Romeo + Juliet 30th Anniversary

Baz Luhrmann's gloriously over the top modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's greatest romantic tragedy reimagines the feuding Montague and Capulets as rival street gangs in Veracruz. With Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the star-crossed lovers and a soundtrack featuring Garbage and The Cardigans, it remains one of the liveliest takes on the classic ever made. There was far more to the 1990s than Kurt Cobain and Brit Pop - indie cinema boomed and smart movie makers took on the classics with original, outrageous and brilliantly subversive adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.