Hitchcock's celebrated pre-Psycho thriller stars James Stewart as the ex-policeman who becomes obsessed with an enigmatic blonde (Kim Novak) and his crippling fear of heights. (1958)
PULP FICTION
Today, BBC2, 11.50pmWith Satu
rday Night Fever a distant memory, Uma Thurman teaches John Travolta how to really work a dancefloor in Tarantino's super-stylish gangster flick. King of Cool Samuel L Jackson completes the mix as Travolta's Bible-bashing, gun-toting accomplice. (1994)
25TH HOUR
Tuesday, BBC1, 11.25pmSpike Lee directs Ed Norton as a New York drug dealer spending his last night of freedom before serving a seven-year stint in jail. (2002)
KEEPING THE FAITH
Today, BBC1, 11.05pmThis time Norton takes the director's chair for a plot that the team at Hollyoaks have obviously picked up on – a rabbi (Ben Stiller) and a priest (Norton) fall in love with a woman they can't have. (2000)
THE RED SHOES
Saturday, BBC2, 1.30pmMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's visually stunning adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairytale charts the fate of Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), a prima ballerina who gives her life over to art. (1948)
JACKASS: THE MOVIE
Saturday, Channel 4, 10.10pmJohnny Knoxville and his pain-mongering friends prove the devil makes work for idle male twenty-somethings as they attempt to outdo each other with idiotic stunts. The result is almost as painful for the viewer. (2002)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Today, Five, 9pmThe final instalment in Roberto Rodriguez's western-style trilogy sees Antonio Banderas return as Manito El Mariachi to kill the man who murdered his wife and child. But it's Johnny Depp who (as ever) puts in the best performance as the CIA agent who recruits Mariachi. (2003)
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