Best Drama movies of 1998

Actors : Troels Lyby, Bodil Jørgensen, Anne Louise Hassing, Jens Albinus,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Minnie Driver,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Ellen Burstyn, Anthony Edwards, Gillian Anderson,
Directors : Willard Carroll,

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A.

Actors : Robin Gammell, Sandra Oh, Don McKellar, Roberta Maxwell,
Directors : Don McKellar,

A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin, Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson,
Directors : James Ivory,

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful...

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Xiaohe Lü, Zhou Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Actors : Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Aamir Khan, Maia Sethna,
Directors : Deepa Mehta,

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Actors : Judy Davis, Greg Mottola, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Actors : Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, David Conrad, Joaquin Phoenix,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession.

Actors : Bill Pullman, Ryan O'Neal, Kim Dickens, Ben Stiller,
Directors : Jake Kasdan,

The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!

Actors : Didier Sandre, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Marie Rivière,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Magali, 45, is a wine producer in the south of France. She's a widow, and her best friend, Isabelle, decides to find her a new husband. She puts an ad in the local newspaper and finds a ...

Actors : Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Stacy Hart, Charlotte Brittain,
Directors : Simon Shore,

A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.

Actors : Maurizio Benazzo, Henri Behar, Fernando Bolles, Leo Bassi,
Directors : John Turturro,

It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's ...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin,
Directors : Peter Chelsom,

Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.

Actors : Asia Argento, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rupert Everett, Jared Harris,
Directors : Michael Radford,

A young woman attempts to end her criminal career. But she needs love to make it.

Actors : Nancho Novo, Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Maru Valdivielso,
Directors : Julio Medem,

In Lapland Finland, under the eternal midnight sun, two ardent lovers will reunite once again after a long period apart, governed by a powerful and eloquent circular motif that is woven by destiny, faith and love.

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner,
Directors : Jeremy Thomas,

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who ...

Actors : Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison,
Directors : John Roberts,

Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Gemma Jones, Helena Bonham Carter, Holly Aird, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron ...