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Playing for Keeps
Film4 - Saturday 7th December 2019 - 16:40
(2012) Romantic comedy-drama. Gerard Butler stars as a man suffering setbacks and temptations as he attempts to rebuild his relationship with his ex-wife, Jessica Biel. With Uma Thurman.
The Imitation Game
Film4 - Saturday 7th December 2019 - 18:45
(2014) Benedict Cumberbatch was Oscar-nominated for his role as Alan Turing, the socially awkward mathematician, WWII code-breaker, father of the modern computer and demonised homosexual.
The Heat
Film4 - Saturday 7th December 2019 - 21:00
(2013) Broad-humoured comedy from the director of Bridesmaids. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy star as mismatched cops who are forced to work together. Strong language/drugs/violence.
Raw
Film4 - Saturday 7th December 2019 - 23:20
(2017) Bloody adult horror. A staunch vegetarian starts to crave meat after being subjected to a humiliating ritual when she starts to attend vetinary school. French/subs. Sex/violence.
The Love Witch
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 01:15
(2016) Stylised thriller with Samantha Robinson. In 1960s California, a woman uses occult potions and spells in her, frequently backfiring, quest for love. Nudity/sex/violence/gory images.
Time Bandits
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 11:00
(1981) Fantasy comedy. David Rappaport stars as the leader of rebel dwarves who kidnap a boy, Craig Warnock, and take him on adventures across time. With Sean Connery and John Cleese.
Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 13:20
Stars and directors talk about the experience of making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections.
White Christmas
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 13:30
(1954) Classic festive musical. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye star as ex-servicemen who stage a musical to save their former commanding officer's skiing business. With Rosemary Clooney.
Back to the Future Part III
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 15:50
(1990) The final part of the sci-fi action-comedy trilogy starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Marty travels back in time to the Wild West in a bid to save the life of his friend.
Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 18:10
Stars and directors talk about the experience of making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections.
Now You See Me 2
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 18:15
(2016) Thriller sequel with Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Daniel Radcliffe. The magicians who stage seemingly impossible heists are back. Violent scenes.
Film4 Interview Programmes: Talking Film
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 20:50
Stars and directors talk about making movies in this compendium of personal and practical reflections. Features Danny Boyle, Amy Schumer, Chiwetel Ejiofor and more.
The Bank Job
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 21:00
(2008) Bank heist thriller. Jason Statham stars as the leader of a gang of thieves whose lucrative job lands them in grave danger. Very strong language/violence/sexual scenes.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Film4 - Sunday 8th December 2019 - 23:15
(2016) Fact-based drama set in 2012 Libya in the aftermath of Gaddafi's fall. US security staff attempt to defend a US diplomatic mission. Gory violence/strong language.
Of Horses and Men
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 02:05
(2013) Benedikt Erlingsson's offbeat comedy-drama takes a wry look at equine and human behaviour. In Icelandic/Swedish/Spanish/Russian/subs. Strong language/sex/scenes of animal butchery.
BSL Zone: Words of Caramel
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 08:00
French short film. In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a Deaf boy who wishes to learn how to write so that he can express the words of his friend, Caramel the camel.
The Comancheros
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 11:00
(1961) Western starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. A Texas Ranger is forced to team up with his prisoner while he's on a covert mission to take on a band of thieves and gunrunners.
Imitation of Life
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 13:10
(1959) Lana Turner and Oscar-nominated Juanita Moore star in Douglas Sirk's classic melodrama, which explores race relations and mother-daughter relationships. Contains racist language.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 15:40
(1959) Fantasy adventure starring James Mason, Pat Boone and Diane Baker. An expedition to the centre of the planet unexpectedly encounters a villainous rival and prehistoric beasts.
A Beautiful Mind
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 18:20
(2001) Russell Crowe stars in the multi-Oscar-winning biopic of John Nash, the mathematician who battled paranoid schizophrenia and won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Upsetting scenes.
Taken
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 21:00
(2008) Action thriller. Liam Neeson stars as a former CIA operative who tracks down his daughter after she is kidnapped while on a European holiday. Strong, gory violence throughout.
American Honey
Film4 - Monday 9th December 2019 - 22:50
(2017) Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough star in Andrea Arnold's BAFTA-winning drama. An 18-year-old joins a group of itinerant magazine sellers. Very strong language/sex/drugs.
Our Idiot Brother
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 02:10
(2011) Comedy with Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Zooey Deschanel and Steve Coogan. A man's inability to lie causes trouble for his family. Sex/strong language.
Arabesque
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 11:00
(1966) Gregory Peck stars in Stanley Donen's spy thiller. An Oxford professor is unwittingly drawn into a deadly web of political intrigue. With Sophia Loren and Alan Badel.
Man in the Saddle
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 13:10
(1951) Western. Randolph Scott stars as a rancher who's the target of unwelcome harassment by his richer and more powerful neighbour. With Alexander Knox, Joan Leslie and Ellen Drew.
The Return of the Musketeers
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 14:55
(1989) Action adventure with Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay and Richard Chamberlain. The Musketeers set out to rescue Queen Anne from a dastardly plot hatched by her lover.
The Man from the Alamo
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 17:00
(1953) Bud Boetticher's western stars Glenn Ford. A man is branded a coward when he can't prove he was ordered to abandon his defence of the Alamo. But he gets a chance to redeem himself.
The Monuments Men
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 18:40
(2014) George Clooney's fact-based World War II drama. A group of art experts form a unit to prevent the Nazis from stealing or destroying globally important cultural artefacts. Violence.
A Good Day to Die Hard
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 21:00
(2013) Part five of the action-thriller series. When cop John McClane, Bruce Willis, flies to Moscow to help his estranged son he finds danger at every turn. Violence/strong language.
The Purge: Anarchy
Film4 - Tuesday 10th December 2019 - 22:55
(2014) Dystopian action-thriller sequel. A hapless couple and a mother and her daughter get perilously caught out during a night of lethal lawlessness. Strong language/gory violence.
The Principles of Lust
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 01:00
(2003) Drama starring Alec Newman. A man must choose between his stable relationship and his thrill-seeking friends. Strong violence/very strong language/graphic sex/drugs.
The Lawless Breed
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 11:00
(1952) Rock Hudson stars in Raoul Walsh's western as a youth who's initially subject to the teachings of his preacher father, but then turns into a cowboy, gambler and gunslinging outlaw.
Arabian Nights
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 12:45
(1942) Adventure starring Jon Hall, Leif Erickson and Maria Montez. In medieval Baghdad, the caliph and his brother bitterly fight for power and the love of the beautiful Scheherazade.
Our Man in Havana
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 14:30
(1959) Satirical comedy starring Alec Guinness. In pre-revolutionary Cuba, an English vacuum cleaner salesman gets drawn into the international espionage business. With Maureen O'Hara.
The 300 Spartans
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 16:40
(1962) Historical drama with Ralph Richardson. A retelling of the stand made at Thermopylae in 480 BC by a small Greek force against invasion by an enormous Persian army. Battle violence. [S]
Eye in the Sky
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 18:55
(2015) Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman star in a tense life and death drama about the morality of combat drones. A mission to capture terrorists in Kenya takes an unexpected turn. Violence.
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 21:00
(2017) Action-comedy about a bodyguard hired to protect a hitman on his way to give evidence against a ruthless dictator. With Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson. Strong language/violence.
The Purge: Election Year
Film4 - Wednesday 11th December 2019 - 23:20
(2016) Horror-thriller starring Elizabeth Mitchell. In the third chapter of the dystopian tale a senator attempts to stop the annual night of slaughter. Very strong language/gory violence.
Wild Tales
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 01:30
(2014) Argentinian director Damián Szifrón's Oscar-nominated anthology of six darkly comedic short thrillers about violent revenge. In Spanish/subs. Gory violence/sexual scenes.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 11:00
(1971) Vanessa Redgrave stars in a dramatisation of the life of the 16th-century Scottish queen. Glenda Jackson co-stars as her cousin and rival, England's Queen Elizabeth I. Violence.
Pimpernel Smith
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 13:40
(1941) Leslie Howard directs and stars in this wartime drama, based on Baroness Orczy's novel. A mild-mannered archaeologist smuggles refugees to safety from under the Nazis' noses.
