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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.
Fearless (1993 film)
Fearless (1993) is Peter Weir's psychological drama, adapted by Rafael Yglesias from his novel, starring Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, and Isabella Rossellini as plane-crash survivors; Perez earned the film's sole Oscar nomination.
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.
Flowers of Shanghai (海上花)
Flowers of Shanghai (海上花) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1998 Taiwanese drama adapted from Han Bangqing's Wu-dialect novel via Eileen Chang's translation, set in late Qing Shanghai's British Concession flower houses, shot in lamplit long takes, a Cannes competitor and Golden Horse Jury Grand Prize winner.
Foxfire (1996 film)
Foxfire is a 1996 American coming-of-age drama set in the Pacific Northwest. It stars Angelina Jolie, who leads five girls into a gang that spirals out of control.
Fresa y Chocolate
Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), 1993 Cuban-Mexican-Spanish film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, screenplay Senel Paz; friendship between a gay artist and a communist student; first Cuban Oscar nominee.
Frozen (极度寒冷) (1997 film)
Frozen (极度寒冷, Jidu hanleng) is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1997 Chinese independent drama about performance artist Qi Lei's four staged deaths ending in an "ice burial"; shot 1994, pseudonym Wu Ming, Rotterdam festival film.
Gabbeh (گبه)
Gabbeh (گبه) is a thick, colorful nomadic Persian carpet woven by Qashqai and Bakhtiari tribeswomen of southern Iran, and a 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf film about a girl named Gabbeh whose forbidden love story is woven into one such rug.
Gakko II (学校II)
Gakko II (学校II, A Class to Remember II) is Yamada Yoji's 1996 Shochiku drama, second in the Gakko series, set at a Hokkaido special support high school where teacher Aoyama searches for two missing students; Mainichi Film Concours winner.
Gerry (2002 film)
Gerry (2002) is Gus Van Sant's minimalist desert drama, co-written with and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two lost hikers, shot in long takes by Harris Savides with Arvo Part music, released by ThinkFilm in 2003.
Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus is Spike Lee's 1996 drama, written by Reggie Rock Bythewood, following Black men busing from Los Angeles to the 1995 Million Man March; financed by 15 investors for $2.4 million and released October 16, 1996.
Giant Little Ones
Giant Little Ones is a 2018 Canadian coming-of-age drama directed by Keith Behrman, starring Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Taylor Hickson, Maria Bello, and Kyle MacLachlan. It premiered at TIFF 2018 and follows two swim-team friends after an incident at a 17th birthday party.
Gifted (2017 film)
Gifted (2017) is an American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Tom Flynn, starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer; a Fox Searchlight custody drama about a math-prodigy girl in Florida.
Gods and Monsters (film)
Gods and Monsters is a 1998 drama by Bill Condon, adapted from Christopher Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein, starring Ian McKellen as director James Whale, Brendan Fraser as a fictional gardener, and Lynn Redgrave; it won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, about a working-class math genius from South Boston.
Gotti (1996 film)
Gotti (1996) is an HBO television biographical drama directed by Robert Harmon, starring Armand Assante as mob boss John Gotti, with Anthony Quinn and William Forsythe; Emmy-winning, highest-rated HBO telefilm of its time.
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.
Hamoun (هامون)
Hamoun (هامون, Hāmūn) is a 1990 Persian-language Iranian drama by Dariush Mehrjui about intellectual Hamid Hamoun, whose wife Mahshid demands divorce; loosely based on Bellow's Herzog, it won six Crystal Simorghs at the 8th Fajr Film Festival and was voted best Iranian film ever in 1997.
Happiness (1998 film)
Happiness (1998) is Todd Solondz's black comedy about three New Jersey sisters and a pedophile psychiatrist, starring Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman; it won Cannes' FIPRESCI Prize, was dropped by Universal's October Films, and earned an NC-17 rating.
Havana (1990 film)
Havana (1990) is a Sydney Pollack romantic drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, set in 1958 pre-Castro Cuba; shot in Santo Domingo after the U.S. barred filming in Cuba, it earned a Dave Grusin Oscar nomination but flopped.
Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures is Peter Jackson's 1994 New Zealand drama, co-written with Fran Walsh, dramatizing the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch. Starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in film debuts, it won the Venice Silver Lion and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Heavy (film)
Heavy is James Mangold's 1995 American indie drama debut, starring Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters, and Debbie Harry, about a shy pizza cook in an upstate New York diner; it won Sundance directing recognition and screened at Cannes.
Henry & June
Henry & June (1990) is Philip Kaufman's drama, starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros, about Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, and June Miller in 1931 Paris; the first film released with the MPAA's NC-17 rating.
Hideous Kinky
Hideous Kinky: 1998 Gillies MacKinnon drama starring Kate Winslet, adapted from Esther Freud's 1992 semi-autobiographical novel about a mother and her two daughters in 1970s Marrakech.
High Art
High Art (1998) is Lisa Cholodenko's debut feature, an independent queer drama starring Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, and Patricia Clarkson; it won Sundance's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and was restored in 4K by Criterion.
Higher Learning
Higher Learning (1995) is John Singleton's campus drama, starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Ice Cube, and Laurence Fishburne at fictional Columbus University, released January 11, 1995 by Columbia Pictures.
Hilary and Jackie
Hilary and Jackie (1998) is Anand Tucker's British biographical drama about cellist Jacqueline du Pré and sister Hilary, based on A Genius in the Family; Oscar-nominated for Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths, controversial for its affair storyline.
Hold You Tight (愈快乐愈堕落)
Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落) is Stanley Kwan's 1998 Hong Kong drama, released 14 February 1998, starring Chingmy Yau in dual roles, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, and Lawrence Ko; it won Best Feature Film at the 48th Berlinale and is a key post-handover queer Hong Kong film. Not to be confused with the 1998 action film Cheap Killers (愈墮落愈英雄).