1998 Movies

Blending dramatic situations with a documentary-influenced visual style, Happy Birthday looks in at a typical day in a Russian maternity hospital....

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last...

A screenwriter is going through a romantic crisis.

Antonio, a television scriptwriter, decides to separate from Ana, his wife, with whom he has three children in common.

After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five includes 3 scientists, Zane's...

It all begins when a secret agent hiding in the ship where dinner Futaba school students. The Pig Hoof follow and take the boat with her, Shin Chan...

A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer,...

Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home,...

Mighty Zeus brings Hercules' mother, Alcmene, to Mount Olympus, and Hercules, believing she has been kidnapped, leads a rescue mission to save her....

A rescue team investigates a silent Antarctic base, only to uncover a hellish force raising the dead—turning the frozen outpost into a...

A multi-starring classic Nepali drama featuring iconic actor Shiva Shrestha with Rajesh Hamal that navigates the complex moral dilemmas and...

Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.

The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

Tetsuro believed he was freeing the Earth from the clutches of the Metanoid Empire’s tyranny. Yet one year after his return, Tetsuro is a...

The classic Nepali movie starring Rajesh Hamal and Jal Shah.

A downtrodden, tough female private eye, Toby Merck, tries to regain control of her life - before she loses it during an investigation into a...

NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the...

Charles is the owner of a photo-shop. He is not too friendly and spends his evenings alone, and one day he finally decides to get a social life. He...

Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one...

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his...

Neulich 1 is the first part of a series of cinematic notes on everyday life.

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer,...

Housewife Jimmy Dade stays with her violent husband, Frankie, even after his abuse leads to the loss of her hearing. When his car is found with an...

Duncan is just an ordinary high school student. Hallie dreams of an ordinary life, but is actually the daughter of the president of the United...

Two compassionate stories about two remarkable families who risk everything to help Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

The difficult relationship between a young gay South Asian man and his father, refracted through images of the late film star Sabu of Jungle Book and...

Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dog's mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of other dogs, he still...

A man is inflicted with a bad case of werewolvism by his wife. After a bloody duel between the two, hubby runs off to hide in the mountains. But his...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor...

The animation is about a small German village in a rainy day, and visualises the miraculous moment when all of a sudden time has been stopped.

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily...

Johnnie is a foreman of a construction crew. On the outside he seems very "normal" and straight, but one evening we see him putting on makeup and a...

A young man begins to receive erotic calls from a stranger. A stranger with the ability to delve into his deepest desires and bring to life his most...

A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy...

Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998...