The best films on TV today: Saturday, 11 July
Choose from family fun, unsung geniuses and indie horrors as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on UK TV for Saturday, 11 July.
Some films may require a Sky subscription.
Women of all walks and ages find familial sisterhood around southern salon in tear-jerking, wry-witted, barbed comedy Steel Magnolias 11:25am 5 Star
After helping women hide from spies a man is left to save the day. Alfred Hitchcock's top man-on-the-run thriller The 39 Steps (1935) 1:15pm BBC Two
Tricky city trader slips in swimming pool, fancies feisty Fanny and becomes smitten with country life in charming romance A Good Year 2:30pm Sony Movies
Family of blue birds transition to wild Amazonian environs amid chaos of unsavoury logging, poisonous love and an evil Nigel Rio 2 2:55pm Film4
Sick of sardines, inventor accidentally initiates culinary catastrophe in intelligently hilarious fun Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 4:00pm SyFy
Les Incompetent abandoned boy becomes self-sufficient learns empathy then sadistically burns/brakes/bludgeons burglars in classic Christmas film Home Alone 4:55pm Film4
Oddball-eyeball and hirsute laurel-rester must work together to become child-traumatising scream harvesters Monsters University 5:15pm BBC One
Forced to fake feeling, raven-haired radical sparks revolt in baboon battling, couture conflagrating adventure The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 6:10pm E4
Contented man realises his life's a sham in Peter Weir's prophetic Philip K Dick-esque indictment of vicarious reality TV The Truman Show 6:55pm Sony Movies
Eccentric clown tricks newly-deads around freakishly bizarre afterlife: soup sing-songing cemetery excavating comedy Beetlejuice 8:00pm Comedy Central
Emotional cripple and compulsive fight-o-holic lead team of sexy experts against tattooed genocider in top lens-flaring fun Star Trek 9:00pm Film4
Unsung, troubled genius works through his daddy issues under the tutelage of Robin Williams’ sage advice in powerful drama Good Will Hunting 9:00pm 5 Star
Fractious family accidentally win holiday, drink coke in the can, fail roundabouts and repeatedly assault cyclist National Lampoon's European Vacation 10:10pm ITV4
Southern brothers’ childhood twister trauma heals as they foil cash pilfering criminals amid wet & wild weather hell: hubcap-murdering fun The Hurricane Heist 10:50pm Sky 1
Log-schlepping roid-ogre pummels and perforates baddies before showing sexually ambiguous nemesis how to let off steam Commando 10:50pm Channel 4
Tables turn on outlaw gang when they unwittingly kidnap psychopath in jaw-cuffing, man mulching, crossbow killing fun No One Lives 11:00pm Horror Channel
Admitted to psych-ward, disillusioned misfit free-loving 1960s teen befriends rebellious charismatic misanthrope Girl, Interrupted 11:20pm Sony Movies
When his niece is kidnapped Morgan Freeman uses his dulcet tones to seek serial lady abductor in Alex Cross film fun Kiss the Girls 11:25pm Film 4
Reticent prodigal synaesthesiac learns incalculability of love on maths Olympiad in astonishing affecting character study X+Y 00:05am BBC One
Amid island isolation and global pandemic, fraying miscarried marriage endures test of trust under yoke of menacing captor Retreat 2:45am Horror Channel