Drama Movies of 1998
A Civil Action
Directed by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Zaillian, this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Horse Whisperer
Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Playing by Heart
Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Great Expectations
Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay, a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situations in the film are presented as ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
One True Thing
Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother. In 1987-88, independent Ellen Gulden (Renee ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Little Voice
Based on Jim Cartright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, this screen adaptation directed by Mark Herman is an underdog ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Rounders
John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Coming Home
Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Velvet Goldmine
At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, American independent director Todd Haynes (Safe) received the "Artistic Achievement" award for this re-creation of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Lulu On The Bridge
Writer Paul Auster made his solo directorial debut with this romantic drama about an affair between a middle-aged musician and an aspiring actress. Hit by a stray bullet during a nightclub ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hurlyburly
David Rabe's popular play of Hollywood immorality and decadence is brought to the big screen by ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Weekend
In an exclusive neighborhood in upstate New York, family and friends gather to commemorate the AIDS-related death of Tony (played in flashbacks by D.B. Sweeney), a much-loved ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Les Miserables
Bille August directed this Rafael Yglesias adaptation of the 1862 classic by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) about the quest of Inspector Javert to capture ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dancing At Lughnasa
Irish director Pat O'Connor helmed this adaptation of Brian Friel's 1990 play which won three Tony awards in addition to UK Olivier and Evening Standard awards. Friel's ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
I'm Losing You
This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Last September
Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Gia
Novelist Jay McInerney and playwright Michael Cristofer (who also made his feature film directorial debut) ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
One Last Score
An ex-con finds that going straight isn't easy -- especially when it means going against your family. Johnny Cooper (Matthew ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dangerous Beauty
Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
54
Mark Christopher wrote and directed this look back at the Disco Era when the popular Studio 54 was at its apogee in the late '70s. With obvious ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Gregory Nava directed this biographical drama on ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Beloved
Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Pete's Meteor
Featuring Saturday Night Live alumni and Austin Powers star Mike Myers in his first dramatic role, Pete's Meteor centers on ex-Junkie Pete (Myers), who is in the process of turning his life around when his two closest friends ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Apt Pupil
Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Down in the Delta
Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but originally produced for the Showtime cable network. Unemployed single mother Loretta (Alfre Woodward) lives ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Kiss the Sky
Jeff (William L. Petersen) and Marty (Gary Cole) are two businessmen who are sent to the Philippines for a project. The two men share a growing disenchantment ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train
Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot) directed this French ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Miracle at Midnight
In this WWII-era drama, a Danish physician and his wife courageously fight the Nazis by helping save the lives of their Jewish neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Wall
At the shiny black length of the Vietnam wall, visitors come ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Mighty
In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Left Luggage
Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
James Ivory directed this drama adapted from Kaylie Jones' 1990 autobiographical novel in which the character Bill Willis is based on her father, James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity and A Thin Red Line. Ruth Prawer ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Another Day In Paradise
Following the acclaim for his 1995 Kids debut, Larry ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
High Art
Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Without Limits
One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
American History X
Tony Kaye made his feature directorial debut with this dramatic exploration into the roots of race hatred in America. In a shocking opening scene, teen Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) races to tell his older brother, neo-Nazi Derek (Edward ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Nicholas' Gift
In 1994, an American family made international headlines when, during a trip to Italy, their son was shot in the head by bandits. Left brain dead with no ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Basil
Based on a Victorian novel by Wilkie Collins, Basil is a British-made costume drama that ended up on cable and home video. Jared Leto plays Basil, a well-to-do young aristocrat with an ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Long Way Home
75-year-old retired cabinetmaker Thomas Gerrin (Jack Lemmon) has been a widower for three years, during which time his well-meaning children have insisted upon ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
JAG: Season 04
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The Patron Saint of Liars
Though she has struggled to put her past behind her, a woman finds the task impossible. This drama chronicles the events that transpire after she must learn ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Love Kills
New Age masseur Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has an appointment at the posh estate of widow Evelyn Heiss (Lesley Ann Warren), who lives with her gay stepson Dominique (Donovan Leitch) and her sister-in-law ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Permanent Midnight
David Veloz made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the autobiography of comedy writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller), whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Winchell
This powerful HBO biographical drama recounts the rise and fall of Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist and reporter who changed the face of news reporting. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Rat Pack
Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
About Sarah
In this provocative made-for-television family drama, Marybeth, a college co-ed finds herself forced to make a choice that will forever alter her life when she learns that her ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Simple Plan
Based on Scott B. Smith's bone-chilling 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dance with Me
Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
He Got Game
Denzel Washington and writer-director Spike Lee team for the third time with this contemporary basketball drama focusing on a promising athlete, the son of a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hilary and Jackie
Perhaps inspired by the success of biopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story -- and a book ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Mama Flora's Family
This four-hour miniseries is based on author Alex Haley's continuing family saga. Covering the 1920s-1970s, the story centers on Mama Flora, the matriarch of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hell's Kitchen N.Y.C.
