. With Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox and Tim Woodward

12.40am
Sunflower (PG) 2005 After the death of Chairman Mao, an artist imprisoned in a labour camp is released and returns home to his wife and the son he has never known. The former painter's hands have been seriously injured in his captivity, putting an end to his career, but when the boy demonstrates artistic talent, he becomes determined to force the reluctant youngster to follow in his footsteps. Drama, starring Haiying Sun and Joan Chen

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Chance of a Lifetime (U) 1950 A group of angry factory workers, tired of poor wages and working conditions, go on strike. The boss of the business decides to let his workers have a go at running the place, causing them to dramatically reassess their ideas. Amiable comedy drama, directed, written by and starring Bernard Miles, with Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Basil Radford and Geoffrey Keen

2.45pm
The Eve of St Mark (PG) 1944 A man's romance is brought to an abrupt halt when he's drafted to fight in World War Two. Assigned to the Philippines, he ends up stranded on a small and desolate island — but letters from his love back home give him the will to survive. Drama, starring William Eythe and Anne Baxter, alongside Michael O'Shea and Vincent Price

4.30pm
Monte Carlo or Bust (PG) 1969 Slapstick chase comedy about the misadventures of participants in the 1,500-mile Monte Carlo Rally. Tony Curtis heads the cast as a gambler who wins half of scheming businessman Terry-Thomas's company in a card game. The tycoon challenges him to enter the race with the winner getting the whole business, but doesn't plan on playing fair. With Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Susan Hampshire and Hattie Jacques

6.55pm
Bogus (PG) 1996 A woman takes in a seven-year-old orphan who finds comfort in an imaginary friend, a gentle but giant Frenchman. As the trio's unusual relationship develops, the makeshift mother discovers her young guest has just as much to teach her about life. Heart-warming comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment and Nancy Travis

9.00pm
The Talented Mr Ripley (15) 1999 Matt Damon gets a chance to flex his acting muscles in this excellent crime thriller directed by the late Anthony Minghella. He stars as a man with a talent for deception who agrees to travel to Italy and persuade a businessman's son to return home. Before long he develops a taste for the high life, and decides to get in on the action — first by befriending the rich and beautiful people, and then by more drastic measures. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett co-star

11.35pm
Brick (15) 2005 Tough high-school kid Joseph Gordon-Levitt is drawn into a world of corruption and crime when he investigates his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance. Encountering an array of strange and sinister characters, the teenager begins to identify possible leads, but as he seeks the truth his own life is put at risk. Mystery drama, with Emilie de Ravin, Lukas Haas and Nora Zehetner

1.40am
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (15) 2001 A German rock star falls for an American GI, who promises to take him back to the States — as long as he undergoes a sex change, transforming him into the woman he's always dreamed of being. Unfortunately, the operation goes wrong, leaving the rocker confused and abandoned in a strange land. Camp and surreal musical comedy, starring John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt and Miriam Shor

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1.00pm
Cloak and Dagger (PG) 1946 Superior spy adventure, starring Gary Cooper as a physics professor who undertakes a secret mission to acquire information on Germany's atomic research programme during World War Two. Directed by the excellent Fritz Lang, with Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda and Vladimir Sokoloff

3.05pm
The Frogmen (U) 1951 Underwater demolition experts make preparations for the invasion of a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific during World War Two, but must overcome personal differences if they're to be successful. Taut action thriller, starring Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews and Gary Merrill

5.00pm
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (U) 1958 Inspired comedy Western, starring Kenneth More as a stiff-upper-lipped Englishman who is mistaken for a gunslinger and asked to tame a wild frontier town. It's not all shooting and violence though, as he even finds time to win Jayne Mansfield's heart in the process. With Ronald Squire and Robert Morley

7.00pm
Fantastic Voyage (U) 1966 A respected scientist suffers severe brain damage during a shooting, forcing a medical team to be miniaturised to microscopic size and injected inside his body to effect a miracle cure — little realising one of the minuscule passengers has sabotage on his mind. Richard Fleischer's Oscar-winning sci-fi adventure is great fun, with Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd and Donald Pleasence heading the cast

