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 and Mike Myers
• A, documentary about the Aum Shinrikyo cult – (Japan)
• Addams Family Reunion – TV movie
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, starring Adrian Grenier
• An Affair (Jeongsa) – (South Korea)
• After Life (Wandâfuru raifu), starring Arata – (Japan)
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – starring Eric Idle, Ryan O’Neal, Coolio, Chuck D and Richard Jeni
• Alice and Martin, directed by André Téchiné, starring Juliette Binoche – (France)
• Almost Heroes, directed by Christopher Guest, starring Chris Farley, Matthew Perry and Eugene Levy
• American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Elliott Gould and Stacy Keach
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, direct-to-video sequel to the 1986 animated fantasy, voices of Thomas Dekker and Lacey Chabert
• Another Day in Paradise, starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith
• Antz* – animated film with 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 and David Schwimmer
• Armageddon – directed by Michael Bay, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, & 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 and Mickey Rooney with the voices of Elizabeth Daily and 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 (Chûgoku no chôjin) – directed by Takashi Miike – (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 – (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, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, & William Hurt – (Australia/US)
• Dead Man on Campus, starring Tom Everett Scott
• Deep Impact – starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Redgrave, & Maximilian Schell
• Deep Rising, directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi and Anthony Heald
• Desert Blue, directed by Morgan J. Freeman
• 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 and 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
• 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, starring Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Ryan Phillippe, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch and 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 and Whoopi Goldberg
• How to Make the Cruelest Month, starring Clea DuVall
• Human Remains
• Hurlyburly, starring Sean Penn, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Garry Shandling, Meg Ryan and 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
• 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 and Lacey Chabert
• 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 and Rade Šerbedžija
• The Mighty Kong
• Les Misérables, directed by Bille August, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman and 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* – with the voices of Ming-Na Wen and Eddie Murphy
• 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, & 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 and 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 and 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 (Osobennosti natsionalnoy rybalki) – (Russia)
• A Perfect Murder, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen and David Suchet
• Permanent Midnight – starring Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Janeane Garofalo, & Owen Wilson
• The Personals (Zheng hun qi shi) – (Taiwan)
• Phantom Beirut (ashbah bayroot) – (Lebanon)
• Phantoms – starring Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber, & Ben Affleck
• 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 Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren
• 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 and 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 and Michael Rooker
• Restaurant, starring Adrien Brody and Lauryn Hill
• The Return of El Coyote
• Return to Paradise, starring Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix and Anne Heche
• 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 and 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 and 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 and Steve Zahn
• Saving Private Ryan – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Dennis Farina, Vin Diesel, Paul Giamatti, Giovanni Ribisi and Ted Danson – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• 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 Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth and Judi Dench – (UK/US) – Academy and Golden Globe (Mus./Com.) Awards for Best Picture
• 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 Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, & 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 and 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 and Frank Langella
• Smoke Signals – (US/Canada)
• Snake Eyes – directed by Brian De Palma, starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, John Heard and 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)
• 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, Natascha McElhone and Ed Harris
• 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 and Eddie Izzard – (UK)
• Very Bad Things, directed by Peter Berg, starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern and Cameron Diaz
• 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)
• Your Friends & Neighbors – directed by Neil LaBute, starring Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric and 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