With four-letter words and violence by the bucketload, Guy Ritchie’s gangster flick had everything a 12-year-old boy could want – and it still does

The 1973 Bruce Lee classic was a genuine education for a white suburban boy growing up in the north of England. Nothing was the same again

Garrulous and inappropriate, Renée Zellweger’s heroine drove home the farce of impossible, gendered standards. I couldn’t have had a better guide for my teen years

Monty Python’s chivalric sketch show served up epic amounts of daftness – and any adult reservations about it prove mere flesh wounds

This stylish 1999 take on the aristocratic sexual scheming of Les Liaisons Dangereuses remains just as seductive as when I first saw it

I’d been terrified by the first film in the franchise but needed to know what happened next. Nothing prepared me for the onslaught of brilliance

M Night Shyamalan’s ghost story terrified me to my teenage core – and ignited a love for clever storytelling

Thrillingly, Patrick Swayze’s quest to reach out from the afterlife was rated 15 – an irresistible, illicit mix of sex, death and priapic pottery

The stylish French thriller was less of an art film than it looked, but I was hooked by its mix of operatic Parisian settings, elegant menace and moped daredevilry

The musical where cocktail-sipping kids pretend to be adults has a seam of pure feelgood that makes real life feel far away

Patrick Swayze’s dance instructor Johnny swept me off my feet when I was an awkward teenager. Would I still have the time of my life rewatching this feelgood classic?

Robin Williams was catnip to me as a kid and I loved his cross-dressing nanny in this bizarre and heartfelt tale of family love

Nazi jousters on motorbikes, crash-landing biplanes, spooky catacombs and ancient riddles – my first encounter with Indy was a thrilling sensory overload

My friend Tom convinced me that Roger Moore’s finest non-Bond moment was this 1974 corker about a maverick mining engineer. He’ll convince you, too

I idealised this as a movie about the beauty of the natural world. I realise now its also about surviving loss and finding strength when everything looks hopeless

Continuing our series revisiting childhood movie passions, we look at a romance that could’ve been schlock, if not for Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling’s chemistry

I can’t feel anything but eternal love for this propulsive, unrelenting time-travel sequel that changed my life

Kylie Minogue, leather jackets, grown-up sex scenes ... no wonder we backcombed our hair to blag our way in

Tony Richardson’s epic was a razor-sharp skewering of Britishness that gave me a thrilling first taste of big-screen trauma