Movies on TV during the weekend: free air, satellite and streaming.

It’s the first weekend in August and many of you are probably already on vacation. And why not take advantage of this dimension of hyperrelaxation to allow yourself several hours of watching a movie on TV (or other devices) on free-to-air, satellite and streaming platforms? Those who love the classics will find titles like ET The Extraterrestrial, but those who are always on the lookout for something new will also be happy. Among the first TV shows are La primavera della mia vita featuring Colapesche and Dimartino, pop idols, and the real crime La Dama del Silencio.

TRANSPARENCIES

Beetlejuice-Spiritello porcello – Friday, August 4 (9:10 pm), 27

Directed by: Tim Burton

Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder

Year: 1988

Plot: A horrific car accident sends Adam and Barbara Maitland to the afterlife. Confused at first, the young couple soon adjust to their ghost state until a neurotic New Yorker couple moves into their former home.

Girls trip – Friday, August 4 (21:10), La5

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Cast: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish, Larenz Tate, Mike Colter, Kate Walsh, Kofi Siribo, Lara Grice

Year: 2018

Plot: When old friends decide to go to New Orleans together for the new Essence Festival. The right opportunity to strengthen bonds, as well as return to the golden days of your youth, between music, wild dancing, alcohol, fighting and flirting.

ET Alien – Saturday, August 5 (21:20), Italy 1

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote

Year: 1982

Plot: An alien is abandoned on Earth by his satellites, forced to leave in a hurry. The men give chase, but a group of children hide him. A magical friendship is born with them, but the Alien (that’s the name of the alien) is homesick and, while he is trying to establish contact with his companions, the kids help him avoid the ambushes of soldiers and scientists.

Traveling with Dad – Saturday, August 5 (21:25), Retquattro.

Directed by: Alberto Sordi

Cast: Alberto Sordi, Carlo Verdone, Edie Angelillo, Tiziana Pini

Year: 1982

Synopsis: Armando is a sunny and lively man who takes his son Cristiano, a shy and awkward adult, on vacation with the idea of ​​making him appreciate the joys of life.

Right to Account – Sunday, August 6 (21:10), Rai Movie.

Director: Theodore Melfi

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons

Year: 2016

Plot: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson are three African-American women who work for NASA. It was they who developed the first space flight program, which put people like astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Their work, based on the processing of important mathematical data, helped restore the nation’s credibility, redefine the space race and surprise the world. It is inevitable that they will become a source of inspiration for future generations.

Careerist – Sunday, August 6 (21.10), 27.

Director: Mike Nichols

Cast: Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Philip Busco, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Nora Dunn

Year: 1988

Synopsis: Katherine Parkler is the ambitious and brilliant CEO of a well-known New York stock company. Apparently, Katherine is very helpful to her young secretary, Tess McGill, young of humble origins but eager to improve her status. When Katherine gets stuck in Europe due to an injury on the ski fields, it’s the enterprising secretary who replaces her at work without telling anyone. Thus, Tess is faced with an important deal, and for this reason she asks for help from the smart and charming manager Jack Trainer, Katherine’s lover, who is unaware of Tess’s true situation. The deal goes on and they even fall in love working side by side. Too bad Katherine will ever return.

FILM ON SATELLITE

King Woman – Friday, August 4th (9:15 pm), Sky Cinema Uno.

Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood

Cast: Viola Davis, Tuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, John Boyega

Year: 2022

Plot: The Agojie are a group of female warriors who defended the African kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skill and ferocity unseen in the world. Here we follow the epic and emotional journey of General Naniska as he trains a new generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. Inspired by real events.

Loose cannons – Saturday, August 5 at 21:00, Sky Cinema Romance.

Directed by: Ferzan Ozpetek

Cast: Riccardo Scamarchio, Alessandro Preziosi, Nicole Grimodo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantasticini, Ilaria Occhini

Year: 2010

Synopsis: Stefania and Vincenzo are looking forward to the return of their son Tommaso. With them are the rest of the family, from Aunt Luciana to their grandmother, right down to sisters Elena and Alba, as well as her best friend. They hope that the young man will agree to help his brother Antonio run the family’s pasta factory. However, no one resigned himself to fate, and also for this reason, Tommaso will end up in his parents’ house longer than he expected.

Spring of My Life – Sunday, August 6 (21:15), Sky Cinema Due

Directed by: Zavvo Nicolosi

Cast: Dimartino, Colapesche, Stefania Rocca, Corrado Fortuna, Demetra Bellina, Madame, Roberto Vecchioni, Brunori Sas

Year: 2023

Plot: After the end of their creative partnership and the ensuing period of silence, Antonio contacts Lorenzo again to get him involved in a new musical project.

