Drama Movies of 1997
A Thousand Acres
A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
In the Gloaming
Actor Christopher Reeve made his directorial debut with this dramatic made-for-cable movie about the effects of AIDS on a family. Robert Sean Leonard stars as Danny, a son who returns home to his parents to be with ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mad City
Investigative TV journalist Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) suffers setbacks and winds up filing routine reports from Madeline, California. Max and his eager intern Laurie (Mia Kirshner) are doing ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Affliction
Nick Nolte and James Coburn deliver some of the finest work of their respective careers in this powerful but troubling adaptation of Russell Banks' novel. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is the sheriff in a small New England town; it's a part-time ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Alone
A lonely man receives some not entirely welcome attention from his children in this drama written by Horton Foote. John Webb ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Night Falls on Manhattan
A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Washington Square
This film is the second effort to bring to the screen the 1880 Henry James novel of the same title (the first was The Heiress in 1949). Set in 1850 among the aristocracy of New York, Washington ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Ice Storm
Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
She's So Lovely
Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Chinese Box
Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
First Do No Harm
When the youngest son of a rural Midwestern family is ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Oliver Twist
Produced for television by Disney, this production of the often filmed Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist stars Elijah Wood as the Artful Dodger and Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin. The ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Paradise Road
Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. (Glenn Close) stars as Adrienne Partiger, a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Wilde
Literary genius, legendary wit, bon vivant, and gay martyr, Oscar Wilde was a man whose legend has grown to iconic proportions since his death at the beginning of the 20th century. Establishing Wilde (Stephen ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Miss Evers' Boys
Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Amistad
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Eye of God
Ainsley Dupree (Martha Plimpton) is a short-order cook at a diner in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a country town in the middle of nowhere. Lonely and bored, Ainsley becomes pen pals ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Le Jour et la Nuit
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Last Stand at Saber River
Tom Selleck stars as a Confederate soldier who finds himself at a crossroads, in this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Swept From The Sea
Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Oscar and Lucinda
Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Rainmaker
Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Good Will Hunting
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Only Thrill
In this drama about love and how it can go wrong, Reese McHenry (Sam Shepard) is the owner of a clothing store who, in 1966, ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Drunks
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Lolita
Adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962), Lolita stars Jeremy Irons as ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
I Love You, I Love You Not
Funded by the Ford Foundation, a one-act play by Wendy Kesselman about a teenage ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Family Rescue
Deserted by her no-good mother Angie (Ally Sheedy), Emma Baker (Rachael Lee Cook) has been raised by her grandfather, a tough but compassionate ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Myth of Fingerprints
A family is torn between their need to air out their dirty laundry and their habit of sweeping things under the rug in this emotional drama. Hal (Roy Scheider) and Lena (Blythe Danner) are a successful but emotionally frosty New ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
One Night Stand
A man's brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Wings of the Dove
Based on the 1902 Henry James novel of the same name, The Wings of the Dove is set in 1910. After the death of her mother, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter) has become a ward of her wealthy Aunt Maude ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Locusts
A young drifter unexpectedly wanders into a maelstrom of bizarre sex and shameful secrets in this drama. With a mere seven dollars to his name, Clay Hewitt (Vince Vaughn) ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The End of Violence
Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
G.I. Jane
Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Obsession
In order to solve a family mystery, John, a stonemason from Zimbabwe, travels to Berlin to search for 1928 footage of a tightrope walker at Niagara Falls. While there, he ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Lost Highway
Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Rod Serling's sobering drama, originally shown on Playhouse 90, is re-made in this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Riot in the Streets
This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette "Gold Mountain," directed by ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Rosewood
Rosewood is the true story of an almost unknown incident in a small Florida town, (fictionalized, but faithful to the known facts, as documented in a 1994 report by the Florida Legislature). The town was ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
While Neal Cassady never gained fame as a writer, he was a pivotal figure among the Beat poets and novelists of the 1950s. A close friend ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Welcome to Sarajevo
A startling examination of the Bosnian war of the mid-1990s and the role of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
American Perfekt
In this noir-influenced road movie, Jake (Robert ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Subway Stories
Subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of distinct vignettes made by ten of Hollywood's top directors and featuring some of Tinseltown's most popular actors. The episodes are based on real stories ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Deacon Brodie
A man raised in a prominent family turns out to have a few vices not everyone knows about ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Hostage High
An angry and unstable youth lashes out against the school he believes has destroyed his future in this made-for-TV drama inspired by a true story. Jason Copeland (Rick ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
JAG: Season 02
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JAG: Season 03
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The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
In this tough contemporary noir drama, Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a low-level "mechanic" working for second-rate ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Inventing the Abbotts
The lives of two closely linked, small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama set in the 1950s, based on a short story by Sue ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
James Dean: Live Fast, Die Young
Toluca Lake newspaper owner Mardi Rustam is the producer of this biographical drama about James Dean (Casper Van Dien), re-creating Dean's romance with Pier Angeli (Carrie Mitchum, granddaughter of Robert Mitchum) and depicting ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Boxer
Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Jane Eyre
This made-for-TV feature was the tenth screen adaptation of the classic Gothic romance by ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Apostle
Devout Pentecostal preacher Eulis "Sonny" Dewey (Robert Duvall) of New Boston, Texas, has a lovely wife (Farrah Fawcett) and two children. But not only has Jessie been cheating on him with a younger minister, Horace (Todd Allen), ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Happy Together
Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Silent Cradle
A woman must look past her personal misfortune to uncover a greater tragedy in this thriller. Helen ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Truce
Italian chemist turned author Primo Levi was ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
ER: Season 04
Season four of ER opens with the famous "live" episode, which was originally telecast in "you are there" documentary fashion (with two separate stagings, one ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
One Eight Seven
A dedicated educator loses his passion for teaching as he struggles to survive in this tense ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Lawn Dogs
A young girl finds friendship on the wrong side of the career tracks in this drama. Camelot Gardens is a "gated community" where wealthy people can purchase luxurious (if sterile) homes and a security force ensures that riffraff will be kept away ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Red Corner
The strong anti-China beliefs of actor and political activist Richard Gere were evident in this Hitchcockian thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of that country's legal system. Gere stars as Jack Moore, ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Gun, A Car, A Blonde
A man discovers that his fantasies and his real life are beginning to look a lot alike in this drama. Richard (Jim Metzler) is battling cancer of the spinal column, and while it's ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mrs. Dalloway
This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
First Time Felon
In this drama, a young drug dealer is sent to a strict and difficult boot camp in hopes that discipline and self-confidence will help him create a better life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Seven Years in Tibet
Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Driftwood
A woman who skirts the edges of madness finds love, but under deceptive circumstances, in this drama from Ireland. Sarah (Anne Brochet) is a lonely sculptor who lives near the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Blackout
Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Kid
Rod Steiger stars in this story about Jimmy, a young man who has both ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Dangerous Ground
In this drama, a South African exile returns to his homeland to find that justice hasn't brought peace. Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) is a student and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Dogtown
A failed actor discovers how little it takes to be a V.I.P. in a small town -- and what can happen when you abuse that small amount of fame -- in this independent drama. Philip Van Horn (Trevor St. John) left his tiny ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
En Brazos de la Mujer Madura
A teenage boy comes of age at the hands of several older women while searching for his mother. Based on a best-selling novel by Stephen Vizinczey ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
River Made to Drown In
Richard Chamberlain plays a dying man trying to tie together the loose ends of his past in this melodrama. Thaddeus (Chamberlain) is in the last stages of AIDS, and he's determined to live out his final days in the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Sweet Jane
Drug user Jane (Samantha Mathis) lives on the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Don King: Only In America
This biographical drama about boxing impresario Don King (Ving ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Christmas Memory
Made for television, A Christmas Memory is adapted from the wistful short story by Truman Capote, previously filmed in 1967 as a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Octogenarian film director Manoel de Oliveira travels autobiographical avenues in this portrait of a film director Manoel (Marcello Mastroianni) who is shooting on ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Prefontaine
This biographical sports drama is the true story of an Olympic runner whose life ended tragically short. Jared Leto stars as Steve ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Deja Vu
Los Angeles store owner Dana (Victoria Foyt) is shopping in Israel where a meeting with a mysterious woman leads her to Paris and the White Cliffs of Dover, an appropriate spot to fall in love with English ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Brooklyn State of Mind
For the past two decades, small-time gangster Al (Vincent Spano) has been deeply troubled by the murder of his father and secretly desires to go straight. Al and his volatile partner Nicky (Ricky Aiello) work for crooked real estate developer ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
When Innocence Is Lost
In this socially-conscious drama, a single mother attempts to go to school. Because she places her daughter in daycare she finds herself in a legal custody battle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Levitation
In this independent drama, Sarah Paulson stars as Acey Rawlin, a troubled teenager who discovers that she's pregnant after spending a night with a man she had just met. Acey has few friends to confide in, and her most trusted ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
Mickey Rourke once again climbs the slippery slope of the erotically extreme in this sequel to 1986's 9 1/2 Weeks. It's been several years since John (Mickey Rourke) parted company with Elizabeth (the character played ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Santa Fe
During a confrontation with a Wyoming cult, Santa Fe cop Paul Thomas (Gary Cole) saved his wife, daughter, and others but also caught a SWAT sniper's bullet, leading to eight months of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The X-Files: Season 05
Now five years into their partnership, FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Miracle in the Woods
When Wanda (Patricia Heaton) and Sarah's (Meredith Baxter) mother dies and the estranged sisters inherit the family pecan grove, their conflicting plans for the future of the property are complicated by the appearance of a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Eve's Bayou
A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Oz: Season 01
Seen mostly through the eyes of wheelchair-bound prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), who serves as narrator and "tour guide," the first season of Oz begins with the establishment of a "prison within a prison" on Cell Block 5 of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Education of Little Tree
Richard Friedenberg scripted and made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Forrest ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Fireworks
Actor and auteur Takeshi Kitano (who in Japan also uses the stage name "Beat" Takeshi, primarily for his work as a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Winter Guest
Adapted from a stage play by Sharman McDonald, this film marks the directorial debut ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
In the Company of Men
Two frustrated young executives vent their pent-up rage via a childish prank and end up paying a price in this psychological black comedy, the feature-film debut of writer-director Neil LaBute. Former ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Princess Stallion
Following the death of her mother, a young Californian teen is sent to the Scottish highlands to live with her father. It is a wild, lonely place and her one friend is a hermit who has devoted his ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Red and the Black
Produced for French television, this two-part screen adaptation of the classic novel by Henri Beyle Stendhal concerns two women and the price they pay for loving a man eager to climb the ladder of elite society. ~ Mark Deming, All ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Goodbye America
This United States/Philippine co-production examines how the real-life closing of the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay profoundly effected both the local Filipino community and the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mrs. Brown
The ruler of England discovers the value of common friendship in this historical drama. After the death of her husband Prince Albert, Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) is despondent, and she remains in mourning for two years after Albert's ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
King Lear
Ian Holm delivers an Emmy-nominated performance in this filmed adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tragedy King Lear. From director Richard Eyre (Stage Beauty), the film traces ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Butcher Boy
Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Woodlanders
British documentary filmmaker Phil Agland turned to drama with this re-creation of Thomas Hardy's rural Wessex of the late 19th century, adapted from Hardy's 1887 novel. In the woodland Wessex community of Little Hintock, laconic woodsman ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Song of Hiawatha
This screen adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Nil by Mouth
A working class British family struggles with their demons -- sometimes violently -- in this intensely emotional drama that ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Eel
Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's beloved pet eel. The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Artemisia
This historical drama is based on the true story ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Love, Murder and Deceit
In this television movie, with a husband too engrossed in his business to attend to her intimate needs, what's a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Internationally known actress Geraldine Chaplin offers a moving portrayal of one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarians. This made-for-television miniseries ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Underground
A police detective on the trail of the man who killed his partner and best friend is teamed up ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Gupt
