A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Sky Movies Indie, 8.10pm

Co-written by its star, John Cleese, this successful fusion of Hollywood gloss and British eccentricity helped to pave the way for all those mid-Atlantic comedies of the Richard Curtis school. Cleese made the inspired choice of the Ealing Studios veteran Charles Crichton as his director and co-writer, bringing a dash of Ealing's delicious cruelty to their breakneck farce about jewel thieves, femmes fatales and tropical fish. Borrowing Cary Grant's real name, Archie Leach, Cleese is terrific as an adulterous barrister while Kevin Kline won an Oscar for playing Otto, an animal-hating sociopath. (108min)

36 (2004)

BBC Four, 10pm

Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil give powerful performances as mutually antagonistic Parisian cops fighting to bring down an armed gang of violent thieves in this impressively gritty French crime drama. The stakes are high, since the pair were once love rivals for the same woman, and are now chasing the same promotion. Named after the address of the Paris police headquarters at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, this neo-noir thriller was written and directed by a former detective, Olivier Marchal. A Hollywood remake, starring Robert De Niro, is in the works. (110min)

Twisted (2004)

Channel 4, 1.55am

Ashley Judd stars as a promiscuous detective whose one-night stands keep falling victim to a deranged serial killer in this dubious erotic thriller. Samuel L. Jackson plays Judd's boss and Andy Garcia her sleazy partner, both seemingly untroubled by her alcoholic blackouts and possible homicidal tendencies. The director, Philip Kaufman, blemishes an otherwise highly respectable track record with this trashy variation on Basic Instinct, which is weirdly compelling in places, but for all the wrong reasons. (97min)

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