THIS WEEK’S BEST FILMS

afforded certain privileges by her lineage but must remain behind closed doors at important social gatherings. However, her head is turned by idealistic lawyer John Davinier (Sam Reid), who is involved in a case involving a slave ship.

The Hatton Garden Job (2017) (Film4, 9pm)

FACT is handcuffed to fantasy in this British crime drama directed by Ronnie Thompson, which draws inspiration from the 2015 heist. A criminal (Matthew Goode), known as Basil in news coverage at the time, is released from prison as the puppet of the Hungarian mafia. He is indebted to Erzebet Zslondos (Joely Richardson), wife of a notorious war criminal, and must conjure up a huge payday if he wants to avoid a shallow grave. So Basil contacts Danny Jones (Phil Daniels) with a daring plan: to rob the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd.

WEDNESDAY The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) (Film4, 6.35pm)

SONNY (Dev Patel) and business partner Muriel (Maggie Smith) travel abroad to seek investment for a second hotel and return to India, mindful that funding is dependent on a review from a secret inspector. English traveller Lavinia (Tamsin Greig) and American novelist Guy (Richard Gere) arrive soon after and Sonny is convinced that Guy must be the inspector so he ignores Lavinia and lavishes attention on the writer. Meanwhile Sonny is preoccupied with his impending nuptials to Sunaina (Tina Desai) and a simmering rivalry for his fiancee’s affections from snake-hipped family friend Kush (Shazad Latif).

Only God Forgives (2013) (Sony Movie Channel, 11.20pm)

LEADING man Ryan Gosling reunites with Nicolas Winding Refn, director of Drive, for this brutal and uncompromising thriller. American expat Julian Thompson (Gosling) runs a boxing The Hatton Garden Job, based on the 2015 London robbery

club in Bangkok which is a front for a lucrative drug-smuggling operation. His older brother Billy (Tom Burke) is beaten to death by Choi Yan Lee (Kovit Wattanakul), the father of a young prostitute, whom Billy raped then murdered. When Julian confronts Choi about the retribution killing, he discovers that the head of the Thai police sanctioned the crime.

THURSDAY Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) (ITV2, 6.25pm)

WHEN we catch up with Harry (Daniel

Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), they are still on the hunt for horcruxes, the objects in which Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has hidden parts of his soul to render him immortal. Unfortunately the dark lord has worked out what they’re up to and amasses his followers for one final showdown at Hogwarts school. If you thought that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 could have done with a little more magic and a little less teenage angst, never fear – the brains behind the movie saga were saving all the action for Part 2. Not only does it

feature thrilling setpieces, it pulls off the impressive feat of bringing the boy wizard’s tale to a satisfying conclusion.

The Sweeney (2012) (Film4, 10.55pm)

FLYING Squad hardman DI Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew) hunt a gang of wily European thieves led by Francis Allen (Paul Anderson). Frustratingly the team cannot find sufficient evidence to charge Allen, and Regan is forced to let the suspect go after hours of intense questioning. Tensions in the department explode when internal affairs officer Ivan Lewis (Steven Mackintosh) embarks on a personal crusade to bring down Regan, who just happens to be bedding Lewis’s wife Nancy (Hayley Atwell).

FRIDAY The Krays (1990) (ITV4, 9pm)

SPANDAU Ballet siblings Gary and Martin Kemp may have seemed unlikely casting at the time, but they were very impressive as Ronnie and Reggie, the vicious Kray twins who ruled Sixties London’s underworld with fear and violence. The result is a stark and occasionally brutal drama, which deals rather well with the complex influences – maternal power, filial devotion and homosexual tension – that shaped the gangland supremos.

Sexy Beast (2000) (Film4, 10.55pm)

RETIRED safecracker Gal (Ray Winstone) is living it up in Spain when he receives an unwanted visit from Logan (Ben Kingsley), an old underworld contact. Logan desperately wants to recruit Gal for a bank vault job, but he isn’t interested. However, Logan is determined to get his man, leading to a violent confrontation that ends in disaster – and a meeting with a hard-bitten London gangster. Sexy Beast features career-best performances from Kingsley and Winstone.