9.00pm
Fantastic Four (PG) 2005 When a group of astronauts are exposed to cosmic rays they each develop special powers. However, one of them decides to use his new-found strength for his own nefarious ends, leaving the others to join forces and stop him. Julian McMahon stars as the villain, while Michael Chiklis gives a good performance as sensitive tough guy The Thing. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans also star
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Once Upon a Time in America (1 1984 Sergio Leone's final film is an acclaimed and shockingly violent epic. Robert De Niro stars in the lead role as New York gangster Noodles, who at the beginning of the film returns to his old haunts in the 1960s, prompting him to look back on he and his friends' rise through Manhattan's underworld during the Depression and the Prohibition era. James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Joe Pesci and Burt Young co-star

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The Common Touch (U)
1941 The teenage heir to a fortune poses as a down-and-out to learn how the poor live, hoping to use his inheritance to help them improve their lot in life. Realising the quest for profits is not as important as the fight against poverty, the youngster is shocked and shamed to discover the family firm's mean streak. Interesting social drama, starring Greta Gynt, Geoffrey Hibbert, Joyce Howard and Harry Welchman (888)

3.00pm
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (U)
1947 Lonely widow Gene Tierney moves into a seaside cottage, despite rumours that it is haunted. Sure enough, she finds herself sharing her home with the spirit of a deceased sea captain — but his efforts to scare her away prove unsuccessful and a growing attraction develops between the pair as she agrees to write his biography. Enchanting romantic fantasy, also starring Rex Harrison and George Sanders

5.00pm
The Jungle Book (U)
1942 Classic version of the famous Rudyard Kipling stories about jungle boy Mowgli, who is raised by wolves before returning to his native village as an adolescent to tackle three dastardly thieves out to plunder a lost city. Starring Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen and Frank Puglia. Directed by Zoltan Korda, the man behind Storm Over the Nile and The Thief of Baghdad — which also paired him with Indian box-office icon Sabu (888)

7.00pm
The First Wives Club (PG)
1996 Polished comedy, starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton as middle-aged women dumped by their husbands in favour of younger girls, prompting them to plot humiliating forms of revenge. Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Bronson Pinchot and Elizabeth Berkley also star

9.00pm
School of Rock (PG)
2003 A slobbish guitarist dreams of stardom, but his hopes are dashed when the other members of his band kick him out. Struggling to make ends meet, he takes a job as a substitute music teacher at an exclusive private school, and sets about moulding his pupils into rock gods. Jack Black stars in this comedy from director Richard Linklater, who draws fine performances from the young supporting cast. Also starring Joan Cusack and Mike White (888)

11.05pm
Dawn of the Dead (18)
2004 A mysterious plague leaves civilisation overrun by flesh-eating zombies, forcing desperate survivors to retreat to a shopping mall. It's refreshing to see George A Romero's classic receiving a stylish reinvention that stands comparison with the original. Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley and Jake Weber are among the excellent cast fighting off the athletic undead, while Zack Snyder's direction gives proceedings a cool, contemporary sheen (888)

1.05am
9th Company (15)
2005 Premiere. Fyodor Bondarchuk makes his directorial debut with this drama set in the 1980s, in which he also stars. The film explores the bonds that form between a group of newly recruited Soviet soldiers as they are sent off to fight in war-torn Afghanistan. With Aleksei Chadov, Mikhail Yevlanov and Ivan Kokorin

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13:00pm School of Rock (PG) 2003

A slobbish guitarist dreams of stardom, but his hopes are dashed when the other members of his band kick him out. Struggling to make ends meet, he takes a job as a substitute music teacher at an exclusive private school, and sets about moulding his pupils into rock gods.

15:05pm Fanny by Gaslight (PG) 1944

A deranged Victorian aristocrat manipulates the lives of those around him for personal gain, but sows the seeds of his own downfall by attempting to seduce a government minister's illegitimate but innocent daughter, who seems beset by ill fortune.

