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, Saturday 15 August 2026, Flamin’ Hot opens the evening at 5:10pm, See How They Run follows at 7:05pm, Angel Has Fallen takes the 9pm slot and Monolith closes the night from 11:20pm.

Film4 Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Film4 schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 14.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Film4 today

Infinity Pool opens the small hours at 1:45am. Brandon Cronenberg directs Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth in a clammy 2023 nightmare about a tourist cloned to dodge a death sentence abroad. Teleshopping then runs through until 11am.

Fantastic Voyage, the 1966 sci-fi favourite with Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence aboard a shrunken submarine crew sent into a dying diplomat’s body, opens the daytime schedule at 11am. The Enemy Below follows at 1:05pm, Robert Mitchum’s destroyer captain squaring off against Curt Jurgens’ U-boat commander in a tense Second World War duel. Secret Headquarters, Owen Wilson’s family comedy about a boy who works out his slacker dad is secretly a superhero, airs at 3:05pm before Flamin’ Hot opens the evening at 5:10pm.

Film4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Film4 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

Flamin’ Hot — Film4, 5:10pm

Eva Longoria’s directorial debut takes the early evening slot. Jesse Garcia plays the factory janitor turned snack-food inventor, and the film leans on his charm more than any real edge.

See How They Run — Film4, 7:05pm

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan lead a starry ensemble through a backstage murder on a 1950s production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson and Harris Dickinson round out a cast that seems to be enjoying the whodunnit’s own tricks as much as the audience does.

Angel Has Fallen — Film4, 9pm

Gerard Butler is back as Secret Service agent Mike Banning for a third instalment, on the run after being set up for an attack on his own president. Morgan Freeman’s vice-president gives the plot a steadier centre than the earlier films managed, and once Banning goes off-grid the pace barely lets up.

Monolith — Film4, 11:20pm

Lily Sullivan carries this Australian chiller almost single-handedly, playing a disgraced journalist chasing a comeback through calls about a mysterious black brick turning up in strangers’ lives. One location, one performer, and a slow-build unease that outstrips the budget.

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?

Flamin’ Hot, Eva Longoria’s 2023 biopic starring Jesse Garcia, opens the evening at 5:10pm; See How They Run, the 2022 whodunnit with Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, follows at 7:05pm; Angel Has Fallen, Gerard Butler’s 2019 action thriller, takes the 9pm slot; and Monolith, a 2022 Australian sci-fi chiller with Lily Sullivan, 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’s line-up runs from a feelgood underdog story to a slow-burn sci-fi chiller. Flamin’ Hot is genial rather than gripping, though Jesse Garcia holds the screen well. Angel Has Fallen is the one worth building the evening around, Butler doing exactly what he does best against a backdrop of political conspiracy. See How They Run and Monolith bookend the night neatly either side of it: a starry whodunnit followed by a minimalist horror that trusts a single performer to carry ninety-odd minutes alone.

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