Yahoo Movies The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 12 December
Take your pick from small town dramas, fishy Oscar-winning fantasies, or iconic Christmas classics and more as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday 12 December.
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One-eyed story telling musical origami magician seeks parent’s legacy: breathtaking myth and mystery fantasy Kubo and the Two Strings 11:00am Film 4
Sent to remote Celtic town to negotiate oil billionaire's interests, company man begins to see mystical wonder of Scotland in heartfelt drama Local Hero 1:10pm Film 4
Leonardo DiCaprio gurns, Johnny Depp yearns and Mama burns in heart warming small town character study What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1:35pm Sony Movies
Axe throwing, train heisting, prison peeing, nonchalant shenanigans in JackieChan’s odd couple kung fu cowboy comedy Shanghai Noon 2:35pm 5 Star
Wilful orphaned chidler helps jumpsquiffling giant defeat frightsome childchewers in whizzpopping splendiferous adventure The BFG 2:45pm BBC One
Crazy kid emulates Eastwood while mad scientist runs riot in old west, steals train and woman’s heart in anachronistic fun Back to the Future Part III 2:45pm ITV1
A suicidal man and a career driven angel skip across alternate realities to see the impact one life can make It's a Wonderful Life 3:25pm Film 4
Strange voices guide a man to accomplish great things in uplifting baseball themed top Twilight Zone-esque fantasy Field of Dreams 4:00pm Sony Movie
Lone rancher John Wayne recruits school boys to herd his cattle to market and fight off rustlers in man-making western The Cowboys 4:00pm ITV4
Santa's panophobic son escapes bureaucratic brother's shadow to prevent girl's xmas misery in uplifting adventure Arthur Christmas 4:40pm ITV2
Bill Murray learns to love homeless, evades a psychotically deranged employee and gets fairy-punched. Christmas comedy Scrooged 5:25pm Comedy Central
Housemaid's warmth is juxtaposed by emotional frigidity of the focus of her affections in stunning drama The Remains of the Day 6:10pm Sony Movies
Heroic hearse-hauling, lead-dealing, arithmetic-liking, Seven Samurai-remaking, wondrous western perfection The Magnificent Seven (1960) 6:40pm ITV4
Remarkably true act of cunning is meticulously executed as the allies fool an entire army with one dead body The Man Who Never Was 8:00pm Sony Movies Action
Stranded mid-Martian-mission, faithful vs. reasoning crew must survive robodog-assassin and explosive insects in SciFun Red Planet 9:00pm Paramount Network
Bank robbing magicians stay one step ahead of relentless FBI agent in rabbit abusing mystery chasing frenetic thriller Now You See Me 9:00pm Sky 1
Cancer cursed quip king / asinine assassin/ regenerating degenerate expositions all over badder guys in fourth wall assaulting splattery meta-Marvel Deadpool 9:00pm Film 4
Unscrupulous book dealer Johnny Depp undertakes gothic eurotrek on the trail of a satanic tome in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate 9:00pm Horror Channel
Head-blasting, groin-kicking, pram-chasing prohibition perfection as four cops teach Al Capone 'The Chicago Way' The Untouchables 9:00pm BBC Two
Nicknamed gangsters, punch-ups, milky mayhem, sword stabbing, dubious deals, dodgy diamonds and a squeaky dog Snatch 9:00pm 5 Star
Birth of the CIA is explored over a lifetime in LSD dosing, family fracturing, dark De Niro directed delicacy The Good Shepherd 9:00pm Sony Movies
Graceful mute and aquatic captive find compassionate connection: non-conformist sexually charged Lovecraftian romance The Shape of Water 9:30pm Channel 4
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Lawyer's family is stalked by cheek-biting, unhinged monster of his own making in Scorsese's queasy, nerve shredding gem Cape Fear 10:40pm Channel 5
Sean Connery and co must survive the relentless bullying of a sadistic WW2 military prison officer in Sidney Lumet’s The Hill 10:55pm BBC Two
K-pop wannabe talent girl learns her true origins as sinister telekinetic assassin in bone crunching splatterfest The Witch: Part 1 -- The Subversion 11:10pm Film 4
Kidnapped girls must manipulate the multitude of personalities residing in their imprisoner’s body: Beast Mode thriller Split 12:00am Channel 4
Urgently trying to legitimise his business, Oscar Isaac faces catastrophe at every turn in intense dialogue drama A Most Violent Year 12:20am Sony Movies
Framed for brother's death, driven driver thunders cross-country to clear name in grass-hopping, muscle car mayhem Need for Speed 1:00am SyFy
Severed ear leads to gommorahic deconstruction of cinematic expectations / façade of society in sexually sadistic, surreal nightmarish neo noir Blue Velvet 1:40am Film 4
Stoic, sociopathic, scorpionesque stuntman lets his heels and wheels do the talking in romantic, skull crushing, synthwave scored neon-noir Drive 2:45am Sony Movies