In this hard-edged crime drama, four kids from the tough New York neighborhood of Hell's ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hitman's Journal
Vincent (Danny Aiello), aging, war-weary hit man for the Mob, becomes the target of Tommy (William Forsythe), the hot-headed son of the new family boss. While ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Heartwood
Young Frank (Eddie Mills), an outcast in his small lumber mill town, falls for the gorgeous Sylvia (Hilary Swank), the daughter of an engineer hired by the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Ever After
Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) who speaks of the many legends surrounding ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Hi-Lo Country
Cowboys live again in this 20th century Western about two World War II veterans living on the lush, open New Mexico countryside. Based on the classic American novel by Max Evans about those struggling to continue living the Old ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
This is My Father
Paul Quinn scripted and made his directorial debut with this period drama about middle-aged schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who finds ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Bright Shining Lie
Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Wrestling with Alligators
Laurie Weltz directed this period drama, set in 1959 at a seaside New Jersey town where former silent-screen actress Lulu Fraker (Claire Bloom) runs Lulu's Look Out, a women's rooming house. Teen Maddy Hawkins (Aleksa Palladino of Manny & Lo), ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Secret Défense
Innovative director Jacques Rivette created the memorable, multi-leveled classic Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), seemingly the inspiration for ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Price Above Rubies
Boaz Yakin (a Sundance winner for Fresh) wrote and directed this drama, set in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, about a young woman who harbors doubts about continuing to follow the path of her religion. Sonia ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Always Outnumbered
Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Governess
London TV commercials director Sandra Goldbacher made her feature directorial ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Summer's End
Two brothers (Jake LeDoux) and Brendan Fletcher) are still reeling from the traumatic death of their father when their mother (Wendy Crewson) decides they'll spend the summer at the family's cottage by a Georgia lake. A ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Body and Soul
Former boxing great Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini brings ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Eye of the Storm
Leo Burmester, Blythe Danner, and Guy Ale star in this tense domestic drama. A disturbed woman murders her daughter, and her husband and son are forced to hide the body and try to keep the incident a secret. The Farmhouse was written and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
ER: Season 05
It's another year of triumph and tragedy in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital as ER enters its fifth season. New to the cast this year is ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Betty
Richard Murphy made his feature directorial debut with this drama about sexy Hollywood film star Betty Monday (Cheryl Pollak) who walks away from a $70-million movie during production. In search of a more meaningful way ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dawson's Creek: Season 02
Season two of Dawson's Creek picks up where season one left off, with the passionate kiss between ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Talk of Angels
Nick Hamm directed this historical romantic drama, rated PG-13 "for some politically motivated violence." The period prior to the Spanish Civil War provides the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Shadrach
Susanna Styron made her feature directorial debut with this family drama, an adaptation of a 1978 short story by her father, novelist William Styron (Sophie's Choice). Paul Whitehurst (voice of Martin Sheen) recalls ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The School of Flesh
Benoit Jacquot directed this French drama about an older woman and a younger man, adapted from the novel by Yukio Mishima. When career woman Dominique ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Will of Their Own
Originally a two-part, five-hour NBC miniseries, this turn-of-the-20th-century tale follows the adventures of a headstrong American woman who sets forth to fulfill her dreams of becoming a professional ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Red Violin
Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
All The Little Animals
British producer Jeremy Thomas made his directorial debut ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Girl
Dominique Swain stars as spoiled, small-town high-school senior, 18-year-old Andrea Marr, who lives with her parents in an upscale suburb of Porter City, Washington -- where Andrea and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Besieged
Bernardo Bertolucci directed this Italian drama co-scripted by Bertolucci and Clare Peploe from a story by British-born writer James Lasdun (co-scripter of Jonathan Nossiter's Sunday). In Rome, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Lies and Whispers
