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, Tuesday 11 August 2026, See How They Run opens the evening at 7:05pm, Missing takes the 9pm slot and Jennifer’s Body closes the night from 11:15pm.

Film4 Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Film4 schedule for Tuesday 11 August 2026, on Freeview 14.

What’s on Film4 today

The small hours belong to Lucy in the Sky at 1:20am, Natalie Portman as an astronaut who starts losing her grip on reality after returning from a mission, loosely inspired by the real case of NASA’s Lisa Nowak, with Jon Hamm and Dan Stevens. Teleshopping fills the gap from 3:45am to 11am.

Man in the Saddle opens the daytime films at 11am, a 1951 Randolph Scott western about a rancher targeted by a wealthier, more powerful neighbour, with Alexander Knox, Joan Leslie and Ellen Drew. The Black Swan follows at 12:45pm, Tyrone Power’s 1942 swashbuckler as a privateer trying to clear Caribbean pirates once he’s made Governor of Jamaica. Fantastic Voyage runs from 2:30pm, the 1966 sci-fi classic with Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence as part of a miniaturised submarine crew injected into an injured diplomat’s body, and The Kid Who Would Be King closes the afternoon at 4:35pm, a 2019 fantasy adventure with Patrick Stewart in which a 12-year-old finds King Arthur’s sword and has to save the country from a sorceress.

Film4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Film4 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026. A five-minute Film4 Interview Programmes filler, Talking Film, sits at 7pm ahead of the first feature.

See How They Run — Film4, 7:05pm

See How They Run (2022) opens the evening at 7:05pm. Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan headline this backstage whodunnit, where a killing on the set of a long-running West End staging of The Mousetrap turns cast and crew into suspects, Adrien Brody included.

Missing — Film4, 9pm

Missing (2023) takes the 9pm slot. Storm Reid plays a teenager who turns every online trick she knows to track down her mother after she vanishes on holiday in Colombia.

Jennifer’s Body — Film4, 11:15pm

Jennifer’s Body (2009) closes the night at 11:15pm. Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star in a horror comedy in which a small-town cheerleader is turned into a killer by a botched ritual, leaving her best friend to work out how to stop her.

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?

See How They Run, the 2022 comedy whodunnit with Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, opens at 7:05pm; Missing, the 2023 online-detective thriller starring Storm Reid, takes the 9pm slot; and Jennifer’s Body, the 2009 Megan Fox horror comedy, closes the night from 11:15pm. 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 mystery and thriller rather than anything darker. Missing is the pick for most households: a modern, screen-based spin on the missing-person thriller that Storm Reid carries well. See How They Run suits anyone after something lighter, an Agatha Christie pastiche with a strong cast having fun with the format. Jennifer’s Body is the late option if horror comedy is more your evening.

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