The Snapper tops the list of the 12 best movies on TV this evening

“I suppose a ride is out of the question?”

One of a number of memorable quotes from an all-time Irish classic, which you can relive in its entirety on the box from 10.25pm tonight. If you’ve seen it enough times already – you can never watch The Snapper enough times for our liking – then you’re positively spoiled for choice on one of the best nights to watch a movie on TV in ages. Don’t believe us? If you can’t find at least one selection from the list below to pass a bit of time this evening, then we may as well give up. Beauty and The Beast – RTÉ One – 7.05pm Magnificently-executed remake of the original, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Kevin Kline and Ewan McGregor. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Channel 4 – 9pm Featuring THAT climb on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the fourth entry in the Mission: Impossible series is easily one of the best. X-Men: Days of Future Past – E4 – 9pm Like another superhero movie that will feature a little further down this list, all the elements fall together nicely here to create arguably the best entry in the X-Men series. Rambo: First Blood Part II – ITV4 – 9pm “They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail, but they made one mistake. They forgot who they were dealing with: Rambo.” The synopsis doing this movie more justice than we ever could. The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad – Comedy Central – 9pm Leslie Nielsen’s first turn as Frank Drebin on the big screen and his second best ever movie after Airplane. Laughs from start to finish. Fantastic Four – RTÉ 2 – 9.25pm Not as fantastic as the title suggests, unfortunately. Pulp Fiction – Dave – 9.40pm Era-defining masterpiece which still holds up brilliantly well over a quarter of a century on. Man on Fire – Sky One – 10pm Is it Denzel’s best movie? Probably not. Is it still worth watching simply because Denzel is never NOT worth watching? Absolutely. The Snapper – RTÉ One – 10.25pm As Georgie Burgess might say, it’s A1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – BBC One – 10.25pm As good as it gets as far as the MCU is concerned. You don’t even have to be a Marvel nut to enjoy it, but it helps. In the Line of Fire – ITV4 – 11.05pm Classic Clint Eastwood flick about an assassination attempt on the US president, well worthy of its 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 47 Meters Down – RTÉ 2 – 11.10pm Perhaps surprisingly not bad... considering the general level of quality in the much-populated shark movie genre. It's no Sharknado, mind, but what is in fairness?