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An extremely dark and twisty thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

Published 13:45 6 Sept 2024 BST

Updated 13:53 6 Sept 2024 BST

Stephen Porzio
An extremely dark and twisty thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

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The film gave a future Oscar nominee and A-list star her first leading role.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 6 September) is Lady Macbeth, the extremely dark and twisty 2016 thriller that saw future Oscar nominee Florence Pugh get her first leading role.

Set in rural England in 1865, Pugh plays Katherine, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older, wealthy man (Paul Hilton, Slow Horses).

Alone on her husband's family estate, she begins a passionate affair with a local land worker her own age named Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis, Shōgun).

However, this affair and the pair's efforts to cover it up wind up leading to a string of murders.

It was also a box office hit, grossing over £4 million pounds on a reported budget of just £500,000.

Boasting an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score, Lady Macbeth is airing on BBC Two tonight at 11.05pm.

It is also available to stream on Netflix.

Here are the other movies on TV this evening:

Unstoppable - ITV4 - 9pm

The Denzel Washington nail-baiter we recommended earlier this week.

Under Siege - Film4 - 9pm

Steven Seagal’s best movie by miles.

American Pie: The Wedding - E4 - 10.05pm

The third in the raunchy comedy series.

Wedding Crashers - BBC One (except Wales) - 10.40pm

This hit comedy follows two divorce mediators (Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn) who crash weddings in an attempt to meet and seduce women.

Predestination - Legend - 10.45pm

This incredible but sadly underseen sci-fi we've recommended before is about a secret agent (Ethan Hawke) who travels through time to hunt down an elusive criminal dubbed The Fizzle Bomber.

His investigation leads him to a bar in ’70s New York where he meets a bar patron (Succession’s Sarah Snook) with a fascinating life story.

Sleepy Hollow - Film4 - 11.05pm

With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in cinemas now, what better time to check out one of its director Tim Burton's best movies?

Eye of the Tiger - Legend Xtra - 11.10pm

In this ’80s action flick, a Vietnam War veteran (Gary Busey) returns home from prison and sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

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