WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the movie options available to watch on TV and streaming services over the week.

Your Comedy Pick

40 Days and 40 Nights

• Comedy Central today at 8pm

A man vows to give up sex for Lent after a terrible break-up and, of course, immediately meets a beautiful woman.

Your Documentary Pick

Worn Stories

• Netflix from Thursday

In this moving documentary people share the stories around their most meaningful pieces of clothing.

Your Action Thriller Pick

Overlord

• Film Four on Friday at 9.45pm  

 American soldiers near the end of the Second World War are sent to destroy a German radio tower. When they come across a mysterious Nazi laboratory, things take a dark and frightening turn. 

Your New Release Pick

Concrete Cowboy

• Netflix from Friday

While spending the summer in North Philadelphia, a troubled teen is caught between a life of crime and his estranged father’s urban-cowboy lifestyle.

Your Throwback Family Drama Pick

Free Willy

• RTÉ 2 on Saturday at 2.45pm

A boy learns that a whale he has befriended is to be killed by aquarium owners because he is ‘not performing’. He is determined to set him free and reunite him with his family.