The Big Swap (1998)

AKA:
Der große Partnertausch > German

Synopsis:
Prompted by one of their number, who had previously indulged, five mature thirty-something couples, who had been friends for years and collectively known as 'the Group', decide to indulge in some novel partner swapping. At first everything appears fine and the couples believe that nothing has changed between them and that their relationships are safe. However, everything is not fine and petty jealousies start to arise, as some members perceive that others are benefiting more from the arrangement than themselves. The tensions mount and deeper, darker secrets begin to reveal themselves, especially when one member of the group changes her partner. Eventually, the tension and jealousy proves too much with catastrophic results for the marriages and friendship of the group.

Starring:
Mark Adams
Sorcha Brooks
Mark Caven

Director: Niall Johnson

Salaakhen (1998)

Synopsis:
When an honest school teacher testifies in a rape case against a prominent businessman's son, he is psychologically tortured and forced to commit suicide. His young son then takes the law into his own hands in order to avenge his father.

Starring:
Sunny Deol
Raveena Tandon
Anupam Kher

Director: Guddu Dhanoa

Safe House (1998)

Synopsis:
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.

Starring:
Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hector Elizondo

Director: Eric Steven Stahl

PKK and their leader - Syria (1998)

Synopsis:
Documentary on the PKK training camps Syria used to host. It includes an interview with the PKK leader Abdullah Oscalan, now in prison in Turkey.

Bent familia (1998)

AKA:
La figlia di buona famiglia >> Italian
Tunisiennes >> French

Synopsis:
Bent Familia, which is being shown in France under the title  "Tunisiennes" , is a highly intelligent and enjoyable film from director Nouri Bouzid, who had previously written the screenplay for _The Silences of the Palace_. We meet three intelligent thirty-something women in conteporary Tunisia: Amel Hedhili plays a brash, strong university teacher who not only has been divorced, but is not ashamed of it and, to the scandalized horror of her neighbours, continues to receive male visitors. Nadia Kaci is a shy refugee from Algeria: we know she has lived through horrible violence in her strife -torn home country, and is still haunted with fear by the fate of her loved ones still there. Finally, Leila Nassim plays the film's central character: docile, gentle Amina, who smiles a lot but barely speaks. As the film opens , we find Amina in the midst of a 14-year marriage; although her wealthy husband has installed her in a comfortable home, Amina is stifled by his macho authoritarianism: he has made her quit her studies and complains loudly when she leaves the house alone, despite the fact that he himself is usually carrying on at least one illicit affair on the side. Thanks to her friendship with the two other women, Amina gradually comes to realize what a cloistered, stifling existence she has been forced to lead for so many years, and slowly and painfully she begins to find the courage to stand up to her domineering husband and do something about it. The theme may seem trite by Western standards accustomed as weve been since 1991's _Thelma and Louise_ to feminist buddy-films. Yet Bent Familia is quite unforgettable: the males are not caricatural, just believably fallible (and in the case of Amina's traditionalist husband, quite scarily so), and the women's friendship is sensitively portrayed. Perhaps the film 's best feature is its actresses. In Leila Nassim, Bouzid has found a genuinely impressive talent: reserved and uptight at the film's beginning, she oozes passion, courage and righteous indignation by its end, and the depths of her beautiful brown eyes are more eloquent than pages of dialogue in lesser films. Bouzid is to be congratulated for a courageous film which is both a savage indictment of a society still too macho by half, and a hymn in praise of the liberating strength of female friendship.

Starring:
Amel Hedhili
Nadia Kaci
Leila Nassim

Director: Nouri Bouzid

Forbidden Sins (1998)

Starring:
Shannon Tweed

The Horse Whisperer (1998)

AKA:
Der Pferdeflüsterer >> German

Synopsis:
A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.

Starring:
Robert Redford
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sam Neill

Director: Robert Redford

The Killing Secret (1998)

Synopsis:
This is the 1998 NBC made for television movie The Killing Secret. This loosely based on a true story feature centers around a privileged young high schooler who gets one of his two girlfriends pregnant and ends up killing her. This stars Ari Meyers, Tess Harper, John O'Hurley, and Soleil Moon Frye as the doomed girl. This was one of many "women in peril" movies that were popular at the time and still airs on Lifetime quite frequently.

Best of The Best I (1989)

AKA:
Best Of The Best
Best Of The Best 1
Karate Tiger IV - Best of the Best

Synopsis:
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country.

Starring:
Eric Roberts
James Earl Jones
Sally Kirkland
Phillip Rhee

Director: Robert Radler

Best Of The Best IV (1998)

AKA:
Best Of The Best 4
Best Of The Best: Without Warning
Best of the Best: Ohne jede Vorwarnung

Synopsis:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc.

Starring:
Phillip Rhee
Ernie Hudson
Tobin Bell

Director: Phillip Rhee

Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998)

Synopsis:
The legacy of the Nazis is with us today. The British and US governments took over where the Nazis left off in their search for occult knowledge and technology. They have been corrupted by the same spirit. In Ezekiel God speaks about Israel having the spirit of idolatry which she was polluted by in Egypt in her youth. This spirit showed itself later when Israel lusted after the gods of Babylon and Assyria who in turn were used to destroy her. When America incorporated all the Nazi scientists into her own government during Operation Paperclip she replicated Israels actions and now lusts after the same occult knowledge. The aims of Western governments and scientists are the same as the Nazis to usher in a New Golden Age a Third Reich where technology turns man into a god. Its the same lie told over to man again and again and he falls for it every time. Hitler wanted to create a super race of semi-divine beings the West are now close to achieving his goal. The destruction of mankind is inevitable only God's intervention will stop it.

Kahit Pader Gigibain Ko (1998)

Starring:Phillip Salvador
Rosanna Roces
Eddie Gutierrez
Bob Soler
Elizabeth Oropesa
Nini Jacinto
Allona Amor
Ernie Zarate
Gamaliel Viray
Joey Padilla
Dindo Arroyo
Cris Daluz
Mon Confiado
Ric Arellano
Josie Tagle
Ely Prado
Denver Razon
Richard Bonnin
Eric Francisco/
 Director: Joey del Rosario

Urban Legend (1998)

Black Dog (1998)

Synopsis:
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.

Starring:
Patrick Swayze
Randy Travis
Meat Loaf

Director: Kevin Hooks

Halloween VII: H20 (1998)

AKA:

Halloween 7
Halloween H20

Synopsis:
On Halloween in 1963, Michael Myers murdered his sister, Judith. In 1978, he broke out to kill his other sister, Laurie Strode. He killed all of her friends, but she escaped. A few years later, she faked her death so he couldn't find her. But now, in 1998, Michael has returned and found all the papers he needs to find her. He tracks her down to a private school where she has gone under a new name with her son, John. And now, Laurie must do what she should have done a long time ago and finally decided to hunt down the evil one last time.

The Origin of AIDS (1998)

Mga Babae Sa Isla Azul (1998)

AKA:
Girls in blue Island

Starring:
Isko Moreno
Alma Soriano
Ynez Veneracion
Patrick Guzman
Gem Castillo
Danny Riel
[~1997]

The Hole (1998)

AKA:
Dong >> Origianl Title

Director: Tsai Ming-Liang

Whispering Corridors (1998)

Synopsis:
The film begins with Mrs. Park, a teacher at the all-girl school, finding something disturbing in a yearbook. She then runs frantically through the hallways, scared out of her wits, before she calls Eun-young and mysteriously tells her that Jin-ju is still around, still attending the school. She then drops the phone and is strangled to death by an unseen person wearing the school uniform.

Dark City (1998)

Synopsis:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans. John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.