When an American psychologist makes a shocking discovery about her Czech grandfather, it threatens her new romance with a famed Czech author. The doctor (Gina Gershon) came to Prague to attend ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Speedway Junky
In this gritty drama executive-produced by Gus Van Sant, a teenaged would-be stock-car driver gets more than he bargained for ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Michael Jordan: An American Hero
Michael Jace stars in this made-for-TV movie about the life and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The X-Files: Season 06
The X-Files: Season Six marked an important moment in the evolution of the series in several ways -- for one, the show's production was moved from ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Savior
After producer Oliver Stone saw Serbian director Peter Antonijevic's ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Monument Ave.
This crime drama takes place among Irish-American toughs in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood. Car-thief Bobby O'Grady (Denis Leary) belongs to a gang run by bully Jackie O'Hara (Colm Meaney). Bobby's cousin Seamus ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Late August, Early September
Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Claire Dolan
American filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan (Clean, Shaven) directed this French production, set in New York. Dublin native Claire (Katrin Cartlidge of Naked and Career ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Shot Through the Heart
This provocative and potent fact-based drama, an HBO Original Movie, tells the tale of two Yugoslavian men. Best friends since ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Luminous Motion
Bette Gordon, who made her directorial debut in 1983 ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Legend of 1900
On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Felicity: Season 01
Many young girls go off to college, but not all for the same reason. In the case of Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), her decision to enroll as a pre-med student at University of New York in Greenwich Village was ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Oz: Season 02
Season two of Oz gets under way in the wake of the bloody riot at "Emerald City," the experimental unit set up on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Stranger In The Kingdom
Jay Craven directed this post-WWII period drama adapted from a fact-based novel by Howard Frank Mosher. During the '50s, the service record of former Army chaplain Walter Andrews (Ernie Hudson) makes such an impression that ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Ill-Gotten Gains
A kidnapped African fights for his life rather than allowing himself to be sold into slavery in this historical drama. In 1869, slavery is outlawed in America as well as most of the world, but ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
12 Bucks
Johnny and Tanner are two brothers raised in a violently dysfunctional family, with a brutal psychopath for a father. One day, their father's abuse of their mother goes too far and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Airspeed
Joe Mantegna stars in this action drama in which a wealthy businessman sends his private jet ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Warm Texas Rain
In this suspense drama, a Marine Corps veteran (played by Steven Bauer) finds himself defending a woman's honor one ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Blind Light
In this independent feature, filmmaker Pola Rapaport weaves ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Croupier
A man finds his personal and professional loyalties divides by his new career at a casino in this crime drama. Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is a cocky, supremely confident man who wants to be a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Dreamlife of Angels
Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier both won "Best Actress" honors at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in this naturalistic drama ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Gunshy
In this crime drama, New York journalist Jake Bridges (William Petersen), off on a bender in Atlantic City, gets into a bar confrontation with Lew Collins (Meat Loaf) but is rescued by ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Soundman
Steven Widi Ho directed this drama about sound mixer Igby Walters (Wayne Pere), who's working on a western-style ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Small-town America is the key setting for this tale of four West Texas high-school pals who vowed to leave their tiny town after ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
When He Didn't Come Home
In this made-for-television drama, a mother worries when her ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Si Je T'aime....Prends Garde A Toi
Jeanne Labrune wrote and directed this French psychological drama that begins on a train ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Rogue Trader
Based on the tell-all autobiography by Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader tells the true story of how one man managed to bring down England's best respected merchant bank. Ewan McGregor ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Da Game of Life
