The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies".^[1] Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia were released. The year also saw the release of Stuart Little, the first installment of the trilogy and George Lucas's top grossing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.

Events [edit]

• April 17 – Star Wars fans begin lining up at cinemas in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
• November 24 – Toy Story 2, a sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story, is released in theaters across the United States, and becomes an even bigger hit than the original. The film is released in the United Kingdom in February 2000.
• December 11 – Godzilla 2000 is released in Japan, reviving the Godzilla series.

Top grossing films [edit]

These are the top grossing films that were first released in 1999; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 1999 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

As of December 9, 2008, forty films released in 1999 have grossed more than $100 million. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace grossed more $924 million, making it the second highest grossing film in history.

For a complete list of 1999's top-grossing films, follow these links:

• • Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1999&p=.htm
  • U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1999&p=.htm
  • United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
  • Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com.au/

Awards [edit]

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Rosetta, directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, France / Belgium

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick, Canada / U.S.A.

Notable films released in 1999 [edit]

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• 8mm, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini
• 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• The 13th Warrior, directed by John McTiernan, starring Antonio Banderas
• 6ixtynin9 (Ruang Talok 69) – (Thailand)
• 200 Cigarettes, starring Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Kate Hudson, Paul Rudd, Christina Ricci

A-D [edit]

• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• After Life (ワンダフルライフ) – (Japan)
• After Stonewall
• After the Rain (Ame agaru), directed by Takashi Koizumi – (Japan)
• Aik Aur Love Story (One More Love Story) - (Pakistan)
• Aimée & Jaguar – (Germany)
• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), directed by Pedro Almodóvar – (Spain) – Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for best foreign film
• All the Little Animals, starring John Hurt and Christian Bale – (U.K.)
• The Amateur - (Argentina)
• Ambush (Rukajärven tie) - (Finland)
• American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Annette Bening, Kevin Spacey, Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper
• American Pie, directed by Paul and Chris Weitz, starring Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott
• Analyze This, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
• Angela's Ashes, directed by Alan Parker, starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle – (Ireland/U.S.A.)
• Angel's Dance, starring James Belushi
• Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat
• Annie, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming
• Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, LL Cool J
• Anywhere but Here, starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman
• Arlington Road, starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis
• Ashes to Ashes – (U.K.)
• The Astronaut's Wife, starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron
• At First Sight, starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino
• Attack the Gas Station (Juyuso seubgyuksageun) – (South Korea)
• Audition (Ôdishon), directed by Takashi Miike – (Japan)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, directed by Jay Roach, starring Mike Myers and Heather Graham

B

• Babar: King of the Elephants – (Canada)
• Baby Geniuses, starring Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd
• The Bachelor, starring Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger
• Bangkok Dangerous, directed by the Pang Brothers – (Thailand)
• Beau Travail (Good Work), directed by Claire Denis – (France)
• Beautiful People – (U.K.)
• Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
• Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz) - (Switzerland)
• Best Laid Plans, starring Reese Witherspoon
• The Best Man, starring Taye Diggs and Nia Long
• Better Than Chocolate – (Canada)
• Beyond the Mat, a documentary on professional wrestling
• Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt, Wendy Crewson, Hallie Kate Eisenberg
• Big Daddy, directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Joey Lauren Adams, Rob Schneider
• The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli
• Black and White, directed by James Toback, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Brooke Shields, Gaby Hoffmann, Claudia Schiffer
• The Blair Witch Project
• Blast from the Past, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone
• Blue Streak, starring Martin Lawrence
• The Bone Collector, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie
• The Boondock Saints, starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Willem Dafoe
• Bowfinger, directed by Frank Oz, starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy
• Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Peirce, starring Hilary Swank
• Breakfast of Champions, starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, Barbara Hershey
• Bringing Out the Dead, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage
• Brokedown Palace, starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale
• Buena Vista Social Club, a musical documentary directed by Wim Wenders – (Ger/Cuba/U.S.A./U.K./Fr)
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) – (Spain)
• Bye Bye Africa (Daratt) – (Chad)
• Bye Bye Bluebird (Faroe Islands/Denmark)

