Top Movies of 1998


The top movies of 1998 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

71. The Mask of Zorro

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson, William Marquez, Tony Amendola
Plot: An elderly Zorro comes out of retirement to apprentice a young upstart, and avenge the death of his wife and liberate his daughter, who has been raised by the man responsible for his 20-year imprisonment.

72. Taste of Cherry ( Ta'm e guilass )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Actors: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori, Ahmad Ansari
Plot: A man who plans to commit suicide the following day searches for someone who will promise to retrieve his body. But as he interacts with the people he meets on his quest, he begins to have second thoughts.

73. April Story ( Shigatsu monogatari )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shunji Iwai
Actors: Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii, Rumi, Kazuhiko Kato, Yôsuke Eguchi

74. Practical Magic

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Griffin Dunne
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Goran Visnjic, Aidan Quinn
Plot: Two sisters are raised by their aunts to become witches.

75. Another Day in Paradise

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Larry Clark
Actors: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Peter Sarsgaard, James Otis

76. U.S. Marshals

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stuart Baird
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood
Plot: Crack U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard and his crew are on the case when a planeload of convicts goes down and Mark Sheridan escapes. They soon realize Sheridan is no ordinary criminal and his incrimination may be part of an elaborate set up.

77. Dangerous Beauty

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward, Naomi Watts, Moira Kelly

78. Halloweentown

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Judith Hoag, Kimberly J. Brown, Phillip Van Dyke, Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske

79. The X Files: Fight the Future

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi
Plot: After five years, the X-Files have been closed down and agent Mulder and Scully are assigned regular duty. In Texas, a federal building is destroyed, but investigating the matter leads not to terrorists, but their own government behind the plot. This cover-up leads to an even bigger conspiracy involving a powerful cabal of men and a mysterious extraterrestrial virus.

80. The Butcher Boy

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw
Plot: With a temperamental father and a suicidal mother, a bright young Dublin boy grows increasingly demented and homicidal. Moving in and out of insane asylums, he murders a neighbor who sullies the name of his family, while experiencing visions of a saintly angel.

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