1999 Movies

The Matrix

Directed by: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Country: United States of America

Outline: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

American Beauty

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley

Country: United States of America

Outline: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

The Sixth Sense

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams

Country: United States of America

Outline: A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Tarzan

Directed by: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima

Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Glenn Close

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.

Notting Hill

Directed by: Roger Michell

Starring: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans

Country: United States of America

Outline: The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.

The Mummy

Directed by: Stephen Sommers

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo

Country: United States of America

Outline: An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a mummy that wreaks havoc on him, and his crew.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Directed by: Jay Roach

Starring: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner

Country: United States of America

Outline: Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

The World Is Not Enough

Directed by: Michael Apted

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards

Country: United States of America

Outline: James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.

The Sopranos

Written by: David Chase

Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli

Country: United States of America

Outline: New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Fight Club

Directed by: David Fincher

Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier

Country: United States of America

Outline: An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soapmaker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.

The West Wing

Written by: Aaron Sorkin

Starring: Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen

Country: United States of America

Outline: Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.

Spaced

Starring: Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg, Julia Deakin, Nick Frost

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Starring: Kenneth Branagh

Outline: Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.

The Green Mile

Directed by: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt

Country: United States of America

Outline: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Futurama

Written by: David X. Cohen, Matt Groening

Starring: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille

Country: United States of America

Outline: Fry, a pizza guy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out New Year's Eve 2999.

The League of Gentlemen

Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transsexual taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.

Let Them Eat Cake

Directed by: Alexis Krasilovsky

Outline: It's 1782 and welcome to the fabulous Palace of Versailles, France. Outside the gates, the peasants are on the verge of revolting (already well past vile), whilst inside lives one of the ...

The Iron Giant

Directed by: Brad Bird

Starring: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

Magnolia

Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Country: United States of America

Outline: An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

The Straight Story

Directed by: David Lynch

Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Outline: An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Outline: The story of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their life long fight to bring equal rights to women.

The Insider

Directed by: Michael Mann

Starring: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora

Country: United States of America

Outline: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.

Office Space

Directed by: Mike Judge

Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

The Boondock Saints

Directed by: Troy Duffy

Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.

Being John Malkovich

Directed by: Spike Jonze

Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich

Country: United States of America

Outline: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.