TV FILMS of the week
1 ME BEFORE YOU Today, Channel 5, 4.15pm
William Traynor (Sam Claflin) is a handsome high-flyer in London, who is left paralysed after an accident. He returns to his family home under the care of his parents (Charles Dance and Janet McTeer), and relinquishes his lust for life. In order to raise his spirits, the Traynors advertise for a companion for their son and misfit Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke, pictured with Claflin) answers the call. An unlikely friendship threatens to blossom into romance but Louisa already has a fitness-obsessed boyfriend (Matthew Lewis). Adapted from the bestselling novel by Jojo Moyes, this is a tear-stained romance.
2 SORRY ANGEL Tomorrow, BBC4, 10pm
In this 1990s-set gay romance, HIV-positive writer Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) is resigned to the idea that he will never forge a meaningful connection with another man. That is until he meets younger man Arthur (Vincent Lacoste, pictured with Deladonchamps). Feelings intensify but Jacques has commitments to his dying ex.
3 ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Monday, Film4, 6.55pm
Socially awkward high school student Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann) visits estranged childhood friend Rachel Kushner (Olivia Cooke, pictured), who has been diagnosed with leukaemia. To impress his high school crush, Greg agrees to make a film for Rachel with his creative partner Earl (RJ Cyler) in this beautifully judged rites-of-passage drama.
4 UNSANE Tuesday, Film4, 9pm
Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy, left) has moved from Boston to Pennsylvania to escape a barrage of texts from unstable admirer David Strine (Joshua Leonard). She visits a behavioural centre offering support to victims of stalking, but is horrified to discover a nurse bearing a spooky resemblance to David. Unsane is a hallucinogenic mind trip.
5 THE MATRIX Wednesday, ITV4, 10pm
Computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves, left) is charged with enlightening the human race to the fact that reality, as they know it, isn’t all that it appears. It turns out everyone is living in a computer simulation, but Neo is plucked out of the hi-tech illusion by a team of freedom fighters determined to reveal the truth, in this sci-fi hit.
6 A UNITED KINGDOM Thursday, BBC4, 9pm
In this true story, Prince Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), heir apparent to the nation of Bechuanaland – now Botswana – is studying law in Britain in 1947 when he falls for white British clerk Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike, pictured with Oyelowo). Their plan to marry sparks a diplomatic firestorm and domestic political tumult.
7 YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Friday, Film4, 11.20pm
Unflinching revenge thriller based on Jonathan Ames’ novella of the same title. Traumatised war veteran-turned-hitman Joe (Joaquin Phoenix, left) accepts a meeting with a senator whose teenage daughter Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) is missing. The politician has received a tip-off that his girl is a sex slave in a brothel in Manhattan.