Search of 1998 on SouthFilms.
Kissing a Fool
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Judy Greer, Frank Medrano, Kari Wuhrer, David Schwimmer, Jason Lee, Bitty Schram, Bonnie Hunt
Directors: Doug Ellin
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: Hi Def
Max is a popular local sports broadcaster and his marriage with attractive Sam is already set up. Max is not sure he wants Sam to be his wife and offers his best friend Jay a test: Jay will try to seduce Sam and if he fails Max will have enough trust in Sam to go on with a marriage. Jay refuses, but soon they become professionally connected with Sam.
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: Hi Def
American avant garde experimental film maker, concerned more with technique than subject matter. He filmed many short subjects on 8mm or 16mm film. He often used blurred or out-of-focus shots, superimposed or distorted images, intentionally designed to emphasize subjectivity of vision.
The Siege
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Valley, Bruce Willis, Aasif Mandvi, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, David Proval
Directors: Edward Zwick
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.
The Horse Whisperer
Genres: Romance, Drama, Western
Starring: Chris Cooper, Sam Neill, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Bosworth, Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Cherry Jones
Directors: Robert Redford
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: Hi Def
A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
The Last Days of Disco
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: David Thornton, Tara Subkoff, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Beals, Robert Sean Leonard, Matt Ross, Jaid Barrymore
Directors: Whit Stillman
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Last Days of Disco loosely depicts the "last days" at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. The story centers around a group of friends who frequent the disco and each other. All the characters are searching for something to make their lives more fulfilling. Some are searching for everlasting love and some are just wanting something different. As the disco is closed, they all wonder can disco ever really be dead?
Mulan
Genres: Adventure, Family, Drama
Starring: Pat Morita, George Takei, Miriam Margolyes, Eddie Murphy, James Hong, Donny Osmond, Miguel Ferrer
Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to arms. Mulan's father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father's place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family's ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father's armor with her family's horse. The ancestors a...
Les Miserables (1998)
Genres: Crime, Romance, Drama
Starring: Tim Barlow, Claire Danes, Christopher Adamson, Ben Crompton, Reine Brynolfsson, Timothy Bateson, David Birkin
Directors: Bille August
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Following
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Lucy Russell, Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, John Nolan, Dick Bradsell, Gillian El-Kadi, Jennifer Angel
Directors: Christopher Nolan
Country: UK
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow strangers around around London, observing them. One day, a glib and self-confident man whom Bill has been following confronts him. He's Cobb, a burglar who takes Bill under his wing and shows him how to break and enter. They burgle a woman's flat; Bill gets intrigued with her (photographs are everywhere in her flat). He follows her and chats her up at a bar owned by her ex-boyfriend, a nasty piece of work who killed someone in her living room with a hammer. Soon Bill is volunteering to do her a favor, which involves a break-in. What does the older man know th...
For Marilyn
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Brakhage said this was his favorite of all his films. He said that the end was the "only time that I would claim that I was given something close to an epiphany in my making. Anyway, it does fully satisfy my sense of praise and thanksgiving to God."
Al Dente
Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short
Starring: Mike Cooper
Directors: Mark Brierly
Country: UK
Year: 1998
A punctilious waiter at the Steak Barn is taken aback when a diner orders the vegetarian option. Regardless of how glistening and sharp the restaurant's knives, how large the type of the menu's meat dishes, how baleful the Italian's eye when he takes the order, and how argumentative the cook, the customer steadfastly awaits crudités. Who could this naif be?
Al Dente
Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short
Starring: Mike Cooper
Directors: Mark Brierly
Country: UK
Year: 1998
A punctilious waiter at the Steak Barn is taken aback when a diner orders the vegetarian option. Regardless of how glistening and sharp the restaurant's knives, how large the type of the menu's meat dishes, how baleful the Italian's eye when he takes the order, and how argumentative the cook, the customer steadfastly awaits crudités. Who could this naif be?
The Faculty
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Jon Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth, Famke Janssen, Daniel von Bargen
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.
The Replacement Killers
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Yun-Fat Chow, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Clifton Collins Jr.
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
John Lee is a hitman who works for Chinese crime lord, Terence Wei. It seems that Joh is obligated to Mr. Wei and so far has done everything he was told to do. Now Mr. Wei wants John to get revenge on a police detective who killed his son. John was about to carry out the job but for some reason can't do it. When Mr. Wei hears of this, he sends for some replacements. John now has to return to China to help his mother and sister whom Mr. Wei will now target because of his disobedience, but first he needs a passport. He needs find someone who can give him a passport who is not beholden to Mr. Wei. He is told of Meg Coburn, a small time documents...
Mercury Rising
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Peter Stormare, Alec Baldwin, Richard Riehle, Kim Dickens, John Carroll Lynch, Bruce Willis, Kevin Conway
Directors: Harold Becker
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.
Lola rennt (Run Lola run)
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Starring: Armin Rohde, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Joachim Król, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Ludger Pistor
Directors: Tom Tykwer
Country: Germany
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Half Baked
Genres: Crime, Comedy
Starring: Dave Chappelle, Clarence Williams III, Harland Williams, R.D. Reid, Jim Breuer, Tommy Chong, Alice Poon
Directors: Tamra Davis
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully.
The Drew Carey Show - Season Four
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles
Directors: Bruce Helford, Drew Carey
Country: USA
Year: 1998
For the majority of its run, Drew's workplace is the office of fictional Cleveland department store Winfred-Lauder. One of his coworkers is Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney), a large woman with a clownish wardrobe, a lot of make-up, and a foul mutual dislike for Drew. In the first season they work for the unseen Mr. Bell, only seen in the season one finale; in later seasons, their boss and sometimes-coworker is Nigel Wick (Craig Ferguson), an eccentric Englishman. In the final two seasons, they work for Scott (Jonathan Mangum) and Evan (Kyle Howard), tech-smart but naïve twentysomethings who own the Neverending Store, an online retailer with office...
Shucking the Curve
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Craig Chester, Bonnie Dickenson, Leanne Whitney, Bil Dwyer, Eric Sapp, Brenda Velez, Paul Du Hoffman
Directors: Todd Verow
Country: USA
Year: 1998
She's speeding up
Upright Citizens Brigade - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Ian Roberts, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser
Directors: Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Agents Adair, Antoine, Colby and Trotter both monitor and create chaos across the universe. The sketches you see throughout most of the show are different subjects being monitored...
Mad About You - Season Seven
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Helen Hunt, Paul Reiser, Maui
Directors: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser
Country: USA
Year: 1998
On February 22, 2010, Shout! Factory announced that they had acquired the rights to release the remaining seasons of Mad About You on DVD. They have subsequently released seasons 4 and 5 on DVD.