GREAT! Movies TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On GREAT! Movies Tonight

GREAT! Movies is a free-to-air film channel, though a fair bit harder to stumble across since a 2025 reshuffle of the Freeview line-up (more on that below). Tonight, Monday 17 August 2026, the evening opens with A Murderer Upstairs, a stepdaughter-under-suspicion thriller with Josie Davis, before Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody’s crime drama American Heist takes the 9:08pm slot, and the 2015 campus thriller Trigger Point, starring Jordan Hinson, closes out the night.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight hours belong to two contemporary crime pictures before the schedule turns to horses and gunfights. Son Of A Gun opens at 12:39am, a 2014 heist thriller with Ewan McGregor and Alicia Vikander in which a young prisoner falls in with Australia’s most dangerous inmate ahead of a gold robbery. Blowback follows at 2:34am, a 2022 revenge thriller starring Randy Couture as a professional thief hunting down the crew that turned on him mid-job.

Two westerns take the small hours. Wrangler runs from 4:14am, a 1989 outback drama with Jeff Fahey in which a woman fighting to save her family’s ranch finds herself caught between two rival suitors. Lone Rider follows at 5:54am, a 2008 western with Lou Diamond Phillips as a Civil War veteran who comes home to find a corrupt landowner has taken over his town.

Air Rescue then holds the whole of breakfast, six short episodes back to back from 7:24am to 9:36am, following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service as they’re scrambled to a fresh emergency each time. Hellgate takes over at 10:03am, a 1952 Sterling Hayden western about a rancher wrongly locked up in a desert jail as a plague outbreak threatens to overwhelm it, and Living With The Enemy follows at 11:35am, a 2005 thriller with Sarah Lancaster as a new bride whose tech-billionaire husband turns out to have a past worth hiding.

The afternoon runs on Lifetime-style thrillers. Staged Killer airs at 1:10pm, a 2019 drama with Chrishell Stause as a TV host whose career takes off just as her private life starts to unravel around a returning former co-host. Circle Of Friends follows at 2:48pm, a 2006 thriller with Julie Benz in which a funeral brings old friends back together and uncovers a secret about their home town. Pretty Cheaters, Deadly Lies takes the 4:23pm slot, a 2020 thriller with Kate Drummond about a student blackmailed into sitting her cousin’s college entrance exam, and Final Verdict closes out the early evening at 5:59pm, a 2009 thriller with Erica Durance as a prosecutor whose old case starts producing bodies once the conviction behind it is overturned.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

A Murderer Upstairs (2017) — GREAT! Movies, 7:34pm

A Murderer Upstairs, sometimes listed elsewhere as Secrets of My Stepdaughter, casts Josie Davis as a mother whose new stepdaughter survives a violent attack that leaves her best friend dead. The girl’s account of what happened keeps shifting, and Cindy starts to wonder whether the real danger has been living under her own roof.

American Heist (2014) — GREAT! Movies, 9:08pm

Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody lead American Heist, a crime drama built around two brothers bound by an old debt: one did time for a robbery they both committed, and now the other wants him pulled back in for one more job. It’s the biggest name on tonight’s schedule and the pick of the three.

Trigger Point (2015) — GREAT! Movies, 10:48pm

Trigger Point closes the night, a low-budget thriller with Jordan Hinson as a college student pulled into direct action against a corporation after her father loses his job. Worth flagging that at least two other films share this title, including a 2021 action thriller with Barry Pepper, so don’t go hunting for that one by mistake.

What kind of films are on GREAT! Movies

Classic Hollywood and westerns

The overnight schedule is where the channel’s deepest library lives: 1950s and ’60s Hollywood, John Wayne westerns through to Alan Ladd dramas, accumulated over more than a decade of broadcasting. It’s also the only stretch of the day where the films are genuinely old rather than just cheap, and if you set a recorder for anything here, set it for the small hours.

Lifetime-style crime and thriller movies

Daytime belongs to the made-for-TV thriller that Lifetime and its American equivalents turn out at pace. Missing persons, family secrets, one twist, done inside 90 minutes. Quality swings about a good deal from title to title, and none of it is trying to be more than something to have on.

Contemporary action and thriller premieres

Evenings bring newer titles, generally from the last five to twenty years, mostly domestic-menace thrillers with the occasional proper action picture and a recognisable lead.

How to watch GREAT! Movies

Channel numbers

GREAT! Movies isn’t where it used to be. Here’s where to actually find it now:

Until 4 September 2025 this was an ordinary aerial-only channel on Freeview 50 and Sky 321. GREAT! Mystery has those slots now. Nothing about it costs money, but the broadband requirement is the bit that catches people out, particularly anyone still using an older box.

Streaming online

GREAT! Movies streams free through Great! Player at great-player.com, no account required, with apps for Amazon Fire TV, YouView, and Samsung and LG smart TVs, plus the App Store and Google Play. Alongside the live stream there’s a library of past films, which is how you pick something up after it has aired.

GREAT! sister channels

GREAT! Movies is one of five channels Narrative Entertainment UK Limited runs under the GREAT! banner, all of them part of Sony’s UK line-up before the 2021 sale and rebrand.

All five sit in the same Great! Player app, which is how you reach GREAT! Movies on the platforms that no longer list it.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is GREAT! Movies on Freeview?

Channel 62, a connected Freeview Play slot since 4 September 2025, so it needs broadband as well as an aerial. Older Freeview boxes and standalone recorders without internet access can’t tune in. Freely carries it on 57.

Is GREAT! Movies still on Sky and Virgin Media?

Not under this name. Its old Sky slots (321, HD 318, +1 322) and Virgin Media slot were permanently rebranded to GREAT! Mystery in the same swap. Great! Player is the way to watch it if your TV isn’t set up for Freeview Play or Freely.

What’s on GREAT! Movies tonight?

A Murderer Upstairs at 7:34pm, with Josie Davis as a mother growing suspicious of her own stepdaughter. American Heist at 9:08pm, with Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody as brothers on opposite sides of the same old crime. Trigger Point closes the night at 10:48pm, a 2015 thriller with Jordan Hinson. Christensen and Brody in American Heist are the most recognisable names on tonight’s schedule.

Is GREAT! Movies free to watch, and does it carry adverts?

Free on all three: Freeview Play, Freely and Great! Player. There are ad breaks during films, as on any commercially funded channel, but no subscription and no sign-in required.

Who owns GREAT! Movies?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. It launched on Sky in May 2012 as Sony Movie Channel, reached Freeview in January 2017, became Sony Movies in 2019, and took the GREAT! Movies name in May 2021 after Narrative Capital bought Sony’s UK free-to-air channels.

What are the GREAT! sister channels?

GREAT! Action (Freeview 42), GREAT! TV (Freeview 34), GREAT! Romance (Freeview 52) and GREAT! Mystery (Freeview 50), which took over GREAT! Movies’ old, more prominent Freeview slot. All stream free via Great! Player.

Can I watch GREAT! Movies online for free, and is there catch-up?

Yes. Great! Player at great-player.com, plus apps on Freeview Play, Freely, YouView, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account needed, and the film library works as catch-up.

Verdict

The programming hasn’t got worse. The finding of it has. A channel that used to be a couple of button presses away now wants a broadband connection, a Freeview Play box or the Great! Player app, and some willingness to go looking, which is a genuine cost for something whose whole appeal was being there when you flicked past it.

Whether the effort is worth it depends on the night. Tonight runs a stepdaughter-under-suspicion thriller into Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody’s American Heist, the clear standout of the three, before a low-budget campus thriller sees the night out just before 11pm. A solid rather than essential Monday, but a reasonable one to leave on.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week