Bollywood heartthrob Bobby Deol stars in this musical drama as an innocent man charged with killing his father. Though he did not commit the crime, circumstantial evidence suggests he may have been involved, and the young man is ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Hamish MacBeth: Series 03
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Selena
Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Last Breath
Luke Perry stars in this surprisingly moving adult drama about a devoted husband whose wife (Francie Swift) is dying of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Inheritance
Forbidden love between a beautiful orphan and an eligible upper-class bachelor sparks jealousy and deceit in the family that took her in as a child ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Ulee's Gold
Peter Fonda received a richly deserved Oscar nomination for his superb performance as Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson, a Florida beekeeper forced to put his splintered family back together. Ulee is a Vietnam ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Four Days in September
Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Historie Milosne
Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
My Neighbor's Daughter
In this drama, a much-older banker embarks upon a forbidden love affair with an adolescent girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Behind the Lines
This period drama was based on the Booker Prize-winning ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Junior's Groove
In this Canadian film, overweight piano prodigy Junior Brown (Martin Villafana) searches for a piano because his goofy mother (Lynn Whitfield) severed the strings on the family piano. Since paranoid Miss Peebs (Margot ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
This engrossing made-for-television feature examines the circumstances leading up to and the aftermath of the badly botched 1993 bombing of the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
All the Winters That Have Been
It has been 20 years since Federal agent Dane Corvin (Richard Chamberlain) left his home town of Raven ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Passion in the Desert
Loosely based on a story by Honore de Balzac, this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Mill On the Floss
Graham Theakston directed this Hugh Stoddart adaptation of the 1860 George Eliot novel about the strong ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story
The real-life story of Olympic diver Greg Louganis is chronicled in this made-for-television drama. Mario ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Martin (Hache)
Upon learning that his estranged son in Buenos Aires may have attempted suicide by mixing ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Blood Oranges
In this erotic drama, a couple who have devoted themselves to sexual freedom discover that their open relationship may have led them into dangerous waters. Fiona (Sheryl Lee) and Cyril (Charles Dance) are a married ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Cenizas del Paraiso
This Argentine drama begins with the suicide of respected judge Costa Makantasis ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Proposition
A fiercely proud, high-born 19th-century Welsh widow finds herself in desperate need of quick cash ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
Based on Jon Krakhauer's harrowing account of folly and tragedy on the slopes of the world's highest ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Profiler: Season 02
Season Two of the quasi-paranormal crime drama Profiler begins with the resolution of the Season One cliffhanger, as psychic forensic specialist Sam Waters (Ally Walker) takes charge of the Violent Criminal Task Force while supervisor ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Strays
Rick (Vin Diesel) is a gang boss who deals drugs and commits petty crimes by day, ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Black Circle Boys
In this teen-oriented horror movie, Kyle (Scott Bairstow) is a high school swimming champion who sinks into a depression after the accidental death of his best friend. When his parents, Ken (Bruce Burkhartsmeier) ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Carreteras Secundarias
Near the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1974, impoverished yet optimistic salesman Lozano (Antonio Resines) travels the Spanish coast in a Citroen with his rebellious teenage son Felipe (Fernando ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Perfect Body
Throughout her life, young gymnast Andie Burton (Amy Jo Johnson) has dreamed of going to the Olympics, and there isn't ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Two Small Voices
The story of two average women who refused to be silenced and intimidated by the company who manufactured their silicone implants is detailed in this inspirational docudrama starring Mary McDonnell and Gail O' Grady. Sybil ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Prison of Secrets
This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a female prison inmate who fought for women's rights while still behind bars. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as Lynn Shaffer, a wife and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Hanging Garden
Ten years after he disappeared from his family's life, Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns home to Nova Scotia for his sister's wedding. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Lost Paradise
Veteran director Yoshimitsu Morita spins this romantic melodrama that was originally written by Junichi Watanabe and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Made Men
Don Close made his feature directorial debut with this drama about a trio of working-class Italian-Americans in Queens. The tale begins with childhood misadventures and then leaps ahead to show their adult lives two decades later -- with ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Echo
As youngsters, twin brothers Max and Steven survived the car ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Men With Guns
A powerful political allegory set in an unnamed Latin American country, Men With Guns concerns Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi), an elderly physician long involved with a group that trains young people to ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Love Reinvented