C

• El Chacotero Sentimental: La película (The Sentimental Teaser) - (Chile)
• Charisma (Karisuma), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa – (Japan)
• Chill Factor, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Skeet Ulrich
• Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000, directed by David Orr
• Chutney Popcorn
• The Cider House Rules, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine
• The Color of Lies (Au cœur du mensonge), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
• The Color of Paradise (Rang-e Khoda), directed by Majid Majidi – (Iran)
• The Corruptor, starring Chow Yun-fat and Mark Wahlberg
• Cosy Dens (Pelíšky) – (Czech Republic)
• Cradle Will Rock, directed by Tim Robbins, starring Hank Azaria, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson
• Crane World (Mundo grúa) – (Argentina)
• Crazy in Alabama, directed by Antonio Banderas, starring Melanie Griffith
• The Criminal, starring Steven Mackintosh and Eddie Izzard – (U.K.)
• The Crimson Code, starring Patrick Muldoon, C. Thomas Howell, Cathy Moriarty
• Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair
• The Cup (Phörpa) – (Bhutan/Australia)
• Curtain Call, starring James Spader, Polly Walker, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith

D

• Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha, directed by Takashi Miike – (Japan)
• The Debt Collector, starring Billy Connolly – (U.K.)
• Deep Blue Sea, directed by Renny Harlin, starring Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgård, LL Cool J
• The Deep End of the Ocean, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams
• Detroit Rock City, starring Edward Furlong
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, starring Rob Schneider
• Deveeri (My Sister), directed by Kavitha Lankesh – (India)
• Dick, starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams
• Dill Scallion
• A Dog of Flanders, starring Jack Warden and Jon Voight
• Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith
• Don't Look Back (Doko made mo ikō) – (Japan)
• Double Jeopardy, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones
• Drop Dead Gorgeous, starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards
• Dudley Do-Right, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina

E-K [edit]

• East is East, starring Om Puri and Jimi Mistry – (U.K.)
• East/West (Восток-Запад), starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve – (Rus/Fr/Bul/Sp/Ukr)
• EDtv, directed by Ron Howard, starring Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Jenna Elfman, Elizabeth Hurley, Ellen DeGeneres
• Election, directed by Alexander Payne, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon
• El Intruso (The Intruder) – (Colombia)
• The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang), directed by Chen Kaige, starring Gong Li – (China)
• The End of the Affair, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• End of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney
• Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Entropy, starring Stephen Dorff
• eXistenZ, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe – (Canada/U.K.)
• Eye of the Beholder, starring Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd
• Eyes Wide Shut, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman – (U.K./U.S.A.)

F

• Faeries, featuring the voices of Kate Winslet and Jeremy Irons – (U.K.)
• Fantasia 2000
• Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches!) – (France)
• Felicia's Journey, starring Bob Hoskins – (U.K.)
• Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
• The Five Senses – (Canada)
• Flawless, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman
• The Florentine, starring Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Hal Holbrook
• A Force More Powerful
• For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Brian Cox, Vin Scully
• Forces of Nature, starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock
• Free Enterprise, starring Eric McCormack, William Shatner, Rafer Weigel
• Friends & Lovers, starring Stephen Baldwin, Claudia Schiffer, Robert Downey, Jr.

G

• Galaxy Quest, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman
• Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys (Gamera Surī Jyashin Irisu Kakusei) – (Japan)
• Garage Olimpo (Olympic Garage) – (Argentina)
• The Geisha House (Omocha) - (Japan)
• Gemini (Sôseiji) – (Japan)
• The General's Daughter, starring John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, Timothy Hutton, James Woods
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Forest Whitaker
• Ghost in Love (Jagwimo) – (South Korea)
• Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie
• Girl on the Bridge (La fille sur le pont), directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Daniel Auteuil and Vanessa Paradis – (France)
• Gloria, starring Sharon Stone
• Glue Sniffer (Huelepega: Ley de la calle) – (Venezuela/Spain)
• Go, directed by Doug Liman, starring Katie Holmes, Scott Wolf, Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Jay Mohr
• God's Wedding (As Bodas de Deus) – (Portugal)
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (Gojira Nisen: Mireniamu) – (Japan)
• Goya in Bordeaux (Goya en Burdeos), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
• The Green Mile, directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan
• Gregory's Two Girls, starring John Gordon Sinclair – (U.K.)
• Grey Owl, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Pierce Brosnan – (U.K./Canada)
• Guinevere, starring Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart

H

• Happy End – (South Korea)
• The Harmonium in My Memory (Nae Maeumui Pongkeum) – (South Korea)
• The Haunting, directed by Jan de Bont, starring Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson
• Held Up, starring Jamie Foxx and Nia Long
• Herod's Law (La ley de Herodes), starring Damián Alcázar and Pedro Armendáriz Jr. – (Mexico)
• The Hi-Line, starring Rachael Leigh Cook
• Holy Smoke!, directed by Jane Campion, starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel – (Australia)
• House on Haunted Hill, starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Peter Gallagher
• Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (I Have Already Given My Heart, Darling) – (India)
• Human Traffic – (U.K.)
• Humanité – (France)
• The Hurricane, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Denzel Washington – a biopic of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

I

• I Will Survive (Sobreviviré) – (Spain)
• An Ideal Husband, starring Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett – (U.K.)
• Idle Hands, starring Devon Sawa
• In China They Eat Dogs (I Kina Spiser de Hunde) – (Denmark)
• In Dreams, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Annette Bening and Robert Downey, Jr.
• In Too Deep, starring Omar Epps and LL Cool J
• The Insider, directed by Michael Mann, starring Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Philip Baker Hall, Michael Gambon
• Inspector Gadget, directed by David Kellogg, starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Dabney Coleman
• Instinct, starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
• The Iron Giant, directed by Brad Bird, voices by Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald
• It All Starts Today (Ça commence aujourd'hui), directed by Bertrand Tavernier – (France)

J

• Jackie Chan: My Stunts – (Hong Kong)
• Jakob the Liar, starring Robin Williams
• Jawbreaker
• Jesus' Son, starring Billy Crudup, Denis Leary, Holly Hunter – (Canada/U.S.A.)
• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade – (Japan)
• Joe the King, starring Val Kilmer
• Journey to the Sun (Güneşe Yolculuk) – (Turkey)
• Juha, directed by Aki Kaurismäki – (Finland)
• Just a Little Harmless Sex, starring Alison Eastwood and Lauren Hutton
• Just the Ticket, starring Andy García

K

• K-911, starring James Belushi
• Kadosh (Sacred) – (Israel)
• Karnaval (Carnival) – (France)
• Kikujiro (Kikujirō no Natsu), directed by Takeshi Kitano – (Japan)
• The King and I, animated film featuring voices of Miranda Richardson and Darrell Hammond
• King of Comedy (Hei kek ji wong) – (Hong Kong)
• Kiss the Sky, starring William Petersen, Sheryl Lee, Gary Cole
• Kiss Toledo Goodbye, starring Christopher Walken

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• Lake Placid, starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White
• Lansky, starring Richard Dreyfuss
• Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed
• The Law of Enclosures – (Canada)
• The Letter (La Lettre / A Carta), directed by Manoel de Oliveira - (France/Portugal)
• Liberty Heights, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
• Life, starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence
• Light It Up, starring Usher Raymond and Forest Whitaker
• Limbo, directed by John Sayles, starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Kris Kristofferson
• The Limey, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman
• The Loss of Sexual Innocence, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Saffron Burrows – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Lost & Found, starring David Spade and Sophie Marceau
• The Love Letter, starring Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck
• Love Stinks, starring French Stewart and Bridgette Wilson
• Love Wind Love Song (Yeonpung yeonga) – (South Korea)
• Luna Papa (Lunnyy papa) – (Russia)
• Lycanthrope, starring Robert Carradine

