100 English films of 1998 ranked by box office. #1: Armageddon ($553.7 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | $140 million | $553.7 million | 3.96x | |
| 2 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | $70 million | $482.3 million | 6.89x | |
| 3 | Godzilla | Roland Emmerich | $125 million | $379 million | 3.03x | |
| 4 | There's Something About Mary | Peter Farrelly | $23 million | $369.9 million | 16.08x | |
| 5 | Deep Impact | Mimi Leder | $75 million | $349.5 million | 4.66x | |
| 6 | Dr. Dolittle | Betty Thomas | $71.5 million | $294.4 million | 4.12x | |
| 7 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | $25 million | $289 million | 11.56x | |
| 8 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Richard Donner | $140 million | $285.4 million | 2.04x | |
| 9 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | $60 million | $264 million | 4.40x | |
| 10 | Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | $90 million | $250.8 million | 2.79x | |
| 10 | You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | $65 million | $250.8 million | 3.86x | |
| 12 | The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell | $95 million | $250.3 million | 2.63x | |
| 13 | Patch Adams | Tom Shadyac | $50 million | $202.3 million | 4.05x | |
| 14 | City of Angels | Brad Silberling | $55 million | $198.7 million | 3.61x | |
| 15 | The Waterboy | Frank Coraci | $23 million | $190.2 million | 8.27x | |
| 16 | The X-Files | Rob Bowman | $66 million | $189.2 million | 2.87x | |
| 17 | The Horse Whisperer | Robert Redford | $60 million | $187 million | 3.12x | |
| 18 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Randall Wallace | $35 million | $182.9 million | 5.23x | |
| 19 | Six Days Seven Nights | Ivan Reitman | $65 million | $164.8 million | 2.54x | |
| 20 | Stepmom | Chris Columbus | $50 million | $159.8 million | 3.20x | |
| 21 | Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | $90 million | $142.9 million | 1.59x | |
| 22 | Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | $80 million | $136.1 million | 1.70x | |
| 23 | Blade | Stephen Norrington | $45 million | $131.2 million | 2.92x | |
| 24 | A Perfect Murder | Andrew Davis | $60 million | $128 million | 2.13x | |
| 25 | The Wedding Singer | Frank Coraci | $18 million | $123.3 million | 6.85x | |
| 26 | Star Trek: Insurrection | Jonathan Frakes | $58 million | $118 million | 2.03x | |
| 27 | The Siege | Edward Zwick | $70 million | $116.7 million | 1.67x | |
| 28 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | Brett Leonard | $14.5 million | $104 million | 7.17x | |
| 29 | Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma | $73 million | $103.9 million | 1.42x | |
| 30 | U.S. Marshals | Stuart Baird | $45 million | $102.4 million | 2.28x | |
| 31 | Kiss the Girls | Gary Fleder | $27 million | $100 million | 3.70x | |
| 32 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | $52 million | $98.1 million | 1.89x | |
| 33 | Ever After | Andy Tennant | $25 million | $98 million | 3.92x | |
| 34 | Practical Magic | Griffin Dunne | $75 million | $94.4 million | 1.26x | |
| 35 | Mercury Rising | Harold Becker | $60 million | $93.1 million | 1.55x | |
| 36 | The Parent Trap | Nancy Meyers | $15 million | $92.1 million | 6.14x | |
| 37 | The Negotiator | F. Gary Gray | C$50 million | $88 million | ||
| 38 | Small Soldiers | Joe Dante | $40 million | $87.5 million | 2.19x | |
| 39 | Everest | Greg MacGillivray | $87 million | |||
| 40 | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Danny Cannon | $24 million | $84 million | 3.50x | |
| 41 | Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | $30 million | $82 million | 2.73x | |
| 42 | Hope Floats | Forest Whitaker | $30 million | $81.5 million | 2.72x | |
| 43 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | $48 million | $77.7 million | 1.62x | |
| 44 | What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | $85 million | $75.4 million | 0.89x | |
| 45 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Steve Miner | $17 million | $75 million | 4.41x | |
| 46 | Sphere | Barry Levinson | $80 million | $73.4 million | 0.92x | |
| 47 | Urban Legend | Jamie Blanks | $14 million | $72.5 million | 5.18x | |
