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An excellent underseen thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

Published 17:59 1 Oct 2025 BST

Updated 22:08 2 Oct 2025 BST

Stephen Porzio
An excellent underseen thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

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The film has a great cast, which includes the rocker Mick Jagger.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 1 October) is The Burnt Orange Heresy, an excellent but underseen crime thriller from 2019.

Written by acclaimed novelist Scott Smith (A Simple Plan) and directed by Giuseppe Capotondi (Suburra: Blood on Rome), the film revolves around a charismatic art critic named James Figueras (Claes Bang, Bad Sisters).

Accompanied by his American lover, Berenice (Elizabeth Debicki, Tenet), James travels to the lavish Lake Como estate of powerful art collector Joseph Cassidy (Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger). There, Joseph reveals that he is the patron of Jerome Debney (Donald Sutherland, Kelly's Heroes), who is dubbed "the J.D. Salinger of the art world" because of his reclusiveness.

Joseph hires James to steal a Debney masterpiece for him from the artist's studio. In exchange, Joseph will arrange for James to interview the recluse, something no one has done for 50 years, thus helping the art critic's career.

As James commits to the plan, he becomes "consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control".

Thanks to the movie's gorgeous Italian setting, its great lead performances (including Jagger) and its high society crime story, The Burnt Orange Heresy is perfect for fans of The Talented Mr Ripley.

The 2019 crime thriller is airing on TV tonight/tomorrow morning on Channel 4 at 1.25am. It is also available to rent on the Sky Store.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Deadpool 2 - Film4 - 9pm

The Ryan Reynolds superhero sequel.

The Expendables 3 - ITV4 - 9pm

The third in the Jason Statham/Sylvester Stallone series of action flicks.

Terminal Velocity - Legend - 9pm

Charlie Sheen plays a daredevil skydiver who gets caught up in a criminal plot by Russian mobsters (one of whom is played by James Gandolfini) in this ’90s action film.

Brothers in Trouble - BBC Four - 10.15pm

Ireland's own Angeline Ball (The Commitments) is amongst the cast of this 1995 British drama about a group of immigrants from Pakistan in '60s Britain.

The Bounty Hunter - Legend - 11pm

The critically panned action comedy with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston.

The Satanic Rights of Dracula - Legend Xtra - 11pm

Christopher Lee is Count Dracula in this Hammer Horror sequel.

Venom - Film4 - 11.20pm

Tom Hardy is journalist Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote Venom that inhabits his body in this so-so superhero flick that launched a trilogy.

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