M

• Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Baker Hall, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
• Man of the Century
• Man on the Moon, directed by Milos Forman, starring Jim Carrey, Courtney Love, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti
• Mansfield Park, starring Frances O'Connor and James Purefoy – (U.K.)
• A Map of the World, starring Sigourney Weaver
• Marshal Tito's Spirit (Maršal) – (Croatia)
• The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, starring Carmen Electra
• The Matrix, directed by the Wachowski brothers, starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne
• Memento Mori (Yeogogoedam dubeonjjae iyagi) – (South Korea)
• Message in a Bottle, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robbie Coltrane, Illeana Douglas
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Luc Besson, starring Milla Jovovich – (France)
• Mickey Blue Eyes, starring Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Mifune's Last Song (Mifunes sidste sang) – (Denmark)
• The Minus Man, starring Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Sheryl Crow
• Miss Julie, starring Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Mod Squad, starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi, Dennis Farina
• Moloch, directed by Alexander Sokurov – (Russia)
• Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, starring David Wenham and Peter O'Toole - (Belgium)
• Moonlight Whispers (Sasayaki) – (Japan)
• Mumford, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Jason Lee
• The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz
• Muppets from Space
• The Muse, directed by and starring Albert Brooks, with Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges
• Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Gloria Estefan
• My Life So Far, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Colin Firth – (U.K.)
• My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia), a documentary directed by Martin Scorsese – (U.S.A./Italy)
• Mystery Alaska, starring Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds
• Mystery Men, starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Janeane Garofalo, Hank Azaria, Greg Kinnear, Paul Reubens

N

• Nang Nak – (Thailand)
• The Nanny (La Balia) - (Italy)
• Never Been Kissed, starring Drew Barrymore and David Arquette
• New Waterford Girl – (Canada)
• Nightshapes (Nachtgestalten) – (Germany)
• The Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, and Frank Langella – (U.S.A./Spain/France)
• No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba), starring Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes and Salma Hayek – (Mexico)
• No Trains No Planes – (Netherlands)
• Northern Skirts (Nordrand) - (Austria)
• Not of this World (Fuori Dal Mondo) – (Italy)
• Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao), directed by Zhang Yimou – (China)
• Notting Hill, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant – (U.K.)
• Nowhere to Hide (Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda) – (South Korea)

O

• October Sky, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern
• Office Space, directed by Mike Judge, starring Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston
• The Old Man and the Sea (Старик и море) – (Russia/Japan/Canada)
• The One and Only (Den Eneste Ene) – (Denmark)
• "The Omega Code", starring Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Michael Ironside, Catherine Oxenberg
• One Man's Hero, starring Tom Berenger
• Onegin, starring Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Irene Worth – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Operation Grandma (Mivtza Savta) – (Israel)
• Ordinary Heroes (Qian yan wan yu) – (Hong Kong)
• Oriundi, directed by Anthony Quinn – (Brazil)
• The Other Sister, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Skerritt
• Our Friend, Martin

P-Q

• Payback, directed by Brian Helgeland, starring Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, William Devane, James Coburn, Lucy Liu
• Pitch People
• Play It to the Bone, directed by Ron Shelton, starring Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich, Lucy Liu
• Pola X, starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve – (Fr/Swi/Ger/Jap)
• Poppoya (Railroad Man), starring Ken Takakura – (Japan)
• Postmen in the Mountains (Nàshān nàrén nàgǒu) – (China)
• The Power of Kangwon Province (Gangwon-do ui him) – (South Korea)
• Propaganda – (Turkey)
• Pushing Tin, directed by Mike Newell, starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie

R-Z [edit]