17:10pm Cowboy (U) 1958

Chicago hotel clerk Jack Lemmon befriends visiting cowboy Glenn Ford and soon talks his way into joining him on a cattle drive so he can impress the woman he loves. Naturally, the tenderfoot has no idea of what awaits him as he ventures out into the Wild West, an experience which forces him to undergo a dramatic change.

18:55pm One Fine Day (PG) 1996

George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer star as mismatched single professionals whose children miss a school trip. The pair take it in turns to babysit while struggling to stick to their hectic work schedules only for their feelings for one another to blossom unexpectedly over the course of the day.

21:00pm Wedding Crashers (15) 2005

Two party-mad bachelors make the most of the romantic atmosphere as they gatecrash weddings to pick up women. With a catalogue of tall stories to tell guests, the pair regularly become the boys of the ball. But when one of them falls for a blushing bridesmaid, they both learn a few things about love.

23:25pm From Dusk Till Dawn (18) 1996

A trigger-happy crook and his ruthless brother take a preacher and his children hostage in a bid to get across the border into Mexico, and seek refuge in a bar filled with a host of dodgy characters. However, they soon realise it's inhabited by vampires only too keen to let them stay for a bite.

01:30am Planes, Trains and Automobiles (15) 1987

Steve Martin plays Neal Page, a stressed businessman who just wants to make it home to spend Thanksgiving with his family. However, when his flight is forced to land miles from its destination, Neal finds himself sharing a disaster-strewn journey across America with a slobbish salesman (John Candy).

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Silver Streak
(1976) A book publisher becomes embroiled in a murder-mystery aboard an LA-Chicago express. Action comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.A book publisher becomes embroiled in a murder-mystery aboard an LA-Chicago express. Action comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Silver Streak Silver Streak is the name of the train that publisher Gene Wilder boards to get away from it all. However, on the long journey from LA to Chicago he stumbles across a murder, and soon finds himself at the mercy of the perpetrator.

15:10
Bus Stop
(1956) Marilyn Monroe turns in one of her best performances as a saloon singer who becomes the object of cowboy Don Murray's affections.Uneasy and spiky musical, with an eye-openingly adept performance from Marilyn Monroe
Bus Stop Monroe plays a Phoenix cabaret singer with eyes set on Hollywood who hops on a bus to avoid the crazed attentions of rookie rodeo cowboy Murray. But undeterred he sets out to make an honest woman of her. Which is weird, because if you reduced his costume to chaps and a posing pouch he couldn't come across any more gay than he does already.

16:55
The Tall Men
(1955) Rousing action Western starring Clark Gable and Cameron Mitchell.By the time he made this spectacular western Walsh had been making movies for well over 50 years and presented a superficially no-nonsense cattle-drive adventure. But the period is just after the Civil War and the Allinsons (Gable, Mitchell) are from the defeated South, now determined to make a new life. They join Stark (Ryan) a Northern businessman on a cattle drive. The further complication is a rivalry over a woman (Russell). The blend of superbly handled action - including a stampede - with some sharp dialogue (especially between Gable and Russell) is complimented by the underlying tension and a complicated resolution when neither side 'wins'.

19:15
Cheaper By The Dozen
(2003) Family comedy starring Steve Martin as the stressed-out father of 12 brats. Shawn Levy's warm-hearted family comedy also stars Piper Perabo.Family comedy starring Steve Martin as the stressed-out father of 12 brats
Cheaper By The Dozen Cheaper By The Dozen is loosely based on a best-selling memoir from the 1940s about growing up in a large family, so it's hardly surprising that it is so unashamedly old-fashioned.

21:00
The Italian Job
(2003) A group of crooks plan to steal a gold shipment from the middle of an LA traffic jam. Action movie remake of the much-loved British film.A group of crooks plan to steal a gold shipment from the middle of an LA traffic jam. Action movie remake of the much-loved British film, with Mark Wahlberg in the Mini's driving seat
Everyone expected this to be rubbish. After all, Hollywood's track record in remakes of Michael Caine classics isn't exactly glowing (anyone fancy watching the Sylvester Stallone Get Carter?). But, for once, 'everyone' was wrong - the The Italian Job remake may be different, but in its own way it's almost as much fun as the 1969 original.

