1998 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 1998 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, The Red Violin
The Red Violin
The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...

.

Galas

  • Antz
    Antz
    Antz is a 1998 American computer animated action adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It features the voices of well-known actors such as Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, and Danny Glover as...

    directed by Eric Darnell
    Eric Darnell
    Eric Darnell is an American director, writer, voice actor, songwriter and animator. He is best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with Tom McGrath....

     and Tim Johnson
    Tim Johnson (film director)
    Tim Johnson is an American animation director specializing in CGI animation. Johnson has directed in many films such as Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Over the Hedge.-Career:...

  • Un 32 août sur terre directed by Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...

  • Central Station directed by Walter Salles
    Walter Salles
    Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...

  • Dancing at Lughnasa
    Dancing at Lughnasa
    Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...

    directed by Pat O'Connor
    Pat O'Connor (director)
    Pat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy,...

  • Dog Park
    Dog Park (film)
    Dog Park is a 1998 American/Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Bruce McCulloch.-Plot:Andy, is a writer for newspaper classifieds who has been bouncing from relationship to relationship since eighth grade. Throughout the film, he loses custody of his dog when his girlfriend,...

    directed by Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...

  • Elizabeth
    Elizabeth (film)
    Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough...

    directed by Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...

  • Hilary and Jackie
    Hilary and Jackie
    Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 British biographical film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is based on the memoir A Genius in the Family by Piers and Hilary du Pré, which chronicles the life and career of their late sister, cellist Jacqueline du Pré...

    directed by Anand Tucker
    Anand Tucker
    Anand Tucker is a film director and producer based in London. He began his career directing factual television programming and adverts...

  • Judas Kiss
    Judas Kiss
    Judas Kiss is a 1998 American crime thriller film. It was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, produced by Elaine Dysinger and Carla Gugino and the screenplay was by Deanna Fuller and Sebastian Gutierrez....

    directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
    Sebastian Gutierrez
    Sebastián Gutiérrez is an award-winning Venezuelan-American film director, screenwriter, film producer and occasional actor...

  • L'École de la chair directed by Benoît Jacquot
    Benoît Jacquot
    Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...

  • L.A. Without a Map
    L.A. Without a Map
    L.A. Without a Map is a 1998 film directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Mika Kaurismäki and Richard Rayner, based on his novel. The film stars David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, and Johnny Depp It is a French, British and Finnish production.Also known under the titles:...

    directed by Mika Kaurismäki
    Mika Kaurismäki
    Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several...

  • Lautrec directed by Roger Planchon
    Roger Planchon
    Roger Planchon , was a French playwright, director, filmmaker.-Biography:...

  • Little Voice
    Little Voice (film)
    Little Voice is a 1998 British drama film with music written and directed by Mark Herman. The screenplay is based on the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright.- Plot :...

    directed by Mark Herman
    Mark Herman
    Mark Herman is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing & directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas....

  • Living Out Loud
    Living Out Loud
    The film, set in New York City, stars Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, and Claudia Shear.-Plot:Judith Moore had what she thought was a perfect marriage, both she and her husband studying to be doctors...

    directed by Richard LaGravenese
    Richard LaGravenese
    Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and occasional film director. He is best known as the writer of The Fisher King.-Personal life:...

  • Pleasantville
    Pleasantville (film)
    Pleasantville is a 1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Marley Shelton and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Jane Kaczmarek, and J. T. Walsh are also featured.The film...

    directed by Gary Ross
    Gary Ross
    Gary Ross is an American writer, director, and actor. He is best known for directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, both of which featured Tobey Maguire in the lead role...

  • The Red Violin
    The Red Violin
    The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...

    directed by François Girard
    François Girard
    François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

  • A Simple Plan
    A Simple Plan (film)
    A Simple Plan is a 1998 drama film directed by Sam Raimi, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay of the film. It was shot in Delano, Minnesota and Ashland and Saxon, Wisconsin. Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...

    directed by Sam Raimi
    Sam Raimi
    Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...

  • A Soldier's Sweetheart
    A Soldier's Sweetheart
    A Soldier's Sweetheart is a 1998 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Skeet Ulrich, and Georgina Cates. It is based on a short story by Tim O'Brien, "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong." The story was part of his award winning book, The Things They Carried....

    directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly
  • Without Limits
    Without Limits
    Without Limits is a 1998 biographical film about the relationship between record-breaking distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman, who later co-founded Nike, Inc....

    directed by Robert Towne
    Robert Towne
    Robert Towne is an American screenwriter and director. His most notable work may be his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown .-Film:...


Special Presentations

  • Am I Beautiful? directed by Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...

  • Another Day in Paradise
    Another Day in Paradise (film)
    Another Day in Paradise is a 1998 drama film directed by Larry Clark, and released by Trimark Pictures. It is based on the novel Another Day in Paradise written by Eddie Little.-Plot:...

    directed by Larry Clark
    Larry Clark
    Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...

  • Apt Pupil
    Apt Pupil (film)
    Apt Pupil is a 1998 American psychological thriller film based on the eponymous 1982 novella by Stephen King. The film was directed by Bryan Singer and stars Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro...

    directed by Bryan Singer
    Bryan Singer
    Bryan Singer is an American film director and film producer. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on The Usual Suspects, and is especially well-known among fans of the science fiction and superhero genres for his work on the X-Men films and Superman Returns.-Early life:Singer was born in New...

  • At Sachem Farm
    At Sachem Farm
    At Sachem Farm is a 1998 drama film.-Cast:*Minnie Driver*Rufus Sewell*Nigel Hawthorne*Amelia Heinle*Michael E. Rodgers*Keone Young*Gregory Sporleder...

    directed by John Huddles
  • Down in the Delta
    Down in the Delta
    Down in the Delta is a 1998 drama film directed by Maya Angelou. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.-Cast:* Alfre Woodard ... Loretta Sinclair* Al Freeman Jr. ... Earl Sinclair...

    directed by Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

  • Earth
    Earth (1998 film)
    Earth is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, . Earth is the second part of Mehta's Elements trilogy...

    directed by Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

  • Finding Graceland
    Finding Graceland
    Finding Graceland is a 1998 film starring Harvey Keitel, Johnathon Schaech, Bridget Fonda, and Gretchen Mol featuring a character alluding to be an alive-and-well Elvis years after staging his death....

    directed by David Winkler
  • Goin' Down the Road
    Goin' Down the Road
    Goin' Down the Road is a 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib and released in 1970. It chronicles the lives of two men from the Maritimes who move to Toronto in order to find a better life. It starred Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin...

    directed by Donald Shebib
    Donald Shebib
    Donald Shebib , often called Don Shebib, is a Canadian film director, writer, producer and editor. He gained prominence and critical acclaim in Canadian cinema for his 1970 movie Goin' Down the Road. The company travelled around Toronto in a station wagon and was supported by CFDC funding...

  • Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

    directed by Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

  • Pecker
    Pecker (film)
    Pecker is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by John Waters and starring Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci. Like all Waters' films, it was filmed and set in Baltimore; this film in the Hampden neighborhood....

    directed by John Waters
    John Waters (filmmaker)
    John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...

  • Permanent Midnight
    Permanent Midnight
    Permanent Midnight is a 1998 biographical romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Veloz starring Ben Stiller. The film is based on Jerry Stahl's autobiographical book of the same name, and tells the story of Stahl's rise from a small-time television writer to his success as a comedy writer...

    directed by David Veloz
  • Rushmore
    Rushmore (film)
    Rushmore is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer , his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume , and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross . The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson...

    directed by Wes Anderson
    Wes Anderson
    Wesley Wales Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials....

  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is a French/U.S. film directed by James Ivory and written by James Ivory & Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It stars Leelee Sobieski, Jesse Bradford, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey and Virginie Ledoyen...

    directed by James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)
    James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

  • Such a Long Journey directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
    Sturla Gunnarsson
    Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian film director.Gunnarsson was born in Iceland in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed...

  • Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys is a 1976 children's novel written by Wilson Rawls. The book was published by Doubleday and was the winner of the William Allen White Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal....

    directed by Michael Anderson
    Michael Anderson (director)
    Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...

  • The Giraffe directed by Dani Levy
    Dani Levy
    Dani Levy is a film maker, theatrical director and actor.-Work:Dani Levy's films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul...

  • The Mighty
    The Mighty
    The Mighty is a 1998 drama film based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick.-Plot:Kevin is a 12-year-old boy who suffers Mucopolysaccharidosis IV, or Morquio syndrome. He is extremely intelligent and prone to flights of fancy, but is physically crippled and is forced to walk with crutches...

    directed by Peter Chelsom
    Peter Chelsom
    Peter Chelsom is a British actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and Hannah Montana: The Movie...

  • The Theory of Flight
    The Theory of Flight
    The Theory of Flight is a 1998 film directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh. Carter plays a woman with motor neurone disease, and the film deals with the sexuality of people with disabilities....

    directed by Paul Greengrass
    Paul Greengrass
    Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:...

  • Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson...

    directed by Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

  • Voleur de vie directed by Yves Angelo
  • Wide Prairie directed by Oscar Grillo

The Masters

  • Aprile
    Aprile
    April is a 1998 Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by Nanni Moretti. Moretti also played the central character, a filmmaker who has to deal with Italy's political situation, his own goals as an artist and becoming a father....

    directed by Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

  • Clouds directed by Fernando E. Solanas
  • Conte d'automne
    Conte d'automne
    Autumn Tale is a 1998 French film, directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Béatrice Romand, Marie Rivière, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Alexia Portal, and Aurélia Alcaïs...

    directed by Eric Rohmer
    Éric Rohmer
    Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

  • Divine
    El evangelio de las maravillas
    El evangelio de las maravillas is a 1998 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Francisco Rabal - Papá Basilio...

    directed by Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

  • Dr. Akagi
    Dr. Akagi
    Dr. Akagi, known in Japan as , is a 1998 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.- Plot :The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname...

    directed by Shohei Imamura
    Shohei Imamura
    was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...

  • Eternity and a Day
    Eternity and a Day
    Eternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    directed by Theo Angelopoulos
    Theo Angelopoulos
    Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...

  • Flowers of Shanghai
    Flowers of Shanghai
    Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 film, made in Taiwan, directed by Guangdong-born Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien starring Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei...

    directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...

  • The General
    The General (1998 film)
    The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...

    directed by John Boorman
    John Boorman
    John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...

  • Inquiétude directed by Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...

  • My Name Is Joe
    My Name Is Joe
    My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...

    directed by Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...

  • The Powder Keg directed by Goran Paskaljevic
    Goran Paskaljevic
    Goran Paskaljević is a Serbian film director. He was raised by his grandparents in Niš, following the divorce of his parents, and 14 years later returned to Belgrade where he worked in his stepfather's cinema....

  • The Silence directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...

  • Tango directed by Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...

  • Tu Ridi directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
    Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
    Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...


Perspective Canada

  • 2 secondes directed by Manon Briand
  • A Place Called Chiapas
    A Place Called Chiapas
    A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional the and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight...

    directed by Nettie Wild
    Nettie Wild
    Nettie Wild is a Canadian documentary film filmmaker.Wild has directed and produced four full length documentary films:*FIX: The Story of an Addicted City which deals with efforts to provide a safe injection site in Vancouver, Canada...

  • Angel Walk directed by Mitchell Gabourie
  • Aujourd'hui Ou Jamais directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
    Jean Pierre Lefebvre
    Jean Pierre Lefebvre is a French Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers....

  • beauty crowds me directed by Julie Trimingham
  • Boy Meets Girl
    Boy Meets Girl (1998 film)
    Boy Meets Girl is a 1998 romantic comedy fantasy film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and starring Sean Astin and Emily Hampshire.-Awards and nominations:...

    directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.- Biography :...

  • Brakhage directed by Jim Shedden
  • Bridal Path directed by Cynthia Roberts
  • Clutch directed by Chris Grismer
    Chris Grismer
    Chris Grismer is a Canadian director of film, television and music videos, now residing in Los Angeles. His credits include Kyle XY, Queer as Folk, Being Erica, Playmakers, This Is Wonderland, Make It or Break It, Pretty Little Liars, The Nine Lives of Chloe King and The Vampire Diaries...

  • Cold Feet directed by Jim Allodi
  • Le Coeur Au Poing directed by Charles Binamé
    Charles Binamé
    Charles Binamé is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. In 1971, he began work as an assistant director with the National Film Board of Canada. During the 1980s, he directed commercials in England...

  • Crickets directed by Jane Eun-Hee Kim
  • Cupid directed by Wrik Mead
  • Death Threat directed by Zarqa Nawaz
    Zarqa Nawaz
    Zarqa Nawaz is a British-Canadian freelance writer, journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker of Pakistani origin.-Biography:...

