1998 Movies

Funny Games

Directed by: Michael Haneke

Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

The Faculty

Directed by: Robert Rodriguez

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett

Country: United States of America

Outline: Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences.

Twilight

Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Kellan Lutz

Country: United States of America

Amy

Directed by: Asif Kapadia

Starring: Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson, Lou Fant, Margaret O'Brien, Nanette Fabray, Lance LeGault, Lucille Benson, Jonathan Daly

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Saving Private Ryan

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Country: United States of America

Outline: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Shakespeare in Love

Directed by: John Madden

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

There's Something About Mary

Directed by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

Armageddon

Directed by: Michael Bay

Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler

Country: United States of America

Outline: After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.

Lethal Weapon 4

Directed by: Richard Donner

Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

Outline: With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Deep Impact

Directed by: Mimi Leder

Starring: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman

Country: United States of America

Outline: Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive?

Godzilla

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Country: United States of America

Outline: A giant, reptilian monster surfaces, leaving destruction in its wake. To stop the monster (and its babies), an earthworm scientist, his reporter ex-girlfriend, and other unlikely heroes team up to save their city.

American History X

Directed by: Tony Kaye

Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien

Country: United States of America

Outline: A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham

Country: United States of America

Outline: A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

The Big Lebowski

Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi

Country: United States of America

Outline: "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

The Truman Show

Directed by: Peter Weir

Starring: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

Country: United States of America

Outline: An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

The Celebration

Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg

Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen

Outline: At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Gemide

Directed by: Serdar Akar

Starring: Erkan Can, Haldun Boysan, Yildiray Sahinler, Naci Tasdögen

Outline: Sailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.

Happiness

Directed by: Todd Solondz

Starring: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker

Outline: The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Dark City

Directed by: Alex Proyas

Starring: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Michael Lee Gogin

Country: United States of America

Outline: An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

Run Lola Run

Directed by: Tom Tykwer

Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri

Country: United States of America

Outline: After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Rushmore

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel

Country: United States of America

Outline: The extracurricular king of Rushmore preparatory school is put on academic probation.

Dil Se..

Directed by: Mani Ratnam

Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Raghuvir Yadav

Outline: The clash between love and ideology is portrayed in this love story between a radio executive and a beautiful revolutionary

Train of Life

Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu

Starring: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari, Michel Muller

Outline: In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Following

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.