Yahoo Movies The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 12 September
Take your pick from raucous comedies, mind bending crime thrills, heartfelt Japanese dramas and skin crawling Scottish horrors as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday, 12 September.
Some films may require a Sky subscription.
Tantalised at prospect of maliciously manipulating and torturing innocent teen, villain's psychopath friend quits toxic waste empire to brutalise boy The Karate Kid Part III 11:45am Dave
Daughter of neglectful cheese chomper aids bug eating boy's fiendish friends in delightfully dark, grotesque comedy The Boxtrolls 1:05pm Film4
Duped into indentured servitude by waxy drunk, bullied poor kid wins girl's heart by publicly face kicking pretty-boy The Karate Kid 2:00pm 5 Star
Feeling they Should Have Been Loved soldiers walk 500 Miles to Edinburgh to find a Misty Blue Sky Takes The Soul Sunshine on Leith 2:55pm Film4
Fearless farm-boy fights grotesque gargantua in chump chomping, Ewan McGregor cooking grisly castle sieging fun Jack the Giant Slayer 4:35pm 5 Star
Escaping fog of existential ennui, ex-villain discovers ex-twin and endeavours to extract extraordinary gem from 80s ex-child star with help of ex-con compares Despicable Me 3 5:00pm ITV2
David Lean’s classic PoW epic regarding duty, principles, morale and obsession. Alec Guinness stars in The Bridge on the River Kwai 4:40pm Paramount Network
Sick of sardines, inventor accidentally initiates culinary catastrophe in intelligently hilarious fun Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 7:00pm SyFy
Vegetarian predator helps gambling addicted sea creature single the fishy-mob in undersea kids coming-out allegory Shark Tale 7:10pm E4
Southern drawler and bridal hitchhiker bait racist wife punching sheriff for reasons: jumps, bumps and stunts in plot-less 90 min car chase and guilty pleasure Smokey and the Bandit 8:00pm ITV4
Improvising and verbose favour finagler pursues bearer bonding drug smugglers round LA in banana sabotaging 80s gem Beverly Hills Cop 9:00pm Sky 1
Nic Cage and John Travolta try to out-crazy each other in preposterously plotted, fantastically fun John Woo action film Face/Off 9:00pm Sony Movies
Despondent with affluenza and ennui, callow African prince seeks woman of worth in unforgiving New-York neighbourhood in astute fish-out-of-water comedy Coming to America 9:00pm COMEDY CENTRAL
Accidentally heroic, monologuing journal junky frontiersman befriends Sioux in sweeping ballad of mutual respect Dances With Wolves 9:00pm Paramount Network
Badass slob and FBI snob partner up for misogynist mocking, drug dealer dropping, drunk dancing, odd coupling cop comedy The Heat 9:00pm Film 4
Burnt out lacklustre hacks discover they are more than fan fodder in wry, genre nodding, sexy SciFi comedy perfection Galaxy Quest 9:00pm 5 Star
Brutalised tattoo-oholic seeks confused vengeance in Christopher Nolan’s beer spitting, polaroid addicted, narrative masterpiece Memento 9:45pm BBC Two
Conscientious objector bears courage of his convictions to serve in Army, unarmed and under fire in powerful true tale Hacksaw Ridge 10:45pm ITV1
Mysteriously causing deaths of those immediately around him, amnesiac seeks enigmatic answers: uncommon, off-kilter curio Radius 10:55pm Horror Channel
Pain proof hero and tween assassin battle brutal gangsters in baton battering, child punching, ultraviolence reveling fun Kick-Ass 11:00pm Sky 1
Cop Kevin Bacon becomes embroiled in elaborate and twisted web of blackmail and murder in seductive threesome thriller Wild Things 11:10pm 5 Star
Elvis hallucinater and ex-prostitute go on run in Tarantino’s cameo fueled delectably dialogued Pulp Fiction preamble True Romance 11:45pm Sony Movies
A neurosurgeon’s account of a murder starts to revel a more sinister scheme in old school mystery The Upturned Glass 11:50pm Talking Pictures
Defunct author struggles to forge permanent place in his son's life until unexpected typhoon offers opportunity to rekindle their love in endearing drama After the Storm 00:35am BBC Two
Train traveller Emily Mortimer slips further into murky misadventure of murder and smuggling in icy psychological thriller Transsiberian 00:50am Sony Movies Action
Alien succubus's duty to harvest Scottish men for viscera causes existential crisis in beautifully unnerving horror Under the Skin 00:55am Film 4
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
