Armstrong
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Menahem Golan
Actors: Frank Zagarino, Kimberley Kates
Plot: A mercenary, living in Communist Russia, must stop an illegal arms sale, and save the widow of the man who taught him everything he knows.
Art Museum by the Zoo ( Misulgwan yup dongmulwon )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Romance
Director: Jeong-hyang Lee
Brink!
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
Director: Greg Beeman
Bullet Ballet
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Kyoka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
Butter ( Never 2 Big )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Gathings Bunche
Actors: Shemar Moore, Nia Long, Ernie Hudson, Donnie Wahlberg, Terrence Howard, Donald Faison
Captive
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roger Cardinal
Actors: Erika Eleniak, Michael Ironside, Catherine Colvey, Adrienne Ironside, Stewart Bick, Noël Burton
Casper Meets Wendy
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sean McNamara
Champions
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Gathings Bunche
Actors: Louis Mandylor, Danny Trejo, Ken Shamrock, Lee Reherman, Bobbie Blackford, George 'Buck' Flower
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don McGlynn
Actors: Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller
Chikin Bizniz
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ntshaveni Wa Luruli
Actors: Fats Bookholane, Connie Chiume, Clementine Mosimane, Sello Motloung, Nomsa Nene
Dance Me to My Song
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rolf de Heer
Actors: Heather Rose, Joey Kennedy, John Brumpton, Rena Owen, Phil MacPherson, Danny Cowles
The Deal
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don Scardino
Actors: Joe Grifasi, Larry Pine
Every Little Thing ( moindre des choses, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Film Is ( Film ist. )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gustav Deutsch
Fufu the Worldweary ( Ensei Fufu )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yuri Obitani
Actors: Morio Agata, Daisuke Akai, Fuyume, Sora Kawamura, Miryeo Kim, Takashi Komine
Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Devine
Actors: Michael Moriarty, Kenny Vadas, Louis Del Grande, Tony Nardi, Guido Cerasuolo, Damir Andrei
Genesis
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nacho Cerdà
Actors: Pep Tosar, Trae Houlihan
Plot: A sculptor recreates his late wife in a realistic statue. When the statue starts to bleed, he finds himself changing too... into stone.
Going to School With Dad on My Back ( Bei zhu baba shangxue qu )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Youchao Zhou
Actors: Yan Danchen, Jiang Hualin, Qiang Zhao
Hoods
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Malone
Actors: Joe Mantegna, Vincent Berry, Jennifer Tilly, Jerry Schram, Joe Pantoliano, Kevin Pollak
If I Die Before I Wake
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Katkin
Actors: Stephanie Jones, Muse Watson, Michael McCleery, Anthony Nicosia, Mary Kathleen Gordon, John Gavagin
Plot: Three intruders hold a suburban family hostage in their own home.
Implicated
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Irving Belateche
Actors: William McNamara, Amy Locane, Frederic Forrest, Priscilla Barnes, Kara Keough, Philip Baker Hall
Kingdom of Shadows
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bret Wood
Actors: Rod Steiger
Plot: This documentary explains the first few decades of filmmaking where horror is concerned.
Kite
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Actors: Charlie Watson, Shane Callahan, Chuck Denson Jr., Dave Underwood, Scott Bailey, Bob Edwards
Plot: Sawa is a young woman, an orphan and outcast, is also an assassin hired out her controllers Akai and Kanie, that she carries out with brutal efficiency. Yet the nature of her relationship to the two men is as abusive and repellant as the hits she is assigned, but a chance meeting with another orphan on a multi-hit may give her the strength she needs to finally break away.
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andy Sidaris
Actors: Julie Strain, Rodrigo Obregón, Julie K. Smith, Shae Marks, Marcus Bagwell, Carrie Westcott
Legionnaire
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter MacDonald
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell, Jim Carter, Ana Sofrenovic
Plot: Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive.
When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's
girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the
foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant
Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
The mobster discover his whereabouts and enrolls two hitmen to finish
him off. With their fort under siege and enemies within, Lefevre finds
that second chances are difficult to come by in the Legion.
Letters from a Killer
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Carson
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Gia Carides, Bruce McGill, Kim Myers, Olivia Birkelund, Tina Lifford
Mezzo forte
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Actors: Tomoko Kotani, Takumi Yamazaki, Taichirô Hirokawa, Shôzô Îzuka, Akemi Okamura, Norio Wakamoto
Middleton's Changeling
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marcus Thompson
Actors: Ian Dury, Amanda Ray-King, Colm O'Maonlai, Richard Mayes, Guy Williams, Billy Connolly
Mugen ryûkyû tsuru Henrî
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Go Takamine
Actors: Katsuma Miyagi, Misako Ôshiro
Olympia
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bob Byington
Actors: Jason Andrews, Carmen Nogales, Damian Young, Patricia Fiske, James Monroe Black, Joe Stevens
Principal Takes a Holiday
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Sergei Eisenstein Mexican Fantasy ( Sergei Eisenstein. Meksikanskaya fantasiya )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Oleg Kovalov
Actors: Alexandra Scheff
Short Sharp Shock ( Kurz und schmerzlos )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fatih Akin
Actors: Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos, Regula Grauwiller, Idil Üner, Ralph Herforth
Suicide Bus ( Ikinai )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Actors: Dankan, Nanako Ôkôchi, Toshinori Omi, Ippei Souda, Yôichi Nukumizu, Great Gidayu
Testamento ( Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno, O )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Francisco Manso
Actors: Nelson Xavier, Maria Ceiça, Chico Díaz, Zezé Motta, Vya Negromonte, Milton Gonçalves
Totò Who Lived Twice ( Totò che visse due volte )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco
Actors: Salvatore Gattuso, Marcello Miranda, Carlo Giordano, Pietro Arciadiacono, Camillo Conti, Angelo Proll
Vampire Call Girls
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Everette Hartsoe
Actors: Everette Hartsoe, Glori-Anne Gilbert, Lilith Stabs, Jasi Cotton Lanier, Lisa Delien, Lou Consolo
Plot: Billy is out on the town and lonely so he decides to call an escort
service... unfortunately he calls the wrong escort service. These women
aren't just looking for money, they're out for blood... literally.
Watching the Detective ( Aru tantei no yûutsu )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Junichi Yagi
Actors: Eiji Ôki, Haruko Mabuchi, Miki Ozawa, Nami Katô, Masataka Nakamura
When Justice Fails
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
Actors: Jeff Fahey, Carl Marotte, Marlee Matlin, Charles Edwin Powell, Sean Milliken, Chuck Shamata
The Boxer
Theatrical Release Date: 12/31/1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Sheridan
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, David McBlain, Ciarán Fitzgerald, David Hayman
Plot: A teenager is sent to prison for his involvement in the IRA. He is released from prison years later and decides to lead a life free from the IRA.
Daughter 2 ( Sia dai 2 )
Theatrical Release Date: 12/31/1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Thai
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Actors: Sorapong Chatree, Arunroj Liamthong, Marisa Anita, Wichuda Monkolket, Yani Tramod, 'Wave' Sarin Bangyeekan
Oscar and Lucinda
Theatrical Release Date: 12/31/1997
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Clive Russell
Three Men and a Leg ( Tre uomini e una gamba )
Theatrical Release Date: 12/27/1997
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aldo, Giacomo, Giovanni, Massimo Venier
Actors: Aldo, Giovanni, Giacomo, Marina Massironi, Carlo Croccolo, Maria Pia Casilio
Plot: Three friends undertake a journey from Milan to the south of Italy by car, in order to safely bring to their ferocious father-in-law a wooden leg supposedly worth millions.
