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After Life (ワンダフルライフ) (1998 film)
After Life (ワンダフルライフ, Wandafuru Raifu) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 Japanese fantasy drama in which the dead choose one memory to be filmed for eternity; built from 500 interviews, it won the Nantes Grand Prix and scored 91 on Metacritic.
Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection (Alien: Resurrection, Alien, la résurrection) is the 1997 fourth Alien film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, starring Sigourney Weaver as a cloned Ripley-alien hybrid and Winona Ryder, released November 26, 1997.
Armageddon (1998 film)
Armageddon (1998) is Michael Bay's Touchstone disaster film in which Bruce Willis's oil drillers destroy a Texas-sized asteroid. Grossed $553.7 million worldwide on a $140 million budget; released July 1, 1998, opposite Deep Impact.
Barren Illusions
Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ôinaru gen'ei), also Barren Illusion, is a 1999 Japanese drama-romance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, made with Film School of Tokyo students, about Haru and Michi in near-future 2005 Tokyo testing a pollen drug, premiered at Venice 1999.
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 surreal comedy directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and Malkovich as himself; a portal on office floor 7½ lets people enter the actor's mind for 15 minutes.
Bicentennial Man (film)
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Robin Williams plays a robot who spends two centuries trying to become human.
Chain Reaction (1996 film)
Chain Reaction (1996 film) is an American science fiction techno-thriller directed by Andrew Davis. It stars Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman as researchers framed for murder.
Deep Impact (film)
Deep Impact is a 1998 American disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, about a comet on a collision course with Earth, starring Morgan Freeman and Téa Leoni.
Dragonheart
Dragonheart is a 1996 American fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen, starring Dennis Quaid as a knight allied with Draco, the last living dragon voiced by Sean Connery.
Event Horizon (film)
Event Horizon is a 1997 sci-fi horror film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, written by Philip Eisner, starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. A $60 million Paramount box-office failure that became a cult classic; its 130-minute cut is largely lost.
Existenz
eXistenZ is David Cronenberg's 1999 Canadian-British sci-fi horror thriller starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law, about an organic virtual-reality game; Silver Bear winner released four weeks after The Matrix.
Face/Off
Face/Off is a 1997 John Woo science-fiction action film from Paramount starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as an FBI agent and terrorist who surgically swap faces and identities.
Flubber (film)
Flubber is a 1997 American science fiction family comedy directed by Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams as an inventor who creates a gravity-defying green goo.
Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest (1999) is a DreamWorks science-fiction comedy directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman as washed-up actors of a Star Trek-like TV show recruited by aliens who think the show is real.
Gattaca
Gattaca (1997) is Andrew Niccol's dystopian science fiction film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law, about an 'in-valid' who assumes a 'valid's' DNA identity to join a space program; a box-office disappointment that became a canonical bioethics reference.
Independence Day (1996 film)
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich, in which aliens attack Earth's cities and humanity fights back over the July 4 weekend.
James and the Giant Peach (film)
James and the Giant Peach (1996) is a Disney musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, adapting Roald Dahl's 1961 book with live action, stop-motion, and CGI; released April 12, 1996, 79 minutes, rated PG.
Lost in Space (film)
Lost in Space (1998) is a New Line Cinema sci-fi film directed by Stephen Hopkins, written by Akiva Goldsman, adapting Irwin Allen's 1965 CBS series. It grossed $136 million on an $80 million budget and scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks! is Tim Burton's 1996 Warner Bros. sci-fi comedy, based on Topps's graphic 1962 Mars Attacks trading cards, starring Jack Nicholson in two roles; it cost $80 million, grossed $37.8 million in the US, and was overshadowed by Independence Day.
Matilda (1996 film)
Matilda (1996) is Danny DeVito's fantasy comedy adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel, starring Mara Wilson as a telekinetic genius child, with DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris; TriStar/Jersey Films, PG, $33.1M US gross.
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black (1998) is Martin Brest's three-hour Universal fantasy romance remake of Death Takes a Holiday (1934), starring Brad Pitt as Death and Anthony Hopkins, with a 48% critics score but 81% audience rating.
Multiplicity (film)
Multiplicity is a 1996 American science fiction comedy directed by Harold Ramis. It stars Michael Keaton as an executive who is cloned, resulting in four duplicates with distinct personalities.
Nirvana (1997 film)
Nirvana (1997) is an Italian-French cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert and Diego Abatantuono, about a game designer whose virtual character becomes self-aware and asks to be deleted.
Phenomenon (film)
Phenomenon is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Gerald Di Pego, and starring John Travolta as a mechanic who gains genius-level intelligence and telekinetic powers.
Pleasantville (film)
Pleasantville is a 1998 New Line Cinema comedy-drama fantasy, Gary Ross's directorial debut, in which Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon enter a black-and-white 1950s sitcom and bring color and social change; it earned $40.6 million and an 85% Tomatometer.
Practical Magic
Practical Magic (1998) is a Warner Bros. comedy-fantasy film directed by Griffin Dunne, adapted from Alice Hoffman's 1995 novel, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as cursed witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens; a 2026 sequel followed.
Soldier (1998 American film)
Soldier (1998) is a Paul W.S. Anderson sci-fi action film written by David Webb Peoples, starring Kurt Russell as obsolete super-soldier Todd 3465; a Blade Runner "sidequel" that grossed $14.6M against a $75M budget.
Species II
Species II, also known as Species 2, is a 1998 American science fiction horror film and the sequel to Species, about an astronaut infected by alien DNA on Mars.
Sphere (1998 film)
Sphere (1998) is a Barry Levinson science fiction psychological thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson, adapted from Michael Crichton's 1987 novel about a 300-year-old spacecraft on the Pacific floor; a critical and box office failure.
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Insurrection, also known as Star Trek IX, is a 1998 American science fiction film starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, directed by Jonathan Frakes.