Priority presents this short film starring rapper and actor Snoop Dogg of Bones and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hideous Kinky
Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Fifteen and Pregnant
Based on a true story and originally aired as a Lifetime Original Movie, this moving drama zeroes in on a family that is nearly torn apart when the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Broken Vessels
Scott Ziehl made his directorial debut with this high-energy ambulance ride with a pair of paramedics careening through the Los Angeles night, with ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Shaughnesy
Matthew Settle stars in this made-for-TV movie as an Irish immigrant who in 1870 leaves behind a career as a boxer -- and a reputation as a ne'er-do-well -- in New York City to become the marshal of a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
On the Line
Detective Jean Martin (Linda Hamilton, in her first TV movie) isn't happy at the LAPD sex crimes unit and gets a transfer to robbery/homicide, where she's partnered ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
In the Shadows
Meg Richman made her feature directorial debut with this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
For Sale
Letitia Masson wrote and directed this tale told ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Emma's Wish
Tired of the loneliness pervading her daily life, 75-year-old Emma blows out her birthday candles and makes a single wish: that she be allowed a month in which to care for and make peace with her estranged daughter. The next morning, she awakens ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Long Time Since
Jay Anania wrote and directed this drama that ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Around the Fire
A teenager rebelling against his father falls in with a bunch of hippies in this coming-of-age drama. Simon (Devon Sawa) is a high school ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Running Wild
This exciting drama centers on the efforts of a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Park Day
In the small, largely African-American Southern town of New Haven, a young man finds himself caught between two rival factions: one, a bunch of narcissistic frat boys, the other, a group of homeys in the hood. It doesn't take long for ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
White Lies
In this made-for-TV drama, Sarah Polley plays Catherine, a college freshmen who is ignored by her family ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Butterfly Collectors
In this drama, John McKeown (Pete Postlethwaite) is a police detective who has come to have severe reservations about his job and his life. When two teenage boys are brought in on suspicion of murder, McKeown comes to the conclusion that the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Ricochet River
Three teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Our Mutual Friend
One of several British miniseries adaptations of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Profiler: Season 03
As Season Three of the paranormal crime drama Profiler gets under way, a trap set by psychic forensic specialist Sam Waters (Ally Walker) to capture elusive serial killer Jack ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Dawson's Creek: Season 01
Aspiring moviemaker Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) and his lifelong friends Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) and Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) enter their sophomore year of high school as Dawson's Creek enters its inaugural season. Life in Capeside, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Belly
Music video director Hype Williams made his feature film debut with this visually inventive urban drama. Tommy Brown (DMX) and his friend Sincere ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
La Niña de Tus Ojos
Post-Franco filmmaker Fernando Trueba's first Spanish-based feature since 1993's Oscar-winning Belle Epoque, La Nina de Tus Ojos begins in 1938, when Spain is torn by Civil War. As a sign ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel Tess of the d'Ubervilles was expansively adapted to television in this two-part British miniseries. Justine Waddell stars as Tess D'Urbeyfield, the poor relation to the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Hei Jin
Hong Kong director Johnny Mak (Long Arm of the Law) helmed this drama detailing triad links to Taiwanese politics, with a several real-life political parallels. In 1995, a corrupt official (Li Li-chun) positions wealthy mob kingpin Chou (Tony ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Kayla
This Canadian movie about a boy and his dog during the early 1920s is set in the countryside southeast of Montreal. Twelve-year-old Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell) is the son of an Arctic explorer ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Kiss of Fire
Antonio Tibaldi directed this drama set off the Georgia coast on remote Dolphin Island, where young Italian Stefano Mauri (Stefano Dionisi) mysteriously arrives out of the blue one day, promptly finding ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Flowers of Shanghai
Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Black Tears
