13 Movies That Only IMPROVE With Age

2. The Truman Show

Peter Weir's incredible sci-fi satire is one of the best films of the 1990s, revolving around Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), a man unaware that his entire life is a fabrication created by a TV studio, which broadcasts the titular production 24/7 without his knowledge or consent.

The Truman Show hit screens just a few years before the reality TV boom of the early 2000s, and predicted with a staggering level of accuracy how mass audiences would lap up the voyeuristic qualities of obsessing over every last, mundane detail of a regular person's life.

Reality TV is of course even more of a juggernaut today than it was then, exacerbated by the exponential growth of the Internet and social media in particular, where people are "brands" unto themselves attempting to sell lifestyles (and get some sponsorship dollars in the process).

The Truman Show foregrounded how technological advancement and the obfuscation of reality can go hand in hand, and in a modern era where Facebook, Instagram and the like encourage people to present an unrealistic scrapbook of their personal successes, the film feels like a frighteningly authentic precursor.

So many movies that speculate on the future of entertainment and tech end up feeling quaint within a short span of time, but 20+ years on, The Truman Show continues to get it right.