67 Nineties Movies That Will Take You Back To The Era Of 'Wazzup', Butterfly Clips And Slip Dresses

Shakespeare In Love depicts a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare played by Ralph Fiennes, and Viola de Lesseps played by Gwyneth Paltrow, while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters allude to Shakespeare's plays.

The film ultimately won seven Oscars out of thirteen nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, including the Best Actress Award for Paltrow.

Written and directed by Jane Campion, The Piano tells the story of a mute Scottish woman Ada McGrath, played by Holly Hunter, who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter Flora after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman Alisdair Stewart, played by Harvey Keitel.

The film won the Palme d'Or Award at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, making Campion the first female director to ever receive the accolade.

When three former college friends are reunited by the suicide of their fourth friend, who was despondent upon learning of the marriage of her ex-husband and a much younger woman, a calling for revenge for their own ex-husbands arises when they realise how much they were taken for granted when married.

Whilst filled with humour, this comedy also explores society's perception of middle-aged women's worth and desirability as they age.

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After a chance meeting on a train from Budapest, a young couple, Jesse, played by Ethan Hawke asks Céline, played by Julie Delpy, to disembark with him, saying that ten or twenty years down the road, she might not be happy with her significant other and might wonder how her life would have been different if she had ‘chosen’ another life.

The film follows the 24 hours that the couple share together and it ends the following day at the train station, as they decide not to exchange any contact information but to instead meet at the same place in six months.

Before Sunrise was the first in a trilogy — a sequel, Before Sunset, was released in 2004, and a third film, Before Midnight, was released in 2013 — and was inspired by its director Richard Linklater, who had a chance encounter with somebody called Amy Lehrhaupt in 1989. In 2013, Linklater revealed that Lehrhaupt had died in a motorcycle accident before the release of Before Sunrise.

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play rivals in this Oscar-winning black comedy, themed around the darkness of eternal youth. When a potion promises to combat ageing and offer immortality, the pair become increasingly addicted and obsessed with it, competing to outshine each other along the way. It doesn't help that they both fall for plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), who later becomes a reconstructive mortician.

Having moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles with her father and stepmother, Sarah (Robin Tunney) is the newcomer at a Catholic high school, where three wannabe witches become fond of her telekinetic gift. The clang happen to be looking for a fourth member, and Sarah accepts a spot in their group. Thereafter, things turn sinister.

Four resilient Black inner-city women struggling financially feel forced to strategise a heist and take on the system that failed them. After deciding to rob banks, they rally together and learn to trust and rely on each other, but when things soon take a turn for the worst, it becomes a matter of life or death. At the core of the story is female companionship in the fight against racial injustice.

Classed as one of the most popular franchise films that Will Smith has starred in, this buddy cop action comedy movie follows Smith and Martin Lawrence as they play a detective duo on mission to find the criminals responsible for stealing $100 million worth of heroin, with only 72 hours to crack the case.

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Sharon Stone plays mischievous and possibly deadly author Catherine Tramell in this erotic thriller, where she's alleged to have brutally murdered her lover. Hot headed detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) investigates the case, only to get roped into her manipulative and deceptive ways.

Adapted from Terry McMillan's best-selling 1996 novel, this domestic classic sees a high-powered 40-something analyst and single mother fall for a charming man while on holiday in Jamaica. She must confront everything she knows about love, and more crucially, save her own life - through thick and thin.

Starring Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King, it's a heartwarming take on one woman's commitment to reclaiming her life.

When young LA S.W.A.T officer Jack Traven angers retired Atlanta police department bomb squad member Howard Payne, by subsiding his attempts of taking hostages stuck in a lift with a bomb, the latter arms a bus with a bomb that will explode if it drops below 50 mph.

Will Jack, with the help of the passengers, be able to figure out a plan to stop the bomb going off before the bus runs out of gas? This classic 1990s thriller will have you at the edge of your seat, trust us.

If there was a film that best evokes at least '90s high school fashion, we'd put money on it being Clulesss. Just look to the Aläia red slip dress. Totally buggin'.

Based on the supernatural superhero comic book series created by James O’Barr, musician Eric Draven (the late Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered the night before their wedding. A year later, on the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave as a gothic mantle of The Crow, a supernatural avenger, wanting revenge on the murders. Creepy much?

Spike Lee's film about Black rights activist Malcolm X (played by Denzel Washington) - who fought for racial equality and promoted Black empowerment until his assassination in 1965 - is educational, informative, heartbreaking and necessarily long. Lee examines Malcolm's life with nuance, taking us through various stages of his life including the racism he experienced as a child, the killing of his father by white supremacists, his time in prison, relationship with Martin Luther King, marriage, departure from the Nation Of Islam and how some of his views altered over time. A must watch.

Pulp Fiction broke the mould and earned a place on pretty much every best film list since its release. With co-running plots, a Quentin Tarantino trademark for look-away bloodshed , an all-star cast including Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta and stylistic scenes that will never not be imitated (yes, we're thinking of the Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing to Chuck Berry) - the film is iconic even 26 years after its release

After Sam (Patrick Swayze) is brutally murdered, his ghost gets help from a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to tell his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) that her life is in danger. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry and you’ll never be able to listen to 'Unchained Melody' or look at a pot vase in the same way again.

A recently post-NWA Ice Cube joined forces with Cuba Gooding Jnr, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King and Angela Bassett for a film as relevant now as it was when it burst onto the scene in the early 1990s.

Made by a 22-year-old filmmaker about three Black teenagers growing up amongst gang violence in South Central, Los Angeles, the film brought a too often hidden story into the mainstream. John Singleton became the youngest ever, and the first Black man, to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar with this directorial debut.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon became overnight sensations when the childhood friends won an Oscar for writing their own screenplay (Affleck became the youngest winner in this category at 25 years old) about a wayward maths genius (Damon) taken under the wing of an MIT professor played by the late Robin Williams.

The film that introduced Brad Pitt to the world. But that's a small footnote of the film's legacy when it comes to feminism, the power of female friendship and the appeal of US road trips, even if they do go awry.

Steven Spielberg's 1993 movie about a member of the Nazi party who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by employing them at his factory is regularly ranked one of the greatest movies of all time, winning seven Oscars and three Golden Globes in 1994.