The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 5 September
Take your pick from the sort-of-sequel-to-Se7en, a 60s-set coming of age drama, sapphic noir and more as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday 5 September.
Some films may require a Sky subscription.
Dumped by previous motivator, All Valley Karate Champion spends college tuition on Japanese lesson in honour culture and drum technique splurge The Karate Kid Part II 11:45am Dave
Tricky city trader slips in swimming pool, fancies feisty Fanny and becomes smitten with country life in charming romance A Good Year 12:45pm Sony Movies
Temptation and free-thinking cause friction as an irreligious woman sets up shop opposite a church in mouthwatering treat Chocolat 3:05pm Sony Movies
Kidnapped ex-rancher must turn the tables on ruthless ransom demanding newlywed captors in top taut and tense thriller The Tall T 4:30pm Sony Movies Action
Indomitable woman time tumbles across exquisitely imagined charismatic fantasy on unpossible journey Alice Through the Looking Glass 4:30pm BBC One
Hollywood fixer wades through deluge of religious imagery and communist plots in Coen Bros’ economically ironic sprawler Hail, Caesar! 4:35pm Film4
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Taking a sabbatical from reaping, Death personified learns the pleasures and pains of mortal life in atypical fantasy Meet Joe Black 5:25pm Sony Movies
Duped into indentured servitude by waxy drunk, bullied poor kid wins girl's heart by publicly face kicking pretty-boy The Karate Kid (1984) 6:25pm 5 Star
Returning aristocratic ape-man / ant-eater assists Congolese tribes to derail Belgian bad guy’s plans for slavery in gorilla-punching adventure The Legend of Tarzan 6:50pm ITV2
Driven to insanity by hunger, once proud New-Yorker craves his best friend's striped flesh- brine spitting kids comedy Madagascar 7:15pm E4
Nelson Mandela charges captain Matt Damon to unite divided South Africans in rugby-victorious glory in Clint Eastwood's Invictus 8:05pm BBC One
Oblivious man travels through formative years of America’s adolescence without noticing any of it. Also eats some chocolates Forrest Gump 9:00pm Sky 1
Bank burgling hostage takers discover suicide inducing vengeful ghouls in safe housing cellar in off-kilter crime-horror The Vault 9:00pm Horror Channel
A mother's agony and refusal to accept wrong child is her missing son causes police to abuse power in terrifying drama Changeling 9:00pm Sony Movies
North London losers batter and bludgeon undead hordes- record breaking, mum saving, pub raiding eccentric zomromcom Shaun of the Dead 9:00pm ITV2
Abandoned astronaut sciences himself into a poo-planting, potato farming, space pirate to aid maverick rescue mission The Martian 9:00pm Film4
Matchstick counting savant is exploited by greedy brother before he learns fraternal love in Oscar-winning drama Rain Man 9:00pm 5 Star
After dropping cheap-glove-buyer’s girlfriend off mountain Rocky rescuer battles psychopath’s heist gang in stalactite impaler Cliffhanger 9:50pm ITV4
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine vie for Margot Robbie’s post-apocalyptic affections in understated and sublime drama Z for Zachariah 11:00pm BBC One
Admitted to psych-ward, disillusioned misfit free-loving 1960s teen befriends rebellious charismatic misanthrope Girl, Interrupted 11:50pm Sony Movies
FBI profilers enlist clairvoyant consultant Anthony Hopkins to help hunt psychic serial killer in sort-of Se7en sequel Solace 11:50pm Film 4
Callow housewife and jaded BFF assert their womanhood in crime spree road-trip: iconic journey of self-discovery Thelma & Louise 11:50pm 5 Star
Inseparable best friends' free spirited coming of age becomes fraught with clashing desires and threat of Cuban missile crisis in heartfelt, affecting drama Ginger & Rosa 00:45am BBC Two
Same-sex lovers’ plot to rob the mob and frame scumbag boyfriend goes awry in Wachowski Sisters’ sapphic neo-noir thriller Bound 2:30am Horror Channel
Everything new on streaming in September:
The films premiering on Sky Cinema and Now TV in September
The best new films coming to Disney+ in September