Guilty Pleasures: Seven Sinful Films

Perfect viewing for any girls’ night in, as long as you don’t choke on your Haagen-Dazs when the three heroines (Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair) start a musical number praising the size of their fellas’ bits.

Lyrics like, "My body is a movie and your p**** is the star" mean this probably isn’t one for Mum...or the Academy Awards. This a gross-out chick flick that’s seductive – yet far from sweet.

Simply sensational. If you're not wiping the tears from your laughter fuelled eyes from the start to the finish of this Frank Oz comedy confection, I suggest you get gag therapy.

Steve Martin turns in arguably his greatest ever perf as Yank conman Freddy Benson, who goes mano-a-mano with Sir Michael Caine's older and classier trickster on the French coast as they bid to see who's the best huckster.

It’s East meets West in this propaganda-soaked Cold War outing for Stallone’s punch-drunk hero against Dolph Lundgren's Ivan Drago.

Come fight night, Rocky suffers the customary drubbing for 14 of the 15 rounds, then fells the Russky. “If I can change, you can change… everyone can change!” cries Rocky. Absurd? Probably. Jingoistic nonsense? Very possibly. Guiltily absorbing? Undoubtedly.

How do you build on a career making role in one of the most iconic films of any era, Goodfellas? If you're old Ray Liotta, you crank out a couple of routine thrillers then head off and make a legendary B-movie with Martin Campbell.

Ray is forced to defend peace loving convicts on a prison island by going head-to-head with Stuart Wilson's sneering baddie Walter Marek. Kick back and wallow in cosmic cheese from start to glorious finish.

There’s always the chance of at least one red face in the house when someone suggests watching this erotic drama from the 80s, which is packed with flash clothes, stereos, apartments and more than a few flashes of Kim.

Basinger plays an art gallery minx and Mickey Rourke, a Wall Street businessman. When the two meet, sexual encounters follow involving blindfolds, food, and a spot of al fresco funny business.

One of Nic Cage’s overlooked gems and a starring role for a pre-Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker with Cage playing a man who swore on his mother’s deathbed that he would never marry.

Years later he arranges a quickie wedding to Betsy (Parker) in Las Vegas. On the eve of the wedding however, he loses her at poker to Jimmy Caan's character. The chase that ensues ends with 34 parachuting Elvises!

"I carried a watermelon?" It's cringeworthy moments like these that make Frances 'Baby' Houseman's tentative shimmy into Johnny Castle's brooding affections all the more rewarding.

Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze have us shamefully enthralled through every waterlogged lift, sweaty row and guilty shuffle. Any woman in the country would defy you to disagree. After all, "No one puts Baby in the corner..."