Lagrimas Negras is a psychological drama about love, but also the story of a young man who leaves his normal existence behind to embark on a journey which ends in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Eternity and a Day
Theo Angelopoulos (Reconstruction) directed this 1998 Cannes Film ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
La Parola Amore Esiste
Former documentary filmmaker Mimmo Calopresti (The Second Time) made this Italian-French romantic drama that focuses on fragile and phobic 30-year-old Angela (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). She should have a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Urban Ghost Story
Genevieve Jolliffe directed this British supernatural drama set ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Grandfather
Rodrigo de Arista (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) is an elderly Spanish gentleman who went to the United States in hopes of cashing in on the gold rush, but returned to Northern ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Such a Long Journey
Based on Robinton Mistry's biting epic novel of the same name, this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Tic Code
Actress Polly Draper, best known for her role on the TV series thirtysomething, wrote and co-produced this family drama, as well as playing the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Harem
Following the success of Hamam, Turkey-born, Italy-based Ferzan Ozpetek delivers another exotic film that delves into the traditions of his origin. Once again, the exotic city of Istanbul is the place of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Amongst Women
An embittered ex-IRA soldier and widowed father finds ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Central Station
Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) directed this Brazilian-French road movie tracing the travels and travails of a young ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Blindness
Anna Chi directed this drama about a middle-class Hong family during a single night. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
River Red
Eric Drilling wrote and directed this adaptation of his one-act play, set in rural New England, about alcoholic abuse in a single-parent family. After Dave Holden (Tom Everett Scott) fatally stabs his father while ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Investigator
This fact-based British drama tells the story of real-life Sgt. Caroline Meagher (Helen Baxendale) in a flashback to 1978, a time when Meagher realized she was a lesbian and began a secret affair with a Scottish ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Like It Is
Paul Oremland made his directorial debut with this low-budget UK romantic drama. Latent gay Blackpool ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Possums
J. Max Burnett made his directorial debut with this family drama about a small-town sports announcer and a high school football team, the Possums. In the dying town of Nowata, Oklahoma, the giant retail Maxi Mart threatens to ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Jerome
Welder, and would-be sculptor, Wade Hampton (Drew ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Getting Off
Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Outskirts
Pyotr Lutsik's first film Okraina is an allegorical piece that contemplates capitalism run wild, as well as the increasing Westernization of contemporary Russian ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Wounds
Srdjan Dragojevic directed this Serbian-French drama about life in war-torn Belgrade, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Goodnight Mister Tom
In this adaptation of the novel by Michelle Magorian, John Thaw stars as Tom Oakley, an old man with a short temper who doesn't have much use ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Maten al Candidato
Maten Al Candidato concerns a gangster who plots the assassination of a political candidate. A mime suffering through some ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Going Nomad
Art Jones directed this comedy-drama about NYC's Nomad Movement, a trend described in newspaper and magazine ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Strawberry Fields
In this drama about young Asian-Americans struggling for a sense of culture and identity, Irene (Suzy Nakamura) is a Japanese-American teenager growing ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Slam
Filmmaker Marc Levin, known for his documentaries exploring ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Pariah
Randolph Kret wrote and directed this subculture drama exploring skinhead gangs. The gang-rape of Sam (Elexa Williams) triggers her suicide. Her boyfriend Steve (Damon Jones) finds the legal system inadequate, so he plots revenge ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Class Trip
Claude Miller directed this French psychological drama adapted from Emmanuel Carrere's 1995 novel (based on a factual news item). Detailing a troubled boy's traumas at a holiday camp, the film recalls ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
True Friends
In NYC's Spanish Harlem, Puerto Rican emigrant Juan Jose (Bryan Burke) enters a new school where he becomes friendly with Joey (Kyle Gibson) and Louie ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
2 By 4
Director and co-scripter Jimmy Smallhorne, founder of the Irish Bronx Theatre, set this ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Inheritors
In an Austrian farming village during the '30s, narrator Severin (Lars Rudolph) watches an old woman, Rosalind (Elisabeth Orth) visit the bed of sleeping farmhand Lukas (Simon Schwarz). Rosalind is accused ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Faith of Our Fathers
Hamilton Sterling made his feature directorial debut with this allegorical drama which he wrote, directed, produced, and edited. Kind soul Charles (Jeff Hawke) is a chimney sweep who falls under the corrupting ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The May Lady
A woman edging into middle age must make some tough choices about her life and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Leila
Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (Gav) directed and co-wrote this tale of a woman's dissolving marriage in contemporary Iran. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Caresses
Scripter Sergi Belbel and director Ventura Pons based this film on ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Harmonists
Joseph Vilsmaier (Stalingrad and Brother of Sleep) directed this fact-based German musical drama about a popular barbershop sextet in Nazi Germany of the '30s. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Bounce Ko Gals
Ripped straight from the headlines of 1990s Japan, this film directed by Masato Harada explores the ticklish issue of enjo kosai -- a much-hyped phenomenon in which Tokyo schoolgirls (kogyaru) go on paid dates with lecherous middle-aged ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Edge City
Eugene Martin wrote and directed this teen drama set in suburban ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
In God's Hands
Zalman King directed this tale of an international quest for the perfect wave by three professional surfers -- Shane (Patrick Shane ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Christmas in August
Hur Jin-Ho's directorial debut came with this low-key Korean drama about a photographer, Jung-Won (Han Suk-Kyu), who runs a small studio in the almost rural ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Tango
Combining fiction and documentary, 66-year-old Carlos Saura directed this Spanish-Argentine dance drama with masterful camerawork by acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. After ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
La Vendedora De Rosas
Victor Gaviria (Rodrigo D, No Futuro) directed this drama of street kids in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Life On Earth
Inspired by the poetry of Aime Cesaire, the French-based Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako made this short (61 minutes) French docudrama as part of the "Collection 2000" series. A Paris shopping mall is suddenly replaced by shots of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Head On
In this gritty Australian drama, the nihilistic son of Greek immigrants indulges in 24 hours of hedonism in ethnically conflicted inner-city Melbourne. Ari (Alex ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Shoe
After well-received shorts (The Ferry, The Mail), Laila Pakalnina made her feature ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
I Stand Alone
In this French drama, Gaspar Noe, who won awards (Prix Georges Sadoul, Cannes Crix Week) for his 40-minute Carne (1991), continues where that film ended, beginning with a Carne recap: The Butcher ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Detention
Baltimore native Darryl LeMont Wharton scripted and made his directorial debut with this drama focusing on the problems confronting a group of black ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Fifth Ward
Greg Carter made this low-budget look at life in a Houston ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Heart Of Light
Jacob Gronlykke directed this $3 million Danish drama, the first production filmed completely in Greenland, with Inuit dialogue. The story begins with the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Testamento
Cape Verde author Germano Almeida wrote the novel (Mr. Napumoceno's Last Will and Testament) that provides ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Anima
Craig Richardson directed this drama that begins with computer graphics recalling Nazi Germany. Taxidermist Kate (Rica Martens) is quizzed by documentary ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Beshkempir
Aktan Abdykalykov made his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical Kirghizian-French drama set in a rural Kirghizian village where young Adyr plays ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
2 Seconds
This Canadian film (in French) premiered in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema section. It tells the story of Laurie (Charlotte Laurier) and her love of downhill mountain bike racing. At the start of a big race, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Julio Medem directed this romantic Spanish drama with location scenes in Finland. School children Ana (Sara Valiente) and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Way We Laughed
Gianni Amelio directed this powerful drama that focuses on the relationship between two brothers as their ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Midnight
This $1 million Brazilian feature, co-directed by Walter Salles (handling the camera) and Daniela Thomas (handling the actors), is another in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
You Laugh
