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The best films to watch on UK TV today: Saturday, 5 September

Ginger and Rosa, Hail, Caesar!, Z For Zachariah.
Ginger and Rosa, Hail, Caesar!, Z For Zachariah.

Take your pick from the sort-of-sequel-to-Se7en, a 60s-set coming of age drama, sapphic noir and more as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Saturday 5 September.

Some films may require a Sky subscription.

Dumped by previous motivator, All Valley Karate Champion spends college tuition on Japanese lesson in honour culture and drum technique splurge The Karate Kid Part II 11:45am Dave

Tricky city trader slips in swimming pool, fancies feisty Fanny and becomes smitten with country life in charming romance A Good Year 12:45pm Sony Movies

Temptation and free-thinking cause friction as an irreligious woman sets up shop opposite a church in mouthwatering treat Chocolat 3:05pm Sony Movies

Kidnapped ex-rancher must turn the tables on ruthless ransom demanding newlywed captors in top taut and tense thriller The Tall T 4:30pm Sony Movies Action

Indomitable woman time tumbles across exquisitely imagined charismatic fantasy on unpossible journey Alice Through the Looking Glass 4:30pm BBC One

Hollywood fixer wades through deluge of religious imagery and communist plots in Coen Bros’ economically ironic sprawler Hail, Caesar! 4:35pm Film4

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Taking a sabbatical from reaping, Death personified learns the pleasures and pains of mortal life in atypical fantasy Meet Joe Black 5:25pm Sony Movies

Duped into indentured servitude by waxy drunk, bullied poor kid wins girl's heart by publicly face kicking pretty-boy The Karate Kid (1984) 6:25pm 5 Star

Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio in a scene from the film 'The Karate Kid', 1984. (Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)
Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio in a scene from the film 'The Karate Kid', 1984. (Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)

Returning aristocratic ape-man / ant-eater assists Congolese tribes to derail Belgian bad guy’s plans for slavery in gorilla-punching adventure The Legend of Tarzan 6:50pm ITV2

Driven to insanity by hunger, once proud New-Yorker craves his best friend's striped flesh- brine spitting kids comedy Madagascar 7:15pm E4

Nelson Mandela charges captain Matt Damon to unite divided South Africans in rugby-victorious glory in Clint Eastwood's Invictus 8:05pm BBC One

Oblivious man travels through formative years of America’s adolescence without noticing any of it. Also eats some chocolates Forrest Gump 9:00pm Sky 1

Bank burgling hostage takers discover suicide inducing vengeful ghouls in safe housing cellar in off-kilter crime-horror The Vault 9:00pm Horror Channel

A mother's agony and refusal to accept wrong child is her missing son causes police to abuse power in terrifying drama Changeling 9:00pm Sony Movies

Simon Pegg and Kate Ashfield in Shaun Of The Dead (Image by Working Title)
Simon Pegg and Kate Ashfield in Shaun Of The Dead (Image by Working Title)

North London losers batter and bludgeon undead hordes- record breaking, mum saving, pub raiding eccentric zomromcom Shaun of the Dead 9:00pm ITV2

Abandoned astronaut sciences himself into a poo-planting, potato farming, space pirate to aid maverick rescue mission The Martian 9:00pm Film4

Matchstick counting savant is exploited by greedy brother before he learns fraternal love in Oscar-winning drama Rain Man 9:00pm 5 Star

After dropping cheap-glove-buyer’s girlfriend off mountain Rocky rescuer battles psychopath’s heist gang in stalactite impaler Cliffhanger 9:50pm ITV4

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine vie for Margot Robbie’s post-apocalyptic affections in understated and sublime drama Z for Zachariah 11:00pm BBC One

376554 03: After friend and fellow patient Polly lands herself in solitary, Lisa (Angelina Jolie, left) and Susanna (Winona Ryder) serenade her in the Columbia Pictures presentation, "Girl, Interrupted." Photo credit: Suzanne Tenner 1999 Columbia Pictures, Inc
376554 03: After friend and fellow patient Polly lands herself in solitary, Lisa (Angelina Jolie, left) and Susanna (Winona Ryder) serenade her in the Columbia Pictures presentation, "Girl, Interrupted." Photo credit: Suzanne Tenner 1999 Columbia Pictures, Inc

Admitted to psych-ward, disillusioned misfit free-loving 1960s teen befriends rebellious charismatic misanthrope Girl, Interrupted 11:50pm Sony Movies

FBI profilers enlist clairvoyant consultant Anthony Hopkins to help hunt psychic serial killer in sort-of Se7en sequel Solace 11:50pm Film 4

Callow housewife and jaded BFF assert their womanhood in crime spree road-trip: iconic journey of self-discovery Thelma & Louise 11:50pm 5 Star

Inseparable best friends' free spirited coming of age becomes fraught with clashing desires and threat of Cuban missile crisis in heartfelt, affecting drama Ginger & Rosa 00:45am BBC Two

Same-sex lovers’ plot to rob the mob and frame scumbag boyfriend goes awry in Wachowski Sisters’ sapphic neo-noir thriller Bound 2:30am Horror Channel

Everything new on streaming in September:

The films premiering on Sky Cinema and Now TV in September

The best new films coming to Disney+ in September

Everything coming to Netflix UK in September

Everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in September