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One of the most stressful movies of the decade is on TV tonight

Published 16:05 14 Jun 2026 BST

Updated 16:07 14 Jun 2026 BST

Ava Keady
One of the most stressful movies of the decade is on TV tonight

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The film merges the style of Netflix's Adolescence with the setting of The Bear.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Sunday, 14 June) is Boiling Point, the brilliant 2021 British drama with a whopping 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

On the busiest night of the year for his establishment, however, multiple personal and professional crises threaten to destroy everything the chef has worked for.

As problems pile up, Andy alternates between berating and cajoling his employees (including his sous-chef, played by an excellent Vinette Robinson), "trying his best to diffuse tensions between management and his crew, while catering to the ridiculous demands of customers".

Boiling Point was directed by Philip Barantini, with whom Graham would later collaborate again on the Netflix smash-hit miniseries Adolescence, which also employed a one-shot approach.

The kitchen drama boasts authentic performances, an increasingly tense plot that really puts Andy through the wringer, and immersive direction that traps the audience with the head chef and his staff.

It's these qualities that led JOE to dub the movie "the most stressful film" of 2022, the year it was released in Ireland.

Boiling Point was so well-received that it also got a four-part follow-up series on the BBC, which saw Barantini, Graham and Robinson return.

The original movie is airing on TV tonight on Channel 4 at 12am.

Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:

Wedding Crashers - BBC Three - 10.30pm

Two party-mad bachelors make the most of the romantic atmosphere as they gatecrash weddings to pick up women. 

The Resident - Legend Xtra - 11.40pm

2011 horror, with Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee

Venom - E4 - 9pm

While exploring space for new worlds, a probe belonging to the Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. 

Basic Instinct - Legend - 12.05am

Thriller from director Paul Verhoeven, starring Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, George Dzundza and Jeanne Tripplehorn

The Mustang - Film4 - 1.10am

Roman Coleman, a violent inmate at a maximum-security prison in Nevada, is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy programme involving the training of wild mustangs.