Kidnapped
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 16:10
(1971) Drama. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, a young and naive lad (Lawrence Douglas) has a succession of dangerous adventures with a fleeing Jacobite rebel (Michael Caine).
Only the Brave
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 18:20
(2017) Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges star in a fact-based drama about a team of firefighters who risk their lives to tackle wildfires. With Jennifer Connelly. Upsetting scenes.
Hitman: Agent 47
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 21:00
(2015) Violent action-thriller starring Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware and Zachary Quinto. A scientist's daughter is hunted by a genetically modified assassin. Strong language/flashing images.
The Heat
Film4 - Thursday 12th December 2019 - 22:50
(2013) Broad-humoured comedy from the director of Bridesmaids. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy star as mismatched cops who are forced to work together. Strong language/drugs/violence.
Quadrophenia
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 01:10
(1979) Drama with Phil Daniels. A youth finds excitement and a sense of belonging in 1960s mod culture. But the scene has its darker side. Violence/very strong, offensive language/drugs.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 11:00
(1943) Screwball comedy. In director Preston Sturges' sideswipe at 1940s US morals, Betty Hutton stars as a small-town girl whose marital status may be in doubt, but her pregnancy isn't.
The Great Sioux Uprising
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 13:00
(1953) Western starring Jeff Chandler. An ex-army doctor arrives at a frontier outpost and walks straight into a conflict between Native Americans and the town's horse traders.
Fantastic Voyage
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 14:40
(1966) Classic sci-fi adventure. Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence are among the crew of a miniaturised submarine that's injected into an injured diplomat's body in a bid to save his life.
Holiday Inn
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 16:45
(1942) Classic musical with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as a song-and-dance team, and Marjorie Reynolds as the gal who catches both men's eye. Featuring best-selling song White Christmas.
The Imitation Game
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 18:45
(2014) Benedict Cumberbatch in Oscar-nominated role as Alan Turing, the socially awkward mathematician, WWII code-breaker, father of the modern computer and demonised homosexual. Violence.
The Bank Job
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 21:00
(2008) Bank heist thriller. Jason Statham stars as the leader of a gang of thieves whose lucrative job lands them in grave danger. Very strong language/violence/sexual scenes.
Crank 2: High Voltage
Film4 - Friday 13th December 2019 - 23:15
(2009) Outrageous comedy starring Jason Statham as a hitman with an artificial heart that requires regular electrical kick-starts. Violence/strong, offensive language/nudity/sexual scenes.
Machete Kills
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 01:10
(2013) Action-thriller sequel. Danny Trejo plays a seemingly unstoppable mercenary hired by the US president to kill a Mexican revolutionary. Very strong language/graphic violence/sex.
Animal Farm
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 11:00
(1954) Animated version of George Orwell's novel. After ousting humans, animals try to create the perfect farm society. Voices by Maurice Denham. Upsetting scenes for some younger viewers.
Crack in the World
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 12:40
(1965) Sci-fi disaster movie starring Dana Andrews and Kieron Moore. A plan to provide Earth with unlimited free geothermal energy goes catastrophically wrong.
A Thousand Words
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 14:45
(2012) Comedy. Eddie Murphy stars as a truth-bending literary agent who finds himself in danger of literally talking himself to death after he's cursed by a New Age author he upset.
One Fine Day
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 16:35
(1996) Romantic comedy. George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer star as single parents who, while attempting to juggle their busy lives and childcare, find support, and more, in each other.
Behind Enemy Lines
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 18:50
(2001) Thriller with Owen Wilson. A US Navy flight officer on a NATO reconnaissance mission has to fend for himself when he's shot down by Serb forces in the former Yugoslavia. Violence.
Taken
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 21:00
(2008) Action thriller. Liam Neeson stars as a former CIA operative who tracks down his daughter after she is kidnapped while on a European holiday. Strong, gory violence throughout.
Pyewacket
Film4 - Saturday 14th December 2019 - 22:50
(2017) Supernatural horror with Nicole Muñoz and Laurie Holden. Following her dad's death, a teenager falls out with her mum and summons a malevolent spirit to punish her. Strong language.