Best movies of 1999

Titles indexed: 158

Fight Club

Rating: 8.4

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept...

The Matrix

Rating: 8.2

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and p...

Eyes Wide Shut

Rating: 7.5

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual enco...

The Green Mile

Rating: 8.5

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ai...

The Mummy

Rating: 7.0

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Eg...

Tarzan

Rating: 7.4

Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expediti...

Toy Story 2

Rating: 7.6

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al M...

The Sixth Sense

Rating: 7.9

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret....

American Pie

Rating: 6.6

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe t...

Grey Owl

Rating: 5.6

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live...

American Beauty

Rating: 8.0

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation wit...

Jawbreaker

Rating: 6.4

When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning of her birthday, the three girls respons...

Fanny & Elvis

Rating: 6.2

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial cri...

Les Parasites

Rating: 6.2

Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll...

Sleepy Hollow

Rating: 7.2

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the...

The Ninth Gate

Rating: 6.5

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The N...

Entrapment

Rating: 6.2

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love....

Notting Hill

Rating: 7.3

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlik...

The Iron Giant

Rating: 7.9

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity ...

Limbo

Rating: 6.5

Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to su...

Happy, Texas

Rating: 5.7

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. ...

Cruel Intentions

Rating: 6.8

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summ...

The Escort

Rating: 5.2

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help h...

Galaxy Quest

Rating: 7.1

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — ...

eXistenZ

Rating: 6.8

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game ha...

Stuart Little

Rating: 6.1

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less ent...

Trick

Rating: 6.9

Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception...

Sonnenallee

Rating: 6.7

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between ...

Big Daddy

Rating: 6.5

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster fathe...

Mansfield Park

Rating: 6.7

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life...

Instinct

Rating: 6.5

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Cauld...

Scarfies

Rating: 5.2

This dark comedy is set in Dunedin, New Zealand. A university student finds an old "abandoned" house and proceeds to invite other students t...

Titus

Rating: 6.4

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest traged...

Witchouse

Rating: 4.5

On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd part...

Tycus

Rating: 4.1

An underground city is built to save a cross-section of humanity as a comet hurtles toward Earth....

8MM

Rating: 6.5

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. W...

End of Days

Rating: 6.1

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he m...

Double Jeopardy

Rating: 6.6

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. A...

Crimson Nights

Rating: 1.0

A plague of vampirism is sweeping New York. Susan has recently been turned now she needs to find her first victim. She seduces, then infects...

The Last Days

Rating: 5.5

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the s...

She's All That

Rating: 6.3

High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves...

Uninvited Guest

Rating: 5.1

During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the...

The Insider

Rating: 7.5

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco....

Go

Rating: 7.0

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events....

Der Freischütz

Rating: 0.0

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz as a gripping theatrical experience for t...

Egérút

Rating: 6.5

A bohemian circus mouse has had enough of the spotlight and the magician who conjures him up from the top hat every day. Using a nailfile h...

Three Kings

Rating: 6.6

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen K...

Flawless

Rating: 6.2

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons ...

Stir of Echoes

Rating: 6.7

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold arou...

Splendor

Rating: 6.1

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitiv...

The Limey

Rating: 6.5

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to tas...

Bowfinger

Rating: 6.2

On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dr...

Election

Rating: 6.9

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish ...

Butterfly

Rating: 7.3

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gr...

Not One Less

Rating: 7.5

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese cou...

Pola X

Rating: 5.4

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends....

The '60s

Rating: 6.0

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of ...

Smart House

Rating: 5.9

Ben Cooper and his family are struggling to get a grip on household chores, school and work. So when Ben sees that a Smart House is being gi...

Human Traffic

Rating: 6.8

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cu...

Moving Target

Rating: 1.2

A karate champion is lured to a remote cabin in hopes of learning from the masters. Instead he becomes prey for ruthless hunters. To survive...

The Confession

Rating: 5.7

After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctor, nurse and cl...

Criminal Lovers

Rating: 6.5

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessl...

Ratcatcher

Rating: 7.1

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn...

The Ring Virus

Rating: 4.8

Sun-ju is a reporter who uncovers a series of inexplicable deaths that occurred simultaneously. Her investigation leads her to a resort, whe...

The Bachelor

Rating: 5.1

Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend...

Silver

Rating: 4.6

The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane ...

6ixtynin9

Rating: 6.8

A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in f...

Little Brothers

Rating: 5.1

Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find ...

Made Men

Rating: 5.2

A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to wh...

LaCapaGira

Rating: 7.1

Bari, the last chills of a very cold winter. A gang of petty criminals rummages through the day and night of the suburbs, searching for a pr...

Dead or Alive

Rating: 6.4

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tri...

Wing Commander

Rating: 4.8

In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the vicious alien Kilrathi Empire. When the Kilrathi capture a crucial navi...

Adrenaline Drive

Rating: 7.1

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money....

After Stonewall

Rating: 5.4

This sequel to "Before Stonewall" documents the history of gay and lesbian life from the riots at Stonewall in 1969 to the present. Narrated...

My Best Fiend

Rating: 7.3

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, ...

Doug's 1st Movie

Rating: 5.5

Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out tha...

Genghis Blues

Rating: 6.9

Blind blues musician Paul Pena is perhaps best known for his song "Jet Airliner". In 1993, Pena heard Tuvan throat singing over his shortwav...

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