1990-1999

The last, great Disney hand-drawn animated film...

Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski followed in the footsteps of Tim Burton's Batman films for this standalone show, creating one of the all-time greatest animated series ever.

Nickelodeon's legendary animated comedy series about a carefree sea sponge who loves his best friend Patrick the starfish, his pet snail Gary, his grumpy neighbour and co-worker Squidward, and his basic job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab.

In this adaptation of a Stephen King short story, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is an innocent man in Shawshank Penitentiary, jailed for life for the murder of his wife. He forms an unlikely friendship with fellow lifer Red (Morgan Freeman), as he adjusts to a future behind bars.

Martin Scorsese’s mafia masterpiece and a crowning achievements of the crime genre, chronicles the true story of gangster turned informant Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). Also stars Joe Pesci (who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar) and Robert De Niro.

This is the film that saw Steven Spielberg undeniably graduate from flashy entertainer to modern day auteur. Shot in chilling black and white, it lives on in popular imagination as the most powerful and accessible anti-Nazi message to emerge from the movies...

Edward Norton gives an Oscar-nominated performance in this brutal 1998 drama as a former white supremacist who discovers the errors of his ways in prison while serving time for killing two crooks. Returning to society with a new set of ideals, he attempts to prevent his younger brother (Edward Furlong) from the same violent path.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is Buffy Summers, a teenage vampire hunter ridding the world of demonic beings while trying to live a normal life, in the hit '90s fantasy-action series.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is Buffy Summers, a teenage vampire hunter ridding the world of demonic beings while trying to live a normal life, in the hit '90s fantasy-action series.

Adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel, with the combined talents of Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and director David Fincher making for a full-throttle exploration of life in the late 1990s...

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks") in this classic teen series from Paul Feig (Bridesmaids).

Roberto Benigni's Oscar, BAFTA and Cannes-winning WW2 drama.

An underworld tale brimming with memorable scenes, endlessly quotable dialogue and an iconic soundtrack, it represents the cultural peak of the American independent film scene of the late 80s and early 90s...

Third season of the smash-hit sit-com famously recognised as "a show about nothing", created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David.

Feeling his handle on his family and business slipping away, mob boss Tony Soprano suffers a series of anxiety attacks that land him in the office of a psychiatrist. Opening up to his shrink, Tony relates the details of his life as a “waste-management consultant,” and tries to come to terms with the professional and private strains that have brought him to the brink of a breakdown.

Winner of two Oscars (for Kevin Spacey and screenwriter McQuarrie), this is Bryan Singer's (who would go on to direct X-Men and Superman Returns) riveting modern film noir, with a twist ending that will blow your mind to smithereens.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigators of strange and unexplained events, in this legendary Golden Globe-winning sci-fi mystery series.

It turns out Twin Peaks is not like other towns, and soon FBI Agent Cooper becomes enmeshed with its quirky and mysterious residents.

When her older brother loses her shoes, Zohre shares his pair until he can figure a way to get her some new ones in this Oscar-nominated Iranian classic.

The classic jazz-punk sci-fi anime following a ragtag group of bounty hunters chasing the galaxy's most notorious criminals for a living.

Tom Hanks stars in this Oscar-winning dramatic epic as Forrest Gump, a not-too-bright country boy who stumbles his way through historical events while pursuing his lifelong love, Jenny (Robin Wright Penn). From Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis.

Season three of NBC's Friends juggernaut. The season where Chandler dates Janice, Rachel gets a job at Bloomingdale's and takes a "break" from Ross, Phoebe discover she has a twin.

Season four of NBC's Friends juggernaut. The season where Chandler dates Janice, Rachel gets a job at Bloomingdale's and takes a "break" from Ross, Phoebe discover she has a twin.

Season five of NBC's Friends juggernaut. The season where Rachel ruins Ross' wedding (actually right at the end of last season), Monica and Chandler try to keep their relationship a secret, Phoebe dates a cop (Michael Rapaport).