  • La Déroute directed by Paul Tana
  • Destroying Angel directed by Wayne Salazar and Philip Hoffman
  • Dirty directed by Bruce Sweeney
    Bruce Sweeney
    Bruce Sweeney is a Canadian film director. Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he won the 2002 Canadian Comedy Award for Pretty Funny Film Direction for the film Last Wedding...

  • Echoes In The Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story directed by Errol Williams
  • Elimination Dance directed by Bruce McDonald
  • Elysian Fields directed by Leonardo Salvo
  • Eve-Olve! directed by Sandra Law
  • Extraordinary Visitor directed by John W. Doyle
  • The Falling directed by Raul Sanchez Inglis
  • Faultlines directed by Gary Popovich
  • Fish Bait directed by Anthony Seck
  • The Fisherman And His Wife directed by Jochen Schliessler
  • The Fishing Trip directed by Amnon Buchbinder
  • from morning on I waited yesterday directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
  • God Comes As A Child directed by Jeremiah Hayes
  • Great Expectations (not what you're thinking) directed by Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming
    Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist who was born in Okinawa, in 1962, of Chinese and Australian parentage. She has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open...

  • Harlan And Fiona directed by Gary Yates
    Gary Yates (director)
    Gary Yates is a film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Yates has worked on Canadian television since the early 1990s and recently completed a number of feature films starring actor Kevin Pollack, including Niagara Motel and Seven Times Lucky , which was nominated for five Genie Awards.Gary Yates...

  • The Herd directed by Peter Lynch
    Peter Lynch (director)
    Peter Lynch is an Canadian filmmaker, the director and writer of Project Grizzly and Cyberman.Lynch won a Genie Award for his short film Arrowhead, starring Don McKellar.He attended York University in Toronto, Canada.-Early life:...

  • Hustle My Crush directed by Heidi Gerber
  • In The Future directed by Mike Hoolboom
  • Jack & Jill directed by John Kalangis
    John Kalangis
    John Kalangis is a filmmaker, writer, director, interactive media producer and national broadcast executive. From May 2007, Kalangis was the Executive in Charge of Original Interactive Arts & Entertainment at CBC Television before joining marblemedia, a television and interactive content company,...

  • John Scott - Art & Justice directed by Michael McNamara
  • the last split second directed by Judith Doyle
  • L'âge De Braise directed by Jacques Leduc
    Jacques Leduc
    Jacques Leduc is a Canadian film director and cinematographer.-Biography:Leduc began his career in 1961 working as a film critic for the magazine Objectif. The following year, at the age of 21, he was hired as a camera assistant by the NFB...

  • L'Amour L'Amour Shut The Door Por Favor directed by Valerie Buhagiar
    Valerie Buhagiar
    Valerie Buhagiar is a Maltese born Canadian actress, film director and television host.She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986...

  • Last Night directed by Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

  • Leda And The Swan directed by Alexandra Gill
  • Le Lépidoptère directed by Chloë Mercier
  • Les Dames Du 9E directed by Catherine Martin
  • Let It Come Down: The Life Of Paul Bowles
    Paul Bowles
    Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...

    directed by Jennifer Baichwal
  • Michel In The Suête directed by Neal Livingston
  • Moving Day directed by Chris Deacon
  • Nô (film)
    Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...

    directed by Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

  • Phil Touches Flo directed by David Birdsell
  • Rain, Drizzle And Fog directed by Rosemary House
  • Reaction Stick directed by John May
  • The Rogers' Cable directed by Jennifer Kierans
  • Rupert's Land directed by Jonathan Tammuz
  • Shoes Off! directed by Mark Sawers
  • Shrink directed by Tim Hamilton
  • The Sickroom directed by Serge Marcotte
  • Sploosh directed by Nathan Garfinkel
  • Le Succédané directed by Nicolas Frichot
  • Sway directed by Paul Carrière
  • swell directed by Carolynne Hew
  • Under Chad Valley directed by Jeff Erbach
  • Until I Hear From You directed by Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....

  • When Ponds Freeze Over directed by Mary Lewis

Contemporary World Cinema

  • À la Place du Coeur directed by Robert Guédiguian
    Robert Guédiguian
    Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....

  • À Vendre (For Sale) directed by Laetitia Masson
  • All The Little Animals directed by Jeremy Thomas
    Jeremy Thomas
    Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE is a British film producer, founder of the Recorded Picture Company. He was the producer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World...

  • The Apple
    The Apple (1998 film)
    The Apple is the 1998 film directorial debut by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of the acclaimed Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is based on a true story and features the real people that actually lived it...

    directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
    Samira Makhmalbaf
    Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...

  • Beauty directed by Bishonen Yonfan
  • Bedrooms and Hallways
    Bedrooms and Hallways
    Bedrooms and Hallways is a 1998 comedy-drama film about bisexuality or the fluidity of sexuality. It was written by Robert Farrar and directed by Rose Troche, starring Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Julie Graham, Simon Callow and Hugo Weaving....

    directed by Rose Troche
    Rose Troche
    Rose Troche is a film and television director, television producer, and screenwriter. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended film school, earning a degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago...

  • The Book Of Life directed by Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s...

  • Buttoners directed by Petr Zelenka
    Petr Zelenka
    Petr Zelenka is an award-winning Czech playwright and director of theatre and film. His films have been recognized at international festivals in Moscow and Rotterdam...

  • Caresses
    Caresses
    Caresses is a 1998 film by Ventura Pons, originally titled Carícies in Catalan.-Synopsis:Barcelona is the scenario for eleven entwined stories sharing the same characters. The movie deals with a variety of intimate relationships, portraying characters who have to experience intense emotions which...

    directed by Ventura Pons
    Ventura Pons
    Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director.After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival...

  • The Celebration directed by Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....

  • Ceux Qui M'aiment Prendront Le Train directed by Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...

  • Christmas in August
    Christmas in August
    Christmas in August is a 1998 South Korean romance/drama film. It was director Hur Jin-ho's debut and stars Han Suk-kyu and Shim Eun-ha....

    directed by Hur Jin-ho
  • The City
    The City (1998 film)
    The City is an American neo-realist film written and directed by David Riker, his first feature film, and shot in gritty black-and-white film stock. The drama features actor Joseph Rigano and, in neo-realist fashion, an ensemble cast of non-professional actors...

    directed by David Riker
    David Riker
    David Riker is an American screenwriter and film director.He was born in Boston, and at the age of five, his family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he attended a French-speaking school...

  • Claire Dolan directed by Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film Rebecca H. entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Clean, Shaven...

  • Clay Pigeons
    Clay Pigeons
    Clay Pigeons is a 1998 German/American crime-comedy film written by Matt Healy and directed by David Dobkin. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Clay Bidwell, Vince Vaughn as Lester Long, and Janeane Garofalo as Agent Shelby.-Plot:...

    directed by David Dobkin
    David Dobkin (director)
    David Dobkin is an American film director, producer and former screenwriter best known for directing Clay Pigeons, Shanghai Knights, Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus and The Change-Up.-Early life and education:...

  • Curacha - A Woman Without Rest directed by Chito S. Roño
  • The Dance directed by Ágúst Guðmundsson
    Ágúst Guðmundsson
    Ágúst Guðmundsson is an Icelandic filmmaker.He studied French, Icelandic in Reykjavík and filmmaking at the National Film School in London...

  • Dance Of Dust directed by Abolfazl Jalili
    Abolfazl Jalili
    Abolfazl Jalili is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He belongs to Iranian new wave movement.Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, then worked for national television where he produced several children's films. His 'Det' Means Girl won prizes in...

  • Delivery Of A Nation directed by Momir Matovic
  • Desert Blue
    Desert Blue
    Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedy/drama film directed by Morgan J. Freeman and starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard....

    directed by Morgan J. Freeman
    Morgan J. Freeman
    Morgan J. Freeman is an American film director. In 1997, his debut feature, Hurricane Streets, became the first narrative film to win three awards at the Sundance Film Festival...

  • Le Dîner de Cons directed by Francis Veber
    Francis Veber
    Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and theater playwright. Many of his French comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin...

  • F. est un salaud
    F. est un salaud
    F. est un salaud, is a 1998 French/Swiss film based upon the novel of the same name by Martin Frank. It was filmed in Zürich, Switzerland. The setting is the early 1970's, Zurich...

    directed by Marcel Gisler
  • Fated Vocation directed by Nguyen Vu Chau
  • fin août, début septembre
    Late August, Early September
    Late August, Early September is a 1998 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas and starring Mathieu Amalric.-Cast:* Mathieu Amalric as Gabriel* Virginie Ledoyen as Anne* François Cluzet as Adrien* Jeanne Balibar as Jenny* Alex Descas as Jérémie...

    directed by Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...

  • Fiona directed by Amos Kollek
    Amos Kollek
    Amos Kollek is an Israeli film director, writer and actor.-Biography:Amos Kollek was born in Jerusalem. He is the son of Teddy Kollek, the long-time mayor of Jerusalem. Kollek studied psychology and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He became interested in film after working as a...

  • Fire-Eater directed by Pirjo Honkasalo
    Pirjo Honkasalo
    Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being...

  • Full Moon Den directed by Karen Shakhnazarovr
  • Gangland directed by Peque Gallaga
    Peque Gallaga
    Peque Gallaga is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker. His most significant achievement in film is "Oro, Plata, Mata", which he directed after winning a scripwriting contest sponsored by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines...

     and Lore Reyes
  • Happiness directed by Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...

  • Home Fries
    Home Fries
    Home Fries is a 1998 film directed by Dean Parisot, starring Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson and Jake Busey. The script was originally penned by writer Vince Gilligan for a film class at New York University...

    directed by Dean Parisot
    Dean Parisot
    Aldo L. "Dean" Parisot is an American film and television director. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, which starred comedian Steven Wright...

  • The Hole
    The Hole (1998 film)
    The Hole is a 1998 drama-musical film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-sheng.-Plot:A strange disease hits Taiwan just before the turn of the new millennium...

    directed by Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...

  • I'm Losing You
    I'm Losing You
    I'm Losing You is a 1996 novel by the American novelist, screenwriter and director Bruce Wagner. Wagner adapted his novel for, and directed, a 1998 film of the same title, starring Frank Langella and Daniel von Bargen. The film adaption grossed $12,688 in limited release....

    directed by Bruce Wagner
    Bruce Wagner
    Bruce Alan Wagner is an American novelist, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director based in Los Angeles known for his acerbic view of the Hollywood entertainment industry.-Personal life:...

  • The Impostors
    The Impostors
    The Impostors is a 1998 farce motion picture written and directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly....

    directed by Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...

  • In That Land directed by Lidia Bobrova
    Lidia Bobrova
    Lidia Bobrova is a Russian film director born in Zabaikalsk, Soviet Union . Her best known film is Babusya which earned her a special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2003.-External links:...

  • In The Navel Of The Sea directed by Diaz-Abaya
  • Island, Alicia directed by Ken Yunome
  • The Inheritors directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
    Stefan Ruzowitzky
    Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna...

  • J'Aimerais Pas Crever Un Dimanche directed by Didier Le Pêcheur
  • Jeanne Et Le Garçon Formidable directed by Olivier Ducastel
    Olivier Ducastel
    Olivier Ducastel is a French film director, screenwriter and sound editor who currently works in collaboration with partner Jacques Martineau.- Biography :...

     and Jacques Martineau
    Jacques Martineau
    Jacques Martineau is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner Olivier Ducastel.- Biography :...

  • Jerry And Tom
    Jerry and Tom
    Jerry and Tom is a 1998 American comedy film released on December 4, 1998. The film was the directorial debut of Saul Rubinek, and the screenplay was adapted by Rick Cleveland from his own 1994 one-act play. The film stars Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning,...

    directed by Saul Rubinek
    Saul Rubinek
    Saul Rubinek is a Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright, known for his work in TV, film and the stage.-Early life:...

  • Just One Time
    Just One Time (film)
    Just One Time is a 1999 comedy film, written and directed by Lane Janger. It was screened at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.Janger is the star, writer, and director; he plays Anthony...

    directed by Lane Janger
    Lane Janger
    Lane Janger is an independent film producer, director, writer and actor. He was born in Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking at the New York University....

  • The Last Contract directed by Kjell Sundvall
    Kjell Sundvall
    Kjell Gösta Sundvall is a Swedish director/producer.Sundvall has directed a series of films about the police officer Martin Beck .-Selected filmography:*2011 - Jägarna 2...

  • Little Thieves, Big Thieves
    Little Thieves, Big Thieves
    Little Thieves, Big Thieves is a 1998 Venezuelan gangster comedy film directed by Alejandro Saderman. The film was a considerable success in Germany and is known in the USA as Little thieves, big thieves.-Plot:...

    directed by Alejandro Saderman
  • Little Tropikana directed by Daniel Díaz Torres
  • Love Go Go directed by Chen Yu-hsun
  • Love Is The Devil
    Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
    Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film made for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation . It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, and Tilda Swinton....

    directed by John Maybury
    John Maybury
    John Maybury is an English filmmaker. In 2005 he was listed as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.-Early life:...

