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

Published: 15 September 2026

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, Wednesday 16 September 2026, is a straightforward three-film night: the George Clooney-led war drama The Monuments Men (2014) opens at 6:45pm, the Steve Coogan satire Greed (2019) takes the 9pm slot, and the journalism drama She Said (2022) closes the night from 11:10pm.

Film4 Schedule: Wednesday 16 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Film4 schedule for Wednesday 16 September 2026, on Freeview 14.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Film4 today

The overnight run opens with the drama You Were Never Really Here just after midnight, then the heist thriller Thief carries the small hours before a long teleshopping block takes the channel from 4am through to 11am.

Four more films carry the rest of the day: the comedy It Should Happen to You from 11am, the western Western Union at 12:45pm, another western in The Last Wagon from mid-afternoon, and the crime thriller Hell and High Water running into the early evening ahead of tonight’s line-up from 6:45pm.

Film4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Film4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 16 September 2026.

The Monuments Men — Film4, 6:45pm

George Clooney directs and stars in this 2014 account of the Allied unit tasked with tracking down art the Nazis looted across Europe, with Matt Damon, Bill Murray and John Goodman rounding out the platoon.

Greed — Film4, 9pm

Steve Coogan plays a retail tycoon whose extravagant birthday party unravels into a public reckoning, in Michael Winterbottom’s 2019 satire on obscene wealth.

She Said — Film4, 11:10pm

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the New York Times journalists whose reporting on Harvey Weinstein helped trigger the #MeToo reckoning, in this 2022 drama.

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?

The Monuments Men opens the evening at 6:45pm, Greed follows at 9pm, and She Said closes the night from 11:10pm. Full times for the rest of the day, including It Should Happen to You at 11am and Western Union in the early afternoon, 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 is a straightforward three-film run, no odd shorts wedged between them. The Monuments Men at 6:45pm is solid rather than gripping, an ensemble cast clearly enjoying itself more than the pacing quite earns. Greed at 9pm is the sharper choice of the evening, Coogan playing the kind of character satire is built for. She Said closes out from 11:10pm, a measured, unshowy film about reporting rather than the story it broke. Daytime keeps to the channel’s usual rotation of classic Hollywood, westerns and mid-century adventure, none of it built to be a centrepiece on its own.

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