Year 1998 movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1998 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, cult classic, captivating and weird films and TV shows about / with friendship, death, cigarette smoking, love and romance, husband wife relationship, love, hopes, nudity, flashback and kiss plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
year 1998
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year 1998 movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1998: American History X (1998), The Truman Show (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Keep the Lights On (2012), Dark City (1998), Armageddon (1998), Pi (1998), Black Cat, White Cat (1998), My Name Is Joe (1998), The Celebration (1998).

List of year 1998 movies

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American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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 8.2
 1.2M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: realistic, epic, breathtaking, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, kids, date night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, army, d day, rescue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: normandy, poland, germany, france, europe ...
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Keep the Lights On (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, drug addiction, infidelity, lgbt, drug addict, phone sex, addiction, coping, lgbtq, gay sex ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, year 2006, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: new york, usa
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 7.6
 211K
Dark City (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style: neo noir, mind bending, psychological, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, memory, cyberpunk, alternate reality, distopia, alien race, trippy, dystopian future, virtual reality, amnesia, memory loss, experiment ...
Time: future, year 1998, distant future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: persia
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 6.7
 449K
Armageddon (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, outer space, asteroid, race against time, self sacrifice, nasa ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place: new york, paris france, washington d.c., usa, istanbul turkey ...
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 7.3
 186K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Austria, Greece
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so ...
Style: surreal, art house, funny, dark comedy, witty ...
Plot: gypsy, magic realism, music, dark humor, surrealism, gangster, wedding, corruption, debt, european, ethnic, drinking ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe
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My Name Is Joe (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Style: realistic, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: working class, alcoholic, drug, drug addiction, profanity, friendship, debt, bowling, football, drug addict, social outcast, recovery ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
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 6.7
 34K
The Idiots (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their ...
Style: art house, disturbing, surreal, controversial, experimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, dogme 95, sex orgy, commune, mental illness, sex scene, community, public nudity, stupidity, strong sexual content, sex, orgy ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark
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JUMP!!:The Heroes Behind the GOLD (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Story about 1998 Nagano Olympic ski jump team competition, where Japan won a gold medal.
Style: entertaining, dramatic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: olympics, competition, athlete, sporting event, sport team, sports man, winter sports, professional athlete, sport competition, ski, professional sports, team ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
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A Time Called You (2023)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Han Jun Hee's boyfriend Ko Yeon Jun died one year ago. She still hasn't gotten over his death and misses him a lot. One day, she somehow travels back in time to the year 1998 and finds herself as high school student Kwon Min Joo. There, ...
Style: touching, exciting, entertaining, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: time travel, life, friend, couples, love, love and romance, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, time traveler, back in time, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 2020s, 21st century
Place: korea
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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story: When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls ...
Style: anime, manga, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, paranormal phenomena, hospital, possessed human, surrealism, suicide, evil, serial killer, saving a life, danger, escapades ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: japan
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
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Great Expectations (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: childhood, artist, art, love, love story, fall in love, painting, inheritance, social differences, stranger, understanding, painter ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, florida, london
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 7.2
 13K
Smoke Signals (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, on the road, native american reservation, self discovery, friendship, road trip, native, indians, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place: idaho, arizona, indiana, america, phoenix arizona
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style: realistic, touching, depressing, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, working class, coma, love and romance, depression, loneliness, society, youth, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, flanders
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Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Style: surreal, stylized, clever, allegory, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, toddlers ...
Plot: animal, monkey, kids and family, heartwarming, culture clash, children, piglet, talking dog, anthropomorphism, pig, animal protagonist, ape ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, australia, sydney australia
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 7.2
 313K
A Bug's Life (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
Style: computer animated, humorous, touching, 3d animation, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: circus, ant, teamwork, friendship, good versus evil, villain, grasshopper, flea, kids and family, misfit, exile, toys ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place: texas
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 75K
Lost in Space (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style: surreal, exciting, stylized, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, robot, alien, space and aliens, outer space, space exploration, spaceship, save the world, space, deep space, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: space western
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 5.5
 16K
Mafia! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, light, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, father son relationship, farce, dumb, stupidity, multiple storylines, satire, justice, adaptation, goofy hero, assassination ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place: italy, sicily, usa, europe, las vegas ...
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 34K
The Red Violin (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, Italy, USA, UK, Austria, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Spans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into ...
Style: epic, suspense, dramatic, period piece, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: classical music, music, violin, musician, art, drug addiction, magic realism, justice, sex, violinist, gypsy, world history ...
Time: 18th century, year 1998, 1800s, 17th century, georgian era
Place: oxford university, prussia, montreal, shanghai, beijing china ...
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 7.4
 105K
Elizabeth (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Style: factual, costume drama, period piece, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: queen, british history, royalty, tudors, queen elizabeth i, historical character, politics, british royal family, head of state, royal court, royal family, political intrigue ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 1998, ancient times ...
Place: england, london, britain, scotland, europe ...
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Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the ...
Style: heartbreaking, philosophical, cerebral, art house, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: incestuous relationship, incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, passion, love story, love, forbidden love, melancholy, amor, magic realism, youth ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: finland, antarctica, australia, scandinavia
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 6K
Autumn Tale (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, south of france, europe
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Central Station (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Style: touching, feel good, emotional, road movie, realistic ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, road trip, teacher, on the road, children, homeless, letter, poverty, youth, adoption, great ending ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
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 7.2
 2K
Dr. Akagi (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Style: sexy, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: world war two, nudity, world war, public nudity, social relations, dark humor, pow, power relations, village, village life, island, cure ...
Time: year 1998, 1940s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
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The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story: 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.
Style: epic, heroic, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: bow and arrow, wuxia, medieval, assassination, antiquity, assassin, betrayal, ancient history, ancient, sword fight, murder, espionage ...
Time: year 1998
Place: china, tibet, asia, ancient china
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 14K
After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
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