10. Back to the Future

The car. The music. The Doc. The Flux capacitors. Need I say anymore?

9. How to Train your Dragon

Why learn about something silly like confabulation for your degree when you can learn how to fly a dragon instead? This fantastic revision tool also includes an endearing story of a boy overcoming his Father’s disappointment and bring his people together. Sceptical? Sounds stereotyped? It's exam term – sometimes you need to turn your brain off and indulge in uncomplicated worlds of gloriously (animated) dragons.

8. Shawshank Redemption

Okay, okay, if you don't want to learn how to fly a dragon, why not learn how to break out of prison instead? This film is one of the most intricately designed and well-written in history. It is almost as if the film was made for Cambridge students drowning in exam term; a tale of a downtrodden people in a soulless world, dreaming of the freedom to go outside and enjoy the sun.

7. Les Misérables

There’s nothing like a revolution to lift the spirit.

6. Up

Fine, but when you start crying because you still can't understand what confabulation is, then cry over this instead. It's a brilliant, but heartbreaking piece of animation from Disney of an old man’s tale of loss and attempting to find his way in the world. And if you’re not a humanities student in touch with your emotions, stay for Dug and his legendary obsession with squirrels.

5. Lion King

You love this film. You know you do. It’s a reminder of childhood, old-fashioned Disney animation. A time when everyone sang classic gems like Circle of Life or Hakuna Matata, instead of Let it Go over and over and over again… Revel in Scar and Jeremy Irons’s delectably evil voice. And if you’re a vet, tell yourself it counts as revision. Probably.

4. Harry Potter

Wingaaaaardium LeviOOOOOsa. Remember the days when medieval architecture wasn’t part of everyday life, but a magical preserve of wizards and enthusiastic muggles? It is sheer nostalgia. The Philosopher’s Stone is a reminder of Harry Potter films gone by. A time before the serious Deathly Hallows and the unbearable angst of the heroes. The thrill of the first Quidditch match. Alan Rickman’s delicious first entrance. Just how ridiculously small Emma, Daniel and Rupert are. The perfect antidote to the “Exam Term Pain” potion we all have to swallow. Harry Potter analogy over.

3. Jurassic Park

That helicopter ride. You know the one I mean. The sweeping camera work that greets your arrival to Jurassic Park is brought to a total crescendo with the fantastic theme tune. It lets you know you are in for something truly epic. Let the dinosaur loving child inside you break free from the restraints of academia. Unless you’re geologist. In which case let Jurassic Park remind you that however little you feel you know about palaeontology, Hollywood knows less. Just try not to break down with the sheer emotion when the group sees the Brachiosaurs for the first time. Or maybe that’s just me.

2. Mean Girls

Revision not happening? Then make Fetch happen.

1. Lord of the Rings

Sit back, listen to Howard Shore’s beautiful score and dream of a world where exams don’t exist. A life in the leafy Shire, where the only requirements to be a hobbit are drinking and smoking Longbottom Leaf. Need inspiration? Return of the King has you covered. Skip to Aragorn’s speech at the black gate and feel your dreary attitude to seventeenth century poetry fade away as you rally to his cry: “There may be a day when the courage of men fail, but it is not this day.” Just don’t this term, whatever you do, watch Gandalf’s scene with the Balrog.