Best movies of 1998

Actors : Carlo Cecchi, Christoph Koncz, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng,
Directors : François Girard,

A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.

Actors : Guillermo Díaz, Dave Chappelle, Harland Williams, Jim Breuer,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Betty Thomas,

A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.

Actors : Mark Addy, Michael Keaton, Joseph Cross, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Troy Miller,

A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.

Actors : Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sean McGinley, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : John Boorman,

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team.

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

Actors : Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Alexis Loret, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : André Téchiné,

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They ...

Actors : Nanako Matsushima, Hitomi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Actors : Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Actors : Katherine Heigl, Jennifer Tilly, Nick Stabile, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Ronny Yu,

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Actors : Thomas Ian Griffith, Daniel Baldwin, James Woods, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : John Carpenter,

Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight.

Actors : Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Maurice Roëves, Stephen McCole,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities and insect life by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh.

Actors : Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien,
Directors : James Merendino,

In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.

Actors : Tom Davis, Walter Levine, John Goodman, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : John Landis,

Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."

Actors : Peter Firth, Rade Serbedzija, Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Ron Underwood,

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him.

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 : 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 : Timothy Spall, Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Jack Davenport,
Directors : Po-Chih Leong,

Vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to redeem him.

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

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

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson, Jane Birkin,
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...