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The Waterboy
The Waterboy (1998) on 6 november 1998
, 1h30
Directed by Frank Coraci
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark
Rating60% 3.0497853.0497853.0497853.0497853.049785
Bobby Boucher is a socially inept water boy with a stutter and hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and excessive sheltering by his mother, Helen (Kathy Bates). He became the water boy for the (fictional) University of Louisiana Cougars after being told his father died of dehydration in the Sahara while serving in the Peace Corps. However, the players always torment him and the team's head coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed), eventually fires him for "disrupting" the team's practices (in actuality, the coach had fired Bobby because he's too weak for his team to bully). Bobby then approaches Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) of the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs and asks to work as the team's water boy. Coach Klein has been coach of SCLSU for years without success. It is revealed later in the movie that he and Beaulieu were assistant coaches at the University of Louisiana, but Beaulieu bullied Klein into letting him take sole credit for a playbook (that Klein actually came up with on his own) to earn the head coach job and then immediately fired Klein. The experience drove Klein to a mental breakdown and rendered him unable to come up with new plays. Furthermore, unlike the Cougars, the Mud Dogs are a struggling team both on and off the field. They have lost 40 consecutive games, their cheerleaders have become alcohol dependent, and players are forced to share equipment. Bobby insists he be the waterboy after seeing a keg of heavily polluted water that coach Klein had been offering his players. Klein, despite being impressed with a sample of Bobby's water, tells him he cannot hire anybody due to the team's financial issues, but Bobby agrees to work for free.
Belly
Belly (1998) on 4 november 1998
, 1h32
Directed by Hype Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Method Man, Tionne Watkins, Hassan Johnson
Rating61% 3.0986653.0986653.0986653.0986653.098665
The film begins in early 1999, with two young New York street criminals Tommy Bunds ("Bundy") (DMX) and Sincere ("Sin") (Nas), along with their associates in crime Mark and Black. The four violently rob a nightclub, murdering five people. Escaping in a stolen car, they cheer their success. Black goes to dump the car while the rest retreat to Tommy's house, where they celebrate and joke around (The movie Gummo is playing on the tv), waking Tommy's girlfriend Keisha (Taral Hicks). Sincere soon leaves and is followed in gesture by the others. He returns home to his girlfriend Tionne (Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins) and infant daughter Kenya. Meanwhile, Tommy learns of a new form of heroin which he takes as a lucrative business opportunity.
Better Living
Better Living (1998) on 2 november 1998
, 1h35
Directed by Max Mayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roy Scheider, Olympia Dukakis, Edward Herrmann, Scott Cohen, Phyllis Somerville
Rating37% 1.884741.884741.884741.884741.88474
The Second Arrival
The Second Arrival (1998) on 6 november 1998
, 1h41
Directed by Kevin Tenney
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Karen Elkin, Kevin Tenney, John Sanford Moore
Rating38% 1.906191.906191.906191.906191.90619
This film takes place two years after the first film. Zane Zaminski (the protagonist from The Arrival) is found dead in a remote Eskimo community. It is believed that he died of a heart attack. His broadcast to the world about the aliens is believed to have been a UFO hoax due to his dismissal from NASA (this despite Earth continuing to have record temperatures). As his death is announced on TV, five people receive envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five consists of three scientists, Zane's step brother Jack Addison, a computer expert whom he has not seen in seven years, and a reporter named Bridget Riordan. They receive papers talking of global warming and of aliens terraforming Earth into a planet hot like their own dying world.
