1999 Movies

X-Men

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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 Hurricane

Directed by: Norman Jewison

Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Wonderland

Directed by: James Cox

Starring: Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Christina Applegate

Country: United States of America

Outline: In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.

Anywhere But Here

Directed by: Wayne Wang

Starring: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner, Eileen Ryan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.

Drowning Mona

Directed by: Nick Gomez

Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.

Weekend

Directed by: Andrew Haigh

Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Vauxhall Jermaine

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Last Night

Directed by: Massy Tadjedin

Starring: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes

Country: United States of America

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

October Sky

Directed by: Joe Johnston

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen

Outline: The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.