Film4 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Film4 Tonight

Film4 is the UK’s free-to-air film channel, on Freeview 14. It dropped its subscription fee on 23 July 2006 and has run on advertising ever since. Tonight, Monday 10 August 2026, Dog opens the evening at 7:05pm, Angel Has Fallen takes the 9pm slot and Peppermint closes the night from 11:20pm.

Film4 Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Film4 schedule for Monday 10 August 2026, on Freeview 14.

What’s on Film4 today

The small hours belong to To Kill a King from 1:50am, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott and Rupert Everett in a 2003 drama set as the English Civil War draws to a close, with Oliver Cromwell and Lord General Fairfax arguing over whether to execute King Charles I. Teleshopping fills the gap from 3:55am to 8am.

LumoTV: Small World, a short sitcom slot, airs at 8am, then Teleshopping returns from 8:30am to 11am.

Playing with Fire opens the daytime films at 11am, John Cena’s 2019 family comedy about a macho fireman lumbered with babysitting three kids he’s just rescued from a blaze. Steel Magnolias follows at 12:55pm, the 1989 tragicomedy with Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah and Dolly Parton set in a Louisiana beauty parlour. All That Heaven Allows runs from 3:15pm, Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, and The Enemy Below closes the afternoon at 5pm, Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens as opposing captains in a 1957 Second World War submarine thriller.

Film4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Dog — Film4, 7:05pm

Channing Tatum stars as an army ranger with PTSD who has to drive a traumatised military dog down the Pacific coast to a fallen comrade’s funeral. The 2022 film is billed as a comedy, but it leans on grief nearly as often as it goes for laughs. Tatum co-directed alongside Reid Carolin.

Angel Has Fallen — Film4, 9pm

Gerard Butler returns as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in this 2019 sequel, framed for an assassination attempt on the president and forced on the run to clear his name. Morgan Freeman is back as President Trumbull, and Nick Nolte joins as Banning’s estranged, off-grid father, who ends up sheltering him in the mountains. It’s the third entry in the Has Fallen series and the most paranoid of the three, with Banning trusting almost nobody around him.

Peppermint — Film4, 11:20pm

Jennifer Garner plays a mother who turns vigilante after a drug cartel kills her husband and daughter, training for five years before coming back to hunt down everyone responsible.

What kind of films are on Film4?

Hollywood and recent theatrical releases

A good chunk of the schedule is mainstream Hollywood: films that played UK multiplexes and reached television a couple of years later. The bigger, more recent titles go in the 9pm and 6.30pm slots, where the audience is widest.

British cinema and Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions, the channel’s film-funding arm, has backed British cinema since 1982, originally trading as Channel Four Films. Four Weddings and a Funeral, Trainspotting, This Is England, 12 Years a Slave, Poor Things — four decades of co-productions, and the reason the channel gets more benefit of the doubt than its commercial rivals.

World cinema, independent and cult film

Film4 shows more subtitled film than any other British free-to-air channel, mostly after 11pm, alongside cult American independents and things that never got a proper UK release. That late shift is the best thing about it.

How to watch Film4

Channel numbers

Where to find Film4 on the main UK platforms:

Film4 is free on all of the above, with no subscription required. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can vary by box and region, so check your on-screen guide if these don’t match.

Streaming online

Film4 streams live and free at channel4.com/now/f4 and via the Channel 4 app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire TV. You’ll need a free Channel 4 account, which takes a couple of minutes to set up. Films that have aired often turn up on demand in the Film4 collection afterwards, but licensing means plenty of them never do, and the ones that make it don’t stay long.

Film4 +1 and catching a film you missed

Film4 +1 runs the same schedule an hour behind, on Freeview 47 and Sky 314. Sit down at 10:15pm with the 9pm premiere already 75 minutes gone and +1 lets you start it near the beginning instead of writing the evening off.

If you miss a film outright and it never appears on demand, wait. Film4 reruns titles fairly regularly, usually in themed seasons or when a director or actor is back in the news, so searching a week or two ahead in your on-screen guide often turns one up.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on Film4 tonight?

Dog, Channing Tatum’s 2022 road-trip comedy, opens at 7:05pm; Angel Has Fallen, the 2019 Gerard Butler action-thriller sequel, takes the 9pm slot; and Peppermint, Jennifer Garner’s 2018 revenge thriller, closes the night from 11:20pm. Full times for the rest of the evening are in the schedule table above.

What time do films start on Film4?

Typically around 11am, 2pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 9pm, and 11pm to midnight. Running lengths shift the exact times day to day, so your on-screen guide has the most accurate information.

Is Film4 free to watch?

Yes, and it has been since it left subscription in July 2006. Expect ad breaks during films, but no fee on any platform.

Can I watch Film4 online for free?

Yes, live at channel4.com or through the Channel 4 app, with a free account.

Verdict

I rate Film4, with reservations. The 9pm slot and the run after 11pm are what keep me coming back: recent releases, the odd Productions title, and foreign-language cinema you’d rarely stumble across on any other free channel. Daytime is mostly the same forty-odd Hollywood titles on rotation, and the ad breaks mid-film wear thin some nights.

Tonight leans towards action rather than anything more considered. Angel Has Fallen is the pick for most households: not ambitious, but Butler and a decent supporting cast (Freeman, Nolte) make the B-movie thrills work. Dog is the softer option if there are kids in the room. Peppermint will do if all you want is a straightforward revenge plot.

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