1998

Film Decades: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 1732 Høtten – (Norway)
  • 42 Up – (UK)
  • 54 – starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Breckin Meyer, & Mike Myers
  • A, documentary about the Aum Shinrikyo cult – (Japan)
  • Addams Family Reunion – starring Tim Curry & Darryl Hannah – TV movie
  • The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, starring Adrian Grenier
  • After Life (Wandâfuru raifu), starring Arata – (Japan)
  • Alice and Martin, directed by André Téchiné, starring Juliette Binoche – (France)
  • All the Little Animals – directed by Jeremy Thomas, starring John Hurt & Christian Bale
  • Almost Heroes – directed by Christopher Guest, starring Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, & Eugene Levy
  • An Affair (Jeongsa) – (South Korea)
  • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – directed by Arthur Hiller (as Alan Smithee), starring Eric Idle, Ryan O’Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, & Richard Jeni
  • American History X – directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Avery Brooks, Fairuza Ball, Ethan Suplee, Elliott Gould, & Stacy Keach
  • An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island – starring the voices of Thomas Dekker & Lacey Chabert – video
  • Andromeda – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, Takako Uehara, Hitoe Arakaki, Kenji Harada, Ryô Karato, Christopher Doyle, Tomorowo Taguchi, Issa Hentona, Shinobu Miyara, Yukinari Tamaki, Ken Okumoto, Anna Ide, Akihiro Yoshikawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Michelle Gazepis, Hiromi Suzuki, Naoto Takenaka, & Tsunehiko Watase – Japan
  • Another Day in Paradise, starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith
  • Antz* – starring the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin
  • Anxiety (Inquietude) – (Portugal)
  • The Apple (Sib) – (Iran)
  • April Story (Shigatsu monogatari) – short film starring Takako Matsu – (Japan)
  • Apt Pupil – directed by Bryan Singer, starring Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, & David Schwimmer
  • Armageddon – directed by Michael Bay, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Owen Wilson, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, & Steve Buscemi
  • Art Museum by the Zoo (Misulgwan yup dongmulwon), starring Shim Eun-ha – (South Korea)
  • August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) – (Canada)
  • The Avengers* – directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery
  • B. Monkey – directed by Michael Radford, starring Asia Argento, Rupert Everett and Jared Harris – (UK/US)
  • Babe: Pig in the City – directed by George Miller, starring James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, & Mickey Rooney, with the voices of Elizabeth Daily & Hugo Weaving – (Australia/US)
  • The Barber of Siberia (Sibirskiy tsiryulnik) – (Russia)
  • BASEketball – directed by David Zucker, starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine
  • Basil, directed by Radha Bharadwaj, starring Jared Leto, Claire Forlani and Christian Slater – (UK)
  • Be There or Be Square (Bu jian bu san) – (China)
  • Beast Cops (Yeshou xingjing), directed by Gordon Chan – (Hong Kong)
  • Bedrooms and Hallways, starring Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving and James Purefoy – (UK)
  • Begging for Love (Ai o kou hito) – (Japan)
  • Belly, directed by Hype Williams, starring DMX
  • Beloved – directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton
  • Beshkempir (a.k.a. Beshkempir the Adopted Son) – (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Besieged (L’assedio), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis – (Italy/UK)
  • The Big Hit, starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate and Elliott Gould
  • The Big Lebowski** – directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Peter Stormare, John Turturro, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Sam Elliot
  • Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, starring Sean Hayes
  • The Bird People in China – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, & Mako – Japan
  • Birdcage Inn (Paran daemun) – (South Korea)
  • Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor) – (Yugoslavia)
  • Black Dog, starring Patrick Swayze and Meat Loaf
  • Blade – directed by Stephen Norrington, starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff and Kris Kristofferson
  • Blues Brothers 2000 – directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, James Brown and Aretha Franklin
  • Blues Harp – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Mickey Curtis, Daisuke Iijima, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Akira Ishige, Huntley Nicholas, Atsushi Okuno, Saori Sekino, Bob Suzuki, & Seiichi Tanabe – Japan
  • Bombay Boys, starring Naveen Andrews – (India)
  • The Boys, starring David Wenham and Toni Collette – (Australia)
  • Break Up, starring Bridget Fonda, Hart Bochner and Kiefer Sutherland
  • Bride of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile
  • Broken Vessels
  • Brown’s Requiem, starring Michael Rooker and Selma Blair
  • Buffalo ’66, directed by and starring Vincent Gallo, with Christina Ricci, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Ben Gazzara, & Anjelica Huston
  • A Bug’s Life* – directed by John Lasseter, with the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary, & Bonnie Hunt
  • Bulworth – directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, & Paul Sorvino
  • Can’t Hardly Wait, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ethan Embry
  • Caresses (Caricias) – (Spain)
  • Caught Up, starring Bokeem Woodbine
  • The Celebration (Festen), directed by Thomas Vinterberg – (Denmark)
  • Celebrity – directed by Woody Allen, starring Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Hank Azaria, Winona Ryder, & Charlize Theron
  • Central Station Central do Brasil – (Brazil/France) – Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Bear award
  • Chachi 420 (The Trickster Aunt), starring Kamal Haasan, Amrish Puri and Om Puri – (India)
  • Christmas in August (Palwolui Christmas) – (South Korea)
  • City of Angels – directed by Brad Silberling, starring Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, & Andre Braugher
  • A Civil Action – directed by Steven Zaillian, starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Kathleen Quinlan, James Gandolfini, John Lithgow, Stephen Fry
  • Clay Pigeons, directed by David Dobkin, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn and Janeane Garofalo – (US/Germany)
  • Come Sweet Death (Komm, süßer Tod) – (Austria)
  • Cousin Bette, starring Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Hugh Laurie – (UK/US)
  • Croupier, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Clive Owen, Alex Kingston and Gina McKee – (UK)
  • The Curve, starring Matthew Lillard and Keri Russell
  • Dance Me to My Song – (Australia)
  • Dance with Me, directed by Randa Haines, starring Vanessa L. Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Jane Krakowski
  • Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, starring Breckin Meyer
  • Dangerous Beauty, starring Catherine McCormack, Naomi Watts, Rufus Sewell, Fred Ward
  • Dark City – directed by Alex Proyas, starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O’Brien, & Ian Richardson – (Australia/US)
  • Dead Man on Campus, starring Tom Everett Scott
  • Deep Impact – directed by Mimi Leder, starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Jon Favreau, Ron Eldard, Mary McCormack, Blair Underwood, Kurtwood Smith, James Cromwell, & Morgan Freeman
  • Deep Rising, directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi and Anthony Heald
  • Desert Blue – directed by Morgan J. Freeman, starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, John Heard, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Sara Gilbert,,Ethan Suplee, Peter Sarsgaard, & Michael Ironside
  • Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton, Andy García, Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Cox
  • Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target (aka Case Closed: the Fourteenth Target) – (Japan)
  • Digging to China – starring Evan Rachel Wood & Kevin Bacon
  • The Day Silence Died (El día que murió el silencio) – (Bolivia)
  • Le Dîner de Cons (Dinner for Cretins), directed by Francis Veber – (France)
  • Dirty Work – starring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Chevy Chase, & Chris Farley
  • Disturbing Behavior, starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes and Nick Stahl – (Australia/US)
  • Divorcing Jack, starring David Thewlis – (UK)
  • Down in the Delta – directed by Maya Angelou, starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, & Wesley Snipes
  • Dr. Akagi (Kanzō-sensei), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
  • Dr. Dolittle* – starring Eddie Murphy, Oliver Platt, the voices of Norm Macdonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Garry Shandling & Ellen DeGeneres
  • The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges) – (France)
  • Earth (अर्थ), directed by Deepa Mehta – (India)
  • Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, John Gielgud, Daniel Craig, Fanny Ardant, Kathy Burke and Richard Attenborough – (UK)
  • Enemy of the State – directed by Tony Scott, starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Barry Pepper, Lisa Bonet, & Regina King
  • Eternity and a Day – starring Bruno Ganz – Greece
  • Ever After, starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston and Dougray Scott
  • Everest, a documentary narrated by Liam Neeson
  • The Faculty – directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Clea DuVall, Robert Patrick, Famke Janssen, Usher Raymond, Salma Hayek, & Jon Stewart
  • Fallen – starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Embeth Davidtz, & Donald Sutherland
  • The Farm: Angola, US
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci, & Cameron Diaz
  • Fibra óptica (Fibre Optic) – (Mexico)
  • Finding Graceland – starring Harvey Keitel & Bridget Fonda
  • Firestorm, starring Howie Long and Scott Glenn
  • Flowers of Shanghai (hǎi shàng huā) – (Taiwan)
  • Foolish Heart (Corazón iluminado), directed by Héctor Babenco – (Argentina/Brazil)
  • For Sale (À vendre) – (France)
  • Forever Love, starring Reba McEntire and Tim Matheson
  • From the Edge of the City (Apo tin akri tis polis) – (Greece)
  • The General – directed by John Boorman, starring Brendan Gleeson & Jon Voight – (Ireland)
  • Genghis Khan – (China)
  • Georgica – (Estonia)
  • Get Real – (UK)
  • Ghulam (Slave), starring Aamir Khan – (India)
  • The Gingerbread Man – directed by Robert Altman, starring Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Famke Janssen, & Robert Duvall
  • The Girl of Your Dreams (La niña de tus ojos), starring Penélope Cruz – (Spain)
  • Girls’ Night, starring Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn and Kris Kristofferson – (UK)
  • God said “Ha!”, starring Julia Sweeney – Golden Space Needle Award
  • Gods and Monsters, directed by Bill Condon starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave – (UK/US)
  • Godzilla, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Kevin Dunn, & Hank Azaria
  • Goodbye, 20th Century! (Zbogum na dvaesettiot vek!) – (Macedonia)
  • Goodbye Lover, starring Patricia Arquette and Dermot Mulroney
  • The Grandfather (El abuelo) – (Spain)
  • Great Expectations – directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, Chris Cooper, & Robert De Niro
  • Gunshy, starring Diane Lane and William Petersen
  • Gunslinger’s Revenge – starring Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, & David Bowie
  • The Hairy Bird, starring Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Heather Matarazzo and Lynn Redgrave – (US/Canada)
  • Half Baked, starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer and Guillermo Diaz
  • Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, LL Cool J, Josh Hartnett and Janet Leigh
  • Happiness – directed by Todd Solondz, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser, & Jon Lovitz
  • Happy Birthday (S dnyom rozhdeniya) – (Russia)
  • Hard Rain, starring Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, Minnie Driver and Randy Quaid
  • He Got Game – directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson, Milla Jovovich, & John Turturro
  • Head On – (Australia)
  • Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus
  • Hi-Life – directed by Roger Hedden, starring Katrin Cartlidge, Charles Durning, Daryl Hannah, Moira Kelly, Peter Riegert, Campbell Scott, & Eric Stoltz
  • The Hi-Lo Country – directed by Stephen Frears, starring Woody Harrelson, Penélope Cruz Billy Crudup, & Patricia Arquette
  • Hideous Kinky, starring Kate Winslet and Saïd Taghmaoui – (UK/France)
  • High Art, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell
  • Hilary and Jackie, directed by Anand Tucker, starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, David Morrissey and Charles Dance – (UK)
  • Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落), directed by Stanley Kwan – (Hong Kong)
  • The Hole (Dong) – (Taiwan)
  • Holy Man, starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston
  • Home Fries, starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson
  • Homegrown – directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, starring Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Ryan Phillippe, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch & Jon Bon Jovi
  • Hope Floats – directed by Forest Whitaker, starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., & Gena Rowlands
  • The Horse Whisperer – directed by and starring Robert Redford, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, & Scarlett Johansson
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back – starring Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, & Whoopi Goldberg
  • How to Make the Cruelest Month, starring Clea DuVall
  • Human Remains
  • Hurlyburly A starring Sean Penn, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Garry Shandling, Meg Ryan, & Anna Paquin
  • Hush, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange and Johnathon Schaech
  • Hyderabad Blues – (India)
  • I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous) – (France)
  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy and Mekhi Phifer
  • I Want You, directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola – (UK)
  • I Went Down – starring Brendan Gleeson – (Ireland)
  • Identity Pieces (Pièces d’identités) – (Belgium/France/D.R. Congo)
  • The Idiots (Idioterne), directed by Lars von Trier – (Denmark)
  • If the Sun Rises in the West (Haega seojjog-eseo tteundamyeon) – (South Korea)
  • Illuminata – directed by and starring John Turturro, with Beverly D’Angelo, Susan Sarandon, & Christopher Walken
  • The Impostors – directed by and starring Stanley Tucci, with Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Lili Taylor, Hope Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Billy Connolly, & Steve Buscemi
  • In God’s Hands
  • In the Flesh
  • Incognito – directed by John Badham
  • The Inheritors (Die Siebtelbauern) – (Austria)
  • The Interview, starring Hugo Weaving – (Australia)
  • It’s a Long Road (Ola einai dromos) – (Greece)
  • Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross and Mark Addy
  • Jane Austen’s Mafia! – directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Applegate, & Lloyd Bridges
  • Jerry and Tom – directed by Saul Rubinek, starring Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chakin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning, William H. Macy, Peter Riegert, & Sarah Polley
  • Jinnah, starring Christopher Lee, Shashi Kapoor and James Fox – (Pakistan/UK)
  • Judas Kiss, starring Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Carla Gugino
  • Khrustalyov, My Car! (Khrustalyov, mashinu!) – (Russia)
  • Killer (Tueur à gages) – (Kazakhstan/France)
  • Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la Sorcière) – (France/Belgium/Luxembourg)
  • Kissing a Fool, starring David Schwimmer, Mili Avital and Jason Lee
  • Knock Off, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Rob Schneider
  • Krippendorf’s Tribe, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, & Lily Tomlin
  • Kurt & Courtney, directed by Nick Broomfield – (UK)
  • L.A. Without a Map – directed by Mika Kaurismäki, starring David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Joe Dallesandro, & Johnny Depp
  • The Land Girls, directed by David Leland, starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel – (UK)
  • The Last Days
  • The Last Days of Disco – directed by Whit Stillman starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Chris Eigeman, & Robert Sean Leonard
  • Last Night – directed by and starring Don McKellar, with Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley, & David Cronenberg – (Canada)
  • Leaf on a Pillow (Daun di Atas Bantal) – (Indonesia)
  • Left Luggage (2 koffers vol), directed by Jeroen Krabbé, starring Isabella Rossellini – (Netherlands)
  • The Legend of 1900 – directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, & Bill Nunn – (Italy/US)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 – directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, & Jet Li
  • Life is to Whistle (La Vida es Silbar) – (Cuba)
  • The Lighthouse (El Faro) – (Argentina/Spain)
  • The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride with the voices of Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Neve Campbell, Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane
  • Little Thieves, Big Thieves (100 años de perdón) – (Venezuela)
  • Little Tony – (Netherlands)
  • Little Voice – directed by Mark Herman, starring Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, & Ewan McGregor – (UK)
  • Living Out Loud, starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and Queen Latifah
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones, & Sting –UK
  • The Longest Nite (aka Dark Flowers), starring Tony Leung – (Hong Kong)
  • Lost in Space, directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, & Jared Harris
  • Louis & Frank – directed by Alexandre Rockwell, starring Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi, Tony Curtis, Jason Fuchs, Meta Golding, Rosie Perez, Katalin Pota, Steven Randazzo, Rockets Redglare, Sam Rockwell, & John Ventimiglia
  • Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ) – (Japan)
  • Love from Ground Zero
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury, starring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton – (UK)
  • Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del círculo polar) – (Spain)
  • Lulu on the Bridge – directed by Paul Auster, starring Harvey Keitel & Mira Sorvino
  • Lucky and Zorba (La gabbianella e il gatto), directed by Enzo D’Alò – (Italy)
  • Madame Blueberry
  • Madeline* – starring Frances McDormand & Nigel Hawthorne – (US/France)
  • Mala Época (Bad Times) – (Argentina)
  • Mama Don’t Cry (Mama Ne Goryuj) – (Russia)
  • The Man in the Iron Mask* – directed by Randall Wallace, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne – (UK/US)
  • The Man with Rain in His Shoes, starring Lena Headey and Penélope Cruz – (Sp/Fr/UK/U.S./Ger)
  • The Mask of Zorro, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson
  • Meet Joe Black – directed by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Jeffrey Tambor, Marcia Gay Harden
  • Meeting People Is Easy, featuring Radiohead – (UK)
  • Melting Pot
  • Mercury Rising, directed by Harold Becker, starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes and Kim Dickens
  • The Mighty – starring Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson
  • Mighty Joe Young – directed by Ron Underwood, starring Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton, & Rade Šerbedžija
  • The Mighty Kong
  • Les Misérables – directed by Bille August, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, & Claire Danes – (Germany/UK/US)
  • Montana, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Stanley Tucci
