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The Garden (1990 film)
The Garden (1990) is Derek Jarman's nearly wordless British experimental film, also known simply as The Garden, retelling the Passion with Tilda Swinton as the Madonna and two persecuted male lovers, filmed at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, and restored by the BFI in 2019.
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.
The Grandfather
The Grandfather (El abuelo) is José Luis Garci's 1998 Spanish drama adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós's 1897 novel, starring Fernando Fernán Gómez as an aristocrat seeking his true granddaughter; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Hanging Garden
The Hanging Garden is Thom Fitzgerald's 1997 Canadian debut feature, a surreal drama in which gay Sweet William returns to rural Nova Scotia after ten years, winning TIFF's People's Choice Award and four Genie Awards.
The Horse Whisperer (film)
The Horse Whisperer (1998) is Robert Redford's drama, as director, producer, and star, adapted from Nicholas Evans's 1995 novel about a Montana trainer healing a traumatized girl and her horse, released May 15, 1998 by Touchstone.
The House of the Spirits (film)
The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, Das Geisterhaus) is Bille August's 1993 film of Isabel Allende's novel, starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, and Antonio Banderas; a critical and box-office failure later remade as a 2026 Prime Video series.
The Ice Storm (film)
The Ice Storm is Ang Lee's 1997 drama, adapted by James Schamus from Rick Moody's 1994 novel, about two New Canaan, Connecticut families during Thanksgiving 1973; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and a BAFTA for Joan Allen.
The Joy Luck Club (film)
The Joy Luck Club (喜福會) is Wayne Wang's 1993 Hollywood Pictures drama adapted from Amy Tan's novel, the first major-studio film with an all-Asian American cast, released September 8, 1993.
The Legend of 1900
The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) is a 1998 Italian drama by Giuseppe Tornatore, adapted from Alessandro Baricco's monologue Novecento, starring Tim Roth as a pianist born and raised aboard the liner Virginian who never sets foot on land, with an Ennio Morricone score that won a 2000 Golden Globe.
The Life of Jesus
The Life of Jesus (La vie de Jésus) is Bruno Dumont's 1997 French debut feature, a 96-minute drama set in Bailleul, northern France, about epileptic unemployed youth Freddy, girlfriend Marie, and Kader; Prix Jean Vigo and Caméra d'Or Special Mention winner.
The Lighthouse (1998 film)
The Lighthouse (Spanish: El faro) is a 1998 drama film directed by Eduardo Mignogna about two Argentine sisters orphaned by a car accident, starring Ingrid Rubio and Ricardo Darín.
The Longest Summer
The Longest Summer (去年煙花特別多) is Fruit Chan's 1998 Hong Kong drama, second of his handover trilogy, following Chinese ex-soldiers of the disbanded British Army who rob a bank after the 1997 handover; 128 minutes, starring Tony Ho and Sam Lee.
The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George is a 1994 Nicholas Hytner film adapted from Alan Bennett's play, starring Nigel Hawthorne as George III during his 1788 illness, winning the Best Art Direction Oscar.
The Man in the Moon (1991 film)
The Man in the Moon (1991) is Robert Mulligan's final film, a Louisiana coming-of-age drama starring Reese Witherspoon in her debut, released by MGM on October 4, 1991.
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face is a 1993 American drama directed by Mel Gibson in his directing debut, adapted from Isabelle Holland's 1972 novel, with Gibson as a disfigured recluse tutoring a boy.
The Navigators (film)
The Navigators is Ken Loach's 2001 comedy-drama about South Yorkshire rail workers facing the privatisation of British Rail, scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber, who died of mesothelioma before completion; it aired on Channel 4 in Britain and won a BAFTA for Best New Writer.
The Neon Bible (1995 film)
The Neon Bible (1995) is Terence Davies's third feature and first literary adaptation, from John Kennedy Toole's novel written at 16, starring Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae in 1940s rural Georgia; poorly received on release, later reassessed.
The Piano
The Piano (La Leçon de piano) is a 1993 period drama written and directed by Jane Campion, about a mute Scottish woman in 19th-century New Zealand.
The Playboys
The Playboys is a 1992 Irish drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, written by Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe, starring Robin Wright, Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, and Milo O'Shea, set in a 1957 County Cavan village.
The Portrait of a Lady (film)
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) is Jane Campion's film adaptation of Henry James's novel, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer with John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey, released December 1996 to largely negative reviews.
The Postman (1995 film)
Il postino (The Postman), 1994 film by Michael Radford with Massimo Troisi, based on Skarmeta's Ardiente Paciencia; five Oscar nominations, won Best Original Dramatic Score; Troisi died after wrapping.
The Power of Kangwon Province (강원도의 힘)
The Power of Kangwon Province (강원도의 힘) is Hong Sang-soo's 1998 second feature, a 108-minute drama in which former lovers Jisook and Sangkwon travel separately to Kangwon without meeting; it won a Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Mention and Blue Dragon Best Director and Screenplay awards.
The Power of One (film)
The Power of One (1992), John G. Avildsen's drama adapted from Bryce Courtenay's novel, stars Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, and Armin Mueller-Stahl; a boxing coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa, released March 27, 1992, grossing $2.7 million.
The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides is a 1991 Columbia Pictures drama directed, produced, and co-starring Barbra Streisand with Nick Nolte, adapted from Pat Conroy's 1986 novel; it earned seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
The Program (1993 film)
The Program (1993) is an American college football drama directed by David S. Ward, starring James Caan, Halle Berry, and Omar Epps; released September 24, 1993, and recut after a highway stunt scene prompted copycat deaths.
The Rainmaker (1997 film)
The Rainmaker, also known as John Grisham's The Rainmaker, is a 1997 American legal drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon as a young lawyer battling an insurance company.
The Red Violin
The Red Violin (Le violon rouge), 1998 drama by François Girard and Don McKellar: a blood-varnished violin travels from 1681 Cremona through Vienna, Oxford, and Shanghai to a Montreal auction; John Corigliano's Oscar-winning score, eight Genies, Samuel L. Jackson as appraiser Morritz.
The River (1997 film)
The River (河流, He liu) is Tsai Ming-liang's 1997 Taiwanese drama, his third feature, about Hsiao-Kang's incurable neck pain after floating in the polluted Tanshui River; it won the Berlin Silver Bear Jury Award.
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 Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길)
The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길) is a 1991 South Korean film by Jang Sun-woo, adapted from Ha Il-ji's postmodernist novel, starring Kang Soo-youn and Moon Sung-keun; a pioneering Korean realist film added to Netflix in 2023.