Today 14:10 - 16:20
(2019) Biographical drama starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins, charting the early life and inspirations of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien. [S]
14: Film4
Fri Sep 25
Today 16:20 - 18:00
(1954) Tough western. A cavalry doctor (Robert Francis) discovers a Native American tribe is dying of malaria, but his by-the-book captain (Phil Carey) refuses to allow their treatment. [S]
Today 18:00 - 21:00
(2019) Oscar-winning sports drama starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale. In the 60s, Ford set out to build a car that can defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. [AD,S]
Today 21:00 - 00:30
(1995) Mel Gibson stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace - Scottish freedom fighter, rousing orator and keen face painter - who led his army into England, threatening the throne. [AD,S]
Sat Sep 26
Tomorrow 00:30 - 03:10
(2022) Epic Viking saga starring Alexander Skarsgård as a warrior prince who goes on the rampage to Iceland to avenge his murdered father. With Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Björk. [AD,S]
Tomorrow 03:10 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Tomorrow 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Tomorrow 11:00 - 13:20
(1968) Epic Second World War drama starring Robert Mitchum. A reporter gets trapped behind enemy lines during the costly 1944 Allied invasion of Italy. With Peter Falk and Robert Ryan. [AD,S]
Tomorrow 13:20 - 13:30
Director Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance talk about making their Cold War espionage drama.
Tomorrow 13:30 - 16:05
(1964) Adventure with Richard Widmark as a Viking who leads his men on the quest for a huge bell made of solid gold, but with Sidney Poitier, leader of an army of Moors, on the trail too. [AD,S]
Tomorrow 16:05 - 16:15
Director Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance talk about making their Cold War espionage drama.
Tomorrow 16:15 - 18:35
(2019) Fantasy adventure. A 12-year-old from modern-day suburbia finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must save the country from a sinister sorceress. With Patrick Stewart.
Tomorrow 18:35 - 18:45
Director Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance talk about making their Cold War espionage drama.
Tomorrow 18:45 - 21:00
(2010) Historical adventure with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell. A Roman commander and his British slave embark on a dangerous mission to recover a military mascot lost in Scotland. [AD,S]
Tomorrow 21:00 - 23:25
(2022) Darkly-tinged but ultimately feel-good comedy starring Tom Hanks as a grumpy misanthrope who spends his time badgering people into following society's rules. But why is he like this? [AD,S]
Tomorrow 23:25 - 01:30
(2022) Horror with Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Only one diner at an exclusive eatery sees through the foam quenelles to the pile of steaming prairie oysters beyond. Mayhem ensues. [AD,S]
Sun Sep 27
Sunday 01:30 - 03:25
(2012) An astonishing BAFTA Award-winning documentary about the disappearance of a 13-year-old boy, who vanished in the US and seemingly reappeared three years later in Spain. Or did he? [AD,S]
Sunday 03:25 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Sunday 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Sunday 11:00 - 13:05
(1954) Classic 'cowboys and Indians' Western. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell star as three rascals hired by Susan Hayward to rescue her husband from Apache territory.
Sunday 13:05 - 14:45
(1957) Classic sci-fi horror about the perils of radiation. A normal-sized fella gets a lot, lot smaller when he breathes in a mysterious mist. Definitely not one for arachnophobes!
Sunday 14:45 - 16:30
(2022) Heartwarming comedy written by and starring David Earl and Chris Hayward. A lonely inventor creates himself an AI robot friend. But what happens when his companion wants to move on?
Sunday 16:30 - 18:30
(2005) Fantasy adventure from the world of Jumanji. A mysterious board game plunges two brothers deep into space, where dangerous aliens lurk.
Sunday 18:30 - 21:00
(2016) Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe star in the Oscar-nominated, fact-based drama about three women whose genius made a significant contribution to the space race.
Sunday 21:00 - 23:05
(2023) Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman hired for a summer to make a shy young lad a man before he heads off to college. Will there be any feelings in the end, hard or otherwise?
Sunday 23:05 - 01:05
(2020) Dark Adam Brody comedy. Abe was a childhood detecting prodigy but is now a failing PI. But when a local boy is killed Abe gets the case. Things are looking up (for Abe, not the boy).
