No Other Land to The Outrun: the seven best films to watch on TV this week | Television & radio

Pick of the week
No Other Land

This enraging Oscar-nominated documentary – a joint effort by Israeli and Palestinian film-makers – was shot over four years in Masafer Yatta, a region of Palestine’s West Bank, and catalogues a tragedy in the making. After an Israeli Supreme Court ruling, villagers faced expulsion and the systematic demolition of the homes they had lived in for generations, as the army appropriated the land for “training zones”. Local activist Basel Adra was joined by Jerusalem-based journalist Yuval Abraham to film this destruction – and we witness the fear and distress of the populace up close. From bulldozing a school to nighttime arrests and a fatal shooting by a settler, it’s a tough but necessary watch.
Tuesday 4 March, 11.15pm, Channel 4

The Outrun

Nora Fingscheidt’s immersive adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s feted addiction memoir keeps the book’s fractured narrative, switching between the renamed Rona (a superb Saoirse Ronan) falling apart in London and her tentative adjustment to the quiet life back home on Orkney. The cleansing power of nature is a big part of it – she gets a job with the RSPB, and there are many arresting images of windswept beaches and crashing waves – while her bipolar father (Stephen Dillane) and born-again Christian mother (Saskia Reeves) are both help and hindrance.
Out now, Netflix

MaXXXine

There’s more than a touch of Brian De Palma to this gloriously febrile mix of sex and stardom, religion and death. The third (and last?) in Ti West’s X series of retro gorefests, this sequel again features the unstoppable Mia Goth as preacher’s daughter turned porn star Maxine Minx. Trying to put the bloodbath of the first film behind her, Maxine is determined to go “legit” with a role in hot director Elizabeth Bender’s (Elizabeth Debecki) new horror flick. But a serial killer who knows about her past is on the loose in Hollywood …
Saturday 1 March, 9.45pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Black Dog

A winner at Cannes last year, Guan Hu’s tender, downbeat drama is set in a sand-covered, post-industrial Gobi desert town in China on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Paroled prisoner Lang (Eddie Peng) is hired to round up the area’s many stray dogs to prettify the place, but his sensitive personality leads him to hide one spirited canine in his own home. There’s some great doggy acting – and the monosyllabic Peng is pretty good too – as the duo realise they are kindred spirits. Despite the grim setting, it’s a surprisingly light-hearted drama.
Sunday 2 March, 6.50am, 2.15pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

The Wicked Lady

With its upper-class romance, lavish dresses and heaving bodices, Leslie Arliss’s 1945 period melodrama is typical of Gainsborough studios’ populist output. This is one of its best efforts, with Margaret Lockwood having a ball as the selfish, scheming Barbara (“always one for excitement”), who steals the dull but rich fiance of her best friend (Patricia Roc) then turns her hand to highway robbery. There, she joins forces with bad boy Captain Jack (a lubricious James Mason) and things go even further downhill.
Sunday 2 March, 6pm, Talking Pictures TV

Lynn + Lucy

Childhood friends Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and Lucy (Nichola Burley) are still close as grownups. They live opposite each other, and the former, who had her daughter when she was a teen, is godmother to the latter’s newborn son. But when the baby dies suddenly, and Lucy’s partner is arrested, the bond between them is stretched to breaking point. Fyzal Boulifa’s debut feature is a sharply observed tale of lies and judgment, in which moral certainties are hard to come by and social pressures can twist relationships, with the two leads giving performances of subtlety and emotional range.
Sunday 2 March, 11.55pm, BBC Two

Coriolanus

“He loves not the common people.” So not the best person to put himself up for election then, you’d think. But in director and star Ralph Fiennes’s highly expressive version of Shakespeare’s Roman drama, that is what the (literally) battle-scarred general and would-be consul Caius Martius Coriolanus does. Of course, matters take a turn for the worse, despite the efforts of his mother (a formidable Vanessa Redgrave) – and a tale of pride v politics turns into one of single-minded revenge. Fiennes is magnetic as the soldier who, like the scorpion in the fable, just can’t deny his nature.
Tuesday 4 March, 11.05pm, BBC Two