Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

An old man is forced to do work by his unfaithful son.

Murat, who is not very attractive, is actually a naive person. His biggest dream is that the alternative universe, in which he imagines himself as an invincible hero.

A divorce lawyer is kidnapped by several disgruntled past clients and forced to fight a series of people in the back room of a tile store in St. Louis.

A men's room attendant is in jeopardy of losing his job when the restaurant owner's son takes over.

Want to know what life is like on tour with the Spice Girls? Well here's your chante to get inside the real SpiceWorld. In June 1998, the world's most successful all-girl band wen on tour all over America performing over 40 shows in 35 US cities and America discovered Spice Fever! This rare, behind-the scenes portrait is the story of the Spice Girls' sell-out tour of forty shows, following their progress as they cope with the pressures of life in a world of tour buses & private jets, press conferences & performances. Played out alongside the highs & lows of the World Cup, this is the story of life in the Spice bubble - of photo shoots, TV appearances, shopping trips, hotel rooms & the stresses & strains of life on the long and winding road. "A Tour History" is a unique & intimate snapshot of the Spice Girls during an American summer they will never forget.

Vicente Duarte commits his first crime. The victim is a young, attractive woman whom the criminal had never met. From his initial foray into the world of crime, Duarte feels a kind of inner serenity, which will drive him to continue committing more crimes.

Hong Kong movie

A brave little girl along side her sidekick chicken, a robot and a soldier go on a adventure in a stop-motion fantasy land to overthrow the evil Troll king and bring peace to the land.

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.

Sunny is a 13-year-old girl who lost her hearing at age 11 after a bout of meningitis. She talks normally, and her family is learning sign language - and she has a nutty school friend who was born deaf, and who can't talk. One day, she stumbles across a stray dog, who saves her from being run over. She wants to keep him, but her parents don't want a dog in the house. She rescues him from the pound where they send him, and comes up with the idea of having him trained as a hearing dog. This convinces her parents to allow him in the house, and she names him Ears.

Teenager preparing for diving competition identifies with suicides who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre.

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before. Michael has remained in love with Mimi over the years, but Mimi, who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, seems willing to try romance with Michael a second time. The spark between them is kindled again, however, during a weekend picnic outing, Mimi, suddenly enthusiastic, proposes to Michael abruptly. The two marry and head off on a honeymoon to Pennsylvania without ever having slept with each other.

The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.

A vacation at last for Martin, but he can't quite get a break: things literally "heat up" in the room next door as the lover starts to burn during lovemaking. Martin puts out the fire and saves the couple, but the mysterious incidents continue: the islanders seem to have made a pact with the volcano demon Guayote to heat up the tourists.

Cesar and Maria wander around the city like strangers, but are still able to recognize each other through the pain in a short glance, shaped by the violence that has changed their lives.

A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the man's wife.

Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of the largest Survival Research Laboratories event ever. SRL adds 5000 spectators , 60 tons of machines , 50 srl members working tirelessly on site for 3 weeks, at an Austin, Texas racetrack to equal major mayhem. Artfully condensed on video to 18 min.

This TV documentary recounts the fact that residents of Beijing's old quadrangle refused to move during the process of rebuilding the old city for urban development. This film focuses on the balanced relationship between residents, associations, companies and countries.

Tom is a shy and unpopular kid, who is often bullied. His insecurities lead him to fake stomach aches and seek the help of his neighbour friend, Dr. Gantz. His involvement in an unexpected accident and a misdose of a certain medicine leads Tom to activate 100% of his brain, making him exceptionally smart, alongside an unnerving crave of sweets. His newly acquired skills make him popular, but also lead him to be manipulated to commit crimes for an evil boss, named Bill Roshde.

A pair of female undercover agents (Kelsie Chambers and Cleo Nichole) investigate suspicious spiritualist Sue Manchu (Joi Li) but the buxom detectives are quickly exposed and fall into the clutches of the evil villainess, who plans to take over the world with a twisted scheme to transform silicone and saline into high explosives!

Natsumi lost her husband, who ran an oden stall. All she was left with was the stall and debt. Trying to pay off the debt by running the stall alone, no customers came, and she ended up paying the debt collectors' interest with her body. Taking a bold step, she remodeled the stall and reopened it as a cosplay sex service stall...

“Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…” The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be expressed by the Tsvetaeva stanza cited above. They are the main characters of this film, which their student Viktor Kossakovsky shot during Pavel Kogan’s final months. For Lyudmila Stanukinas, Lyalya, as those close to her called her, her husband was her only reason for existence. She was with him until the end and held onto his extinguishing life as much as she could.

"Les Démons" tells a rather familiar story of a young French man named Franc, who finds an ancient relic in a box hidden away in a cellar. It is soon learned that anyone who touches this relic will become possessed by a demonic entity, and Franc spends the film attempting to fight off this deadly deity.

Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers.

A reconstruction of the uncut prologue of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, the scene with the gunners Foma and Erema and a fragment from the unfinished part 3 featuring the German knight Heinrich von Staden. In between stills and newsreel footage. Over a commentary written and spoken by Naum Kleiman. The Criterion DVD extra ends at 33 min, the longer version has added fragments of parts 1 and 2 at the end.

