WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989)
Five, 8pm
Rob Reiner’s warm and witty comedy classic traces 12 years in the life of two platonic friends (Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal) as they tiptoe around their unspoken romantic feelings for each other. Ryan’s Sally is endearingly neurotic, Crystal’s Harry a wisecracking loudmouth. But the duo’s gradual evolution from fractious acquaintances to gooey-eyed lovers is wryly observed by the screenwriter Nora Ephron. (96 min)
GREGORY’S TWO GIRLS (1999)
Channel 4, 3.10am
Bill Forsyth’s belated sequel to his much-loved 1981 teen drama Gregory’s Girl inevitably lacks the freshness of the original, but still oozes warm-hearted humanity and comic insight. John Gordon Sinclair reprises his role as Gregory, still a bumbling classroom misfit after returning to teach English at his former school. A farcical plot involves Gregory’s thwarted passion for one of his sixth-form students (Carly McKinnon) and a fellow teacher (Maria Doyle Kennedy). (116 min)
BAD EDUCATION (2004)
Sky Cinema 1, 10pm
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Gael García Bernal plays dual roles at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar’s darkest and most autobiographical film for years. In the 1980s, an aspiring screenwriter and sometime drag queen (Bernal) offers a script to a film-maker (Fele Martínez) that takes both of them back to a childhood of painful secrets and abusive priests. Jumping back in time to expose the political and sexual repression of Franco’s Spain, Bad Education unveils its layers like a sinister striptease, and ends with an atypically grim twist. (106 min)