WEDNESDAY

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A Garage Sale Mystery (2016) PG

3.15PM, CH5

A fifth film in the Garage Sale Mystery series, starring Lori Loughlin as Jennifer Shannon, the antiques queen with a nose for sleuthing. While rummaging for treasures, Jen finds a body in a barn – and her friend is arrested for the murder.

The Searchers

(1956) U

6.35PM, TCM

John Ford’s sublime western presents the genre’s key themes in perfect form; this is a film that no discerning cinephile can do without. John Wayne (below) stars as the bitter cowboy setting out across the stark Texas plains with murder and revenge in mind.

Life At The Top

(1965) PG

9PM, TALKING PICTURES

Sequel to 1959’s acclaimed Room at the Top. Laurence Harvey returns as Joe Lampton, and this time, it’s Jean Simmons and Honor Blackman who get wrapped up in a gripping, dark tale of liberty, love and loss.

Victoria & Abdul

(2017) PG

8PM, SKY DRAMA

Twenty years after Mrs Brown, Judi Dench (below) stars in another portrait of Queen Victoria in her post-Albert years, this time charting her unlikely friendship with a dashing young Indian man. There’s a twinkle in her eye when she’s in the company of her ‘Munshi’.

The Duellists

(1977) PG

10PM, SKY SELECT

Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel are the duelling French Hussars whose rivalry lasts longer than the wars they fight in. Ridley Scott’s lavish debut is based on a story by Joseph Conrad – which in turn was inspired by a real-life, long-running series of duels.

Savages

(2012) 15 1.25AM, CH4

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Taylor Kitsch are the pals and ‘ethical’ drug dealers whose business model threatens that of Salma Hayek’s drug baroness. Outrageous and occasionally trying, this is not without evidence that director Oliver Stone used to know what he was doing…