  • Monument Ave. – starring Denis Leary & Famke Janssen
  • Mr. Zhao (Zhào Xiānshēng) – (China)
  • Mulan* – directed by Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft, starring the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, James Hong, Harvey Fierstein, Gedde Watanabe, Jerry Tondo, Miguel Ferrer, June Foray, Pat Morita, & George Takei
  • Music from Another Room, starring Jude Law and Jennifer Tilly
  • The Mutants (Os mutantes) – (Portugal)
  • My Giant, starring Billy Crystal
  • My Name is Joe, directed by Ken Loach, starring Peter Mullan – (UK)
  • The Naked Man, starring Michael Rapaport
  • The Negotiator – directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Paul Giamatti, & J.T. Walsh
  • New Rose Hotel – directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento and Annabella Sciorra
  • The Newton Boys – directed by Richard Linklater, starring Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, & Vincent D’Onofrio
  • Next Stop Wonderland – starring Hope Davis
  • A Night at the Roxbury, starring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan
  • Nô – (Canada)
  • No Looking Back – directed by & starring Edward Burns, with Lauren Holly & Jon Bon Jovi
  • The Object of My Affection, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd
  • October 22
  • The Odd Couple II – starring Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon
  • Of Freaks and Men (Pro urodov i lyudey) – (Russia)
  • Okraina (Outskirts) – (Russia)
  • One Evening After the War (Un soir apres la guerre) – (Cambodia/France)
  • One True Thing, starring Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott
  • Only Clouds Move the Stars (Bare skyer beveger stjernene) – (Norway)
  • The Opposite of Sex – starring Christina Ricci & Lisa Kudrow
  • The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) – (Mexico)
  • Out of Sight – directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Dennis Farina, & Albert Brooks
  • Outside Ozona, starring Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak and Sherilyn Fenn
  • Overnight Delivery – starring Paul Rudd & Reese Witherspoon
  • Paljas – (South Africa)
  • Palmetto, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Woody Harrelson and Elisabeth Shue
  • The Parent Trap* – starring Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, & Lindsay Lohan
  • Passion (Szenvedély) – (Hungary)
  • Patch Adams – directed by Tom Shadyac, starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter, & Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Paulie – starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Jay Mohr, & Buddy Hackett
  • Pecker – directed by John Waters, starring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Martha Plimpton, Mary Kay Place and Bess Armstrong
  • Peculiarities of the National Fishing – (Russia)
  • The Pentagon Wars – directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Viola Davis, John C. McGinley, Tom Wright, Clifton Powell, Richard Schiff, & Olympia Dukakis – TV movie
  • A Perfect Murder – directed by Andrew Davis, starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, & David Suchet
  • Permanent Midnight – starring Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Janeane Garofalo, & Owen Wilson
  • The Personals (Zheng hun qi shi) – (Taiwan)
  • Phantasm IV: Oblivion – directed by Don Coscarelli, starring A. Michael Baldwin
    Reggie BannisterBill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, & Angus Scrimm
  • Phantom Beirut (ashbah bayroot) – (Lebanon)
  • Phantoms – directed by Joe Chappelle, starring Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, & Clifton Powell
  • Phoenix – starring Ray Liotta & Anjelica Huston
  • Pi – directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Sean Gullette & Mark Margolis
  • The Pianist (El pianista) – (Spain)
  • A Place Called Chiapas – (Canada)
  • Places in Cities (Plätze in Städten) – (Germany)
  • Playing by Heart – starring Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart
  • Pleasantville* – directed by Gary Ross, starring Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Don Knotts, J.T. Walsh, & Jeff Daniels
  • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  • The Polish Bride (De Poolse bruid) – (Netherlands)
  • Pokemon: The First Movie*
  • Poodle Springs – directed by Bob Rafelson, starring James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Brian Cox, Joe Don Baker – TV movie
  • The Power of Kangwon Province (Gangwon-do ui him) – (South Korea)
  • Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, & Aidan Quinn
  • A Price Above Rubies, starring Renée Zellweger
  • Primary Colors – directed by Mike Nichols, starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Adrian Lester, & Kathy Bates
  • The Prince of Egypt* – directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner & Simon Wells, starring the voices of Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Danny Glover, Steve Martin, & Martin Short
  • Prometheus, directed by Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow (UK)
