2024-09-26 02:10 Cast Away Survival drama. Tom Hanks's acclaimed portrayal of a latter-day Robinson Crusoe who must readjust his obsession with time when he's marooned on a desert island after a plane crash. 05:00 Deadpool 2 Ryan Reynolds returns as the potty-mouthed, can of whup-ass opening superhero and now he's got buddies to help him take on baddie Josh Brolin in the all-out action comedy sequel. 07:20 Pig Thriller. Nicolas Cage delivers a subtle turn in Michael Sarnoski's debut, an intriguing tale of an off-the-grid truffle hunter who returns to the city to rescue his kidnapped pig. 09:10 The Outsiders Francis Ford Coppola's seminal brat pack coming-of-age crime drama with Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon and Rob Lowe. Two teenage tribes go to war in Tulsa. 11:25 Teleshopping 14:00 Teleshopping 19:00 Born Free Gem of a family drama based on a true story. After a life in captivity, can lioness Elsa learn to survive in the wild? Starring Virginia McKenna and John Barry's Oscar-winning score. 20:55 The Green Man Sparkling black comedy with Alastair Sim as an assassin whose plot to murder a politician becomes more complicated than anticipated. With George Cole, Terry-Thomas and Dora Bryan. 22:35 Fire Down Below Drama with Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon. Two friends agree to smuggle a mysterious European woman across the border, but she soon has them at each other's throats.
2024-09-27 00:50 Hell Is a City Classic crime thriller with Stanley Baker and Billie Whitelaw. A world-weary detective with a messy private life tracks a violent thief through the streets of Manchester. 02:40 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Stephen Spielberg's action adventure with Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. Indy must stop the KGB from gaining the power held in the lost city of Eldorado. 05:00 Apocalypse Now Final cut of Coppola's award-laden take on the Vietnam War, with Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando. An assassin travels upriver to terminate a renegade colonel with extreme prejudice. 08:40 White House Down All-American action thriller starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx. A Capitol police officer steps up to protect the President when the White House is compromised. 11:15 Teleshopping 14:00 Teleshopping 19:00 The Caine Mutiny Oscar-nominated Humphrey Bogart, in one of his finest roles, stars in Edward Dmytryk's gripping drama as Captain Philip Queeg, in charge of a US Navy minesweeper during the war. 21:35 Film4 at 40 - Asif Kapadia As part of our celebration of Film4's 40th anniversary, Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia talks about finding a home with Film4 and how the relationship has helped shape his career. 21:45 Operation Petticoat Second World War comedy. Tony Curtis and Cary Grant play members of the crew of a submarine that's painted bright pink just as the Japanese launch their assault in the Pacific.
2024-09-28 00:10 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Comedy-drama biopic of 1940s US car entrepreneur Preston Tucker who takes on the capitalist giants of the auto industry, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. 02:25 The Great Debaters Denzel Washington directs and stars in this fact-based drama about a US Black college debating team who take on the Ivy League but face racism and violence. 05:00 The Lost City Comedy adventure with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. When a romance novelist is kidnapped wearing a pink jumpsuit, her hapless cover model heads to the jungle to rescue her. 07:15 Lola Lo-fi sci-fi. In 1940, two sisters invent a contraption that intercepts future broadcasts. But it inadvertently creates an alternate timeline in which the Nazis win the war. Oops. 08:55 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Documentary charting the problems that plagued the Apocalypse Now shoot, threatening this cinematic landmark, Coppola's career and even one actor's life. 10:50 Teleshopping 14:00 Teleshopping 19:00 Ferdinand Charming animated bovine road movie from the makers of Ice Age. A huge but gentle bull (voiced by WWE's John Cena) tries to get home after being sent away to a bull fighting ranch. 21:10 Animal Farm George Orwell's cautionary tale reimagined in cartoon form. A farm's animals revolt against their abusive owner only for the pigs to become drunk with their newly found power. 22:40 Turner & Hooch Comedy-thriller starring Tom Hanks. A cop investigates a murder to which there's just one witness: Hooch, a slobbering, beer-drinking French mastiff, who now needs 24/7 protection.
