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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.
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.
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.
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.
Gohatto (御法度)
Gohatto (御法度, Taboo) is Nagisa Oshima's 1999 final feature, adapted from Ryotaro Shiba's Shinsengumi Keppuroku, about homoerotic turmoil in the Shinsengumi after beautiful recruit Kano Sozaburo (Ryuhei Matsuda's debut) joins; music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cannes 2000 competition entry.
Guinevere (1999 film)
Guinevere is Audrey Wells's 1999 American drama-romance starring Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea, about a young San Francisco woman who becomes an alcoholic photographer's muse and protege; it won the 1999 Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Humanity
Humanity (L'humanité) is Bruno Dumont's 1999 French drama about police lieutenant Pharaon De Winter investigating a child's rape-murder in northern France; it won the Cannes Grand Prix plus Best Actor and Best Actress prizes for non-professionals Emmanuel Schotté and Séverine Caneele.
Julien Donkey-Boy
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine's 1999 experimental drama and first American Dogme 95 film, stars Ewen Bremner as a schizophrenic living with Chloë Sevigny and Werner Herzog in a dysfunctional New York family.
Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏)
Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujiro no Natsu) is a 1999 Japanese road movie by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi and Yusuke Sekiguchi, in which a drifter escorts a nine-year-old boy to find his mother; it competed at Cannes 1999 and features Joe Hisaishi's theme "Summer".
Little Cheung
Little Cheung (細路祥, Xilu Xiang) is a 1999 Hong Kong drama by Fruit Chan, the final film of his 1997 handover trilogy, following a nine-year-old delivery boy in Mong Kok who befriends an illegal immigrant girl; it won the Locarno Silver Leopard and Golden Horse screenplay awards.
Magnolia (film)
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 New Line Cinema drama (188 minutes), interweaves Los Angeles lives toward a rain of frogs, with Jason Robards, Tom Cruise, and Julianne Moore, and a soundtrack of Aimee Mann songs that inspired the screenplay.
Man on the Moon (film)
Man on the Moon is a 1999 American biographical comedy-drama directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jim Carrey as comedian Andy Kaufman, with Danny DeVito and Courtney Love.
Mystery, Alaska
Mystery, Alaska (1999) is a Jay Roach comedy-drama written by David E. Kelley and Sean O'Byrne, starring Russell Crowe, about a 633-person Alaskan town whose pond hockey team faces the New York Rangers in a televised exhibition game.
Not One Less (一个都不能少)
Not One Less (一个都不能少) is Zhang Yimou's 1999 neorealist drama about a teenage substitute teacher in rural Hebei who searches the city for a student who left school to work; it won the 1999 Venice Golden Lion.
October Sky
October Sky (1999), Joe Johnston drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, and Laura Dern, adapted from Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys, an anagram of the title, about a Coalwood, West Virginia teen inspired by Sputnik to build rockets.
Peppermint Candy (박하사탕)
Peppermint Candy (박하사탕, Bakha satang) is Lee Chang-dong's 1999 South Korean drama, released January 1, 2000, telling factory worker Kim Yong-ho's 1979–1999 life in reverse through seven episodes tied to the Gwangju massacre, 1987 torture, and 1997 crisis.
Postmen in the Mountains (那山、那人、那狗)
Postmen in the Mountains (那山、那人、那狗) is a 1999 Chinese drama directed by Huo Jianqi, adapted from Peng Jianming's short story, about a retiring Hunan mountain postman and his son. A domestic flop that became a record-breaking hit in Japan and won Golden Rooster Best Picture.
Random Hearts
Random Hearts is a 1999 American romantic drama directed by Sydney Pollack. It stars Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas as two strangers whose spouses die in a plane crash.
Rosetta (1999 film)
Rosetta is a 1999 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a poor teenage girl seeking work; it won the 1999 Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Actress for Émilie Dequenne, and inspired Belgium's Rosetta Law.
Seventeen Years (过年回家)
Seventeen Years (过年回家, Guonian huijia) is Zhang Yuan's 1999 China-Italy drama about a woman furloughed after 17 years in prison for killing her stepsister; it won Venice's Special Prize for Direction and was the first film allowed inside a Chinese prison.
Solas
Solas is a 1999 Spanish drama, Benito Zambrano's debut feature, starring María Galiana, Ana Fernández, and Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa as a mother, daughter, and widowed neighbor in Seville. It won the 1999 Berlin Panorama Audience Award and five Goyas from eleven nominations.
Taboo (御法度) (1999 film)
Taboo (御法度, Gohatto) is Nagisa Oshima's 1999 Shochiku period drama about a beautiful young recruit disrupting the Shinsengumi; his final film, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Beat Takeshi, and Tadanobu Asano, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The Color of Paradise (رنگ خدا)
The Color of Paradise (رنگ خدا, Rang-e khoda) is Majid Majidi's 1999 Iranian drama about Mohammad, a blind boy whose widower father tries to apprentice him away; Montreal Best Film winner, Sony Pictures Classics US release, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Deep End of the Ocean (film)
The Deep End of the Ocean is a 1999 American drama directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, about a mother whose kidnapped son returns nine years later.
The End of the Affair (1999 film)
The End of the Affair (1999) is Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Graham Greene's 1951 novel, starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, and Stephen Rea; it earned two Oscar nominations and grossed under $11 million.
The Road Home (我的父亲母亲)
The Road Home (我的父亲母亲) is Zhang Yimou's 1999 Chinese romance film, adapted from Bao Shi's novel Remembrance, starring Zhang Ziyi; it won the Berlin Silver Bear and uses black-and-white present, color memory.
The Straight Story
The Straight Story (1999) is David Lynch's G-rated Disney biographical road drama, based on Alvin Straight's 1994 lawnmower journey from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin; it competed at Cannes and earned Richard Farnsworth a Best Actor Oscar nomination.