  • Psycho – directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy and Robert Forster
  • Quest for Camelot*
  • The Quiet Family (Joyonghan Gajok) – (South Korea)
  • Radiofreccia – (Italy)
  • The Rat Pack – directed by Rob Cohen, starring Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus Macfadyen, & Bobby Slayton
  • Reach the Rock, starring William Sadler
  • The Real Blonde – directed by Tom DiCillo, starring Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Kathleen Turner, & Marlo Thomas
  • The Red Violin (Le Violon rouge) – (Canada/Italy/UK)
  • The Replacement Killers – directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, & Michael Rooker
  • Restaurant – starring Adrien Brody & Lauryn Hill
  • The Return of El Coyote
  • Return to Paradise – directed by Joseph Reuben, starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow, Jada Pinkett Smith, Raymond J. Barry
  • Riddler’s Moon
  • Ring** (Ringu) – directed by Hideo Nakata – (Japan)
  • Ringmaster, starring Jerry Springer, Jaime Pressly and Molly Hagan
  • Ronin – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha McElhone, Katarina Witt, & Sean Bean
  • The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) – (Colombia)
  • Rounders – directed by John Dahl, starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Martin Landau, & John Malkovich
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie – with the voices of John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Eric Idle, & Whoopi Goldberg
  • The Rugrats Movie*
  • Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) -directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente & Moritz Bleibtreu – (Germany) – Golden Space Needle Award (for 1999)
  • Rush Hour – directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, & Tom Wilkinson
  • Rushmore – directed by Wes Anderson, starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray, Mason Gamble, & Seymour Cassel
  • Safe Men – directed by John Hamburg, starring Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Pais, Paul Giamatti, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Lerner, & Peter Dinklage
  • Saving Private Ryan** – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, & Matt Damon, with Dennis Farina, Ted Danson, Harve Presnell, Bryan Cranston, Nathan Fillion, & Paul Giamatti
  • Savior, starring Dennis Quaid and Stellan Skarsgård
  • The School of Flesh (L’École de la chair), starring Isabelle Huppert – (France)
  • Scratches in the Table (Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad) – (Netherlands)
  • Sekal Has to Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala) – (Czech Republic)
  • Senseless, starring Marlon Wayans and David Spade
  • Shadrach – starring Harvey Keitel & Andie MacDowell
  • Shakespeare in Love – directed by John Madden, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Dench, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Antony Sher, Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson, & Mark Williams – UK/US
  • The Shoe (Kurpe) – (Latvia)
  • Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) – (Sweden)
  • Die Siebtelbauern (The Inheritors) – (Austria)
  • The Siege – directed by Edward Zwick, starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis and Tony Shalhoub
  • Simon Birch* – starring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn
  • A Simple Plan – directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe, & Gary Cole
  • Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
  • Since You’ve Been Gone, directed by and starring David Schwimmer, with Teri Hatcher, Jon Stewart, Rachel Griffiths, and Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Six Days, Seven Nights – directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Harrison Ford, Anne Heche & David Schwimmer
  • Slam
  • Sliding Doors, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch and Jeanne Tripplehorn – (UK/US)
  • Small Soldiers* – directed by Joe Dante, starring Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Ann Magnuson and Denis Leary with the voices of Tommy Lee Jones & Frank Langella
  • Smoke Signals – (US/Canada)
  • Snake Eyes – directed by Brian De Palma, starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, John Heard, & Luis Guzman
  • So Close to Paradise (Biandan guniang) – (China)
  • Soldier – starring Kurt Russell
  • Sour Grapes, directed by Larry David, starring Steven Weber and Craig Bierko
  • Species II, starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger
  • Sphere – directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber and Queen Latifah
  • Spring in My Hometown (Areumdaoon shijeol) – (South Korea)
  • Star Kid*
  • Star Trek: Insurrection* – directed by Jonathan Frakes, starring Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Donna Murphy, Gregg Henry and F. Murray Abraham
  • State of Dogs (Nokhoin Oron) – (Mongolia)
  • Stepmom, directed by Chris Columbus, starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris
  • Still Crazy, starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Bill Nighy, Jimmy Nail and Timothy Spall – (UK)
