SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER - FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER

SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER

3.00-4.20am - ITV1 - BEFORE SUNSET
Romantic drama (a sequel to Before Sunrise), starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Nine years after a brief but intense encounter in Vienna, American Jesse Wallace and Frenchwoman Céline meet again in a Paris bookshop. With only a few hours before Jesse's plane leaves, the pair wonder if there is still a spark between them.
3.15-5.35pm - ITV1 - STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Science-fiction epic starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, the second adventure in the original Star Wars saga. While the rebel forces renew their battle against the evil Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker seeks further instruction in the use of "the Force".

SUNDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

2.45-5.20pm - C5 - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Seminal science-fiction drama starring Richard Dreyfuss. While investigating an extensive power failure in Indiana, Roy Neary encounters a mysterious UFO - a phenomenon also witnessed by Jillian Guiler and her young son. When he is unable to convince anyone of his sighting, Neary's strange behaviour starts to worry his family.
5.35-7.25pm - C4 - X-MEN
Fantasy action adventure based on the Marvel Comics series, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. In a world where humans live alongside mutants with extraordinary powers, there are some that see conflict between the two groups as inevitable. But Professor Charles Xavier and his team of X-Men are determined to stop those hellbent on confrontation.
11.30pm-1.25am - BBC2 - AMERICAN BEAUTY
Oscar-winning black comedy starring Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham, a disillusioned father who's suffering midlife meltdown and is increasingly alienated from grasping, estate-agent wife Carolyn (Annette Bening), sullen teenage daughter Jane and his neighbours. So when he loses his job, Lester's response is a return to an adolescent hedonism that throws his family and the all-American suburb into chaos.

MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

11.00pm-2.05am - ITV4 - APOCALYPSE NOW
Epic war drama starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall. In Vietnam, war-weary Captain Willard is drawn into a nightmarish world when he is ordered to assassinate a rebel American officer, Colonel Kurtz, who has established his own private army deep in the Cambodian jungle.

TUESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER

12.05-2.30am - ITV2 - HANNIBAL
Horror thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore. Ten years after her first encounter with cunning serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter and with her FBI career on the wane, agent Clarice Starling is once again lured into a deadly psychological game with the man they call "Hannibal the Cannibal".
9.00-11.55pm - FILM4 - A TIME TO KILL
Thriller based on John Grisham's bestselling novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L Jackson, Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey. Carl Lee Hailey, a black Mississippi factory worker, shoots the two racist thugs who brutally assaulted his ten-year-old daughter. When white lawyer Jake Brigance takes on Hailey's case, long-standing tensions in the small town of Clanton come to the surface.

WEDNESDAY 7TH NOVEMBER

11.15pm-1.00am - BBC1 - THE RING
Hollywood remake of Japanese horror thriller Ringu, starring Naomi Watts. Investigating the mysterious death of a 16-year-old girl, reporter Rachel Keller discovers the existence of a haunted videotape - anyone who watches it will die within seven days. Is it an urban myth or will Keller suffer a gruesome fate?

THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER

NO PICKS FOR TODAY

FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER

9.00pm-12.20am - MORE4 - THE GODFATHER PART III
Francis Ford Coppola's finale to The Godfather saga, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia. New York, 1979: Michael Corleone wants out of his criminal empire in a search for respectability. But it's difficult to break with the family tradition. Inevitably, the tentacles of the old business prove all-embracing and powerful, with fatal consequences.
9.00-11.15pm - ITV4 - THE KINGDOM
In the wake of the bombing of an American military facility in Saudi Arabia, an FBI agent is given five days to find the perpetrators. However, he encounters suspicion and obstruction from the local authorities, who do not take kindly to Westerners meddling in their affairs. The only person he can turn to is a Saudi police officer, who assists on tracking down an elusive terrorist cell. Thriller, with Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and Chris Cooper.