Advertisement

The best films to watch on UK TV today: Friday, 28 August

The Man Who Fell To Earth, They Live, Sorceror.
The Man Who Fell To Earth, They Live, Sorceror.

Travel the world from the comfort of your sofa as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Friday, 28 August.

Visit Africa with Humphrey Bogart, fly over the Amazon with some animated birds, before globe-trotting with Bond, then finish the day travelling through time with a late night teen sci-fi.

Some films may require a Sky subscription.

Outstanding odd-couple romantic adventure as Hepburn Bogart steam up the Congo to battle Germans in charismatic classic The African Queen 9:05am Sony Movies Action

Family of blue birds transition to wild Amazonian environs amid chaos of unsavoury logging, poisonous Love and an evil Nigel Rio 2 2:50pm Film 4

Kino. Der Wind und der Löwe, (THE WIND AND THE LION) USA, 1974, Regie: John Milius, SEAN CONNERY, CANDICE BERGEN, Stichwort: Gewehr, Waffe. (Photo by FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)
THE WIND AND THE LION USA, 1974. (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

Moroccan Muslim Sean Connery kidnaps American woman causing epic reprisals, epic plot and epic cinematography in The Wind and the Lion 3:00pm Sony Movies Action

Soft step-dad's tenuous fatherhood is shaken by arrival of badass biological in emasculating bike crashing comedy fun Daddy's Home 7:05pm Film4

Widow seducing mouse threatener uncovers insidious global crime-spiracy in Sam Mendes' trepanning, breathless beauty Spectre 8:00pm ITV2

Crime writer Ethan Hawke moves family into murder-home and uncovers soul eating demonic deity in grizzly homicidal horror Sinister 9:00pm Horror Channel

After discovering her husband's adultery, privileged and pompous older lady moves in with council estate sister in hot-stepping character led rom-com Finding Your Feet 9:00pm Film 4

Friended by unicorn-loving, jort-wearing jolly giant, school-peaker is thrown into banana fighting conspiracy Central Intelligence 9:00pm E4

Shameless vagina owners facedown scientific establishment and plasm puking ghouls in sharp witted phantasmic hilarity Ghostbusters 10:00pm Channel 4

Vexed Mel Gibson tortures a drug dealer, loses some toes and ignores Lucy Liu while deftly navigating criminal underworld Payback 10:05pm ITV4

Demonic superhero, aquatic caporista and fiery woman stand up to evil in Guillermo Del Toro’s fantasy fun Hellboy II: The Golden Army 10:45pm ITV1

Homeless mullet man must awaken all humanity from skinless aliens' perception altering consumerist conspiracy in punchy cult fun They Live 11:15pm Film 4

The Man Who Fell To Earth, poster, British poster for 2016 4k restoration and re-release, David Bowie, 1976. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)
The Man Who Fell To Earth, poster, British poster for 2016 4k restoration and re-release, David Bowie, 1976. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

Innocent alien David Bowie is corrupted by earthly vices & exploited by human greed in disjointed cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth 00:00am Talking Pictures

Young lady helplessly flees stab-happy, inexplicably motivated, bullet proof serial killer in John Carpenter’s slasher Halloween II 12:40am Horror Channel

Adolescent inventors incur time-machine’s tempest of chaotic consequence in Back To The Future homaging found-footage thriller Project Almanac 00:40am Channel 4

Absconded criminal misfits drive volatile consignments of dynamite through treacherous jungle in nerve shredding wonder Sorcerer 1:05am Film4

Everything new on streaming in September:

The films premiering on Sky Cinema and Now TV in September

The best new films coming to Disney+ in September

Everything coming to Netflix UK in September