Best movies of 1998

Titles indexed: 163

High Art

Rating: 6.2

When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both see...

Blade

Rating: 6.8

The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires...

Beloved

Rating: 5.8

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name...

Mulan

Rating: 7.9

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines ...

The Big Lebowski

Rating: 7.8

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski...

The Parent Trap

Rating: 7.2

Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins who were separated at a young age due to their parents' divorce. Unbeknownst to their pare...

Gunshy

Rating: 5.4

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He...

Rush Hour

Rating: 7.1

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky...

Firelight

Rating: 6.7

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At b...

Meet Joe Black

Rating: 7.4

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Blac...

Hell Mountain

Rating: 3.1

In an apocalyptical future, the world is completely destroyed and ruled by the tyrannical Stryker. He controls the unique source of food and...

A Bug's Life

Rating: 7.0

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a ho...

Taxi

Rating: 6.7

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by t...

Armageddon

Rating: 6.8

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and...

Only Love

Rating: 5.4

Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love....

Wicked

Rating: 5.0

A cul-de-sac in an oppressive suburb becomes a literal dead end for wife and mother Karen Christianson when she is brutally murdered in her ...

Perfect Blue

Rating: 8.3

Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and...

Dark City

Rating: 7.3

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with te...

Body Count

Rating: 5.4

A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, runni...

Maharaja

Rating: 5.0

Fearing his death, Ranbir Singh (Salim Ghouse) decides to kill Kohinoor when he is a child, in vain though. After 20 years Kohinoor (Govinda...

Wild Things

Rating: 6.4

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the ...

Ice

Rating: 5.1

After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the...

Orgazmo

Rating: 6.1

A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director....

Evasive Action

Rating: 6.5

When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most danger...

The Negotiator

Rating: 7.1

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes i...

Rushmore

Rating: 7.4

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quick...

Armstrong

Rating: 4.2

The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a h...

Ring

Rating: 7.1

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets i...

Phoenix

Rating: 5.4

Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over ...

Bulworth

Rating: 6.3

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters ...

Thursday

Rating: 6.9

A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime...

Antz

Rating: 6.2

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to mar...

Hope Floats

Rating: 6.4

Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tri...

Lethal Weapon 4

Rating: 6.6

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former lea...

Sex and Zen III

Rating: 6.2

New prostitutes Susan, Fanny, and Chinyun are inducted into the Fragrance House brothel where they are trained in the ways of lovemaking by ...

Der Pirat

Rating: 7.0

Hamburg, end of the 1960s: occasional pothead Jan, also known as "the pirate", makes a career for himself in the local drug scene. He quickl...

Deep Impact

Rating: 6.2

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United Sta...

Girls' Night

Rating: 6.8

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $10...

You've Got Mail

Rating: 6.7

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully...

Blues Harp

Rating: 6.6

Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their f...

EverAfter

Rating: 7.4

Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother, R...

Doctor Dolittle

Rating: 5.7

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possesse...

Basil

Rating: 5.3

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while tr...

Knock Off

Rating: 5.3

A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfei...

The Siege

Rating: 6.3

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI sen...

Stormen

Rating: 1.0

Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place usi...

Ringmaster

Rating: 4.1

Jerry Springer stars as more or less himself, the host of a raunchy, controversial and popular Los Angeles talk show which features everyday...

The Faculty

Rating: 6.6

When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their wors...

Wide Awake

Rating: 5.5

The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the ...

Deep Rising

Rating: 6.2

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of larg...

Sliding Doors

Rating: 6.6

Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In...

Dil Se..

Rating: 6.9

Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get...

Jeremiah

Rating: 6.8

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guis...

Madeline

Rating: 6.2

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to sav...

The Dentist 2

Rating: 5.0

Dr. Feinstone escapes from the mental hospital where he has been held ever since his wife's adultery sent him on a deranged killing spree. H...

Montana

Rating: 5.6

A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to...

The Proposition

Rating: 6.1

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, ...

More

Rating: 7.6

A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, an...

Tomie

Rating: 5.3

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiat...

Happiness

Rating: 7.4

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole...

Modern Vampires

Rating: 4.9

A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for reveng...

Slam

Rating: 6.8

Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although...

Judas Kiss

Rating: 5.6

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate....

Free Money

Rating: 5.4

A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, ...

Just the Ticket

Rating: 5.4

Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, a...

Aprile

Rating: 7.3

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to ...

Africa Unbottled

Rating: 0.0

Hosted by Val Kilmer, the documentary follows playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen as he travels to remote communities in six different African co...

Holy Man

Rating: 5.3

In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever changed when they encounter the enigmatic str...

That's Life

Rating: 7.5

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop wh...

Show Me Love

Rating: 7.1

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with...

Counter Measures

Rating: 5.0

US Navy medical officer Jake Fuller is assigned to a goodwill visit aboard a Russian submarine. But he and his companion, Lt. Swain, end up ...

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