Sex and Zen III
Sex and Zen III (1998) on 7 november 1998
, 1h39
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about virginity
Actors Elvis Tsui, Lo Mang
Rating53% 2.678342.678342.678342.678342.67834
The plot follows new prostitutes Susan (Karen Yeung), Fanny (Tung Yi), and Chinyun (Chung Chun), who are inducted into the Fragrance House brothel where they are trained in the ways of lovemaking by their veteran madam Tall Kau. Chinyun had been educated. She has knowledge of poems and verses and is trained to be a poetic prostitute. Fanny has sexy eyes and a flirts nature. She will be trained to seduce any men she sees. Upon examination, Tall Kau tells Chinyun she is barren and her vagina is too tight to receive men. Tall Kau promises to teach her the art of Fellatio to satisfy a man instead. The girls practice with a wooden penis, much to Susan's disgust. Chinyun assures her that she has the perfect body to satisfy men and should not have to worry about it. They have sex and promise to be there for one another. The three girls are made to save their virginities to wait until they are ready to be presented. Fanny breaks the rules and has sex with one of the workers. Tall Kau catches them in the act. The workers gets castrated, while Fanny has several butterflies tattooed to her bottom. Chu Chi-Ang, a budding scholar, and his friend comes to Fragrance House for the first time to see what the fuss is about. He meets Sir Lui (Category III who explains to him details about the brothel and the special event. When the girls are presented, Chu Chi-Ang becomes enamored with Susan is crowned the best girl as she had masturbated on stage, stimulating everyone in the room. The two girls before her only danced and flirted with the men. Sir Lui offers to buy Susan for Chu Chi-Ang as they have became friends and Chu Chi-Ang revealed to him earlier that he's still a virgin. Although Chu Chi-Ang likes Susan very much, he declines his offer stating it is too much. He only agrees to accept it, after Sir Lui negotiates a deal with him. Sir Lui buys Fanny, who came in second. Susan and Fanny are given to the men in a wedding night like fashion with the girls wearing veils. Susan enjoys a night of passion with Chu Chi-Ang, while Fanny painfully endures Sir Lui's roughness as he has an abnormal libido. He also does not release inside a woman unless she is his wife. Chu Chi-Ang paints flowers on the bloody white cloth with Susan's virgin blood so they can keep it as a semimetal item. Fanny begins to hate Susan as she envious her for having a much gentle lover like Chu Chi-Ang. She realizes that Sir Lui really wanted Susan, but choose her because he is considerate of his friend. After Sir Lui buys her from the brothel, as a concubine, she vows revenge on Susan.
Little Voice
Little Voice (1998) on 5 november 1998
, 1h36
Directed by Mark Herman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jane Horrocks, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Philip Jackson
Rating69% 3.4971353.4971353.4971353.4971353.497135
Laura Hoff, who lives in a working-class home in Scarborough, is known as LV (short for Little Voice) for her shyness. She flees reality by mimicking voices like Édith Piaf’s, Judy Garland’s, and Shirley Bassey’s; her love of songs is her only source of strength. Her mother Mari, a profligate woman with countless affairs, jilts a man when her passion wanes.
A Knight in Camelot
A Knight in Camelot (1998) on 8 november 1998
, 1h30
Directed by Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Robert Addie, Amanda Donohoe, Michael York, Simon Fenton, Ian William Richardson, Whoopi Goldberg
Rating48% 2.421762.421762.421762.421762.42176
Scientist Vivien Morgan is zapped back to the medieval age and time of King Arthur and Camelot, when her scientific machine malfunctions. She is sent back along with many objects from her desk, including her laptop and boom box. As she is sentenced to be burned at the stake, she discovers among the laptop-data, that there will be a solar eclipse in short time. With her "magical powers" she makes the sun re-appear and is being knighted by King Arthur as Sir Boss and becomes a member of the Knights of the Round Table. She soon begins constructing devices that will not be present for many centuries, she saves the king, defeats Sir Sagramore and saves the day countless times before being zapped back to the present.
Mama Flora's Family
Mama Flora's Family (1998) on 8 november 1998
, 1h
Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cicely Tyson, Erika Alexander, Blair Underwood, Queen Latifah, Mario Van Peebles
Rating82% 4.1465854.1465854.1465854.1465854.146585
The young Flora meets the wealthy Lincoln Flemming at a dance one night. Lincoln wants her to come care for his elderly grandmother Nana at his home, to which she agrees. Eventually Flora becomes sexually involved with Lincoln and believes the two of them to be romantically involved. After experiencing him shun and shame her in front of his rich contemporaries, Flora begins to feel used and refuses to sleep with him anymore. This prompts her to become evicted from the house. Flora later discovers that she was pregnant with Lincoln's child, which prompts his wealthy family to bribe her into leaving Mississippi to avoid scandal. Flora takes the offer, planning to go to Memphis, Tennessee. She gives birth to a boy and names him Luke, but is forced to give to the baby to the Flemmings to raise.
Bunny
Bunny (1998) on 2 november 1998
, 7minutes
Directed by Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Children's films
Rating66% 3.3447653.3447653.3447653.3447653.344765
Bunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder; she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. Eventually she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Crawling inside, she finds herself confronted by the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder; the shadows and reflections of two moths play across the image as well.
Exiled
Exiled (1998) on 8 november 1998
, 1h24
Directed by Jean de Segonzac
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chris Noth, Ice-T, Benjamin Bratt, Dabney Coleman, Jerry Orbach, Dana Eskelson
Rating63% 3.1955653.1955653.1955653.1955653.195565
Mike Logan, un inspecteur de la police de New York, vient de passer trois ans à Staten Island, après avoir enquêté sur un politicien corrompu. La découverte du cadavre d'une prostituée dans les environs du port lui fait penser que s'il obtient le droit de mener à bien cette investigation, il pourra rejoindre son commissariat d'origine à Manhattan. Son ancien chef lui permet d'enquêter, uniquement s'il accepte d'être secondé par Frankie Silvera. Les deux policiers ne tardent pas à découvrir divers indices qui les mènent à un grand ponte de la mafia. Tout se complique lorsqu'ils découvrent qu'un policier véreux, du commissariat de Logan, est également impliqué dans l'affaire.
