The best films on TV: Tuesday 7 April

Updated 7 April 2020 at 1:40 am·2-min read

<em>Ice Age</em>, <em>Gangster Squad</em>, and <em>The Man In The White Suit</em> are all on telly today. (20th Century Fox/WB/Getty) — *Ice Age*, *Gangster Squad*, and *The Man In The White Suit* are all on telly today. (20th Century Fox/WB/Getty)

Globetrotting adventures, tension building drama, super-heroics and award winning animations today as TopFilmTip brings you the best films on TV for Tuesday, 7 April.

Sabretooth tiger, hairy elephant and idiotic drooling sloth try to return a lost baby to its family in acorn craving kids comedy Ice Age 12:50pm Film4

Skeptical girl discovers miniature forest civilisation facing putrid apocalypse in exhilarating hummingbird riding fantasy Epic 2:40pm Film4

Idealist upsets industrialists by inventing indestructible fabric in wonderfully funny, pathos filled social satire The Man In The White Suit 3:25pm BBC2

Intrepid, inquisitive reporter and his loyal Scottie aid alcoholic in photo-realistic crane jousting KO-fest The Adventures Of Tintin 6:50pm Film4

Indebted intellectual existential academic treads the risk / reward razor's edge to repay loan sharks in verbose neon drama The Gambler 9pm Film4

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Betrayed by bureaucrat, muddy, stabby, trigger happy, knife wielding snake-grabber re-wins the Vietnam war in Rambo: First Blood Part II 9pm ITV4

Astral-projecting parents pursue comatose kid further from ceiling squatting crimson-faced demon in haunted house horror Insidious 10:45pm Horror Channel

Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone dancing in scene from the film 'Basic Instinct', 1992. (Photo by TriStar/Getty Images)

Detective begins back scratching affair with flashing femme fatale in iconic ice-pick perforating killer thriller Basic Instinct 11pm 5Star

Hard boiled cops bring vigilante war to the door of a sadistic crime lord in body ripping, Christmas shooting, sexy smoking gun fun Gangster Squad 11:05pm ITV4

The accidental killing of a woman draws creeping chaos upon stubborn rural poacher Sam Rockwell in grimy tension builder A Single Shot 11:50pm Sony Movie Channel

After mother's death, young boy learns to trust & love again when sent to orphanage in emotionally uplifting, award winning, animated delight My Life As A Courgette 1:05am Film4

The Conqueror Worm, lobbycard, (aka WITCHFINDER GENERAL), from left, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, (aka Hilary Heath), 1968. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

Soldier stands up to sadistic rapist and torturer hell bent on imposing rule upon East Anglia in axe-wielding horror Witchfinder General 2:35am Horror Channel

Here’s everything new on streaming in April:

Netflix UK: April’s new releases

Everything coming to Now TV in April

Amazon Prime Video UK: The biggest April releases

Everything coming to Disney+ in April

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