And we have another exciting list this week, with everything from Alfred Hitchco*ck classic Notorious to MCU films Spider-Man: Homecoming – so there really is something for everyone.
With so many amazing films airing, we've compiled a list of the best flicks for you to choose from below.
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Friday 24th May
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - 9pm, ITV4
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Futuristic action thriller, the third in the series, starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. From out of the post-apocalyptic Wasteland comes Max, a lone wanderer whose only mission in life is survival. Arriving in the feudal community of Bartertown, Max comes to the attention of Aunty, the flamboyant local dictator, and is made an offer he cannot refuse: a fight to the death in the barbaric arena called Thunderdome. Max had not planned on being a hero, but the consequences of that conflict force him to find a new destiny in this violent and hostile world. Read our full review
Three Thousand Years of Longing - 9pm, Film4
Dr Alithea Binnie is an academic, content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she encounters a djinn, who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Director George Miller's fantasy drama based on a short story by AS Byatt , starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Read our full review
Late Night - 10pm, BBC Three
Comedy drama starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson. Late-night talk-show host Katherine Newbury is warned that she risks losing her job due to steadily declining ratings. Her solution is to hire Molly Patel, a writer with only meagre comedy experience, to improve the diversity of her all-white, all-male staff. But there are bigger problems to come... Read our full review
The Handmaiden - 1:05am, Film4
Romantic drama starring Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae Ri. In 1930s Korea, a young woman is embroiled in a convoluted plot to steal the fortune of an heiress. But, as the two women become attracted to each other, the plan begins to unravel. Read our full review
Saturday 25th May
Laura - 1:45pm, BBC Two
Classic film noir starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Detective Mark McPherson investigates the brutal murder of a young woman. As he begins interviewing suspects, including a sardonic newspaper columnist and a debonair playboy, he finds himself becoming strangely attracted to the victim. Read our full review
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 4:35pm, Film4
Animated action adventure featuring the voices of Shameik Moore and Jake Johnson. Teenager Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive arachnid and develops superhuman abilities like those of local hero Spider-Man. When Spidey is taken out of action by villain Kingpin, Miles must step up to prevent an unstable supercollider from sending New York into another dimension. But he soon finds he's not the only spider-being in town... Read our full review
Saving Private Ryan - 9:25pm, Channel 4
Second World War drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns, and featuring Matt Damon. As the horror of the Normandy landings takes its toll, three brothers lie dead. Captain Miller is sent on a special mission in occupied France to bring home the fourth brother, Private Ryan - no matter what the cost. Read our full review
Candyman – 11:40pm, Film4
Horror based on the Clive Barker short story, starring Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd. Helen Lyle is researching a paper on urban myths, including that of the Candyman, a spirit with a hook hand who appears when his name is said five times into a mirror. When she hears of a murder apparently carried out by the Candyman on a run-down estate, she and a colleague decide to travel there to investigate further. Read our full review
Do the Right Thing - 12:20am, BBC Two
Classic drama starring Danny Aiello, Spike Lee and John Turturro. It's the hottest day of the year in a racially mixed district of New York, and Mookie is on his way to work at Sal's Famous Pizzeria, run for years by the same Italian family. However, some members of the local black population are angry that their neighbourhood is being run by whites and "foreigners", and what starts as a series of petty disagreements soon escalates into violence and tragedy. Read our full review
Sunday 26th May
Clueless - 3pm, Channel 4
Romantic comedy updating Jane Austen's Emma to the present day, starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd. Cher and her best friend Dionne are going on 16 and know everything about being gorgeous, popular, and always in vogue. But everything changes when Tai, a new transfer student, arrives. She is, in a word, "clueless", and Cher sees it as her mission in life to give Tai a complete makeover. Read our full review
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon - 3:15pm, BBC One
Animated comedy adventure from Aardman, featuring the voices of Justin Fletcher and John Sparkes. Life at Mossy Bottom Farm takes a surprising turn when an alien crash-lands nearby. The extraterrestrial visitor is friendly enough, but when it transpires that a government agent is on its trail, Shaun the Sheep and friends come up with a plan to help the newcomer get back home. Read our full review
Tenet - 10pm, BBC Two
Sci-fi adventure starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh. A former CIA operative is recruited to help save the world from a dangerous arms dealer who has access to a device that can reverse time. In order to foil this threat, our hero must master the act of chronological "inversion" - but is it already too late? Read our full review
Saturday Night Fever - 12 midnight, Channel 4
Dance drama starring John Travolta. Tony Manero works all week in a dull job at a paint store, but on Saturday nights he becomes the glittering disco king at his local nightclub, Odyssey 2001, much to the disapproval of his religious family. But when he meets Stephanie, a girl with her sights firmly set on the uptown life, they decide to become dance partners for a contest at the disco and Tony begins to realise how meaningless his life really is. Read our full review
Memento - 12:20am, BBC Two