23:05
Quills
(2000) Geoffrey Rush stars as the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for his scandalous writings and behaviour.Gothic melodrama with the mad, bad Marquis De Sade fighting for artistic freedom and writing in blood. Camp comedy, immorality, an all-star cast... it's Carry On Coprophilia
Quills You would expect a dramatisation of the life of the man who gave his name to sadism to be filled with blood, whips and ingenious uses of consumer durables. Kaufman, however, has used Sade's final days at Charenton Asylum as a chance to champion the indomitability of the artistic spirit. His quills removed, the author of some of the dirtiest books ever written does whatever it takes to continue to write, even if it means using his own blood.

01:25
Sunflower
(2005) Yang Zhang's decades-spanning film tells both the story of an artist and his relationship with his son and of China.A soap opera of a movie that inspires very little in the way of real emotion, as Loren marries 12 days before Second World War, loses her husband in the conflict, discovers him alive and well and remarried several years later and sets about getting him back. There's so much plot to wallow in here that it's a great pity so much of it is overwrought. The Russian settings (it was the first Italian film shot behind the Iron Curtain) may look beautiful, but they can't make up for the shallowness of the movie. Both Loren and director de Sica should have known better.
 

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The Ghost and Mrs Muir (U)
1947 Lonely widow Gene Tierney moves into a seaside cottage, despite rumours that it is haunted. Sure enough, she finds herself sharing her home with the spirit of a deceased sea captain — but his efforts to scare her away prove unsuccessful and a growing attraction develops between the pair as she agrees to write his biography. Enchanting romantic fantasy, also starring Rex Harrison and George Sanders (888)

3.05pm
The Eve of St Mark (PG)
1944 A man's romance is brought to an abrupt halt when he's drafted to fight in World War Two. Assigned to the Philippines, he ends up stranded on a small and desolate island — but letters from his love back home give him the will to survive. Drama, starring William Eythe and Anne Baxter, alongside Michael O'Shea and Vincent Price (888)

4.50pm
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (U)
1958 Inspired comedy Western, starring Kenneth More as a stiff-upper-lipped Englishman who is mistaken for a gunslinger and asked to tame a wild frontier town. It's not all shooting and violence though, as he even finds time to win Jayne Mansfield's heart in the process. With Ronald Squire and Robert Morley (888)

6.55pm
Bogus (PG)
1996 A woman takes in a seven-year-old orphan who finds comfort in an imaginary friend, a gentle but giant Frenchman. As the trio's unusual relationship develops, the makeshift mother discovers her young guest has just as much to teach her about life. Heart-warming comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment and Nancy Travis

9.00pm
Entrapment (12)
1999 Professional art thief Sean Connery and sultry insurance agent Catherine Zeta-Jones team up to plot the robbery of a lifetime — but will have their work cut out if they're to keep their nerve and walk away with a cool $1billion in cash. Stylish crime thriller, with plenty of red herrings, plus one or two nice action sequences. Ving Rhames, Will Patton and Maury Chaykin also appear (888)

11.05pm
Brothers of the Head (18)
2005 Seventies-set drama about a pair of conjoined twins who are spotted by a sleazy music promoter as teenagers and turned into rock stars. However, the duo begin to struggle with the pressures of fame. Identical twins Harry and Luke Treadaway star in the lead roles, alongside Jonathan Pryce and Sean Harris

12.50am
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (15)
2001 A German rock star falls for an American GI, who promises to take him back to the States — as long as he undergoes a sex change, transforming him into the woman he's always dreamed of being. Unfortunately, the operation goes wrong, leaving the rocker confused and abandoned in a strange land. Camp and surreal musical comedy, starring John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt and Miriam Shor (888)

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The Common Touch
(1941) Geoffrey Hibbert plays an 18-year-old with a social conscience who takes control of the family's business and clashes with a corrupt manager.Teen tycoon Geoffrey Hibbert comes to the aid of the homeless in this surprisingly entertaining WWII social drama from Love On The Dole director John Baxter
Concerns about the gap between Britain's haves and have-nots are nothing new. John Baxter's noble social drama, The Common Touch, proves that. Made in 1941 (the same vintage as Love On The Dole - the director's finest work), it highlights the plight of the nation's homeless, castigates the corruption and greed endemic in big business and dreams of a socialist utopia.

