This Week's Essential Movies for Free T.V Guide

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, DEATH RACE 2000, DIE HARD... all on your TV for free this week!

SATURDAY 17.00, C4 €“ Carry on Screaming (1966) A mad scientist transforms young females into shop mannequins. 21.00, C4 €“ Entrapment (1999) An ageing art thief is hunted by a young insurance investigator. 21.00, Five US €“ Atlantic City (1980) A former small-time gangster helps a waitress in distress with the mafia. Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon star. 22.55, More4 €“ The Contender (2000) A right-wing congressman attempts to thwart the way for the first female vice president. 23.10, C4 €“ Creep (2004) A young women finds herself locked inside the London Underground where something gruesome is haunting commuters. 23.20, Film4 €“ Scream (1997) A small town is terrorised by a psychopathic murdering horror geek. 00.00, BBC2 €“ Hell in the Pacific (1968) Two man of opposing sides during the Second World War are stranded together on a desert island. 01.25, Film4 €“ Frenzy (1972) Hitchcock classic about a notorious neck-tie killer mutilating women in Covent Garden. SUNDAY 21.00, C4 €“ House of Flying Daggers (2004) Zhang Yimou martial arts adventure set in 19th century China. Two deputies fight for the devotion of a blind courtesan. 21.00, Five €“ Spy Game (2001) A veteran CIA agent comes to the rescue of his former protege after he has been arrested in China. 21.00, ITV3 €“ 1941 (1979) Spielberg comedy centered around the aftermath of Pearl Harbour and staring Lorraine Gary and John Belushi. 21.00, Film4 €“ The Shawshank Redemption (1994) A banker forms a deep felt friendship with an older inmate while serving a sentence for murder. 23.40, Film4 €“ The Player (1992) A producer is blackmailed for by a writer who's script he turned down. 23.40, E4 €“ Serial Mom (1994) John Waters' comedy staring mum Kathleen Turner as an unlikely serial killer. 00.10, ITV3 €“ Bugsy (1991) Warren Beatty biopic on the infamous American gangster who was behind the development of Las Vegas. Also staring Annette Benning. 01.40, ITV4 €“ Death Race 2000 (1975) David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone star in this sci-fi adventure about a brutal cross-country race where the drivers knock over pedestrians for points. MONDAY 18.55, Film4 €“ Gallipoli (1981) Wartime drama with Mel Gibson. Two Austrian sprinters are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War 1. 22.00, ITV4 €“ Death Race 2000 (1975) See sunday at 01.40 22.05, More4 €“ Walter (1982) After the deaths of his parents a mentally-handicapped man is sent to an institution. Starring Ian McKellen. 22.50, Film4 €“ The End of the Affair (1999) Neil Jordan's romantic drama with Ralph Fiennes as a novelist who rekindles a forgotten affair with his ex-mistress. 23.05, ITV1 €“ Almost Famous (2000) A journalist goes on tour with a rock band. 23.55, BBC1 €“ The Andromeda Strain (1970) Tense science-fiction drama about a group of scientists fighting against the clock to thwart a deadly alien virus. TUESDAY 04.30, Film4 €“ Repo Man (1984) A young puck becomes regenerated as a repo man after quitting his grocery job. Tuesday 21.00, Five US €“ Boys N the Hood (1991) Hard-hitting crime drama with Lawrence Fishbourne. 21.00, Virgin 1 €“ A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Crime comedy about a group of con artists who attempt to double cross one another. 23.15, Film4 €“ A Clockwork Orange (1971) A teenage delinquent finds himself the latest Ginnie pig for a new experiment in violence aversion. 23.50, BBC1 €“ The American President (1995) A president falls for the opposition. WEDNESDAY 13.55 C4 €“ Daleks:Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) Sequel to DR WHO AND THE DALEKS which sees the titular foes attempt to take over the earth. 15.05, Film4 €“ Black Narcissus (1946) Powell and Pressburger drama about a group of nuns in the Himalayas who's repressive sexual desires are challenged by the presence of a handsome stranger. 21.00, ITV2 €“ Crocodile Dundee (1986) An Australian bushman attempts to adapt to the big apple. 21.00, Film4 €“ Batman Returns (1992) The knight returns to do battle against a corrupt senator, a penguin and a new feline foe. 22.00, Five €“ The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) The troubled past comes back to haunt an amnesiac. 01.20, ITV4 €“ Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Based on the true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucus. THURSDAY 22.00, ITV44 €“ Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer See Wednesday 01.20 23.00, ITV2 €“ Die Hard (1988) A New York cop has to thwart the plans of a terrorist group who take hostages in a LA office building. 23.05, Film4 €“ The Player (1992) Biting satire as a producer finds himself being stalked by a blackmailer. FRIDAY 21.00, ITV2 €“ Die Hard See Thursday 22.00 22.00, E4 €“ Phone Booth (2002) A cheating sales exec finds his life threatened when he is targeted by a sniper and held up in a phone booth. 22.50, Film4 €“ If... (1968) A rebellious teen leads a revolt against a strict British private school. 23.00, ITV4 €“ Fortress (1993) A couple are held prisoners in a high-tech prison facility after illegally attempting to snuck in a baby past emigration in a population controlled future.

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Oliver Pfeiffer is a freelance writer who trained at the British Film Institute. He joined OWF in 2007 and now contributes as a Features Writer. Since becoming Obsessed with Film he has interviewed such diverse talents as actors Keanu Reeves, Tobin Bell, Dave Prowse and Naomie Harris, new Hammer Studios Head Simon Oakes and Hollywood filmmakers James Mangold, Scott Derrickson and Uk director Justin Chadwick. Previously he contributed to dimsum.co.uk and has had other articles published in Empire, Hecklerspray, Se7en Magazine, Pop Matters, The Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle and more recently SciFiNow Magazine and The Guardian. He loves anything directed by Cronenberg, Lynch, Weir, Haneke, Herzog, Kubrick and Hitchcock and always has time for Hammer horror films, Ealing comedies and those twisted Giallo movies. His blog is: http://sites.google.com/site/oliverpfeiffer102/