Thriller starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss. Leonard Shelby is determined to avenge the rape and murder of his wife, but is hampered by short-term memory loss following a blow to the head. Forced to record everything with copious notes, Polaroid photographs and even tattoos, Leonard's obsession leads him into a world where no one can be trusted. Read our full review
Monday 27th May
10 Things I Hate About You - 7:10pm, Film4
Romantic comedy, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Bianca Stratford is banned by her parents from going on a date until her older sister Katarina has a boyfriend, but unfortunately big sister has an excessively aggressive personality and only manages to send most boys running for cover. However, when a new guy arrives in town, Bianca's suitor Joey hits on a plan that could be the answer to their problem. Read our full review
Hope and Glory - 10pm, BBC Two
Semi-autobiographical drama based on the wartime childhood of writer/director John Boorman. In the London suburbs, nine-year-old Bill Rohan finds his own life, and the lives of his family, increasingly disrupted during the early months of the Second World War. Read our full review
The Road Dance - 11:50pm, BBC Two
Period drama starring Hermione Corfield and Will Fletcher. In a coastal village on the Isle of Lewis in 1916, Kirsty dreams of a future with her partner Murdo. However, the First World War and a sexual assault dramatically alter the directions of their lives. Read our full review
Tuesday 28th May
Reach for the Sky - 3:35pm, Film4
Biographical drama about war hero Douglas Bader, starring Kenneth More. Following a flying accident in which he loses both his legs, doctors expect Bader to die, but he overcomes incredible odds to survive and take on the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. Read our full review
Born on the Fourth of July - 9pm, Film4
Biographical drama starring Tom Cruise. Fired with enthusiasm, young Ron Kovic volunteers for the Vietnam War only to be wounded in battle. Paralysed from the chest down, he returns to an America vastly different from the one he left and attempts to heal the mental and physical wounds he has sustained. Read our full review
Assault on Precinct 13 - 11:10pm, Legend
Cult thriller starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston. In the Los Angeles ghetto of Anderson, six young gang members are shot dead by police. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Ethan Bishop is given the easy job of caretaking the last few hours of a precinct police station. But when he gives refuge to a man on the run, a nightmare begins. Read our full review
Wednesday 29th May
Ride Lonesome - 1pm, Great Movies Action
Western starring Randolph Scott. When bounty hunter Ben Brigade seeks to bring a killer to justice, ostensibly to collect the reward, he meets up with two outlaws who have their own reason for wanting to turn in the wanted man. Read our full review
Red Sparrow - 11:15pm, Film4
Spy thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Matthias Schoenaerts. After her ballet career ends in injury, a young Russian woman begins work as a spy and is sent to entrap a CIA operative. But when the assignment becomes more complicated than anticipated, the spy considers becoming a double agent. Read our full review
The Prestige - 11:40pm, BBC One
Period mystery thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. Victorian magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden have been bitter rivals since an onstage tragedy when they were learning their trade. However, their determination to ruin each other's reputation will only stop when one of them is dead. Read our full review
Thursday 30th May
Oliver! - 12:40pm, Film4
Oscar-winning film version of Lionel Bart's musical based on the popular novel Oliver Twist, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed and Mark Lester. Escaping a life of workhouse servitude, Oliver tries to seek his fortune in London, but instead of gold-paved streets he finds the roguish fa*gin and his crime school for boys. Read our full review
Blazing Saddles - 10pm, BBC Four
Spoof western starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. Sheriff Bart fights prejudice and corruption to save the little town of Rock Ridge from wicked speculator Hedley Lamarr, helped by the once legendary Waco Kid. Read our full review
From Russia with Love - 10:45pm, ITV1
Spy adventure starring Sean Connery. James Bond is sent to Istanbul to help a Russian defect to the West with an important cipher machine. However, he is unaware that he is being drawn into a trap laid by criminal organisation Spectre. Read our full review
Friday 31st May
Spider-Man: No Way Home - 8:45pm, BBC Three
Superhero adventure starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Benedict Cumberbatch. After Peter Parker's secret identity is revealed to the world, he and his friends find their lives turned upside-down. Peter decides that he can fix things by turning back time, and turns to Doctor Strange for help. But complications in Strange's spell lead to a rift in the space-time continuum, allowing uninvited guests into Peter's world. Read our full review
Logan - 9pm, E4
Action adventure starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. In the future, the X-Men are gone, no new mutants have been born in decades and a world-weary Wolverine is now lying low south of the American border in the company of a mentally frail Professor X. However, their seclusion is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a mutant child with some familiar-looking powers. Read our full review
Dunkirk - 10:40pm, BBC One
Second World War drama starring Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh. During the 1940 British evacuation at Dunkirk, three individuals each fight to survive. As young soldier Tommy waits to escape the wartorn beach, a civilian sailor from Weymouth aids in the rescue efforts, while a Spitfire pilot provides air support and gains a singular perspective on the chaos taking place below. Read our full review
Team America: World Police - 11:05pm,Channel 4
Satirical comedy co-written, directed by and featuring the voices of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and performed by Thunderbirds-style puppets. A counter-terrorism squad causes havoc as it does battle with the Film Actors Guild and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who is bent on destroying the civilised world. Read our full review
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