Guy’s hits (and misses)

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, 1998

Ritchie made his name with the smart, fast-paced heist comedy starring Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran, Jason Statham and ex-footballer Vinnie Jones. It introduced Ritchie’s trademark array of colourful characters and whip-fast editing style as a debt-ridden card sharp and his chums decide to rob a smalltime gang who are operating out of the next-door flat.

Snatch, 2000

A topnotch cast including Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro, top, secured a cult following for this tale of the London criminal underworld, which contains two intertwined plots: one about the search for a stolen diamond, the other centring on an illegal boxing promoter who ends up under the thumb of a sadistic Russian gangster.

Swept Away, 2002

Ritchie’s Seventies Italian romcom remake was a box-office bomb, receiving such disastrous reviews in the US that it went straight to video in Britain. His then wife Madonna, above, plays a wealthy woman who falls in love with a yacht deck hand after they’re washed ashore on a Mediterranean island.

Sherlock Holmes, 2009

Jude Law is Watson to Robert Downey Jr’s Holmes, above, in this high-octane modernisation of the Arthur Conan Doyle tales, which banked $524m at the box office and spawned a similarly successful sequel in 2011. The sleuthing duo set out to take down a dark arts devotee who is attempting world domination after appearing to have returned from the dead.