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) on 8 november 1998
, 1h34
Directed by Janet Greek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Jerry Doyle, Tracy Scoggins, Jeff Conaway, Richard Biggs, Ian McShane, Martin Sheen
Rating64% 3.248343.248343.248343.248343.24834
Après s'être absenté quelque temps de Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi revient sur la station. Un archéologue sous ses ordres a dérobé une relique qu'il pense être la clé de la vie éternelle des chasseurs d'âmes, créatures immortelles qui conservent les esprits capturés à travers la galaxie. La station étant assiégée par ces êtres maléfiques, l'archéologue libère de la relique des milliers de spectres enragés, bien décidés à s'incarner à nouveau.
The Siege
The Siege (1998) on 6 november 1998
, 1h56
Directed by Edward Zwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films, Children's films
Actors Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, David Proval, Aasif Mandvi
Rating63% 3.199123.199123.199123.199123.19912
Following the bombing of an American military installation in the Middle East (the film shows footage from the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing), the U.S. government orchestrates the capture of the mastermind believed to be behind the attack, Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal. In New York City FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Washington) and his Lebanese-American partner Frank Haddad (Shalhoub) are told of a hijacked bus, fully loaded with passengers and containing an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists manage to escape. The FBI receives demands to release the sheikh.
Exiled
Exiled (1998) on 8 november 1998
, 2h
Directed by Jean de Segonzac
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chris Noth, Dabney Coleman, Dana Eskelson, John Fiore, Dann Florek, Paul Guilfoyle
Rating63% 3.1955653.1955653.1955653.1955653.195565
The movie begins three years after Detective Mike Logan's final appearance on Law & Order in 1995. At the end of the episode "Pride", Logan punches a corrupt, homophobic politician in the face on the courthouse steps after the man's acquittal on a murder charge, in front of several reporters. Although he does not lose his job, Logan is "administratively re-assigned" to the Domestic Disputes Department on Staten Island. While he struggles to cope with feelings of resentment and isolation, fate offers him a chance at redemption when a forgotten murder case unexpectedly drifts Logan's way.
October 22
October 22 (1998) on 4 november 1998
, 1h34
Directed by Richard Schenkman
Genres Drama
Actors Amanda Plummer, Colm Meaney, Paul Perri, Michael Paré, Ernie Hudson, Mark Boone Junior
Rating61% 3.051743.051743.051743.051743.05174
A group of disparate patrons in a Los Angeles diner are having breakfast when a psychopath enters with a gun, holds them hostage and has a standoff with the SWAT Team.
The First 9½ Weeks
The First 9½ Weeks (1998) on 3 november 1998
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Paul Mercurio, Malcolm McDowell, Clara Bellar, Frederic Forrest, Richard Durden, Dennis Burkley
Rating35% 1.7786451.7786451.7786451.7786451.778645
A banker goes to Louisiana to land a deal with millionaire but instead gets involved with the millionaire's wife, Mardi Gras, and a sinister cult.
Girl
Girl (1998) on 5 november 1998
, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, Selma Blair, Channon Roe
Rating56% 2.848182.848182.848182.848182.84818
Andrea Marr (Dominique Swain) is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy (Selma Blair) for a look into the local rock and roll scene. There she meets local rock singer Todd Sparrow (Sean Patrick Flanery), with whom she has a groupie fling. Aspiring rock star Cybil (Tara Reid), fellow student outgoing fellow groupie Rebecca (Summer Phoenix) guide Andrea during her time as a groupie.
B. Monkey
B. Monkey (1999) on 7 november 1998
, 1h32
Directed by Michael Radford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Julie T. Wallace, Ian Hart
Rating59% 2.9504552.9504552.9504552.9504552.950455
Alan (Jared Harris) is a schoolteacher in London who also moonlights as a jazz disc jockey for a hospital PA system. One night after work, he goes to a bar and sees Beatrice (Asia Argento), a beautiful woman who is arguing with two men. Alan is immediately captivated by Beatrice and begins to pursue her. What Alan doesn't know is that Beatrice is an infamous thief known to the police as "B. Monkey" (named for her ability to break into anything), and the men she was arguing with were Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a homosexual couple who are her partners in crime. When Alan becomes aware of Beatrice's secret, he tries to lead her into a safer and more honest way of life, even as she lures him into the thrilling existence he's been dreaming of.