Mon Sep 28
Monday 01:05 - 03:10
(2019) In the 1980s, Nicholas serves his national service in the South African army. But he keeps his head down as he has a punishable secret: he's gay. In Afrikaans/English/subs.
Monday 03:10 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Monday 07:00 - 08:00
Teleshopping.
Monday 08:00 - 08:30
For the first time ever, primary schools compete for £1000. Will it be St Roch, Frank Barnes, or Heathlands that claims the prize for their school? And can they outshine the adults!? [SL]
Monday 08:30 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Monday 11:00 - 12:50
(1957) Comedy. Kenneth More stars as the perfect butler, who assumes command when he, his aristocratic employer (Cecil Parker) and his family and friends are shipwrecked on a desert island.
Monday 12:50 - 15:10
(1949) Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland is joined by Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson in William Wyler's dark psychological romance, adapted from Henry James's novel Washington Square.
Monday 15:10 - 17:10
(1958) Brooding western starring Joan Collins and Gregory Peck. A man hunts down the four escaped prisoners who he believes are responsible for the murder of his wife.
Monday 17:10 - 18:45
(1951) Stephen McNally stars as a gunslinger who gets slung out of town for gambling too well, but the town might just need him soon in Hugo Fregonese's visually arresting western.
Monday 18:45 - 21:00
(2020) Uplifting fact-based comedy drama with Toni Collette and Damian Lewis. Welsh villagers club together to save up, buy a racehorse, and bring joy back to their town.
Monday 21:00 - 22:50
(2021) Action thriller with Bob Odenkirk. He's just a dad who goes to work and takes out the trash. But really he's an ex-assassin about to unleash his true self... and take out the trash.
Monday 22:50 - 00:35
(2004) Shane Meadows' thriller starring Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch and Toby Kebbell. An ex-soldier is bent on revenge against the drug dealers who cruelly tormented his younger brother.
Tue Sep 29
Tuesday 00:35 - 03:35
(1986) Drama. Erland Josephson stars in director Andrei Tarkovsky's final movie. A birthday party is interrupted by a radio message announcing the outbreak of nuclear war. In Swedish/subs.
Tuesday 03:35 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Tuesday 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Tuesday 11:00 - 13:00
(1948) Western. When a sadistic Union colonel (Glenn Ford) becomes a federal judge after the Civil War, his friend (William Holden) takes the deputy job to try and temper his actions.
Tuesday 13:00 - 15:10
(1967) Paul Newman stars in this powerful western as a white man, brought up by Apaches, who reluctantly defends a stagecoach against a band of outlaws. With Richard Boone.
Tuesday 15:10 - 16:50
(1950) Western with Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone. A cunning US Marshal pretends to be a doofus to get a bank robber to take him to the hidden loot.
Tuesday 16:50 - 19:10
(1968) Epic Second World War drama starring Robert Mitchum. A reporter gets trapped behind enemy lines during the costly 1944 Allied invasion of Italy. With Peter Falk and Robert Ryan.
Tuesday 19:10 - 21:00
(2004) All-action thriller. Queen Latifah stars as the driver of the fastest taxi in New York, who teams up with an inept cop (Jimmy Fallon) to catch a team of female bank-robbers.
Tuesday 21:00 - 23:10
(2023) Action thriller starring Gerard Butler as an airline pilot who becomes a one-man army after crash landing on an island overrun by bad guys. To survive, he's gonna have to wing it.
Tuesday 23:10 - 01:15
(2024) Tracie Laymon's bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Barbie Ferreira as a young woman who meets a man with the same name as her useless father and spots the opportunity for a reset...
Wed Sep 30
Wednesday 01:15 - 03:50
(1986) Award-winning epic with Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. A Jesuit priest and a reformed slave trader forge an alliance to protect Indigenous South Americans from colonial Portugal.
Wednesday 03:50 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Wednesday 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Wednesday 11:00 - 13:20
(1948) Billy Wilder's film stars Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich as the chalk-and-cheese women in post-war Berlin with John Lund as the man caught between them. [S]
Wednesday 13:20 - 15:30
(1955) Fact-based wartime drama. Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier in WWII, plays himself in this dramatic recreation of the valiant heroics that earned him the honours. [AD,S]
Wednesday 15:30 - 18:10
(1971) Sci-fi thriller. When a space rocket crash-lands in the US, a fatal alien virus is released, sparking a desperate battle to defeat the extraterrestrial life form and save mankind. [S]
Wednesday 18:10 - 18:15
Director Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance talk about making their Cold War espionage drama.
