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A classic action movie is airing on TV tonight

Published 11:30 31 Mar 2026 BST

Updated 11:30 31 Mar 2026 BST

Stephen Porzio
A classic action movie is airing on TV tonight

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It once held the record for being the most expensive film ever made.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 31 March) is True Lies, the iconic 1994 action comedy written and directed by James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic).

A remake of the French film La Totale, the movie focuses on Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger, reuniting with Cameron after The Terminator and its sequel), a man who struggles to lead a double life.

To his wife, Helen (Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once), he is just a boring computer salesman often away on business trips. In reality, however, he is a secret agent for Omega Sector, a top-secret US counterterrorism agency.

The first film to cost $100 million, True Lies became the third-highest-grossing movie of 1994, garnering nearly $378.9 million at the box office.

The blockbuster was praised for its action spectacle, its lighter "What if James Bond was married?" plotline, and its lead performances from Curtis, Schwarzenegger, as well as Bill Paxton (Aliens) as a sleazy car salesman, with whom Helen becomes involved.

True Lies is airing on TV tonight on Comedy Central at 9pm. It's also streaming on Disney+.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Cocaine Bear - Film4 - 9pm

A bear ingests a lot of cocaine and embarks on a killer rampage in a national park. It was shot in Ireland. What more do you need to know?

Gold - Legend - 9pm

Matthew McConaughey stars in this decent 2016 movie as a prospector who hunts for gold in Indonesia.

The Courier - Legend Xtra - 9pm

A 2019 action thriller starring Gary Oldman and Olga Kurylenko, which has a low 10% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

New Life - Film4 - 10.55pm

In contrast, this 2023 indie horror thriller about a mysterious woman on the run from a fixer has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Dead Man Running - Legend - 11.25pm

The 2009 British crime comedy starring Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan.