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Eight of the best movies on TV for your Friday night in

Published 09:26 13 Aug 2021 BST

Updated 10:26 12 Aug 2021 BST

Rory Cashin
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LOADS of great movies to enjoy on the telly tonight...

The weekend is here, let us celebrate with some films! The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas - RTE Two - 9pm

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

The Eagle - FilmFour - 9pm

In Roman-ruled Britain, a young Roman soldier (Channing Tatum) endeavours to honour his father's memory by finding his lost legion's golden emblem.

Argo - RTE One - 9.35pm

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent (Ben Affleck) launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

The Peanut Butter Falcon - BBC One - 10.35pm

Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true. Stars Dakota Johnson, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Bernthal.

Layer Cake - FilmFour - 11.15pm

A successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

Dancing at Lughnasa - RTE One - 11.50pm

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s. Stars Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, 

The Lives of Others - TG4 - 12am

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. Winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar in its year of release.

Shame - FilmFour - 1.20am

A sex addict's (Michael Fassbender) carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister (Carey Mulligan) arrives for an indefinite stay.

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