One of the best war films ever made is among the movies on TV tonight

Simon Kelly

It comes from a recent Oscar winning director.

If you’re not out celebrating St Patrick’s Day and prefer to have a quiet evening in front of the telly, you’re in luck as there are some great movies on TV tonight.

Arguably the most iconic Irish film ever made is one of your options for the day that’s in it, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

Our pick of the movies on TV tonight is one of the best war films ever made – Dunkirk.

As technically spectacular as you can expect from the mind of Oscar-winner Christopher Nolan, the 2017 blockbuster focuses on the fateful few days where 338,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War.

Powered by an ensemble cast, including Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy, Dunkirk is a heart-pounding thriller from beginning to end, with thanks to the incredibly tense score by Hans Zimmer and Nolan’s masterful directing.

The brutally intense film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and went on to win for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

Dunkirk is on BBC Two at 11.50pm tonight.

Here are all the other movies on TV tonight

Knives Out – E4 – 9pm

One of the best modern murder mysteries with an all-star cast. Great fun all round.

War of the Worlds – Film Four – 9pm

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise team up for this sci-fi epic about extra-terrestrials taking over the world with giant war machines.

The Snapper – RTÉ One – 9.30pm

For the patriots out there, there’s only one choice among the movies on TV this evening, and that is of course this 1993 flick starring Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson.

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

The Blues Brothers – ITV4 – 10.20pm

1980 American musical action comedy starring John Belushi as “Joliet” Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as Elwood, based on their Saturday Night Live sketches.

21 Bridges – BBC One – 12.20am

Thriller starring Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller and JK Simmons that focuses on a city-wide manhunt in Manhattan for cop-killers that spirals into a giant police conspiracy.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Channel 4 – 12.50am

2018 biographical film starring Melissa McCarthy as author Lee Israel, following her attempts to revitalize her failing writing career by forging letters from deceased authors and playwrights

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