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of short vignettes. The film is designed as ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
States of Control
Music video cinematographer Zack Winestine made his debut as a writer and director with this deeply psychological drama about an angst-ridden New York City woman, Lisa (Jennifer Van Dyck), who embarks on a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Girl Called Rose Marie
A remake of the highly-regarded 1958 film Das Maedchen Rosemarie (released as Rosemary in the U.S.), this fact-based drama follows the rise and fall of a German beauty who went from ex-convict to courtesan of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Fall
In this romantic comedy drama, a mismatched couple (who aren't as mismatched as they believe) are brought together by fate and have to decide if they should stay together. Sarah (Amanda DeCadenet) leads a charmed life: She's a supermodel ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Sticky Fingers of Time
Writer-director Hilary Brougher, during a four-week Super-16mm shoot, made her directorial debut with this low-budget time-travel tale about '50s journalist-novelist Tucker Harding (Terumi Matthews), author of The Sticky Fingers of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Das Schloß
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El Tiempo De La Felicidad
In 1970, a dysfunctional family spends the summer in Ibiza on the southern coast of Spain. Julia (Veronica Forque) is married to adulterous Fernando (Antonio Resines), who ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Next Year in Jerusalem
Orthodox Judaism and alternative sexualities collide in this drama about the clash between ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Blackrock
The Australian coastal community of Blackrock goes into an uproar after the badly beaten, gang-raped corpse of a 15-year-old girl is discovered after an all-night beach party goes out of control. As the moral outrage ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Witman Fiuk
Outwardly Janos and Erno Witman seem like typical middle class teens, ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
God of Gamblers 3: The Early Stage
A prequel to the two previous entries in the God of Gamblers saga, this drama follows the apprenticeship of the unbeatable cardsharp Ko Chun. The story begins as his stepfather Kent, one of the world's greatest gamblers, enters ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Secrets of the Heart
A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him spark his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama from writer-director ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The River
Tsai Ming-Liang's The River, the Taiwanese master's third feature, opens with a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mr. Vincent
A man's new passion for an old love reveals his dark side in this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Frozen
This film represents a powerful statement by prominent Sixth Generation filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai who bills himself as Wu Ming (it means "no ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mother and Son
With a visually stunning, quiet intensity, director Alexander Sokurov awakens the senses to the world of nature, human ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Yellow
This independent debut film for writer-director Chris Chan Lee follows the adventures of a group of eight L.A. teenagers on the last night before their high ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Waiting for the Man
John Covert directs himself in the starring role of a Chicago mobster, Andrew Martel, in this violent crime drama. Covert wrote the script and also edited and produced this film, his first independent feature. Comparisons to Francis Ford ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Lena's Dreams
How long can a grown-up hold on to her childhood dreams? That's the question posed in this independent drama. Lena (Marlene Forte) is an actress who has just turned 32, and she doesn't feel especially ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Saint Lucifer
Featuring a story that closely parallels the Indian revolt in the Mexican state of Chiapas that occurred in the mid 1990s, this politically correct drama chronicles the uprising of the Nahuatls against the oppressive criollos, wealthy rulers of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Steam: the Turkish Bath
Tired of his troubled marriage and his profession, an overly tense Italian ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Little Shots of Happiness
Frances is an upholder of the public order in the daytime: she is a skip-tracer and credit-collection specialist. She is married to a mentally unstable man, and doesn't find enough in his companionship to meet her ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Drive
Three Canadian boys are riding around in a car one long winter night on a weekend, looking for fun. One of the boys, Jim, is a loud-mouthed fellow, and is not happy to see his ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Floating
While he takes care of his legless, alcoholic father, Van spends a lot of time haring around with his wild friends Flip and Jason, stealing from the summer homes of the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Prince of Homburg
During the Thirty Years War between Germany and Sweden in ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Character
This dark drama from the Netherlands won the 1998 Academy Award for ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Life of Jesus
This French coming-of-age movie marked the debut of writer-director Bruno Dumont. The film bears ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Taste of Cherry
Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, The Taste of Cherry is the venerable Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's examination of life, death ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Maachis
A film that will be most meaningful to those familiar ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Defying Gravity
A typical frat rat has a secret lurking in his closet in this ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Winter Sleepers