15:00
The Kidnappers
(1953) When their grandfather refuses to buy them a pet dog, two orphaned brothers decide to 'adopt' an abandoned baby that they find in the woods.An exceptional children's movie from the 1950s about two orphaned brothers who, starved of affection, adopt an abandoned baby as their pet
Two children find a baby girl abandoned in the woods and keep her as a pet. It's hard to imagine a more provocative premise for a film in this day and age. But The Kidnappers was made back in 1953 when a finger of fudge was full of Cadbury goodness, and juvenile delinquents were kids who played a bit too hard at conkers. Set in 1904, Philip Leacock's lauded family drama is precisely about youthful innocence in a bygone age.

16:55
The Jungle Book
(1942) Classic version of Kipling's Mowgli stories starring Sabu as the young Indian boy brought up by wolves in the jungle.A feral child raised by wolves returns to his human family and sparks off a battle between nature and mankind. Action adventure starring Sabu, Joseph Calleia and John Qualen, and directed by Zoltan Korda
The Jungle Book Although most viewers will be aware of Walt Disney's animated version of Rudyard Kipling's classic or the politically correct live action remake released in 1994, there's a chance you might have missed the superior live action Jungle Book which was released in 1942.

18:55
One Fine Day
(1996) Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney are the two single parents juggling life and love in this likeable, thoroughly modern romantic comedy.Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney elevate this formulaic, but likeable romantic comedy on the pressures of modern day 30-something existence
A cute, old-fashioned romantic comedy with modern accessories.

21:00
Transporter 2
(2005) Frank Martin is back as the Transporter, who'll take anything anywhere, no questions asked, for the right money.Jason Statham reprises his role as the inscrutable driver in this action movie written and produced by Luc Besson
The opening shot of Transporter 2 consists of a shiny Audi sitting in an underground car park, with neon reflecting off of its curves. It's a scene that recalls a time when Luc Besson was at the forefront of a loosely recognised movement (sometimes dubbed "le cinéma du look") of young French filmmakers, along with Jean-Jacques Beineix, making films such as Subway which combined Hollywood and advertising imagery with their superficial glamour, thrills and escapism.

22:35
9th Company
(2005) Russian war film based on the true story of a company of soldiers isolated in the mountains during the disastrous 1979-1989 Afghan war.Russian war film based on the true story of a company of soldiers isolated in the mountains during the disastrous 1979-1989 Afghan war
The Soviet campaign in Afghanistan ended in 1989 with ignominious defeat and withdrawal having cost (according to conservative Soviet estimates) 15,000 soldiers' lives with another 500,000 sick and injured. Meanwhile, two million Afghan combatants and civilians are said to have died. It was, as US sponsors of the Afghan resistance forces had hoped, "the Soviet Vietnam".

01:15
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(1982) Amy Heckerling's riotous comedy about a group of Californian teenagers into malls, sex and rock 'n' roll (but definitely not school).Quaint early excursion into the high school genre written by Cameron Crowe and directed by Amy Hecklering. Stars young Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Based on an investigative book by then journalist Cameron Crowe, this film features the usual assortment of high school kids thinking about little other than how, with whom, when and where to get laid.
 

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Smoky
(1946) Fred McMurray plays a drifting cowhand given a job by rancher Anne Baxter to capture her escaped wild colt, Smoky, in Louis King's western adventure.

14:40
Leave Her to Heaven
(1945) Riveting film noir melodrama starring Gene Tierney as an irredeemably evil, possessive woman who resorts to murder.A young couple are slowly torn apart by jealousy. Noir thriller starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde
With a name like Leave Her To Heaven, John Stahl's movie could only be a film noir. Adapted from the book by top thriller writer Ben Ames Williams, the picture is in fact a fine example of the form with top performances from genre stalwarts Gene Tierney (Night And The City) and Cornel Wilde (The Big Combo).

