Every day over the Christmas break here on the Rewind, we scrawl through the listings to find you the best movies on TV to enjoy as we spend Christmas in lockdown.
As always at this time of year, there's a lot to choose from, but the quality varies wildly.
We have waded through the never-ending list of films to find what we think are the best or most enjoyable 15 films available today.
As usual, all of these films are available on non subscription channels, though may not be on all platforms.
To Catch a Thief: 1.05pm, BBC Two
Year: 1955
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
Plot: A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. (IMDb)
Rating: 96% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Queen of Katwe: 1.35PM, RTE One
Year: 2016
Cast: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o
Plot: A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess. (IMDb)
Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)
A League of Their Own: 1.35PM, Sony Movie Channel
Year: 1992
Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty
Plot: Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry. (IMDb)
Rating: 78% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Secret Garden: 1.45PM, RTE Two
Year: 1993
Cast: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
Plot: A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets. (IMDb)
Rating: 88% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Trolls: 1.50PM, BBC One
Year: 2016
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel
Plot: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the curmudgeonly Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends. (IMDb)
Rating: 76% (Rotten Tomatoes)
North by Northwest: 2.30PM, BBC Two
Year: 1959
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot: A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. (IMDb)
Rating: 99% (Rotten Tomatoes)
How to Train Your Dragon 2: 3.35PM, BBC One
Year: 2014
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler
Plot: When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. (IMDb)
Rating: 91% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Dumb and Dumber: 6.45PM, Comedy Central
Year: 1994
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly
Plot: After a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it. (IMDb)
Rating: 68% (Rotten Tomatoes)
How to Train Your Dragon: 7.30PM, E4
Year: 2010
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Plot: A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. (IMDb)
Rating: 99% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Fugitive: 9.00PM, ITV4
Year: 1993
Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Plot: Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. (IMDb)
Rating: 96% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Matrix: 9.00PM, TCM
Year: 1999
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Plot: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. (IMDb)
Rating: 88% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Playboys: 10.10PM, Virgin Media One
Year: 1992
Cast: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright
Plot: A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty. The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one of the "Playboys", Tom Casey (IMDb)
Rating: 92% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Inside Llewyn Davis: 10.30PM, TG4
Year: 2013
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
Plot: A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. (IMDb)
Rating: 92% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople: 10.50PM, FilmFour
Year: 2016
Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
Plot: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. (IMDb)
Rating: 97% (Rotten Tomatoes)
The War of the Roses: 12.10AM, RTE One
Year: 1989
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Plot: A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle. (IMDb)
Rating: 85% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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