Wednesday 18:15 - 21:00
(2015) Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance star in Steven Spielberg's Cold War spy drama. After gaining notoriety for defending a Soviet spy, a US lawyer then tries to free a CIA pilot. [AD,S]
Wednesday 21:00 - 23:25
(1989) Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman star in Edward Zwick's epic, Oscar-winning tribute to the first Black regiment raised in the North during the Civil War. [S]
Wednesday 23:25 - 01:30
(2011) Steve McQueen's adults-only drama about a good-looking, well-dressed and successful Manhattan tech exec who's addicted to sex. Starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. [AD,S]
Thu Oct 01
Thursday 01:30 - 03:50
(1999) Fact-based drama about the lives of the troubled genius, cellist Jacqueline du Pré (Emily Watson) and her sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths). With David Morrissey. Strong language. [S]
Thursday 03:50 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Thursday 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Thursday 11:00 - 13:05
(1943) There was an old boat - a post office that floats - that got dragged into the war. When it was torpedoed, in the seawater flowed. Can it deliver the mail any more? #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 13:05 - 14:45
(1954) A surgeon on the wild frontier, must save the Kiowa nation, by curing their malaria on a high-plains reservation. #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 14:45 - 16:50
(1954) In a derelict gold mining town, poor John Fuller is trapped underground. The Apache are near, so the danger is clear. For three drifters, the only way's down. #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 16:50 - 19:00
(1956) Ingrid Bergman's ingénue is chosen by Yul Brynner, to hoax the Russian royal court - but has he picked a winner? #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 19:00 - 21:00
(2005) Two brothers play a game and get plunged deep into space. Can they get back home, past a hostile alien race? #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 21:00 - 23:40
(2023) It's not cool to be stuck at school for Christmas. But can teacher and pupil get on after all, despite pedagogical fuss? With Paul Giamatti as one of the literati. #NationalPoetryDay
Thursday 23:40 - 01:30
(2022) Joe's a bad survivalist - he really hasn't got the gist. He wants deer for his cooking pot, but it's Lone Wolf that ends up shot. #NationalPoetryDay
Fri Oct 02
Friday 01:30 - 03:30
(2019) Gritty revisionist western with Emile Hirsch as an undertaker who's somewhat conflicted when an outlaw played by John Cusack starts dropping bodies in a previously God-fearing town.
Friday 03:30 - 07:00
Teleshopping.
Friday 07:00 - 11:00
Teleshopping.
Friday 11:00 - 12:40
(1950) Western with Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone. A cunning US Marshal pretends to be a doofus to get a bank robber to take him to the hidden loot.
Friday 12:40 - 14:30
(1950) Western starring James Stewart. A gold prospector, tired of reprisal killings between whites and Native Americans, offers a truce to the Apaches' leader. But tensions resurface.
Friday 14:30 - 17:00
(1942) Period melodrama. John Wayne, Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard star in this tale of fierce rivalries engendered by love and seemingly deliberate shipwrecking in 19th-century Florida.
Friday 17:00 - 18:40
(1957) Classic sci-fi horror about the perils of radiation. A normal-sized fella gets a lot, lot smaller when he breathes in a mysterious mist. Definitely not one for arachnophobes!
Friday 18:40 - 21:00
(2019) Fantasy adventure. A 12-year-old from modern-day suburbia finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must save the country from a sinister sorceress. With Patrick Stewart.
Friday 21:00 - 22:50
(2021) Action thriller with Bob Odenkirk. He's just a dad who goes to work and takes out the trash. But really he's an ex-assassin about to unleash his true self... and take out the trash.
Friday 22:50 - 00:55
(2022) Horror with Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Only one diner at an exclusive eatery sees through the foam quenelles to the pile of steaming prairie oysters beyond. Mayhem ensues.
Sat Oct 03
Saturday 00:55 - 03:35
(2019) Sharp, eccentric murder-mystery starring Daniel Craig as a detective anonymously hired to investigate the death of a wealthy writer (Christopher Plummer). With Ana de Armas.