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Nothing Personal (1995 film)
Nothing Personal (1995), originally titled Fanatic Heart, is a Thaddeus O'Sullivan drama set in Belfast during the 1975 IRA ceasefire, the first feature centered on Loyalist paramilitaries, adapted from Daniel Mornin's novel All Our Fault, starring James Frain, Ian Hart, and John Lynch.
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.
Paradise Lost (실락원) (1997 film)
Paradise Lost (失楽園, Shitsurakuen; 실락원) is Yoshimitsu Morita's 1997 Japanese film adapting Junichi Watanabe's bestseller, starring Koji Yakusho and Hitomi Kuroki as adulterous lovers; it earned 4.5 billion yen, ranked second among 1997 Japanese films, and made "shitsurakuen" a buzzword of the year.
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.
Private Parts (1997 film)
Private Parts (1997) is a biographical comedy film directed by Betty Thomas in which Howard Stern plays himself, adapting his 1993 bestselling autobiography; released by Paramount on March 7, 1997, it grossed $41.2 million.
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.
Restoration (1995 film)
Restoration (1995) is Michael Hoffman's period drama based on Rose Tremain's novel, starring Robert Downey Jr. as physician Robert Merivel at the court of King Charles II (Sam Neill); it won 1996 Oscars for art direction and costume design.
Return to Paradise (1998 film)
Return to Paradise is a 1998 American drama-thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, and David Conrad; a remake of the French film Force majeure about two men deciding whether to serve prison time to save a friend from execution.
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.
Schlafes Bruder
Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep) is a 1995 German-Austrian drama by Joseph Vilsmaier based on Robert Schneider's novel, about musical genius Elias Alder who stops sleeping and dies at 22; it won German Film Awards and a Golden Globe nomination.
Selena (film)
Selena is a 1997 American biographical drama directed by Gregory Nava, starring Jennifer Lopez as the Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez and grossing $35 million for Warner Bros.
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.
Some Mother's Son
Some Mother's Son is a 1996 drama, Terry George's directorial debut co-written with Jim Sheridan, about two mothers (Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan) of fictional 1981 Maze hunger strikers led by Bobby Sands.
Stella Does Tricks
Stella Does Tricks, also known simply as Stella Does Tricks, is a 1996 British drama directed by Coky Giedroyc, written by A.L. Kennedy, starring Kelly Macdonald as a Glaswegian teenage prostitute in London; released in UK cinemas in 1998.
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.
Temptress Moon (风月)
Temptress Moon (风月, Feng yue) is Chen Kaige's 1996 drama starring Leslie Cheung and Gong Li, adapted from Ye Zhaoyan's novel Hua Ying, shot by Christopher Doyle, nominated for the 1996 Palme d'Or, and banned in China.
The Apostle
The Apostle is Robert Duvall's 1997 independent drama about Pentecostal preacher Sonny Dewey, who flees Texas as Apostle E.F. after a crime of passion. Duvall wrote, directed, starred, and self-financed it with $5 million; it earned an Oscar nomination and $34 million gross.
The Apple (سیب) (1998 film)
The Apple (سیب, Sib) is Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 feature debut, a docudrama in which the real Naderi family re-enacts the confinement of twin daughters in Tehran; shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1998.
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник)
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1998 Russian-French-Italian-Czech historical melodrama about cadet Andrei Tolstoy, American Jane, and a steam sawmill, the costliest post-Soviet film of its era.
The Boxer (1997 film)
The Boxer is a 1997 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a former IRA boxer who reopens his Belfast boxing club after 14 years in prison.
The Celebration
The Celebration (Festen) is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Danish drama, the first certified Dogme 95 film, in which son Christian accuses patriarch Helge of abuse during a 60th-birthday toast; it won the 1998 Cannes Jury Prize.
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 Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날)
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날, Dwaejiga Umule Pajinnal) is Hong Sang-soo's 1996 feature debut, adapted from Gu Hyo-seo's Strange Summer; four intertwined Seoul and Jeonju lives, Rotterdam Tiger Award winner.
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 Eel (うなぎ)
The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi) is Shohei Imamura's 1997 Japanese drama starring Koji Yakusho as a paroled murderer who confides in a pet eel; it shared the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry, Imamura's second Palme after The Ballad of Narayama.
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 Flower of My Secret
The Flower of My Secret (La flor de mi secreto) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1995 Spanish-French drama starring Marisa Paredes as romance novelist Leo Macías, who writes as Amanda Gris; seven Goya nominations, Karlovy Vary 1996 jury prize.
The Governess
The Governess (1998) is Sandra Goldbacher's debut British period drama, also known simply as a Victorian romance, starring Minnie Driver as Rosina da Silva, a Sephardic Jew passing as 'Mary Blackchurch' who becomes a governess in Scotland and enters an affair with Tom Wilkinson's photography experimenter Charles Cavendish.