Novellas by Luigi Pirandello provided the source for this Italian anthology of two tales written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. "Felice," set in Rome of the '30s, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Falling for a Dancer
Set in 1930s Ireland, Falling for a Dancer was the poignant tale of ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Barrio
Following his award-winning Familia (1997), 30-year-old ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The City
In the tradition of neorealist films like Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief comes an American film (in Spanish) about Latin-American immigrants living in New York City. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Fogi is a Bastard
Marcel Gisler directed this low-budget Swiss-French drama set during the early '70s in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Terrorist
Veteran cinematographer Santosh Sivan made his directorial debut with this fact-based Indian drama, a winner of "Best Film" and editing awards in India. Teen terrorist Malli (Ayesha Dharkar) dwells on the death of her family ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Bullet On a Wire
In this independent drama, Raymond Brody (Jeff Strong) is an insurance salesman deeply unhappy with his life. His ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Faithless
Karis (Nicole Oliver) is a clothing store owner who picks up a handsome music executive, Lars (Christopher Shyer), in a bar and immediately engages him in some very hot sex that leads to an ongoing physical relationship. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Kangweondoeui Him
The beautiful mountains of South Korea's Kangwon Province provide a popular ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Mararia
Set amidst the austere volcanic splendor of Spain's island of Lanzarote, this period piece successfully vacillates between drama and high tragedy as it follows the romantic obsession felt by two very different men for an ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The Temptations
This biographical TV miniseries tracks members of the famed Motown group, The Temptations, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Gringuito
Sergio Castilla directed this Chilean drama about a U.S.-trained environmentalist who's a Chilean exile (Alejandro Goic). He finally gets an okay to head home. However, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
When Love Comes
Garth Maxwell directed this pansexual drama that intertwines ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Vanity Fair
Though not the most ambitious British TV adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 19th century novel Vanity Fair, this six-part BBC1 version was arguably the most expensive and elaborate. Natasha Little was cast as scheming ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Windhorse
Three young Tibetan children witness their grandfather's murder at the hands of the Chinese and grow up to learn the many ways the Chinese government exerts ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Fiona
The director of Sue continues his exploration of the theme of lonely ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Models
Controversial documentary filmmaker Ulrich Seidl follows the sex lives and careers of a trio of ambitious models. Vivian, who will do anything, anything, to be a magazine covergirl, has a boyfriend and a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Solas
Maria (Ana Fernandez), whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Jew-boy Levi
This film takes place in 1935 in a once-tranquil valley in the Black Forest, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Two Women
Writer and director Tahmineh Milani presents a feminist message which is ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's enduring tale of a love struggling against all odds is brought to the screen once again in this adaptation created ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Streetwise
Violence, neglect, and poverty reign in an inner city D.C. neighborhood, where three ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Ratcatcher
Lynne Ramsay's debut feature Ratcatcher is a gritty but often ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Ruby Bridges
A six-year old African-American girl scores very well on early scholastics tests and is chosen by the New Orleans school district to be the first of her race to be integrated ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Extreme Crisis
In this drama (inspired by the nerve gas bombing of a Tokyo subway station), a Japanese terrorist group has planted bombs loaded with deadly ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Seamless
In this youth culture drama, J.B. (Kentaro Seagal) is something of a Gen-X ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Falling Sky
A mother and daughter attempt to conquer Las Vegas in this domestic ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Love & Pop
Following up on his wildly successful 1997 feature-length anime Neo Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno takes digital camcorder in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Southern Man
The death of a close friend sends a troubles soul on a rampage in this psychological drama. L.J. (Mark Withers) is a struggling actor who moved to Hollywood from Nashville ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Lima: Breaking The Silence
