The IFTA winner holds a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 9 November) is Lies We Tell, the acclaimed 2023 Irish gothic mystery thriller.
Inspired by the classic novel Uncle Silas by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, the film is set in 1864 Ireland and follows newly orphaned heiress Maud Ruthyn (Agnes O’Casey, Small Things Like These).
“[She] becomes the ward of her distant Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, Bodkin) when, grief-stricken and proud, she rejects support from her official trustees, preferring the greater independence she imagines the familial arrangement will afford,” the plot synopsis reads.
“Welcoming Silas, his children and their governess to her isolated manor, she soon learns that Silas’s intentions are far from benign as he schemes to snatch her fortune through enforced marriage to his son Edward (Chris Walley, The Young Offenders), an evil buffoon.
“But the escalating danger and violent assaults ignite a fire in the young heiress, determined to fight for her birthright till the bitter end.”
Acclaimed upon release for its atmosphere, performances, tense story and timely themes, Lies We Tell holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes and picked up three awards at the 2024 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards (IFTAs).
O’Casey won in the Best Actress category, while Lisa Mulcahy and Elisabeth Gooch won Best Director and Best Script respectively.
Since its release, the movie has also gone on to be a bit of a cult favourite outside of Ireland.
Lies We Tell is airing on TV tonight on RTÉ One at 12.50am and should be available on the RTÉ Player after.
It is also available to rent through IFI@Home and Rakuten TV.
Here are the other movies on TV tonight:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – RTÉ2 – 9pm
Quentin Tarantino’s most recent and maybe best movie.
Terminator: Dark Fate – Film4 – 9pm
The pretty solid, most recent Terminator movie reboot.
Role Models – Comedy Central – 9pm
In this very fun comedy, Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott play two friends forced to become role models to children after getting arrested.
The Devil’s Own – Legend Xtra – 9pm
The poorly received ’90s thriller about the IRA starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford.
47 Ronin – Legend – 9pm
A not-good fantasy epic starring Keanu Reeves.
Quiz Show – TG4 – 9.35pm
Ralph Fiennes stars in this brilliant Robert Redford-directed thriller drama chronicling a famous quiz show scandal in ’50s America.
Father Stu – Channel 4 – 10pm
Mark Wahlberg stars in this 2022 biographical drama as a boxer-turned-Catholic priest who is diagnosed with a rare muscular disease.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – ITV4 – 10.30pm
The third in the Mad Max saga where Mel Gibson’s road warrior is joined by Tina Turner.
Paris, 13th District – BBC Four – 10.30pm
This excellent 2021 black-and-white French drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Emilia Pérez) and co-writer Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) explores millennial love through a series of vignettes set in the French capital city.
Reasonable Doubt – Legend Xtra – 11.10pm
In this average crime thriller, a District Attorney (Dominic Cooper) has his life turned upside down when he’s involved in a hit and run and another man (Samuel L. Jackson) is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.
Warlock – Film4 – 11.35pm
Julian Sands and Richard E. Grant star in this cult ’80s supernatural horror.
Watermelon – Virgin Media Three – 11.35pm
An adaptation of a Marian Keyes novel starring Anna Friel.
The Turning – BBC Two – 11.50pm
The Ireland-shot, critically panned modern adaptation of Henry James’ classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw.
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