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You've Got Mail (1998)

Summary: Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Release Date: December 18, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Miklós László

, Nora Ephron

, Delia Ephron

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,821,495

International: $ 135,000,080

The Celebration (1998)

Summary: At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Release Date: June 19, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Writers: Thomas Vinterberg

, Mogens Rukov

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Nimbus Film Productions, Danmarks Radio (DR), Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond, Nimbus Film

Distributor: October Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Denmark, Sweden

Language: Danish

Movie budget: $ 1,300,000

Domestic: $ 1,656,223

International: $ 1,555

The Siege (1998)

Summary: The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.

Release Date: November 06, 1998

Genres: Action, Thriller

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Lawrence Wright

, Menno Meyjes

, Edward Zwick

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Lynda Obst Productions, The Bedford Falls Company

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,981,289

International: $ 75,691,623

Mulan (1998)

Summary: To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Release Date: June 19, 1998

Genres: Adventure, Family, Animation

Directors: Tony Bancroft

, Barry Cook

Writers: Robert D. San Souci

, Rita Hsiao

, Chris Sanders

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney Channel, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 120,620,254

International: $ 183,700,000

Woo (1998)

Summary: Gorgeous and extravert Woo meets insecure and straight-laced law clerk Tim at a blind date.

Release Date: May 08, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer

Writer: David C. Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gotham Entertainment Group, New Deal Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,064,972

International: $ 101,012

Head On (1998)

Summary: A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.

Release Date: August 13, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Ana Kokkinos

Writers: Andrew Bovell

, Ana Kokkinos

, Mira Robertson

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: 18+

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd., Film Victoria

Distributor: Strand Releasing, Umbrella Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 379,384

International: $ 329,014

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Summary: The murderous fisherman with a hook is back to once again stalk the two surviving teens, Julie and Ray, who had left him for dead, as well as cause even more murder and mayhem, this time at a posh island resort.

Release Date: November 13, 1998

Genres: Horror, Mystery

Director: Danny Cannon

Writers: Lois Duncan

, Trey Callaway

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A., Summer Knowledge LLC, Global Entertainment Productions, Original Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Franchise: I Know What You Did Last Summer

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,002,112

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Summary: With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Release Date: July 10, 1998

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Richard Donner

Writers: Shane Black

, Jonathan Lemkin

, Alfred Gough

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Silver Pictures, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), HBO Max, Starz

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Lethal Weapon

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 130,444,603

International: $ 155,000,000

Sitcom (1998)

Summary: The adventures of an upper-class suburban family dealing with their younger brother's homosexuality, elder sister's suicide attempt, masochist tendencies, and a free-spirited maid and her husband.

Release Date: May 27, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: François Ozon

Writer: François Ozon

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Fidélité Productions, StudioCanal, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Altered Innocence, Leisure Time Features, New Yorker Video

Country: France

Language: French

Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

Summary: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Release Date: September 11, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Tamara Jenkins

Writer: Tamara Jenkins

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,502,773

The Avengers (1998)

Summary: Two British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.

Release Date: August 14, 1998

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik

Writers: Sydney Newman

, Don MacPherson

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Jerry Weintraub Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,384,939

The Apple (1998)

Summary: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Release Date: February 19, 1999

Genre: Drama

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

Writers: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

, Samira Makhmalbaf

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

Production: Hubert Bals Fund, MK2 Productions, Makhmalbaf Productions, Rotterdam Film Festival

Countries: Iran, France, Netherlands

Language: Farsi

Domestic: $ 15,207

The Quarry (1998)

Summary: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then...

Release Date: January 14, 2000

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Marion Hänsel

Writers: Damon Galgut

, Marion Hänsel

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Man's Films, SNG Film / Studio Nieuwe Gronden, Tchin Tchin Productions

Countries: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,350

Shadrach (1998)

Summary: In 1935, ninety-nine-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie, and their seven children, and to bury...

Release Date: September 23, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Susanna Styron

Writers: William Styron

, Susanna Styron

, Bridget Terry

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Millennium Films, Tidewater Pictures Inc.

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,167

Windhorse (1998)

Summary: Three young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer S...

Release Date: September 09, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Paul Wagner

Writers: Julia Elliot

, Thupten Tsering Mukhimsar

, Paul Wagner

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Production: Paul Wagner Productions Inc.

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 278,161

Besieged (1998)

Summary: While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.

Release Date: February 05, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Clare Peploe

, Bernardo Bertolucci

, James Lasdun

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Fiction, Navert Film, Mediaset, Tele+, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Distributor: Fine Line Features

Countries: United Kingdom, Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 2,048,740

He Got Game (1998)

Summary: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Release Date: February 22, 2021

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, FX Network, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,567,853