In late 1996, a group of armed revolutionaries invaded the Japanese embassy in ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Placebo Effect
In this action thriller, Aleksander Ivanov (Luciano Saber) is an ordinary cab driver in Bosnia who is thrown into extraordinary circumstances when he is unwittingly drawn ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm
When journalist Helen Hannah) (Leigh Lewis) discovers a sinister plot ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
The American
Adapted from Henry James' 1877 novel, The American stars Matthew Modine as Christopher Newman, a ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Erotica
Friendship turns to rivalry when a woman finds her affections shifting in this moody drama from Mexico. Antonio (Jaime Moreno) and Jose Luis (Jorge Rivero) are a pair of small-time crooks who are hoping to land a big score by robbing a safe, but ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Sea Devils
Stacy Keach (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) stars in the Neil ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lions' Den
This entry in the animated video series Greatest Heroes and Legends of the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
This entry in the animated video series Greatest ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Samson and Delilah
This animated depiction of the Bible story of Samson and Delilah begins with Samson; the strongest man in the land and one who ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Apostles
Charlton Heston, the Academy Award-winning actor and emcee of such popular videos as Charlton Heston Presents the Bible, hosts this entry in the Greatest Heroes and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: David and Goliath
This entry in the animated video series Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible tells the inspirational story of David and Goliath. As with each sixty-minute title in the series, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Puphedz
Puphedz consists of wooden marionettes performing a half-hour version of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Tell-Tale ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Foreign Ghosts
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El Ultimo Profeta
A young mother seeks to find peace in her small town when her son shows signs of extra sensory perception and the skeptical townspeople begin to act uncharacteristically suspicious in director Juan Antonio de la Riva's thought-provoking, ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Time to Remember
When a doctor arrives in 1930's Shanghai to care for an ailing man, he becomes involved in a fierce struggle between the Nationalists and ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Amanecio de Golpe
Carlos Azpurua's drama Coup at Daybreak takes place during the military coup that saw the overthrow of the Venezuelan government in 1992. A number of the Caracas' ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Berkeley Square
In turn-of-the-century London, three nannies from drastically different ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Beyond Paradise
Mark is the new guy at his Hawaii high school and he's ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Doña Bárbara
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Rhapsody of Spring
Composer Zhao Liming has found himself at a juncture of juxtapositions ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Serial Experiments Lain [Anime Series]
This heavily cerebral anime series uses its quiet, young protagonist, Lain ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
El Corrido de Santa Amalia
The Mexican drama El Corrido de Santa Amalia details the fallout that destroys lives when the ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny & Cher Story
The true story of one of the most unlikely love stories and show biz successes of the '60s is reenacted in this made-for-cable comedy drama. Sonny Bono (Jay Underwood) is a guy determined to get his foot in the door of the Los Angeles ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
El Faro
When a family is involved in a devastating car accident on a dark and lonely highway, the two young surviving sisters face an uncertain future in director Eduardo Mignogna's Goya-winning drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
East of Hope Street
A 15-year-old teen looking to escape civil strife in El Salvador finds her troubles have only begun upon arriving in Los Angeles ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 06
There's quite a shakeup at Baltimore PD's homicide division as Homicide: Life on the Street begins its sixth season. Detective Kay ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Still Holding On: Legend of Cadillac Jack
Country singer Clint Black and his actress wife Lisa Hartman Black doubled as stars and producers in this fact-based ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
A Change of Heart
Former Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy stars in this emotional drama about a widowed man's fight for the child he loves. When Keith (McCarthy) and Kim (Teri Polo) ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
Eight Clouds Rising [Anime OVA]
Fuzuchi Kuraki is a high-school student with a psychic gift. He is searching for further insight into his ... [ Drama movie - 1998 ]
