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The best films on TV today: Wednesday, 27 May

Pitch Black, American Made, The Rise.
Pitch Black, American Made, The Rise.

Choose from teenage time travellers, outrageous true stories and philosophical comedies as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for today: Wednesday, 27 May.

A cynical grifter hustles his way to comfort before exposing a spy in sharply scripted and uncommonly funny POW drama Stalag 17 11:00am Film4

Tall tales told turn tension to affection for an estranged father and son in shoeless, Siamese twin saving catfish saga Big Fish 4:30pm Sony Movies

Adolescent inventors incur time-machine’s tempest of chaotic consequence in Back To The Future-homaging found-footage thriller Project Almanac 6:45pm Film4

Living below gravitationally inverted parallel earth, amorous inventor seeks amnesiac soulmate: whimsically surreal sci-fantasy curio Upside Down 6:50pm Sony Movies

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Stranded in exploded lunar lander, astronaut trio must science their way 200,000 miles home to earth in spectacular, astonishingly true story Apollo 13 8:00pm ITV4

'Born on the Fourth of July' or 'Né un 4 juillet' 1989 directed by Oliver Stone. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images)
'Born on the Fourth of July' or 'Né un 4 juillet' 1989 directed by Oliver Stone. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images)

Mentally and physically shattered by war, man finds meaning in Mexican linguistics and political activism in Born on the Fourth of July 9:00pm Sky Atlantic

Dark, violent, charismatic sci-fi as a group of travellers must survive an alien onslaught with a murderer in their midst in Pitch Black 9:00pm Sony Movies

Bored pilot finds excitement as gun-running-drug-smuggling-money-launderer for CIA/cartels: astonishingly true tale American Made 9:00pm Film4

Liam Neeson pursues the man who wronged him meeting mirages, thieves and mystics in metaphysical, philosophical western Seraphim Falls 1:20am Sony Movies

Hapless pair take absurdist journey through the human condition in philosophical comedy A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 1:50am Film 4

Framed by crime king, Leeds lad orchestrates master plan of poetic justice in innovative, phenomenal British heist treat The Rise 1:55am Channel 4

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