As usual on the weekend, there's a lot more meat on the bone to the choices of films on TV today compared to the scraps we live off during the week.
We've got your whole day covered with 17 selections of movies for you today, with all genres and age groups catered for.
Films On TV Tonight
Empire of the Sun: 12.50PM, RTE One
Year: 1987
Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
Plot: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. (IMDb)
Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)
South Pacific: 3.35PM, BBC Two
Year: 1958
Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Plot: On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military miss (IMDb)
Rating: 80% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Philadelphia: 4.25PM, True Movies
Year: 1993
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell
Plot: When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. (IMDb)
Rating: 80% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Dances With Wolves: 4.55PM, Sony Movie Channel
Year: 1990
Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
Plot: Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. (IMDb)
Rating: 83% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Strangers on a Train: 7,20PM, TCM
Year: 1951
Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Plot: A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. (IMDb)
Rating: 98% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, ITV Two
Year: 2009
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams
Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. (IMDb)
Rating: 69% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Rambo: 9pm, Sony Movies
Year: 2008
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden
Plot: In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. (IMDb)
Rating: 69% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Disturbia: 9pm, Film Four
Year: 2007
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss
Plot: A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer. (IMDb)
Rating: 69% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Dirty Harry: 9.15pm, TCM
Year: 1971
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino
Plot: When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. (IMDb)
Rating: 89% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin: 9.15pm, Sky One
Year: 2005
Cast: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd
Plot: Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother. (IMDb)
Rating: 85% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Hope Springs: 10.05pm, TG4
Year: 2012
Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell
Plot: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship. (IMDb)
Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Chuck: 10.45pm, Sony Movie Channel
Year: 2016
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman
Plot: A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, who had a once-in-a-lifetime bout with Muhammad Ali that would inspire the film Rocky (IMDb)
Rating: 80% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Attack The Block: 11.05pm, Film Four
Year: 2011
Cast: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail
Plot: A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. (IMDb)
Rating: 90% (Rotten Tomatoes)
American Graffiti: 11.10pm, True Movies
Year: 1973
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat
Plot: A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. (IMDb)
Rating: 96% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Traders: 11.40pm, RTE Two
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Year: 2015
Cast: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Nika McGuigan
Plot: What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading. (IMDb)
Rating: 80% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Commune: 00.00AM, BBC Two
Year: 2016
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares, Ulrich Thomsen
Plot: A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s. (IMDb)
Rating: 71% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Blues Brothers: 00.25AM, RTE One
Year: 1980
Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd
Plot: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. (IMDb)
Rating: 84% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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