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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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg as a young porn actor discovered in California's San Fernando Valley.
Breaking the Silence (漂亮妈妈)
Breaking the Silence (漂亮妈妈) is a 2000 Chinese drama directed by Sun Zhou, starring Gong Li as a laid-off single mother raising her deaf son; it won Hundred Flowers Best Picture and Montreal Best Actress.
Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage as a burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic haunted by patients he failed to save.
Central Station
Central Station (Central do Brasil) is Walter Salles' 1998 Brazilian road-movie drama starring Fernanda Montenegro as letter-writer Dora and Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué; it won the 1998 Berlin Golden Bear, a Golden Globe, and two Oscar nominations.
Children of Heaven (بچههای آسمان) (1997 film)
Children of Heaven (بچههای آسمان) is Majid Majidi's 1997 Persian-language Iranian drama in which Ali loses sister Zahra's shoes and the siblings secretly share one pair; first Iranian film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스)
Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스) is Hur Jin-ho's 1998 Korean melodrama debut, starring Han Suk-kyu and Shim Eun-ha, about a terminally ill photographer; Cannes Critics' Week 1998, Baeksang and Blue Dragon Best Film. Not the 2017 Song Hye-rin short of the same name.
Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء)
Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء, Segell Ikhtifa) is Elia Suleiman's 1996, 88-minute debut feature, a two-part diary film about a Palestinian filmmaker's return from New York; it won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice 1996.
Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock is Tim Robbins' 1999 Touchstone historical drama about the 1937 Federal Theatre Project shutdown of Marc Blitzstein's pro-labor musical, with Hank Azaria, Angus Macfadyen, and an ensemble cast; it grossed $2.9 million against a $36 million cost.
Crane World
Crane World (Mundo grúa) is Pablo Trapero's 1999 black-and-white Argentine debut about Rulo, an unemployed ex-bassist training as a crane operator; a New Argentine Cinema landmark shown at Venice and Rotterdam.
Crocodile (악어) (1996 film)
Crocodile (악어, Ageo) is Kim Ki-duk's 1996 South Korean debut drama about a Han River vagrant who extorts suicide victims' families and abuses a woman he saves; a domestic flop that launched his festival career.
Dangerous Beauty
Dangerous Beauty (1998), Marshall Herskovitz's period drama starring Catherine McCormack as Venetian courtesan-poet Veronica Franco, based on Rosenthal's The Honest Courtesan; 69% Tomatometer, $4.6M US gross.
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫)
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese-French drama, the first explicitly gay film produced in the PRC, about A-Lan's overnight police interrogation, smuggled abroad and shown at Cannes 1997.
Eternity and a Day
Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1998 Greek-language drama starring Bruno Ganz as a dying writer and an Albanian refugee boy; it won the 1998 Cannes Palme d'Or unanimously.
Eve's Bayou
Eve's Bayou, also released as Eve's Bayou (1997 film), is Kasi Lemmons's Southern gothic directorial debut starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jurnee Smollett, set in 1962 Louisiana, a National Film Registry selection grossing $14.8 million.
Festen
Festen (The Celebration) is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Danish Dogme 95 drama, the first Dogme film, in which a son's birthday toast exposes his father's abuse; it won the Cannes Jury Prize.
Festival (축제) (1996 film)
Festival (축제, Chukje) is Im Kwon-taek's 1996 Korean family drama, adapted from Lee Cheong-jun's novel, about a novelist's mother's funeral; it won Blue Dragon Best Film and Director and screened at Busan, Berlin, and Rotterdam.