  • The Lovers Of The Arctic Circle directed by Julio Medem
    Julio Medem
    Julio Médem is a Spanish writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention...

  • Lucia directed by Don Boyd
    Don Boyd
    Donald William Robertson Boyd Hon D.Litt is a Scottish film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist...

  • Luminous Motion directed by Bette Gordon
  • The Man with Rain in His Shoes
    The Man with Rain in His Shoes
    The Man with Rain in His Shoes is a 1998 Spanish-British romantic comedy film, written by Spanish singer-songwriter Rafa Russo, directed by Spanish filmmaker María Ripoll and starring Lena Headey, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Cruz, Mark Strong and Elizabeth McGovern...

    directed by María Ripoll
  • Midnight directed by Walter Salles
    Walter Salles
    Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...

     and Daniela Thomas
    Daniela Thomas
    Daniela Thomas is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.-Biography:Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alves Pinto, is the daughter of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo Alves Pinto and the sister of Golden Globe Award-nominated film score composer Antonio Pinto.In 1994 she...

  • Motel Erotica directed by Ho Ping
    Ho Ping
    Ho Ping Ho Ping Ho Ping (何平, pinyin: Hé Píng, born in 1958 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China is a film director. He graduated from Chemical Engineering of Tunghai University. Because of his interest in art and painting, he studied film making in the US after graduated. In 1987, he got MFA...

  • My Rice Noodle Shop directed by Yang Xie
  • Night Train
    Night Train (1998 film)
    Night Train is a 1998 Irish romantic thriller directed by John Lynch. Starring John Hurt and Brenda Blethyn, the film follows an ex-prisoner with a passion for electric trains and the Orient Express. In his attempts at starting a new life, he finds refuge in the house of a possessive old lady,...

    directed by John Lynch Antonio Urrutia
  • No Support directed by Martinez
    Martinez
    -Argentina:* Martínez, Buenos Aires* Coronel Martínez de Hoz, Buenos Aires Province* Villa Martínez de Hoz, Buenos Aires Province* Martínez del Tineo, Salta...

    and Rene Castillo Rivera
  • Notes Of Love directed by Mimmo Calopresti
    Mimmo Calopresti
    Mimmo Calopresti is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has directed 16 films since 1987. His film The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Our Troubles Will Soon Be Over directed by Jorge Ramírez-Suárez
  • Passion directed by György Fehér
  • The Patriot directed by Paulo Thiago
    Paulo Thiago (director)
    Paulo Thiago is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed 13 films since 1970. His 1974 film Sagarana: The Duel was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

  • The Poet directed by Casey L.Y. Chan
  • Rehearsal For War directed by Mario Martone
    Mario Martone
    Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...

  • The Rose Seller directed by Victor Gaviria
    Victor Gaviria
    Victor Gaviria is a film director best known for his treatment of street life in his native Medellín.- Feature-length films :*Rodrigo D: No Future, 1990...

  • Run Lola Run
    Run Lola Run
    Run Lola Run is a 1998 German crime thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 German marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life...

    directed by Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....

  • Seul Contre Tous
    I Stand Alone (film)
    I Stand Alone is a 1998 French drama film, written and directed by Gaspar Noé, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain and Martine Audrain. The original French title is Seul contre tous, which means "Alone against all". The film focuses on several pivotal days in the life of a...

    directed by Gaspar Noé
    Gaspar Noé
    Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...

  • Shattered Image directed by Raul Ruiz
  • Snow directed by Eric Tretbar
  • Spanish Fly directed by Daphna Kastner
    Daphna Kastner
    Daphna Kastner is a Canadian film and television actress, screenwriter and film director.-Family:She has been married to actor Harvey Keitel since 2001. They have a son, Roman ....

  • The Stolen Years directed by Fernando Colomo
    Fernando Colomo
    Fernando Colomo , is a Spanish film producer, screenwriter and film director. He has acted in small roles in his films and others.- Filmography :*1973 Mañana llega el presidente *1974 En un país imaginario...

  • Sweet Degeneration directed by Lin Cheng-sheng
    Lin Cheng-sheng
    Lin Cheng-sheng is a Taiwanese film director.- Director :*A Drifting Life *Murmur of Youth *Sweet Degeneration *March of Happiness *Betelnut Beauty *Robinson's Crusoe...

  • This Is My Father directed by Paul Quinn
  • Three directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
  • Thursday
    Thursday (1998 film)
    Thursday is a 1998 American crime/thriller/black comedy movie written and directed by Skip Woods.-Plot:Casey Wells has cleaned up his life. He is now a married architect and is looking to adopt a child with his wife when Nick , an old partner from his days as a drug dealer in Los Angeles, shows up...

    directed by Skip Woods
    Skip Woods
    Skip Woods, is an American screenwriter, producer and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for Swordfish and the film adaptation of the Hitman video game series...

  • Titanic Town directed by Roger Michell
    Roger Michell
    Roger Michell is an English theatre, television and film director.-Personal life:He was born in Pretoria, South Africa but spent significant parts of his childhood in Beirut, Damascus and Prague as his father was a diplomat. He was educated at Clifton College where he became a member of Brown's...

  • Traffic directed by João Botelho
    João Botelho
    João Botelho is a Portuguese film director.He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards...

  • Trance
    Trance (film)
    Trance is a 1998 horror film. Trance is commonly mistaken to be a remake of the 1932 film The Mummy although it isn't. It directed and written by Michael Almereyda. The film's score features music by Mark Geary...

    directed by Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:...

  • Un Grand Cri D'amour directed by Josiane Balasko
    Josiane Balasko
    Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer and director.She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's Gazon maudit...

  • Under A Spell directed by Carlos Carrera
    Carlos Carrera
    Carlos Carrera is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed El crimen del Padre Amaro , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

  • Very Bad Things
    Very Bad Things
    Very Bad Things is a 1998 black comedy directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Gene Brewer. It stars Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Leland Orser.-Plot:...

    directed by Peter Berg
    Peter Berg
    Peter Berg is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is known for directing films such as Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock and Battleship. He also developed the television series Friday Night Lights, which was adapted from the film he directed. As an actor...

  • La Vie Rêvée Des Anges
    The Dreamlife of Angels
    The Dreamlife of Angels is a 1998 French drama film directed by Erick Zonca.-Story:The film is about two working class women, Isa and Marie. Isa is a drifter and searching for a lover she had met during the summer. When she realizes that her search for him is futile and turns elsewhere she meets...

    directed by Erick Zonca
    Erick Zonca
    Erick Zonca is a French film director, best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Vigo directed by Julien Temple
    Julien Temple
    Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...

  • Waking Ned Devine
    Waking Ned
    Waking Ned is a 1998 comedy film by English writer and director Kirk Jones. It stars Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan. Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role as Michael O'Sullivan. The film is set in Ireland but was filmed on location in the Isle of Man...

    directed by Kirk Jones
    Kirk Jones
    Kirk Jones also referred to as Sticky Fingaz or Sticky, is an American rapper, actor, and a member of the hip-hop group Onyx...

  • Water Easy Reach directed by Bent Hamer
    Bent Hamer
    Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.-Biography:Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and...

  • What Farocki Taught directed by Jill Godmilow
  • When Love Comes directed by Garth Maxwell
  • The Wounds
    The Wounds
    The Wounds is a 1998 Serbian drama film written and directed by Srđan Dragojević.It depicts the violent lives of two boys in Belgrade as they aspire to make names for themselves in the city's underworld...

    directed by Srdjan Dragojevic

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  • 23
    23 (film)
    23 is a 1998 German drama thriller film about a young hacker Karl Koch, who died on 23 May 1989, a presumed suicide. It was directed by Hans-Christian Schmid, who also participated in screenwriting. The title derives from the protagonist's obsession with the number 23, a phenomenon often described...

    directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
    Hans-Christian Schmid
    Hans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with Michael Gutmann on several of his the film that he has directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint , and Crazy...

  • The Adopted Son
    Beshkempir
    Beshkempir is a 1998 Kyrgyz language film. Shot and produced in Kyrgyzstan, it is representative of the first wave of independently produced cinema in the country after its independence from Soviet Union...

    directed by Aktan Abdikalikov
    Aktan Abdykalykov
    Aktan Abdykalykov is a screenwriter and director from Kyrgystan.-Filmography:*2010 - The Light Thief *2001 - Maimyl *1998 - Beshkempir...

  • The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tod Williams and starring Adrian Grenier as the title character.-Plot:...

    directed by Tod Williams
    Tod Williams (filmmaker)
    Tod Culpan "Kip" Williams is an American director, producer and screenwriter.-Life and career:Williams was born and raised in New York City, the son of architect Tod Williams and a mother who was a dancer...

  • Bombay Boys
    Bombay Boys
    Bombay Boys is an unorthodox comedy film written and directed by the Indian director Kaizad Gustad. It follows the adventures of three young men in modern-day Mumbai . The boys are of Indian origin, but were all raised in the West. Krishna Sahni is an aspiring actor from New York who wants to...

    directed by Kaizad Gustad
    Kaizad Gustad
    Kaizad Gustad is an Indian film director and writer. He is best known for his 1998 comedy Bombay Boys and debut novel Of No Fixed Address....

  • Broken Vessels
    Broken Vessels
    Broken Vessels is a 1998 medical drama film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon. The film debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and marked Ziehl's directorial debut. It stars Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, and...

    directed by Scott Ziehl
    Scott Ziehl
    Scott Ziehl is an American film director. He has directed numerous films from 1998 to now.- External links :...

  • Following directed by Christopher Nolan
    Christopher Nolan
    Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...

  • Georgica directed by Sulev Keedus
  • Get Real directed by Simon Shore
  • Getting Off directed by Julie A. Lynch
  • Hair Shirt
    Hairshirt (film)
    Hairshirt is a 1998 romantic comedy film starring Dean Paras, Neve Campbell, Katie Wright, Rebecca Gayheart and Stefan Brogren.-Plot:...

    directed by Dean Paras
  • Hell's Kitchen
    Hell's Kitchen (1998 film)
    Hell's Kitchen is a 1998 film starring Rosanna Arquette, William Forsythe, Angelina Jolie, Mekhi Phifer, and Johnny Whitworth. The film was written and directed by Tony Cinciripini...

    directed by Tony Cinciripini
  • In The Winter Dark directed by James Bogle
  • Kenoma directed by Eliane Caffé
  • L'arrière Pays directed by Jacques Nolot
    Jacques Nolot
    Jacques Nolot , is a French actor, screenwriter and film director.- Life :Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, a small village in Southwest France. A fragile child, Nolot was doted upon by his mother, a woman who had three children with three different fathers...

  • Long Time Since directed by Jay Anania
  • Mensaka directed by Salvador García Ruiz
  • The Pianist
    The Pianist (1998 film)
    The Pianist was a 1998 Catalan-language film directed by Mario Gas, and based on a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It tells the story of two musicians, played in their old age by Serge Reggiani and Laurent Terzieff and in their youth by Pere Ponce and Jordi Mollà, who were friends at the onset...

    directed by Mario Gas
  • Porkkaalam directed by Cheran
    Cheran (director)
    Cheran is a Tamil film director from Tamil Nadu, India. He has won the Indian National Film Award thrice for Vetri Kodi Kattu , Autograph , and Thavamai Thavamirundhu . Besides he is three-time Filmfare Award winner as well....

  • Praise directed by John Curran
    John Curran (director)
    John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter.Born in Utica, New York, Curran studied illustration and design at Syracuse University, then worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, and production designer in Manhattan before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1986...

  • Radiance directed by Rachel Perkins
    Rachel Perkins
    Rachel Perkins is a film and television director, film and television producer and a writer. She is known for her films Bran Nue Dae, Radiance and One Night the Moon. Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by parents Eileen and Charles Perkins...

  • Rosie: The Devil In My Head directed by Patrice Toye
  • The Shoe directed by Laila Pakalnina
    Laila Pakalniņa
    Laila Pakalnina is a Latvian film director and screenwriter. She has directed 20 films since 1991. Her film Kurpe was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Vela...

  • The Sleepwalker directed by Fernando Spiner
  • Sombre
    Sombre
    Sombre is a 1998 French film directed by Philippe Grandrieux, starring Marc Barbé and Elina Löwensohn. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard and won the C.I.C.A.E...

    directed by Philippe Grandrieux
    Philippe Grandrieux
    Philippe Jesus Grandrieux is a French film director born in 1954.- Biography :He studied movies at the INSAS in Brussels and started his career as a moviemaker by shooting fictional films and documentaries. Grandrieux then worked as an experimental filmmaker in Belgium where he exhibited his...

  • Sweety Barrett directed by Stephen Bradley
  • The Terrorist directed by Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer who has worked in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi cinema....

  • Trans directed by Julian L. Goldberger
    Julian Goldberger
    Julian Goldberger is an independent film director based in Los Angeles.Julian studied acting and directing at Florida State University's School of Theatre, afterwords completing New York University's Intensive Film Program and The AFI Conservatory's Directing Program.His critically acclaimed...

  • Une Minute De Silence directed by Florent Emilio Siri
    Florent Emilio Siri
    Florent Emilio Siri is a French film director born in Lorraine.He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris....

  • West Beirut
    West Beirut (film)
    West Beirut is a 1998 Lebanese drama film written and directed by Ziad Doueiri.-Plot:In April 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Muslim-Christian line and is divided into East and West Beirut. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar...

    directed by Ziad Doueiri
  • Windhorse directed by Paul Wagner

Planet Africa

  • Ainsi Soit Il So Be It directed by Joseph Gaye Ramaka
  • Babymother directed by Julian Henriques
  • Bent Familia directed by Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film Man of Ashes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Corps Plongés directed by Raoul Peck
    Raoul Peck
    Raoul Peck is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist. Briefly, in the 1990s, he was Haiti's Minister of Culture.-Biography:...

  • Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland directed by Charles Burnett
    Charles Burnett (director)
    Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...

  • La Vie Sur Terre
    La Vie Sur Terre
    La Vie Sur Terre is a 1998 Malian comedy/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century...

    directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
    Abderrahmane Sissako
    Abderrahmane Sissako is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is, along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international...

  • L'Onzième Commandement directed by Mama Keïta
  • Mixing Nia directed by Alison Swan
  • On The Edge directed by Newton I. Aduaka
  • Pièces D'indentités
    Identity Pieces
    Identity Pieces is a 1998 Belgian/French/Congolese comedy film written and directed by Mweze Ngangura. It premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.-Plot:...

    directed by Mweze Ngangura
  • Secrets directed by Sheryl Lee Ralph
    Sheryl Lee Ralph
    Sheryl Lee Ralph is an American actress, singer, and activist.-Personal life:Raised between Mandeville, Jamaica, and Long Island, New York, Sheryl Lee Ralph was born in Waterbury, Connecticut to an African American father and a Jamaican mother. Sheryl attended Uniondale High School in Uniondale, NY...

  • Silmande Tourbillon directed by S. Pierre Yameogo
    S. Pierre Yameogo
    S. Pierre Yameogo is a Burkinabé film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films since 1987. His film Delwende was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize of Hope award....

  • Slam
    Slam (film)
    Slam is a 1998 independent film starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background. It won the Grand Jury Prize for a Dramatic Film at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.- Synopsis :Raymond Joshua is a...

    directed by Marc Levin
    Marc Levin
    Marc Levin is an independent film producer and director. He is best known for his Brick City TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking and his dramatic feature film, SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance...

  • Souko Camera Box directed by Issiaka Konaté
  • Speak Like A Child directed by John Akomfrah
  • Take Your Bags directed by Camille Billops

Real To Reel

  • Angel On My Shoulder directed by Donna Deitch
    Donna Deitch
    Donna Deitch is an American film and television director best known for her 1986 film Desert Hearts. The film was groundbreaking as one of the first releases to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream, albeit art house, vein but with positive and respectful themes...

  • The Cruise directed by Bennett Miller
    Bennett Miller
    Bennett Miller is an American film director.Miller is the director of the feature Capote , a film for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He also directed the documentary film The Cruise...

  • Donald Cammell
    Donald Cammell
    Donald Seaton Cammell was a Scottish film director who enjoys a cult reputation thanks to his debut film Performance, which he co-directed with Nicolas Roeg.-Biography:...

    : The Ultimate Performance
    directed by Kevin MacDonald
    Kevin MacDonald (director)
    Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish director, best known for his films One Day in September, State of Play, The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void.-Personal life:...

     and Chris Rodley
  • The Filmmaker Of The Amazon directed by Aurélio Michiles
  • Fragments*Jerusalem directed by Ron Havilio
  • God Said, "Ha!" directed by Julia Sweeney
    Julia Sweeney
    Julia Anne Sweeney is an American actress, comedian and author best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for her autobiographical solo shows.-Personal life:...

  • Megacities directed by Michael Glawogger
    Michael Glawogger
    Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy...

  • Richard Lester! directed by Stacy Cochran
  • State of Dogs
    State of Dogs
    State of Dogs is a Mongolian movie that was released in 1998, directed and written by Peter Brosens and Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh. The film was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the 1998 Toronto Film Festival, the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix at...

    directed by Peter Brosens and Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

  • Boom!
    Boom! (1968 film)
    Boom! is a 1968 British drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward. It was directed by Joseph Losey and adapted from Tennessee Williams' play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.-Plot:...

    directed by Joseph Losey
    Joseph Losey
    Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...

  • Charulata
    Charulata
    Charulata is a 1964 film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novella Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore...

    directed by Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • Forty Guns
    Forty Guns
    Forty Guns is a 1957 CinemaScope western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry.-Plot:...

    directed by Samuel Fuller
    Samuel Fuller
    Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...

  • The Four Feathers
    The Four Feathers (1939 film)
    The Four Feathers is a 1939 adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, C. Aubrey Smith. Set in the 1890s during the reign of Queen Victoria, it tells the story of a man accused of cowardice. It is one of a number of adaptations of the 1902 novel...

    directed by Zoltan Korda
    Zoltán Korda
    Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer.Born Zoltán Kellner, Kellner Zoltán in Hungarian name order, of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó, Túrkeve in Hungary , he was the middle brother of filmmakers Alexander and Vincent Korda.Zoltan Korda went to...

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David...

    directed by Michael Powell
    Michael Powell (director)
    Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...

     and Emeric Pressburger
    Emeric Pressburger
    Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...

  • Nazarín
    Nazarín
    Nazarín is a 1959 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós...

    directed by Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

  • Othello
    Othello (1952 film)
    Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Shakespearean play, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists . It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also played the title role . The screenplay was adapted by Welles and an uncredited Jean Sacha...

    directed by Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...


New Beat of Japan

  • After Life directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
    Hirokazu Koreeda
    is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...

  • April Story
    April Story
    April Story is a Japanese short film directed by Shunji Iwai starring Takako Matsu.-Plot:Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl from the countryside of northern Hokkaidō leaves her family and gets on a train bound for Tokyo so she can attend the university of her choice; to be near the boy she fell in love...

    directed by Shunji Iwai
    Shunji Iwai
    is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.-Life and career:Iwai was born in Sendai, Japan, Miyagi prefecture. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987....

  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity directed by Kinji Fukasaku
    Kinji Fukasaku
    was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...

  • Beautiful Sunday directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
    Tetsuya Nakashima
    Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls....

  • Bullet Ballet
    Bullet Ballet
    Bullet Ballet is a Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and co-starring Hisashi Igawa, Sujin Kim, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura and Kyoka Suzuki....

    directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
    Shinya Tsukamoto
    is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...

  • Cure
    Cure (film)
    is a 1997 thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa.- Synopsis :...

    directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...

  • Detective Riko directed by Satoshi Isaka
  • Down The Drain directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
    Shinobu Yaguchi
    is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third...

  • The Goofball directed by Junji Sakamoto
    Junji Sakamoto
    Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...

  • Happy Go Lucky
    Happy-Go-Lucky
    Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British Comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary-school teacher and her relationships with those around her...

    directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
    Tetsuya Nakashima
    Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls....

  • Ikinai directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Kichiku directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
  • Muscle Influenza directed by Keiji Ichikawa and Ken Arima
  • Paradise Sea directed by Koji Hagiuda
  • Ping Pong Bath Station directed by Gen Yamakawa
  • Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
    Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
    is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Katsuhito Ishii and starring Tadanobu Asano. It is based on a manga of the same name by Minetaro Mochizuki which was originally serialized in Mister Magazine circa 1993 under the title "Daisharin"...

    directed by Katsuhito Ishii
    Katsuhito Ishii
    -Work:Katsuhito Ishii began directing commercials in 1992, receiving numerous awards in this field. His first short film The Promise of August, shot in 1995, went on to receive the Japanese Film Grand Prix in the Fantastic Video Section of the 1995 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival Ishii...

  • Sunday Drive directed by Hisashi Saito
  • Unlucky Monkey directed by Sabu
    Sabu (director)
    is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director .-Career:Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku...

  • Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
    is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Koki Mitani. It was popular in Japan upon its release and won 3 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Supporting Actor...

    directed by Koki Mitani
    Koki Mitani
    is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director. He was previously married to Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi. The name "Koki" is a combination of two Japanese characters - 幸 "Happy" and 喜 "Pleased". In an attempt to add his own character to his movies, as a director he takes...


Directors' Spotlight: Darezhan Omirbaev

  • Cardiogram directed by Darezhan Omirbaev
    Darezhan Omirbaev
    Darezhan Omirbaev is a Kazakhstani film director and screenwriter. He has directed eight films since 1982. His film Tueur à gages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize....

  • July directed by Darezhan Omirbaev
  • Kairat directed by Darezhan Omirbaev
  • Killer directed by Darezhan Omirbaev
  • Life directed by Darezhan Omirbaev

Canadian Film Centre At 10

  • Blood & Donuts directed by Holly Dale
    Holly Dale
    Holly Dale is a Canadian film and television director and film producer. She received a Gemini Award in 2008 for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series ....

  • Blue directed by Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

  • Dead Meat directed by Holly Dale
  • The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore directed by Laurie Lynd
    Laurie Lynd
    Laurie Lynd is a Canadian film and television director, best known as the director of the feature film Breakfast with Scot.He also directed the feature film House, the short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore, and the television films Sibs, Open Heart and Virtual Mom, as well as...

  • The Feeler directed by Colleen Murphy
  • House directed by Laurie Lynd
    Laurie Lynd
    Laurie Lynd is a Canadian film and television director, best known as the director of the feature film Breakfast with Scot.He also directed the feature film House, the short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore, and the television films Sibs, Open Heart and Virtual Mom, as well as...

  • The Making Of Monsters directed by John Greyson
    John Greyson
    John Greyson is a Canadian filmmaker, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a video artist, writer and activist; he is currently a professor at York University, where he teaches film and video theory and film production and editing.-Background:Greyson was born the son of...

  • Rude directed by Clement Virgo
    Clement Virgo
    Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...

  • Save My Lost Nigga' Soul directed by Clement Virgo
  • Shoemaker directed by Colleen Murphy
  • Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is an award-winning 1993 film about the piano prodigy Glenn Gould played by Colm Feore. The film's screenplay was written by François Girard and Don McKellar....

    directed by François Girard
    François Girard
    François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

  • Zero Patience
    Zero Patience
    Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas...

    directed by John Greyson

Midnight Madness

  • The Acid House
    The Acid House
    The Acid House is a 1994 book by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film. It is a collection of short stories, with each story featuring a new set of characters and scenarios.-Stories:...

    directed by Paul McGuigan
    Paul McGuigan (filmmaker)
    Paul McGuigan is a film director, best known for directing films such as Lucky Number Slevin and Push. He has also directed episodes of Sherlock and Monroe.-Filmography:-Awards:...

  • The Bystander From Hell directed by Matthew Harrison
    Matthew Harrison
    Matthew Harrison is an American television and film director, producer and writer. He first came to prominence when his feature film Rhythm Thief was awarded Special Jury Recognition for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival. His first studio feature Kicked in the Head was Executive Produced by...

  • Cascadeur - The Amber Chamber directed by Hardy Martins
  • Hang The DJ directed by Marco La Villa and Mauro La Villa
  • Heaven directed by Scott Reynolds
  • I Woke Up Early The Day I Died directed by Arlis Iliopulos
  • Mighty Peking Man
    The Mighty Peking Man
    The Mighty Peking Man is a 1977 film produced in Hong Kong by Shaw Brothers Studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of King Kong...

    directed by Ho Meng-Hua
  • Night Time directed by Peter Fratzscher
  • Perdita Durango
    Perdita Durango
    Perdita Durango, released as Dance with the Devil in the US, is a film directed by Alex de la Iglesia as a cross between the crime and horror genres. The film is based on Barry Gifford's novel 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango...

    directed by Alex de la Iglesia
    Álex de la Iglesia
    Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.- Biography :...

  • Six-String Samurai
    Six-String Samurai
    Six-String Samurai is a 1998 post-apocalyptic action/comedy film directed by Lance Mungia. Brian Tyler composed the score for this film along with the Red Elvises, the latter providing the majority of the soundtrack....

    directed by Lance Mungia
    Lance Mungia
    Lance Mungia is an American screenwriter and film director, of the film Six String Samurai; and co-writer/director of The Crow: Wicked Prayer for Dimension Films....

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