Television: Films of the week

Published on Friday 27 March 2009 14:06

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS Today, STV, 5pm

Based on the second Potter novel by JK Rowling, it is time for Harry to return to Hogwarts, despite all the warnings. There he finds the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and strange voices haunting him. (2002)

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

Today, Five, 5.50pm

Paul Newman and Robert Redford play the infamous thieves who led the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, in this western directed by George Roy Hill. After holding up a train, the pair try to escape the law by fleeing to Bolivia. (1969)

JOHN Q

Today, Channel 4, 10.50pm

Denzel Washington's life changes completely when his son suffers heart failure while playing baseball. He then discovers his insurance doesn't cover his son's transplant. As the only way to save his kid's life, he decides to take the staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to perform the operation. (2002)

THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE

Tuesday, Channel 4, 1.40pm

A young Tom Hanks stars in this comedy remake of the Seventies French film, Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire. His character becomes a CIA target when he is mistaken for another man during an internal power struggle between the agency's director and deputy. (1985)

A VIEW TO A KILL

Wednesday, STV, 7.30pm

Roger Moore's James Bond has to tackle a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. (1985)

MISSING

Friday, STV, 11.35pm

Costa-Gavras directs this political thriller starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. When an idealistic writer disappears during the 1973 right wing military coup in Chile, his wife and American businessman father embark on a desperate mission to find him. (1982)