NO.4 Film: The Ten Commandments (1956)

Showing: Mon Dec 21, 12.05pm, C4

Why It’s A Must-See: Cecil B. DeMille’s second crack at the Biblical behemoth is arguably the very definition of the old-school afternoon epic, with a manlier-than-thou Chartlon Heston playing Moses and Yul Brynner as his brother Pharaoh Ramesses.

It goes on for bloody ages and features more sandals, sweat and storm clouds than you could shake a thickly cascading beard at. They just don't make them like this any more. Although Mel Gibson probably wants to.

Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...when Moses parts the Red Sea to allow his people through. DeMille achieved the eye-popping SFX shot using reversed footage of a flooding tank, with a close-up on a sliced cube of a jelly for that authentic wall-of-water wobble.

NO.5 Film: Dick Tracy (1990)

Showing: Tue Dec 22, 11.55am, C4

Why It’s A Must-See: Warren Beatty went all auteur on us here, directing, producing and starring in this pulpy comic book adaptation alongside Madonna, Dustin Hoffman and a genuinely demented-looking Al Pacino chewing the scenery as crime boss ‘Big Boy’ Caprice.

Lavish visuals evoke a Nighthawks-era Hopper painting and the overall tone, though tongue-in-cheek, remains grittier than a gravel toastie.

Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...whenever Pacino’s creepy, enorma-chinned cartoon pimp starts yelling and frothing and generally hamming things up a treat - even poor Madonna looks terrified, bless ‘er.