MOVIE STREAM

The Lady of Silence – Netflix

Directed by: Maria José Cuevas

Cast: Alejandra Alday, Anselmo Apodak, Antonio Baranda, Juana Barrasa, Ted Bundy

Year: 2023

Plot: We are in 2000 in Mexico City. A series of murders paralyzes the metropolitan police: the old women are strangled in their homes. The Attorney General’s Office is using all available resources in various ways to try to catch the first serial killer in Mexican history. In January 2006, after more than forty murders, several unsuccessful arrests and various inconsistencies, a woman was arrested in broad daylight: her name was Juana Barrasa and she became known as “La Dama del Silencio”.

Venom – The Fury of Carnage – Prime Video

Director: Andy Serkis

Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris and Woody Harrelson.

Year: 2021

Plot: The second chapter of the adventures of Eddie Brook/Venom or Spider-Man’s rival/ally. This time, Eddie, in his journalistic activities, is in contact with serial killer Cletus Kasidy. When he goes to interview him for the last time before his death sentence, the man manages to provoke him and bring him closer to bite him, thus giving life to a new frightening symbiote named Carnage. The latter will become a new dangerous enemy that Venom will have to confront.

This must be the place – Infinity+

Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino

Cast: Sean Penn, Eve Hewson, Frances McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton, Shea Whigham, Judd Hirsh, Kerry Condon, Joyce Van Patten, Seth Adkins

Year: 2011

Plot: Cheyenne is a 50-year-old Jewish former rock star who lives in a villa on the outskirts of Dublin with his wife, Jane, and constant boredom. The death of his estranged father brings him back to New York for 30 years to continue his father’s investigation into a German war criminal.

Run – TeamVision

Directed by: Anish Chaganti

Cast: Sarah Paulson, Kira Allen, Pat Healy, Sara Sohn

Year: 2020

Description: Chloe was raised by her mother Diana in complete isolation. Diane has been in control of her since birth, but now that she’s a teenager, Chloe begins to discover Diane’s dark secrets.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Disney+

Directed by: James Gunn

Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, Maria Bakalova

Year: 2023

Plot: A group of unlikely superheroes settle in Znaiher, but their lives are soon turned upside down by Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life. And if this is not done successfully, it could mean the end of the Guardians as we know them.

Too Neapolitan – RaiPlay

Directed by: Gianluca Ansanelli

Cast: Serena Rossi, Gennaro Guazzo, Georgia Agata, Luigi Esposito, Rosario Morra, Rosario Misticone

Year: 2016

Plot: Deborah worries about her son, not inclined to talk after the death of her father. The psychologist under whom he is treated discovers that the truth is different: the boy is actually in love with a girl of his own age named Ludovika and needs help.

Cash Game-Pay or Die – Pluto TV

Directed by: Stephen Milburn Anderson

Cast: Sean Bean, Chris Hemsworth, Victoria Propheta, Glenn Plummer

Year: 2010

Plot: Newlyweds find a suitcase full of money on the hood of a car. Naturally, the two can’t believe their eyes, and they’re right, because they’re being contacted by a dubious person determined to get the loot back.

Heartbreak Apartment – Nexo+

Directed by: Samuel Benchetrit

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Tassadyte Mundy, Jules Benchetrit, Michael Pitt, Michael Graling, Larousie Didi, Thierry Jimenez

Year: 2015

Plot: An elevator breaks down in a house on the outskirts of a French town. Here we see three unlikely encounters of six unusual characters: old Sternkowitz and a nurse, retired actress Jeanne, young Charlie, astronaut Mackenzie, and Mrs. Hamida. Loners who are united by a great sense of respect and compassion.

Medusa Deluxe – MUBI

Directed by: Thomas Hardiman

Cast: Claire Perkins, Kay Alexander, Harriet Webb, Darrell D’Silva, Luke Pasqualino

Year: 2023

Plot: During a stylist competition, a hairdresser is brutally murdered, and among the other participants causes panic and suspicion of his colleague. Who was supposed to bring him to such a state and for what reason? Distrust, but also rivalry, increases when you begin to suspect that someone is trying to fix the race and perhaps even eliminate the participants.

Sydney – Apple TV+

Directed by: Reginald Hudlin

Cast: Sidney Poiter, Quincy Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee

Year: 2022

Plot: Documentary on the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an actor, director and iconic activist among the Hollywood stars of the Civil Rights Movement.

Stay Alive – Paramount+

Director: Sylvester Stallone

Cast: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Frank Stallone

Year: 1983

Plot: Tony Manero finds a job as a dancer in a Broadway musical, but unfortunately his relationship with a prima ballerina puts a strain on his personal life.