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2/Duo
2/Duo (2/デュオ, 2/Dyuo) is a 1997 Japanese improvised drama, Suwa Nobuhiro's feature debut, about a couple played by Yu Eri and Nishijima Hidetoshi; it won the NETPAC award at Rotterdam 1997.
54 (film)
54 is a 1998 American drama, also known as Studio 54, directed by Mark Christopher and starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, and Mike Myers as Steve Rubell; recut by Miramax, it flopped until the 2015 Director's Cut.
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is Michael Haneke's 1994 Austrian drama, the final film of his glaciation trilogy: 71 scenes of twelve Viennese strangers converging in a bank shooting on Christmas Eve 1993.
A Class to Remember (学校)
A Class to Remember (学校, Gakko) is Yoji Yamada's 1993 Shochiku drama about a Tokyo night junior high school teacher (Toshiyuki Nishida) and his students; it won the 1994 Japan Academy Best Film prize and started a four-film series.
A Cool, Dry Place
A Cool, Dry Place is a 1998 American drama directed by John N. Smith, starring Vince Vaughn as a single father lawyer in Kansas, adapted from Michael Grant Jaffe's novel Dance Real Slow, released in the US January 29, 1999.
A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men is Aaron Sorkin's 1989 Broadway courtroom drama about Marines accused of murder at Guantanamo Bay, adapted into Rob Reiner's 1992 film starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, which grossed $141.3 million in the US.
A Mongolian Tale
A Mongolian Tale (黑骏马, Hei jun ma) is Xie Fei's 1995 Chinese-Hong Kong drama adapted from Zhang Chengzhi's novella Black Steed, starring Tengger and Naranhuar as steppe childhood sweethearts; it won 1995 Montreal World Film Festival directing and music awards.
A Petal (꽃잎)
A Petal (꽃잎) is Jang Sun-woo's 1996 Korean drama, adapted from Ch'oe Yun's story "There a Petal Falls," about a traumatized girl after the 1980 Gwangju massacre; the first mainstream film on the event, starring Lee Jung-hyun and Moon Sung-keun.
A Place in the World
A Place in the World (Un lugar en el mundo) is a 1992 Argentine drama by Adolfo Aristarain about an exiled family building a rural cooperative; it won San Sebastián's Golden Shell and had its Oscar nomination rescinded.
A River Runs Through It (film)
A River Runs Through It is Robert Redford's 1992 drama adapted from Norman Maclean's 1976 Montana novella, starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, and Tom Skerritt as a fly-fishing family; it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海)
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海。) is Takeshi Kitano's 1991 third feature, a near-silent romance about a deaf garbage collector who takes up surfing, starring Kurôdo Maki and Hiroko Oshima with music by Joe Hisaishi, released by Toho on 19 October 1991.
A Self-Made Hero
A Self-Made Hero (Un héros très discret) is Jacques Audiard's 1996 French satire, adapted from Jean-François Deniau's novel, in which Mathieu Kassovitz's Albert Dehousse invents a Resistance past; it won Cannes Best Screenplay 1996.
A Single Spark (아름다운 청년 전태일)
A Single Spark (아름다운 청년 전태일) is Park Kwang-su's 1995 Korean drama about labor activist Jeon Tae-il, who self-immolated in 1970, intercut with a fugitive writer's biography project; Blue Dragon Best Film, Berlin competition.
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂)
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂) is Huang Shuqin's 1994 biographical film starring Gong Li as painter Pan Yuliang, adapted from Shi Nan's novel, censored, restored in 4K in 2018.
A Time to Kill (1996 film)
A Time to Kill (1996) is Joel Schumacher's courtroom drama adapted from John Grisham's first novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and Kevin Spacey; released July 24, 1996, rated R, 149 minutes.
A Time to Remember
A Time to Remember (红色恋人, Hong se lian ren) is a 1998 Chinese Mandarin drama directed by Ye Daying, starring Leslie Cheung and Mei Ting, set in 1930s Shanghai; it grossed CNY 25 million and was re-released in 2023.
A Walk on the Moon
A Walk on the Moon (1999) is a Miramax romantic drama, Tony Goldwyn's directorial debut from Pamela Gray's Samuel Goldwyn Award-winning script, starring Diane Lane as a 1969 Catskills housewife whose affair with Viggo Mortensen's blouse salesman upends her family.
Alive (1993 film)
Alive is a 1993 American survival drama directed by Frank Marshall, starring Ethan Hawke, about a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972.
All About My Mother
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 Spanish-French drama starring Cecilia Roth as a mother searching for her dead son's father in Barcelona; it won the 2000 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Cannes Best Director.
American Beauty (1999 film)
American Beauty (1999) is a DreamWorks comedy-drama, the film debut of director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening; it won five Oscars including Best Picture and was later critically reassessed.
Among Giants
Among Giants is a 1998 British romantic drama directed by Sam Miller, written by Simon Beaufoy before The Full Monty, starring Pete Postlethwaite and Rachel Griffiths as pylon painters in a Sheffield love triangle.
An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table is Jane Campion's 1990 biographical film of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, adapted from her three-volume autobiography, starring Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Kerry Fox, and winner of the Venice Silver Lion.
And Life Goes On (زندگی و دیگر هیچ)
And Life Goes On (زندگی و دیگر هیچ, Zendegi va digar hich), also Life and Nothing More, is Abbas Kiarostami's 1992 docufiction, second of the Koker trilogy: a director and his son search earthquake-hit Koker for the child actors of Where Is the Friend's House?; opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1992.
Anna and the King
Anna and the King is a 1999 American biographical drama directed by Andy Tennant, starring Jodie Foster as Anna Leonowens and Chow Yun-Fat as King Mongkut of Siam.
Ashes of Time (东邪西毒)
Ashes of Time (东邪西毒) is Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Hong Kong wuxia art film adapted from Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes, starring Leslie Cheung as desert middleman Ouyang Feng; shot over two years in Shaanxi, it flopped commercially but won major awards, and was reissued as Redux in 2008.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), Hector Babenco's Amazon drama for Saul Zaentz, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel, starring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Daryl Hannah.
Battle of the Sexes (2017 film)
Battle of the Sexes (2017) is a Fox Searchlight biographical comedy-drama by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, dramatizing their 1973 Houston Astrodome tennis match.
Before the Rain
Before the Rain (Pred doždot, Пред дождот) is Milcho Manchevski's 1994 Macedonian debut feature, a three-part circular war drama that shared the 1994 Venice Golden Lion and earned Macedonia's first Oscar nomination.
Birdcage Inn (파란 대문)
Birdcage Inn (파란 대문, Paran Daemun) is Kim Ki-duk's 1998 South Korean drama, his third feature, about a prostitute at a seaside Pohang inn and the innkeeper's daughter; it opened Berlin 1999 Panorama.
Bishonen (美少年之恋) (film)
Bishonen (美少年之戀, also Beauty) is Yonfan's 1998 Hong Kong gay romance drama starring Stephen Fung, Daniel Wu, and Shu Qi; produced by Sylvia Chang, it won Best Film at the 13th Milan Gay Film Festival.