• Random Hearts, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas
• Ratcatcher – (U.K.)
• Ravenous, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle – (Czech Republic/U.K./U.S.A.)
• Return of the Idiot (Návrat idiota) – (Czech Republic)
• Rites of Passage, starring Dean Stockwell and James Remar
• The Road Home (wǒde fùqin mǔqin), directed by Zhang Yimou – (China)
• Rodents (Ratas, Ratones, Rateros) – (Ecuador)
• Rogue Trader, starring Ewan McGregor – (U.K.)
• A Room for Romeo Brass, directed by Shane Meadows – (U.K.)
• Rosetta – (France/Belgium)
• Run for Money (Kaç para kaç) – (Turkey)
• Runaway Bride, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
• The Runner, starring Ron Eldard and Courteney Cox

S

• Same Love, Same Rain (El mismo amor, la misma lluvia) – (Argentina)
• Sarfarosh (Martyr), starring Aamir Khan – (India)
• Set Me Free (Emporte-Moi) – (Canada/France/Switzerland)
• Seventeen Years (guò nián huí jiā), directed by Zhang Yuan – (China)
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears) - (Mexico)
• Shaheed-E-Mohabbat – (India)
• Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna) – (Japan)
• She's All That, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook
• Shiri – (South Korea)
• Shower (Xizao) – (China)
• Sicilia! (Sicily) – (Italy)
• Simon Magus, starring Stuart Townsend – (U.K.)
• Simpatico, starring Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Nick Nolte, Catherine Keener, Albert Finney
• Simply Irresistible, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Flanery
• The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
• Sleeping Beauties
• Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci
• A Slipping-Down Life, starring Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce
• Snow Falling on Cedars, starring Ethan Hawke
• Solas – (Spain)
• Sonnenallee – (Germany)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker
• Speedway Junky, starring Jesse Bradford and Daryl Hannah
• The Spirit of My Mother (El Espiritu de mi Mama) – (Honduras)
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, directed by George Lucas, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
• Stigmata, starring Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne
• Stir of Echoes, starring Kevin Bacon
• The Story of Us, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer
• The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch, starring Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek
• Stuart Little, starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki
• Summer of Sam, directed by Spike Lee, starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino
• Sunshine (A napfény íze), directed by István Szabó, starring Ralph Fiennes – (Hun/Aus/Ger/Can)
• Superstar, starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell
• Sweet and Lowdown, directed by Woody Allen, starring Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Samantha Morton

T

• Taboo (Gohatto), directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Ryuhei Matsuda and Beat Takeshi – (Japan)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Tarzan, directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck, voices by Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Rosie O'Donnell
• Tea with Mussolini, starring Cher, Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith – (U.K./Italy)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle, starring Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Barry Watson
• Tell Me Something – (South Korea)
• That Championship Season, starring Paul Sorvino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, Tony Shalhoub
• The Thirteenth Floor, starring Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Gretchen Mol – (U.S.A./Germany)
• The Thirteenth Year
• The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by John McTiernan, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary
• Three Kings, directed by David O. Russell, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Nora Dunn, Spike Jonze
• Three Seasons (Ba Mùa) – (U.S.A./Vietnam)
• Three to Tango, starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Oliver Platt
• Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé), starring Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Béart – (France)
• Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• To Walk with Lions, starring Richard Harris and Ian Bannen - (U.K.)
• Topsy-Turvy, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner – (U.K.)
• Toy Story 2, with the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen
• Trick
• True Crime, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, James Woods
• Tube Tales, directed by Bob Hoskins, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and others – (U.K.)
• Tumbleweeds, starring Janet McTeer and Kimberly J. Brown
• Twin Falls Idaho, directorial and screenwriting debut for The Polish brothers
• Two Girls and a Guy, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner
• Two Hands, starring Heath Ledger and Bryan Brown – (Australia)
• Two Women (Do zan) – (Iran)

U-V

• Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: Battle in Hyperspace – (Japan)
• Undercover Angel (Un vrai petit ange) – (Canada)
• Uninvited Guest, starring Mekhi Phifer
• Varsity Blues, starring James Van Der Beek and Jon Voight
• Vaastav: The Reality, starring Sanjay Dutt – (India)
• Victim (Mu lu xiong guang), directed by Ringo Lam, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai – (Hong Kong)
• The Virgin Suicides, starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
• Virus, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland

W

• Wakko's Wish
• Walking Across Egypt
• A Walk on the Moon, starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin
• The War Zone, directed by Tim Roth, starring Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton – (U.K.)
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, starring Tom Courtenay and Lulu – (U.K.)
• Why Not Me? (Pourquoi pas moi?) – (France)
• Wild Wild West, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
• The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād mā rā khāhad bord), directed by Abbas Kiarostami – (Iran)
• Wing Commander, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard
• The Winslow Boy, directed by David Mamet, starring Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones – (U.K.)
• Wonderland, directed by Michael Winterbottom – (U.K.)
• The Wood, starring Omar Epps
• The World Is Not Enough, starring Pierce Brosnan (as James Bond), Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle – (U.K.)

XYZ

• Yana's Friends (Ha Chaverim shel Yana) – (Israel)
• Yellow Hair (Norang meori) – (South Korea)

Wide-release films [edit]

January–March [edit]

April–June [edit]

July–September [edit]

July – September [edit]

July 1999 [edit]

• July 2 – Summer of Sam
• July 9 – American Pie, Arlington Road
• July 14 – Muppets From Space
• July 16 – Eyes Wide Shut, Lake Placid, The Wood
• July 23 – Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Haunting, Inspector Gadget
• July 28 – Deep Blue Sea
• July 30 – The Blair Witch Project, Runaway Bride

August 1999 [edit]

• August 4 – Dick
• August 6 – The Iron Giant, Mystery Men, The Sixth Sense, The Thomas Crown Affair
• August 13 – Bowfinger, Brokedown Palace, Detroit Rock City
• August 20 – Mickey Blue Eyes, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Universal Soldier: The Return
• August 25 – In Too Deep
• August 27 – The 13th Warrior, The Astronaut's Wife, Dudley Do-Right, The Muse

September 1999 [edit]

• September 1 – Chill Factor, Outside Providence
• September 10 – Love Stinks, Stigmata, Stir of Echoes
• September 17 – Blue Streak, For Love of the Game
• September 24 – Double Jeopardy, Jakob the Liar

October – December [edit]

October 1999 [edit]

• October 1 – The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, American Beauty, Mystery, Alaska, The Minus Man, Three Kings
• October 8 – Random Hearts, Boys Don't Cry, Superstar
• October 15 – Fight Club, The Story of Us, The Omega Code
• October 22 – Bats, Bringing Out the Dead, Crazy in Alabama, The Best Man, Three to Tango
• October 29 – House on Haunted Hill, Music of the Heart

November 1999 [edit]

• November 5 – The Bachelor, The Bone Collector, The Insider
• November 10 – Pokémon: The First Movie
• November 12 – Anywhere but Here, Dogma, Light It Up, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• November 19 – Liberty Heights, Sleepy Hollow, The World Is Not Enough
• November 24 – End of Days, Felicia's Journey, Flawless, Mansfield Park, Toy Story 2

December 1999 [edit]

• December 10 – The Cider House Rules, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Green Mile, Ride with the Devil
• December 17 – Anna and the King, Bicentennial Man, Stuart Little
• December 21 – Wakko's Wish
• December 22 – Any Given Sunday, Man on the Moon
• December 25 – Galaxy Quest, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Angela's Ashes
• December 29 – Fantasia 2000, The Hurricane
• December 31 – Purple Storm

Births [edit]

• July 30 - Joey King, actress
• August 22 - Dakota Goyo, actor
• October 15 - Bailee Madison, actress
• November 10 - Kiernan Shipka, actress

Notable deaths [edit]

Film debuts [edit]

• Amy Adams
• Zooey Deschanel - Mumford
• James Franco
• Hugh Jackman
• Angus T. Jones
• Ashton Kutcher
• Justin Long - Galaxy Quest
• Emily Osment - The Secret Life of Girls
• Amy Poehler
• Kristen Stewart

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• 1999: The Year That Changed Movies

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