Winterschlaefer (Winter Sleepers) is the sophomore effort from German director Tom Tykwer, released a year before Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) won him international acclaim for its unique look and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Soccer Stories
This anthology contains three short stories that celebrate the Chilean people and the sport that is their national obsession, soccer. The first tale "Don't Fall for That" takes place in Santiago and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
El Color De Las Nubes
Though her son is doing his best to force her out of the beloved country house, the stubborn and feisty Lola refuses to leave as she and Clementina (her niece) are trying to adopt a Bosnian war orphan. Opportunistic ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Dancehall Queen
In this Jamaican melodrama, single mother Marcia (Audrey Reid) works as a street vendor to support her two daughters. However, she also needs the financial assist of "Uncle" Larry (Carl Davis), who demands ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Journey to the Western Xia Empire
Screenwriter Lu Wei turned director with this $1 ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Kokkuri
Co-scripting with Kishu Izuchi, director Takahisa Zeze based this film on a 1970s Japanese teen cult which led schools to prevent students from holding supernatural rituals. This teen interest in spiritualism still surfaces ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Mandragora
After failing in school and fighting with his father, 16-year-old Marek (Mirek Caslavka) flees his village for Prague, where he's attacked at the train station. Offered work, he's taken to an apartment, drugged, and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Never Look Back
Jill (Nicole Freeman) flees New Smyrna, Florida, and boyfriend Keith (Chris Sery), in hopes of a new life as a Miami fashion model in South Beach. With advice and support from drag ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Life According to Muriel
This Argentine family drama follows the misadventures of nine-year-old Muriel (Florencia Camiletti) and her mother Laura (Soledad Villamil). Problems with men send Laura on the run, so ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
El Agujero
With a minimal budget ($50,000), 28-year-old Beto Gomez made ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Big Empty
Former NYU film-school collaborators, director Jack Perez and actor-writer James McManus, made this private-eye tale on a budget of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Tamas es Juli
Quiet and reserved kindergarten teacher Juli (Marta Angyal) and awkward coal miner Tamas (David Janosi) meet during the summer in a small coal-mining town. This ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Motel Seoninjang
Room 407 in a Seoul "love hotel" is rented by the night or by the hour. Four sequences take place inside Room 407: a ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Rizal In Dapitan
First in an announced trilogy, this biographical drama from the Philippines looks back at the life of multi-lingual ophthalmologist Jose Rizal, who wrote against colonial rule and ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Confessions of a Lap Dancer
In this drama, an exotic dancer's morally dubious actions lead authorities to take away her daughter. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Short 1: Invention
The first installment of this magazine on DVD compiles a variety of short subjects. Highlights include Some Folks Call It A Sling Blade, directed by George Hickenlooper; an interview with filmmaker Michael ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Theft Under the Sun
Ma Yuk-shing and Bruce Law Lai-yin direct this high-budget crime thriller about undercover cop Leung Ka-ho (Julian Cheung Chi-lam). Ever since Leung's mission to ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Junichi Suzuki spins this three-hanky tearjerker about a plucky high school girl cut down in the bloom of youth by the dreaded -- and, in Japan, rarely discussed -- AIDS virus. Akiko Sonoda (Akane Oda) returns to her ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Better Place
A young man discovers that friends can quickly become enemies -- and the transformation can have dangerous consequences -- in this independent ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Bramwell: Series 03
Jemma Redgrave returns as determined young physician Eleanor Bramwell in this five-part miniseries, the third in the popular Bramwell series. Set in London before the dawn of the 20th century, Dr. Bramwell's work among the less privileged ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Ain't Misbehavin'
Robson Green and Jerome Flynn headline this musical comedy drama set during the 1940 Blitz of London, and following the exploits of unlikely friends Eddie Wallis (Flynn) and Eric Trapp ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
One Take
In this independent drama, Kevin (Jamison Selby) is still ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
La Furia
An artist whose eyesight was damaged by the ruling despotic regime finds his sons torn in two opposing directions by the powers that be in Haute Tension director Alexandre Aja's ambitious feature debut. ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 05
Another Homicide: Life on the Street regular bids goodbye to the ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
The Fire That Burns
As World War II looms close on the horizon, a Catholic boys' school on the edge of Paris sets the stage for a tale of forbidden desires in this religious drama ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Wind at My Back: Season 02
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7th Heaven: Season 02
With most of the problems that faced them in season one behind them, the Camden family welcomes season two of ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
Going to School with Dad on My Back
A father who has placed his hope for future generations on the shoulders of his bright young son attempts to help the young boy straighten ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
A Yakuza in Love
Rokuro Mochizuki's A Yakuza In Love tells the tale of a brutal gangster who discovers a softer side when he ... [ Drama movie - 1997 ]
