The best films on TV: Thursday, 2 April

Updated 2 April 2020 at 4:04 am·1-min read

Anna Kendrick and the Barden Bellas in a still from <i>Pitch Perfect</i> (Universal) — Anna Kendrick and the Barden Bellas in a still from *Pitch Perfect* (Universal)

Set your DVRs and settle in as TopFilmTip brings you charismatic continental thrills, historical biopics and cold war conspiracies with the best films on TV for Thursday, 2 April.

Audrey Hepburn is chased around Paris by men seeking her dead husband's ill-gotten gains in top Hitchcock-esque classic Charade 12:40pm Film4

Unhappy schoolboy grows up to become cavalier, war correspondent, prison escapee and statesman in Richard Attenborough's Young Winston 2:55pm Movies4men 1

Alt-girl mix-genius joins misfit songstress team in aca-puking, aca-uplifting, aca-awesome acamaraderie aca-comedy Pitch Perfect 9pm ITV 2

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Amid communism’s fall, icy Mi6 agent tears through East & West Berlin seeking spy-list in exquisitely brutal neon joy Atomic Blonde 9pm Film4

Forgetting to put flowers on Algernon’s grave, writers' blocked author's drug-fuelled brain bender prompts intellectually adventurous thrill ride Limitless 10pm 5 Star

Suave sentinels seek superiors' soul, prize-fighter's pride prevents profit & odd date accidentally ends in O.D.: Quentin Tarantino's flawless masterwork of script & style Pulp Fiction 10pm Sony Movie Channel

Cabin fevered, specimen seeking scientists unleash Martian zombie-itis in panic fueled stabby space horror The Last Days On Mars 1:20am Film4

Check everything new on streaming in April:

Netflix UK: April’s new releases

Everything coming to Now TV in April

Amazon Prime Video UK: The biggest April releases

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