Betty Blue

Film4, 10.45pm

Oscar-nominated erotic drama from the people who know how best to do these things – the French. Beatrice Dalle makes a startling screen debut as Betty, a young woman who embarks on a passionate affair with handyman and would-be writer Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade). But it inexorably drifts towards a tragic conclusion as she becomes increasingly unbalanced. In French with English subtitles.

Film4, 5pm

Fantasy adventure adapted from a children’s book by Jeanne DuPrau. A city built 200 years ago as a subterranean refuge for humanity from an unspecified threat is now placed in peril by a failing generator, which will plunge the population into permanent darkness. Unsatisfied by the assurances of the incompetent mayor, two adolescents make their own bid to rescue the city.

E4, 8pm

Not many women would let Channing Tatum slip through their fingers but Amanda Seyfried could be about to let that happen in this romantic tale from The Notebook’s Nicholas Sparks. Military man John (Tatum) and college student Savannah (Seyfried) fall in love during a summer holiday but when John goes to war in the wake of 9/11, the pair struggle to keep the flame alive. Then John receives word that she is engaged to someone else.

Super

Film4, 11.05pm

The first of a double-bill of James Gunn movies showing ahead of the release of the filmmaker’s new sci-fi adventure, Guardians of the Galaxy. That film is aimed at a young audience but this black comedy, which treads a similar path to Kick Ass, is certainly not. After being left by his wife for a local drug dealer, chef Frank D’Arbo (Rainn Wilson) responds by becoming The Crimson Bolt.