Clueless

Based on Jane Austen’s Emma, Clueless is film with impeccable comedy and impeccable fashion choices. Alicia Silverstone’s Cher fancies herself a matchmaker, but is forced to accept that not of all her matches are perfect, especially not the ones she makes for herself.

10 Things I Hate About You

By far the best Shakespeare adaptation, 10 Things I Hate About You is a feisty feminist movie, with protagonist Kat giving some of the greatest put downs in film history. Sisters Bianca and Kat are banned from dating, unless the other does. With Bianca desperate to get on the dating scene, and Kat desperate to get as far away from it as possible, the somewhat prickly love between the sisters is the real emotional core of the film.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Not to neglect the iconic The Breakfast Club, but John Hughes’ later Ferris Bueller is a film that’s just much more fun. Desperate for another day off school, Ferris runs wild with girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all while trying to avoid detection from his sister, parents and the school’s principal.

Juno

Ellen Page stars as pregnant teen Juno, who decides to give her accidental baby up for adoption. With her relationship with sort-of-boyfriend Michael Cera still on tentative ground, a complex family, and the addition of prospective adoptive parents, Juno struggles with balancing her new life. Plus, it has the added benefit of a great soundtrack.

Mean Girls

Perhaps the most iconic of noughties teen movies, Tina Fey’s Mean Girls is an irrepressibly quotable cult classic and genuinely hilarious in its own right. Lindsay Lohan plays the previously homeschooled Cady Heron, who ends up infiltrating a notorious school clique, only to find herself entangled in a plot to take down its infamous leader, Regina George