16:50
Kipps
(1941) A draper's assistant inherits money in 1906 and attempts to become a member of society in a small seaside town.Adaptation of HG Wells' novel about a poor orphan who makes good after receiving a legacy from his dead parents. Michael Redgrave is Kipps, the draper who discovers that money isn't an immediate passport to the upper classes
At the turn of the 20th Century, HG Wells turned from writing futuristic sci-fi to more down to earth accounts of British society. In Kipps, he draws on his own experiences of Britain's class-ridden social structure to provide an entertaining autobiographical tale. Director Carol Reed, who also made such classics as The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, sticks faithfully to the core of Wells' novel and produces a diverting comedy of Victorian manners.

18:55
Silver Streak
(1976) A book publisher becomes embroiled in a murder-mystery aboard an LA-Chicago express. Action comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.A book publisher becomes embroiled in a murder-mystery aboard an LA-Chicago express. Action comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Silver Streak Silver Streak is the name of the train that publisher Gene Wilder boards to get away from it all. However, on the long journey from LA to Chicago he stumbles across a murder, and soon finds himself at the mercy of the perpetrator.

21:00
The Italian Job
(2003) A group of crooks plan to steal a gold shipment from the middle of an LA traffic jam. Action movie remake of the much-loved British film.A group of crooks plan to steal a gold shipment from the middle of an LA traffic jam. Action movie remake of the much-loved British film, with Mark Wahlberg in the Mini's driving seat
Everyone expected this to be rubbish. After all, Hollywood's track record in remakes of Michael Caine classics isn't exactly glowing (anyone fancy watching the Sylvester Stallone Get Carter?). But, for once, 'everyone' was wrong - the The Italian Job remake may be different, but in its own way it's almost as much fun as the 1969 original.

23:05
Freddy Vs Jason
(2003) Ronny Yu's gore-soaked effort pits two of horror cinema's most famous icons, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, against each other.Bringing together two of horror cinema's most famous icons, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, Ronny Yu's gore-soaked effort pits them against one another in a nightmarish battle to the death
Alongside Batman versus Superman and Alien versus Predator, the chance to see Freddy Krueger battle it out with fellow slasher icon Jason Voorhees has long been a movie buff's wet dream, destined to remain one of those great unmade franchise hybrids. But, two years after the hockey-masked slasher last went on the rampage in Jason X and nine after Freddy last got fingered in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy Vs. Jason became a reality.

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Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le)
(2000) Wen Jiang's anti-war farce is set in a Chinese peasant village in 1944.During the Japanese occupation of China, a peasant is left to contend with two captives in this surreal tragi-comedy from Wen Jiang
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Devils On Your Doorstep is a brave but over-wrought film from Wen Jiang about the Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
 

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13:00 Blast From The Past (1999)

When the Cuban missile crisis arrives, Calvin Webber hurries pregnant wife Helen into their huge, luxurious **** shelter. A plane crash near their property convinces them they've dropped the Big One and for 35 years, the couple and their son Adam stay put, with Adam learning ballroom dancing, four languages and culture from Jackie Gleason tapes. Then one day he's sent out to find a girl and meets Eve Rustikoff, who's more than confused by his manner...

15:05 The Spy in Black (1939)

Michael Powell's classic espionage thriller stars Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, a First World War German submarine commander-turned-spy sent to the Orkneys, where he is foiled by a double agent Jill Blacklock.

16:50 The Tall Men (1955)

Rousing action Western starring Clark Gable as a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana.

19:10 The Muse (1999)

Director Albert Brooks also stars as Steven Philips, a successful Hollywood scriptwriter who hits writer's block. Hearing of Sara Liddle, a genuine muse descended from Zeus, who can re-kindle his skills, he sets off to consult her but her demands cause friction with his wife Laura in this romantic fantasy comedy.

