Action Movies of 1997
Air Force One
In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union, Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Con Air
Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Batman & Robin
This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Face/Off
The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Black Mask
Martial arts star Jet Li donned a black hat and mask to portray a comic book superhero in this pulp action tale that gets the full-blown Hong Kong treatment from choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who later ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Conspiracy Theory
Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a New York City ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Most Wanted
Actor-comedian-talk show host Keenen Ivory Wayans stars in his own action thriller screenplay about a war hero who becomes the fall guy in a frame-up. During the Persian Gulf War, U.S. ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Fire Down Below
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Indications were that this action sequel was in trouble ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Asteroid
Michael Biehn and Annabella Sciorra star in this drama about how the lives of a group of people in Dallas, TX -- doctors, firefighters, astronomers, ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Batman Superman Movie
If given the chance, would Batman have the hots for Lois Lane? Would Lex Luthor get along well with The Joker? And what, if anything, would be left for Robin to do? All these questions and more are answered in this ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Against the Law
A policeman with personal problems finds himself an unexpected hero, making him the target of a psychotic killer in this action thriller. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Turbulence
Airplane travel is a precarious thing at best, and ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Rage
This silly, over-the-top action film has a great hammy performance by Gary Busey as the insane leader of a militia group intent on revenge against the government for doing psychotropic experiments on them after Vietnam. Busey also had his ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Volcano
Disaster visits jaded L.A. in the form of an underground volcano, not the big earthquake all the citizens expect. Shot on the largest set ever constructed in the U.S., in nearby Torrance, California, ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
R.P.M.
Love and larceny travel the same road in this high-speed comedy-thriller. Luke (David Arquette) is a car thief who is sent to an auto show in France with a special assignment -- to steal the RPM, ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Plato's Run
When a vicious arms smuggler (Roy Scheider) abducts his daughter, an ex-Navy Seal (Gary Busey) rounds up a cadre of skilled mercenaries to ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Peacekeeper
This well-wrought Canadian direct-to-video actioner (in large part a knock-off of the Die Hard series) stars Dolph Lundgren as a maverick American Air Force pilot who ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Demolition University
In this youth-oriented action adventure, two college athletes take on the terrorists ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Saint
Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Strip Search
This silly Canadian action film concerns a cop named Robby (Michael Paré) hired by a mysterious woman, Sela (Caroline Neron), to find her missing sister. Not only does Sela have two different-colored eyes, but she may have actually once been the ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Peacemaker
The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Metro
Eddie Murphy once again finds himself exchanging both wisecracks and gunfire in this comic ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Raven
Originally made for and aired on the Movie Channel, but then released to video, this action thriller features Burt Reynolds as a mercenary who gets revenge upon the quartet of corrupt government officials who send ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Crash Dive
In this suspenseful actioner, former Navy SEAL James Carter (Michael Dudikoff) is called back to duty when terrorists high-jack an American submarine armed with nuclear weapons and threaten to blow up the U.S. if their demand for $100 ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Vanishing Point
A Desert Storm veteran with a 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger and a need for speed incurs the wrath of authorities when he makes a cross-country dash to be by the side of his ailing, pregnant wife in this ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Mean Guns
In this crime drama, a crime boss ponies up $10 million to the winner of a gunfight to be held in a derelict correctional ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 05
Season five of Walker, Texas Ranger finds unsmiling, karate-kicking Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) settling accounts with all manner of criminals and lowlifes, aided and abetted by his partner, Ranger Jimmy Trivette ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
The Bad Pack
Ralph Moeller and Roddy Piper star in this action drama about a team of soldiers of fortune hired to defend a small town after an underground militia ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Double Team
Like John Woo and Ringo Lam before him, noted Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark made his American filmmaking debut with a thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. For this film, Hark also ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Heaven's Burning
A runaway Japanese bride finds herself alone in Sydney, Australia when her lover fails to show up to save her from her husband, and she ends up on an off-road adventure with a handsome getaway driver while fleeing gangsters, cops ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Mr. Nice Guy
Mr. Nice Guy opens on a darkened Australian warehouse full of seedy criminal types who have gathered to make a large-scale drug transaction. When it goes horribly wrong and bullets start ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Dead End
Eric Roberts stars in this drama about a police detective who is investigating the murder of a police sergeant's ex-wife. When he uncovers a ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Kickboxing Academy
Steven Bauer stars in this action drama of a school for kickboxing whose students are challenged by kids from a rival martial-arts academy. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Ultimate Weapon
Pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan stars in this action-packed drama as a ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Just when you thought the game was over, along comes the second movie inspired by the popular video game Mortal Kombat. While Liu Kang (Robin Shou) led his warriors Princess ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Operation Cobra
In this espionage actioner, an angry Interpol operative scours India in search of the one who blew up his partner. ~ ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Perfect Target
In this action thriller, a mercenary uses every trick he knows to save his lover from the clutches of a South American dictator. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Velocity Trap
In this sci-fi adventure, an honest cop is given an assignment that will supposedly keep him out of trouble, but it soon lands him in a maelstrom of ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Skyscraper
In this high-flying, suspenseful actioner, a routine helicopter charter turns into a life-or-death situation when the pilot lands on a ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Young and Dangerous 3
Andrew Lau Wai-keung spins this third installment of the popular Young and ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Based on the hit children's television series The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this film ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Deadful Melody
Ng Min-Keng spins this kung-fu revenge fantasy featuring Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia. As a ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
First Option
A volatile man with a tendency to use liquor to cool his temper and the leader of a police commando unit, Don Wong is in the midst of a psychological evaluation when he and his team are forced to team up with a bungling customs ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Legend of the Wolf
Chinese-American martial arts performer Donnie Yen directed, co-scripted, and stars in this tale providing ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Beyond Hypothermia
Patrick Leung directed this bloody Hong Kong thriller about a nameless hitwoman (Jacqueline Wu) who, for reasons not entirely clear and never fully ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Ko Dou Gai Bei
After his Hollywood debut (Maximum Risk), Hong Kong ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Operation Delta Force II: Mayday
In this action thriller, a group of terrorists take over an ocean liner with 3,000 passengers on board, but what the bad guys don't know is that the captain of the ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Battle Arena Toshinden
While many American films inspire video games and other merchandise, this animated feature, like many from Japan, is based on the popular series of video games called Battle Arena Toshinden. Because the Toshinden video game is ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Gangster World
Theme parks. Millions visit them every year to have fun and live out their ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Mahjong Dragon
Corey Yuen Kwai and David Lai Tai-wai team up once again to direct this yarn ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
G4: Option Zero
In this action-packed Hong Kong crime thriller, Ai (played by Cheung ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Tokyo Revelation
Based on a video game called Digital Devil Story, ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Hawk's Vengeance
Martial arts star Gary Daniels plays a British police officer who travels to Canada in search of the men who killed his brother, and soon runs afoul of a violent crime syndicate. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Scorpion's Revenge
The women's prison film Scorpion's Revenge tells the tale of Nami, who, as the film begins, is sentenced to life in prison. The brutal activities inside the prison are masterminded both by a warden and ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Lifeline
A group of Hong Kong firefighters struggle to come to terms with ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Tidal Wave: No Escape
A madman learns how to control the oceans for his own purposes, and two very different scientists band together to stop him in this made for TV disaster ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Zero Woman: The Hunted
In this installment of the sexy action-packed Zero Woman film series, the scantily clad heroine is on the run from an opposing corporation out to even the score. Mikiyo Ono stars as Rei, a undercover Zero ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Berserk [Anime Series]
Gatts is a man with nothing left to lose. He is a brilliant fighter with no allegiances to anyone and so he is an easy target to be forced into a band of ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Full Impact
Marc Messenger's thriller Full Impact stars Gary Daniels as T.J., a tough-guy bounty hunter who becomes involved ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Sara
A hard-boiled bodyguard and his street-smart charge find their professional bond turning intensely personal as they take to the road to fight for their lives in this slick ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
AK-47 Temible Cuermo De Chivo
The Mexican film AK-47 Temible Cuermo De Chivo takes its premise from a popular song. The title weapon helps turn a shoeshiner into one of the most feared marksmen of his time, but he uses his skills for evil ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Dos Colimbianos
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El Guero Estrada
Take a remarkable look into the mind of one of Mexico's ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Full Metal Yakuza
Japanese horror auteur Takashi Miike directed this bizarre, ultra-violent variation on Robocop. ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
Kunoichi: Deadly Mirage
In this period martial-arts action outing, Hiroyuki Watanabe stars as a warrior-for-hire whose latest assignment is to use his sword to lay waste to Japan's ... [ Action movie - 1997 ]
DragonBall Z: Namek Saga
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DragonBall Z: Frieza Saga
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DragonBall Z: Fusion Saga
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Carga Blanca
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La Rubia y la Morena
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