This film pays homage to the film makers of the 70's and tells the dramatic story of the vampire Carmilla. She has been condemned by the Devil to endless pain:she's dead but is forced to be still living for ever and ever. The story is set in undefined place and undetermined time; all the characters will meet, against their will, the charming vampire. This is a movie of gloomy and romantic atmospheres supported by an enthralling soundtrack and a photography with peculiar colours which call up again a good period for italian cinematography.

Katja moves with her mother from a small village to Essen. At first she has problems settling into the rough city life, but then she meets the “Fun Gang”, a wild group of girlies. Although Katja succeeds in impressing the four members of the “gang”, the cool “fun gang” has an iron rule: they only accept “real women”. This means that Katja must first lose her virginity.

Shorty's first full length skateboarding video. Featuring: Steve Olson, Aaron Snyder, Toan Nguyen, Sammy Baptista, Jesse Silvey, Brandon Turner, Peter Smolik and Chad Muska.

The story of a father, originally from the village, and his city-raised wife, who try to make their daughter a star of classical music. The comedy ironically portrays the inferiority complex that comes from years of isolation.

1998 release

Taiwanese lewd film.

Tatya is worshipped as a god by his villagers as his prediction never goes wrong. On a daily basis, villagers gather in their house to take his blessings and advice. Tatya's elder son Datta is married to Shanti who is cursed by villagers for being childless, his younger son Vaman is a drunkard and only frequents the village, Devaki his eldest daughter has left her husband's house and lives with him whose spoils the peace of the house.

Musical documentary directed by Canibal / Mabuse.

Selva is a prominent television host and her husband is a successful producer. Together they will embark on the adventure of producing a film, which will mirror their own passions.

Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.

Cheran, Cholan and Pandian befriend Gayathri who helps them get a job in her brother's firm. They soon develop love for her, but as she reveals her love story they all vow to locate her missing lover.

Family drama about friendship.

On September 10, 1898, Sisi, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was stabbed to death with a sharpened file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. The successful fiction about Sisi by Norbert Beilharz is based on Elisabeth's inner monologue and, subjectively, on many events in her life.

Tatiana is married to Leonard, a former American consulate worker in Russia during the cold war. Tatiana has returned to Russia now, ten years later...

A hit-and-run driver hits and kills a little girl in Pontevico. The latter's father, a long-time friend of Walter, asks the reporter to investigate the matter, before dying by suicide. Walter, not believing in this hypothesis, throws himself headlong into the search for the truth. Meanwhile, the return of the charming Candy provokes the jealousy of Federica who decides to resign from the newspaper and leave for Milan.

In 1998, a German documentary filmmaker named Daniela Schulz made a film about Joris Ivens’s dynamic partner, Bride of the Wind (Windsbraut), as a tribute to their decades of work together. Calling her friend Marceline “the second part of this legend [of Joris Ivens]”, she pays tribute to her as one who, after losing her “beloved and symbiotic partner, has kept her dynamism and liveliness as a person and a filmmaker”. The cinematic portrait illustrates how Loridan was in fact much more than a shadow at Ivens’s side.

James Spawn is a misdirected, bumbling outcast who strikes out on a quest for true romance. Through the powers of an ancient mystical ring, Spawn is able to turn dreams into reality. Or is it just Spawn's reality?

Cora is a teenager and has a lot of problems (mostly because of the relationship with her parents). One day she meets Katz, a hypnotizer who makes shows in the whole country, and his assistant Pedro. Then she manages to convince Katz to bring her with him in order to teach her his job. Thus Cora leaves her home without saying any word to her parents and begins a long trip through France with a very tumultuous relationship with Katz and Pedro.

A fascinating collection of interviews, recollections and documentary information about the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, and how it touched people's lives. Investigates the contemporary importance of the story of the Titanic, and the effects it has had on the lives of the many individuals still living. Walter Lord, author of "A night to remember", recalls some 26 stories survivors related to him personally and Eva Hart gives her own account of the events of April 14-15th, 1912. The Titanic tragedy represented, in its own right, the end of an era of arrogance and social discrimination in sea travel.

Andy Roy, Bob Burnquist, Eric J, John Cardiel, Julien Stranger, Sean Young, Tony Trujillo

Abstract forms and music.

Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and son years ago in mining accidents. When Dolly realises that everyone in the village wants a bit of her 50ft high coal mountain, including her niece Winny, Dolly is forced to take drastic measures...

An homage to silent films and the great puppet animator, Ladislas Starewicz. It is the story of a little hermit who is visited by playful goblins.

Prosecutor Azhogin, who sent many criminals to prison, by the will of fate himself ends up behind bars. He is placed in a cell with juvenile lawbreakers. The situation is far from the worst one. So thinks the Azhogin, who eventually becomes a true friend and mentor of his fourteen-year-old inmates...

A documentary that chronicles the final hours of Chilean president Salvador Allende, deposed by a military coup on 11 September, 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet, his chosen Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. The film interviews the people who were trapped in the presidential palace during the attacks and some military who part of the initial strike that led to the military government for a decade.

This special program, a tribute to actor Christopher Reeve, features inspirational stories and songs in a fundraising gala for the Christopher Reeve Foundation.