21:00 Entrapment (1999)

Sean Connery plays Robert 'Mac' MacDougal, one of the finest art thieves in the world, while Catherine Zeta-Jones is Virginia 'Gin' Baker, an insurance company agent who plans to trap him by offering the opportunity to crown his career: the theft of a $40 million Chinese mask. To do so, she has to set herself up as a thief eager to learn from the master, which she does, passing a series of tests. But as Jon Amiel's all-action thriller reaches its climax high above Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers, both of them realise there are still lessons to be learnt.

23:05 Quills (2000)

Oscar-nominated Geoffrey Rush stars as the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for his scandalous writings and behaviour. Tormented by the asylum's doctor Royer-Collard and the priest The Abbe du Coulmier, he still manages to smuggle out pages of manuscript thanks to laundress Maddy LeClerc in Philip Kaufman's stunning drama.

01:25 Withnail and I (1987)

Bruce Robinson's witty and perceptive first film as writer/director follows the hilarious drink and drug-fuelled misadventures of struggling actors Withnail and Peter Marwood in London and the Lake District during the last months of 1969. Signed for the deaf and hard of hearing.
 

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Highly Dangerous
(1950) Comedy spy thriller starring Margaret Lockwood as a straight-laced scientist sent to discover a foreign state's warfare plans.Vintage British comedy thriller starring Margaret Lockwood as an entomologist sent behind the Iron Curtain. Roy Ward Baker directs from a script by Eric Ambler
This is an odd little film from some veteran British talents. Roy Ward Baker (Quatermass And The Pit) had started out at Gainsborough Studios, becoming assistant director to Hitchcock on 1938's The Lady Vanishes but only graduating to the top job after returning from the war. This break came through novelist Eric Ambler, who he'd worked under in army photographic units and who fixed Baker up to direct the adaptation of his own novel The October Man (1947). The pair would reunite for both Highly Dangerous and for 1958's Titanic story A Night To Remember, which won a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe.

14:50
A Letter to Three Wives
(1949) A witty and mordant comedy-drama which won Oscars for both direction and screenplay for Joseph L Mankiewicz.Three wives in up-market suburbia along the Hudson River are about to leave their comfortable homes for a day out. A commentary (by the wonderful Holm) in the form of a letter to each states that the sender has run off with the husband of one of them. Cue anguish, an examination of their marriages and the dreadful realization that it could be any of them. Mankiewicz received an Oscar and went on to fame and fortune. Over written as always in his case, but the superb cast relish the lines and it becomes a true ensemble piece of smart entertainment.

16:50
Cowboy
(1958) Entertaining, light-weight western. Jack Lemmon plays a wannabe cowboy who quickly discovers that life on the big trail is anything but fun.An Irish-born writer travels to the American West to become a cowboy. Light western drama starring Jack Lemmon and Glenn Ford
He was an interesting man, Frank Harris. Born in Galway to Welsh parents, James Thomas Harris would become the dictionary definition of a renaissance man, enjoying success as a war reporter, newspaper editor, publisher, novelist, playwright, essayist and biographer. Good friends with the great Irishmen of letters - Wilde, Shaw, Bram Stoker - he'd become famous for his globe-trotting and his sexually frank memoirs entitled 'My Life And Loves'. His notable exploits included his unlikely befriending of arch-diabolist Aleister Crowley and his spell spent working as a cow poke on the American plains.

18:45
Simone
(2002) Washed-up Hollywood director Al Pacino fools the world with a computer-generated starlet.Fitfully entertaining but over-extended satire of the cult of celebrity, in which washed-up Hollywood director Al Pacino fools the world with a computer-generated starlet
Simone 'Synthespianism' sounds like some exotic kink, but the notion of screen performances generated entirely by computer has been kicking round for a while now, taking on increasing relevance in the age of Lara Croft and the Final Fantasy movie. Andrew Niccol, who scripted The Truman Show and wrote and directed Gattaca, clearly saw an opportunity to deliver another parable rich in ideas about media manipulation and social control, and came up with an intriguing premise that riffs on the idea of the synthespian (ie the synthetic, or computer-generated, thespian).