2024-09-29 00:45 My Spy Family action comedy. A CIA agent (Dave Bautista) gets the run-around from a nine-year-old girl when he's sent to keep an eye on her family. With Chloe Coleman. 02:40 Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film Stars and directors talk about the experience of making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections. 02:45 Dream Horse Uplifting fact-based comedy drama with Toni Collette and Damian Lewis. Welsh villagers club together to save up, buy a racehorse, and bring joy back to their town. 05:00 The Green Mile Drama with Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. Strange events occur when a man convicted of raping and murdering two young girls arrives on death row in a Louisiana prison. 08:45 Mulholland Drive David Lynch's surreal thriller with Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts. A woman who's lost her memory tries to discover her true identity. 11:40 Teleshopping 14:00 Teleshopping 19:00 One Million Years B.C. Raquel Welch - in her famous fur bikini - stars in this prehistoric adventure set in an inhospitable landscape populated by two warring tribes and Ray Harryhausen's roving dinosaurs. 21:05 Baby's Day Out Comedy starring Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley. Inept criminals kidnap a millionaire's baby. But when the boy escapes, there's mayhem as they try to track him down. 23:00 Rat Race Comedy. A Las Vegas casino-owner sets up a unique game for six punters: a race across America, hunting for $2m. Starring John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Whoopi Goldberg.
2024-09-30 01:10 Babe Charming family comedy-drama about a clever little pig who forms a close bond with a farmer and discovers a talent for herding sheep. With James Cromwell. 02:55 The Greatest Showman Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams star in the Golden-Globe-winning, toe-tapping smash hit musical about the life and times of P.T. Barnum, the creator of the circus. 05:00 The Card Counter Dark, tense thriller with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish. An ex-con who makes his money gambling is tempted to reject his strict routine and seek revenge for his military past. 07:15 Air Force One Action-thriller with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. When the US President's plane is hijacked by terrorists, the President himself decides to wrestle back control. 09:40 Been So Long Musical romance. Michaela Coel stars as a single mum who's turned her back on love until she's persuaded to go on a rare night out in the vibrant north London community of Camden. 11:45 Teleshopping 14:00 Teleshopping 16:00 BSL Zone: OMGenius Social media influencers Jazzy Whipps and Benny Ngo see a deodorant can turned into a mini rocket, and learn that keeping gas under high pressure can have explosive consequences. 16:30 Teleshopping 19:00 Saraband for Dead Lovers Historical drama from Ealing studios with Joan Greenwood about the doomed arranged royal marriage between Princess Dorothea and Prince George Louis - later George I of England. 20:55 Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film Stars and directors talk about the experience of making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections. 21:05 The Long Ships Adventure with Richard Widmark as a Viking who leads his men on the quest for a huge bell made of solid gold, but with Sidney Poitier, leader of an army of Moors, on the trail too. 23:40 El Dorado John Wayne and Robert Mitchum star in Howard Hawks's western. In El Dorado, a gunfighter and a sheriff help protect a rancher from a rival landowner.
2024-10-01 02:15 Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film Stars and directors talk about making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections. Features Danny Boyle, Amy Schumer, Chiwetel Ejiofor and more. 02:25 Stardust Magical family fantasy with Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Claire Danes and Robert De Niro. A man must enter a dangerous, mystical world to capture a fallen star for his beloved. 05:00 The Mechanic Thriller with Jason Statham and Donald Sutherland. A hitman is ordered to kill his mentor, but then takes on the dead man's son as an apprentice. Could get complicated... and deadly. 06:50 Under Siege Action thriller. Steven Seagal plays lowly Navy chef Casy Ryback, who reveals his true Navy SEAL identity when terrorists hijack his ship. With Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey.