Best Movies of 1998

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

When four small-time criminals lose a rigged poker game against a London kingpin, he gives them one week to settle their enormous debt.

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

When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.

A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Two brothers and a friend, all blue-collar workers, come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.

Recently released con man Neal aims to reconnect with his son, parents, and criminal horse-riding gang, but encounters an informant who betrayed him in Dublin's lawless "pony club" underworld.

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

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

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

The world's greatest-ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas, and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.