21:00
Collateral
(2004) A hitman arrives in Los Angeles to do five hits in a night, with the unwitting help of a cab driver.A hitman arrives in Los Angeles to do five hits in a night, with the unwitting help of a cab driver. Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx star in this Michael Mann noir
Collateral Director Michael Mann's career has taken him into the life of Muhammed Ali for Ali and all the way back to the mid-eighteenth century Native America for Last Of The Mohicans, yet he is always drawn back to noir, with two men duelling as if they were two aspects of one soul. To the cop/villain dialectic of De Niro and Pacino in Heat and the cop/serial killer doppelgangers of Will Graham and Hannibal Lektor in Manhunter, we can now add Tom Cruise's hitman Vincent and Jamie Foxx's cab driver Max Durocher in Collateral, the strong versus the weak.

23:15
Lantana
(2001) Ray Lawrence's fascinating film appears, on the surface, to be a murder mystery... An adult drama in the best possible sense of the wordAn adult drama in the best possible sense of the word, Ray Lawrence's exceptional picture uses a detective's missing persons investigation to examine contemporary relationships
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Lantana is: "a genus of tropical shrub with small, colourful blooms that hides a dense, thorny undergrowth." As symbolism goes, it's easy to think of subtler examples. When it comes to modern-day dramas, however, few come to mind that are quite as poignant and powerful as Ray Lawrence's picture.

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Hotel Splendide
(1998) In a romantic and perversely comic fantasy, writer/director Terence Gross creates a surreal world of sex, seafood and bad plumbing.In a romantic and perversely comic fantasy, Gross creates a surreal world of sex, seafood and bad plumbing
Set on a remote island off the coast, Hotel Splendide follows the Blanche family's attempts to maintain a crumbling, dilapidated hotel and health spa following the death of the family matriarch.
 

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Astra 2D at 28.2E 10729 V SYM:22000 FEC 5/6

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13:00 The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

One of the earliest rock-and-roll movies, Frank Tashlin's film still holds its own against later, possibly slicker films. Gangster Marty Murdock figures the way to get ahead in society is to turn girlfriend Jerri Jordan into a star. He hires down-and-out agent Tom Miller to make her a sensation but there are two problems: Jordan can't sing and, in fact, just wants to be married to Murdock and become a domestic goddess. As Miller does his best to please both her and his boss, his proximity to Jordan begins to stir mutual emotions...

14:55 Three Came Home (1950)

Powerful and fact-based drama directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Claudette Colbert as Agnes Keith, a woman who, with her husband and young son, are captured by the invading Japanese in Borneo in 1941 and then segregated in a prison camp.

16:55 Destination Gobi (1953)

US Navy weather surveyors stationed in the Gobi desert are attacked by Japanese troops. They try to enlist Mongolian tribesmen to their cause, but when the nomads disappear, the Americans are forced to rely on their wits.

18:50 The Pink Panther (1964)

Peter Sellers stars as the bumbling French detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau, out to prevent suave thief David Niven from stealing the 'Pink Panther' diamond, and sparking off a string of no less than eight Panther sequels.

21:00 Road to Perdition (2002)

Sam Mendes' Oscar-garlanded 30s-set film noir thriller stars Tom Hanks as killer Michael Sullivan, who is in the employ of crime boss John Rooney. But Newman's son is jealous of the closeness the two share and kills Sullivan's family, apart from his oldest child. The pair go on the road seeking revenge and then a new life. But Rooney knows the only way to save his son is to eliminate Sullivan, and sets another hit man on their trail.

23:10 Wicker Park (2004)

Paul McGuigan's remake of L'Appartement stars Josh Hartnett as Matthew, desperately searching Chicago for his lost love Lisa in a series of disparate scenes that initially seen out of sequence, slowly come together to an emotional climax, with Rose Byrne as Alex, an enigmatic stranger whose influence on his quest could be dangerous.

01:20 Deterrence (1999)

Set in the near future, this political thriller centres around nuclear brinksmanship between Iraq and America as key US cities face the threat of attack by missiles. US President Walter Emerson must tackle the situation but becomes stranded in a roadside diner after a freak snowstorm and is forced to run operations from there
 
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