| 48 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | $55 million | $70.7 million | 1.29x | |
| 49 | Babe: Pig in the City | George Miller | $90 million | $69.1 million | 0.77x | |
| 50 | Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | $20 million | $67.9 million | 3.40x | |
| 51 | Wild Things | John McNaughton | $20 million | $67.2 million | 3.36x | |
| 52 | Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | $6 million | $67 million | 11.17x | |
| 53 | The Faculty | Robert Rodriguez | $15 million | $63.2 million | 4.21x | |
| 54 | A Civil Action | Steven Zaillian | $75 million | $56 million | 0.75x | |
| 55 | Great Expectations | Alfonso Cuarón | $25 million | $55.5 million | 2.22x | |
| 56 | Waking Ned | Kirk Jones | $3 million | $55.3 million | 18.43x | |
| 57 | The Avengers | Jeremiah S. Chechik | $60 million | $54.7 million | 0.91x | |
| 58 | Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | $65 million | $52.1 million | 0.80x | |
| 59 | Bride of Chucky | Ronny Yu | $25 million | $50.7 million | 2.03x | |
| 60 | Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood | $90 million | $50.6 million | 0.56x | |
| 61 | Pleasantville | Gary Ross | $60 million | $49.8 million | 0.83x | |
| 62 | The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen | $15 million | $48.3 million | 3.22x | |
| 63 | The Object of My Affection | Nicholas Hytner | $15 million | $46.9 million | 3.13x | |
| 64 | Knock Off | Tsui Hark | $35 million | $44.1 million | 1.26x | |
| 65 | The Replacement Killers | Antoine Fuqua | $30 million | $39.5 million | 1.32x | |
| 66 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $20 million | $39.2 million | 1.96x | |
| 67 | Psycho | Gus Van Sant | $60 million | $37.2 million | 0.62x | |
| 68 | Jack Frost | Troy Miller | $40 million | $34.6 million | 0.87x | |
| 69 | Blues Brothers 2000 | John Landis | $30 million | $32.1 million | 1.07x | |
| 70 | A Night at the Roxbury | John Fortenberry | $17 million | $30.3 million | 1.78x | |
| 71 | Mafia! | Jim Abrahams | $10 million | $30.1 million | 3.01x | |
| 72 | Madeline | Daisy von Scherler Mayer | $20 million | $30 million | 1.50x | |
| 73 | Bulworth | Warren Beatty | $30 million | $29.2 million | 0.97x | |
| 74 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | £800,000 | $28.1 million | ||
| 75 | Dark City | Alex Proyas | $27 million | $27.2 million | 1.01x | |
| 76 | Holy Man | Stephen Herek | $60 million | $27 million | 0.45x | |
| 76 | The Big Hit | Kirk Wong | $13 million | $27 million | 2.08x | |
| 78 | Paulie | John Roberts | $23 million | $26.9 million | 1.17x | |
| 79 | One True Thing | Carl Franklin | $30 million | $26.6 million | 0.89x | |
| 80 | An Argentine in New York | Juan José Jusid | $25.8 million | |||
| 81 | Can't Hardly Wait | Deborah Kaplan | $10 million | $25.6 million | 2.56x | |
| 82 | Fallen | Gregory Hoblit | $46 million | $25.2 million | 0.55x | |
| 83 | Summer of the Monkeys | Michael Anderson | $20 million | $24 million | 1.20x | |
| 84 | American History X | Tony Kaye | $20 million | $23.8 million | 1.19x | |
| 85 | Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | $1.5 million | $23.7 million | 15.49x | |
| 86 | The Players Club | Ice Cube | $5 million | $23.3 million | 4.66x | |
| 87 | Rounders | John Dahl | $12 million | $22.9 million | 1.91x | |
| 87 | Beloved | Jonathan Demme | $80 million | $22.9 million | 0.29x | |
| 89 | He Got Game | Spike Lee | $25 million | $22.4 million | 0.90x | |
| 90 | Very Bad Things | Peter Berg | $30 million | $21 million | 0.70x | |
| 91 | Vampires | John Carpenter | $20 million | $20.3 million | 1.02x | |
| 92 | Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | $70 million | $19.9 million | 0.28x | |
| 93 | Species II | Peter Medak | $19.2 million | |||
| 94 | Who Am I? | Jackie Chan | $19 million | |||
| 95 | The Odd Couple II | Howard Deutch | $18.9 million | |||
| 96 | Simon Birch | Mark Steven Johnson | $20 million | $18.3 million | 0.92x | |
| 97 | Disturbing Behavior | David Nutter | $15 million | $17.5 million | 1.17x | |
| 97 | Half Baked | Tamra Davis | $8 million | $17.5 million | 2.19x | |
| 99 | Rushmore | Wes Anderson | $9 million | $17.1 million | 1.90x | |
| 100 | 54 | Mark Christopher | $13 million | $16.8 million | 1.29x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.