After searching through the listings, we have chosen fourteen of the best films on TV tonight for your entertainment.
There are two great Hugh Jackman films, a Harry Potter spin-off movie, and a Saoirse Ronan action-thriller among our selections for this evening.
As usual, all of these films are available on non-subscription channels, though may not be on all platforms.
Films On TV
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: 6.25pm, ITV Two
Year: 2016
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol
Plot: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. (IMDb)
Rating: 74% (Rotten Tomatoes)
X-Men 2: 6.25pm, Film Four
Year: 2003
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
Plot: When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him. (IMDb)
Rating: 85% (Rotten Tomatoes)
S.W.A.T.: 6.40pm, Sony Movies
Year: 2003
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez
Plot: An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody, and only the L.A.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it. (IMDb)
Rating: 48% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Logan: 9pm, Film Four
Year: 2017
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Plot: In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety. (IMDb)
Rating: 93% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Dog Day Afternoon: 9pm, TCM
Year: 1975
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen
Plot: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. (IMDb)
Rating: 95% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Stand By Me: 9pm, Sony Movies Classic
Year: 1986
Cast: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman
Plot: After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. (IMDb)
Rating: 91% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Fury: 9.30pm, TG4
Year: 2014
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman
Plot: A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945. (IMDb)
Rating: 76% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Cop Land: 10pm, ITV Four
Year: 1997
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta
Plot: The Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption. (IMDb)
Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Hanna: 10pm, Sky One
Year: 2011
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana
Plot: A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. (IMDb)
Rating: 71% (Rotten Tomatoes)
American Graffiti: 10.50pm, Sony Movies Classic
Year: 1973
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat
Plot: A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. (IMDb)
Rating: 96% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Carrie: 10.55pm, Channel Five
Year: 2013
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde
Plot: A shy girl, outcasted by her peers and sheltered by her religious mother, unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. (IMDb)
Rating: 50% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Gremlins: 11.35pm, TCM
Year: 1984
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
Plot: A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. (IMDb)
Rating: 84% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Stoker: 11.45pm, Film Four
Year: 2013
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Plot: After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him. (IMDb)
Rating: 70% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Ali G Indahouse: 11.55pm, Sky Comedy
Year: 2002
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana
Plot: Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, Ali is embraced by the nation as a voice of the youth, making the PM and his government more popular than ever. (IMDb)
Rating: 56% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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