  • Susan’s Plan – directed by John Landis, starring Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle, & Dan Aykroyd
  • The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom
  • Tango, directed by Carlos Saura – (Argentina)
  • Taxi – (France)
  • The Teenage Textbook Movie – (Singapore)
  • Tell Me I’m Dreaming (Dis-moi que je rêve) – (France)
  • There’s Something About Mary, directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans and Chris Elliott
  • The Tichborne Claimant – directed by David Yates, starring Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy, and John Gielgud – UK
  • Thick as Thieves, starring Alec Baldwin
  • The Thin Red Line – directed by Terrence Malick, starring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, John Travolta, & George Clooney — Golden Bear Award for 1999
  • The Three Men of Melita Žganjer (Tri muškarca Melite Žganjer) – (Croatia)
  • Top Secret – directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, & Grégoire Colin – aka Secret défense – France
  • Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law) – (Spain)
  • Tourist Trap – directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Daniel Stern, Julie Hagerty, David Rasche, Paul Giamatti, & Ryan Reynolds – TV mo
  • Train of Life (Train de Vie) (Fr/Bel/Neth/Is/Rom)
  • Train to Pakistan – (India)
  • Trance – starring Alison Elliott, Christopher Walken and Jared Harris
  • The Truman Show – directed by Peter Weir, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, and Paul Giamatti
  • Twilight – directed by Robert Benton, starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Liev Schreiber, Stockard Channing and Reese Witherspoon
  • U.S. Marshals – starring Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, & Robert Downey Jr.
  • Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light – (Japan)
  • Up ‘n’ Under – (UK)
  • Urban Legend, starring Alicia Witt, Tara Reid and Jared Leto
  • Vampires – directed by John Carpenter, starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith and Maximilian Schell
  • Velvet Goldmine, directed by Todd Haynes, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard – UK
  • Very Bad Things – directed by Peter Berg, starring Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Christian Slater, Leland Orser, Kobe Tai, & Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • The Very Thought of You, aka Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, starring Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell – (UK)
  • La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) – (Mali/Mauritania)
  • The Vivero Letter, starring Fred Ward, Robert Patrick
  • Waking Ned, aka Waking Ned Devine, starring Ian Bannen, James Nesbitt and Fionnula Flanagan – (UK/France)
  • The Waterboy – starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza Balk
  • The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) – (Italy)
  • The Wedding Singer, starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore and Christine Taylor
  • Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God… Be Back by Five
  • West Beirut (Beyrout al gharbiyya) – (Lebanon)
  • What Dreams May Come, directed by Vincent Ward, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra and Max von Sydow
  • When the Dead Start Singing (Kad mrtvi zapjevaju) – (Croatia)
  • Whispering Corridors (Yeogogoedam) – (South Korea)
  • Who Am I? (Wǒ Shì Shéi), starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
  • Why Do Fools Fall In Love, starring Halle Berry and Vivica A. Fox
  • Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Rosie O’Donnell, Dana Delany and Denis Leary
  • Wild Things – directed by John McNaughton, starring Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, & Bill Murray
  • Without Limits, directed by Robert Towne, starring Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Judith Ivey and Matthew Lillard
  • The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, starring Joe Mantegna and Esai Morales
  • Woubi Chéri (Darling Woubi) – (Côte d’Ivoire/France)
  • Wrongfully Accused – directed by Pat Proft, starring Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Melinda McGraw and Kelly LeBrock
  • The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau and Blythe Danner
  • Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Tiān Yù), directed by Joan Chen – (China)
  • Young Thugs: Nostalgia – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Takeshi Caesar aSetsuko Karasuma, Yuki Nagata, Toshikazu Nakaba, Akihiro Shimizu, Matsunosuke Shofukutei, Saki Takaoka, Naoto Takenaka, & Yoshinori Yasuda – Japan
  • Your Friends & Neighbors – directed by Neil LaBute, starring Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, & Ben Stiller
  • You’ve Got Mail – directed by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn, & Greg Kinnear
  • Zero Effect, directed by Jake Kasdan, starring Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens and Ryan O’Neal

Film Decades: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999