Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)

Channel 4, 1.05pm

This sprawling caper comedy is essentially a sequel to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines four years earlier. Terry-Thomas again plays a bounder determined to bully and cheat his way to victory in the inaugural pan-European road race of 1924. Tony Curtis, Susan Hampshire and Eric Sykes co-star, but Peter Cook and Dudley Moore steal the film as a pair of bungling military inventors. (120min)

Amélie (2001)

More4, 9pm

Only in rose-tinted memories and faded picture postcards does the cartoonish Parisian dreamscape of Amélie exist. The director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and star Audrey Tautou conjure up a magical city full of sunshine, whimsy and shy romantics.

Fresh, bright and breezy, Jeunet’s film broke box-office records with its irresistible Gallic charms. (122min)

Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)

BBC One, 11.40pm

A supercharged comeback by Quentin Tarantino after six years away, the first chapter of Kill Bill is bolder, brasher and much better than its plodding sequel. Uma Thurman stars as a former member of an assassination squad seeking revenge against her treacherous ex-colleagues. The plot is a disjointed, nonsensical mess. But the soundtrack, balletic violence and homages to Asian action cinema are all hugely enjoyable. (111min)

The Tattooed Stranger (1950, b/w)

BBC Two, 3.50am

Many of the clichés of B-movie police thrillers are present in this minor film noir, in which Walter Kinsella’s jaded New York homicide veteran shepherds his clean-cut rookie partner John Miles through the harrowing depths of a sleazy murder case. Gripping enough, but mainly noteworthy for the film’s pioneering use of quasi-documentary location footage. (64min)

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