1990-1999

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Oscar-winning documentary on the the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire - the Rumble in the Jungle - between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.

The iconic '90s animated series based on the Marvel comic series centred on a home and school for mutants with special abilities.

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.

Sam Mendes' comedy-drama feature debut, winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Actor (Kevin Spacey), Best Director and Best Film. Provoked by forbidden passions, middle-aged office drone Lester Burnham (Spacey) decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn...

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are two 20-something year olds who meet and fall in love on a train through Europe, in this romance from director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused). Winner of the Silver Bear (Best Director) at Berlin Film Festival 1995.

Debut film from director John Singleton (Poetic Justice). The saga of a group of childhood friends living in a south central Los Angeles neighbourhood. Stars Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence Fishburne and Ice Cube.

Reprising their collaboration on Goodfellas (1990), director Martin Scorsese and co-writer Nicholas Pileggi bring this true-story crime drama based on the rise and fall of ace gambler Sam Rothstein, working for the Mafia in Las Vegas. Robert De Niro plays Rothstein, Joe Pesci is his enforcer, and Sharon Stone plays his wife in a Golden Globe-winning performance.

This 1994 crime-romance from legendary filmmaker Wong Kar-wai follows two melancholic Hong Kong policemen who fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. 

High-octane black-comedy thriller, a journey into London's seedy underworld. The feature debut from Guy Ritchie.

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Work-hating comedy from writer-director Mike Judge, starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root and John C. McGinley.

The Coen brothers' comedy masterpiece, a Chandler-esque mystery involving The Dude (Jeff Bridges), Walter (John Goodman), a ransom, nihilists, a millionaire and his avante-garde artist daughter, bowling and a rug that really tied the room together.

DreamWorks Animation Studio tells the tale of Moses and Ramses in this adventurous 1998 family musical...

Kurt Russell is legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, joined by Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton as brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp, in this 1993 Western.

Danny Boyle's story of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies.

Oscar-winning 1992 Western directed by, and starring, Clint Eastwood as a retired gunslinger with a lawless reputation he'd rather forget. Co-stars Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman, who earned himself an Academy Award for his performance. Ranked as the fourth best Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008.

Ang Lee's 1994 rom-com drama, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, following a retired and widowed master chef living in Taiwan with his three daughters.

The Coen brothers' Oscar-winning crime drama. In snowy Minneapolis, intrepid, pregnant Sheriff Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) attempts to unravel a kidnapping plot and the string of murders it provokes

Shot over five years and compiled from 250 hours of footage, this Sundance-winning documentary follows two high-school students from Chicago and their dream to become professional basketball players.

Al Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar (his first) for his portrayal of the overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him.

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