13 Movies That Only IMPROVE With Age

8. Falling Down

Joel Schumacher's Falling Down is one of the most criminally under-appreciated films of the 1990s, an hysterical dark comedy in which an over-worked, perennially frustrated white man (Michael Douglas) lets his violent frustrations out across Los Angeles on a very, very hot day.

At the time of the film's release and for a long time afterwards, it was accepted that Falling Down was pushing back against the perceived social ills preventing the "average man" - that is, white and middle-class - from progressing in society.

Douglas' protagonist Bill Foster is depicted as casually racist throughout the film, but it is also a mistake to assume that Falling Down is itself a racist film as a result.

Rather, Schumcher's film proved itself incredibly ahead of the curve by tackling the notion of "white fragility" that's so prevalent today. After all, the film even concludes with Foster asking Robert Duvall's imminently retiring cop, "I'm the bad guy?"

It is perfectly emblematic of how, in a present society increasingly favouring inclusiveness, insecure and frustrated (predominantly white) men find themselves lashing out and doing insane things (like, uh, voting for Donald Trump).

In many ways the present moment has only better crystallised the characterisation of Foster and made him that much more believable, which for a film that really seemed like an urban cartoon in decades prior (albeit a ridiculously entertaining one), is both incredible and terrifying.