Tuesday

INFERNAL AFFAIRS (2002)

FilmFour, 10.15pm

The opening chapter in a hugely successful Hong Kong gangster trilogy, Infernal Affairs is a complex and visually ravishing thriller. Tony Leung stars as a police officer who goes under cover to infiltrate a Triad gang, while Andy Lau plays his opposite number, an underworld sleeper agent inside the police ranks. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak shoot Hong Kong in Gothic shadows and saturated colours, aided by Wong Kar Wei’s cinematographer, Chris Doyle. The sequel can be seen on Wednesday at 10pm. (101min)

WINTER KILLS (1979)

BBC Two, 12.20am

William Richert’s cult comic thriller is based on a thinly veiled version of JFK’s assassination and its aftermath. Adapted from a novel by Richard Condon, who also wrote The Manchurian Candidate, Richert’s dark farce stars Jeff Bridges as the dysfunctional youngest son of a Kennedy-style political dynasty and John Huston as his lecherous, Machiavellian father. Containing more spoof conspiracy theories than a dozen Oliver Stone films, Winter Kills co-stars Anthony Perkins and, in a brief cameo, Elizabeth Taylor. (96min)