1997 Movies

An ex-con's future is threatened by his brother's involvement with drugs.

A promotional video for the film “Death and Rebirth.” Released on January 25, 1997, it contains an overview of the series’ plot,...

Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special...

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the "Great Deliverer" by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the...

A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.

A nomadic young woman and other crew members struggle to survive aboard a delivery vessel caught in a violent storm.

An avant garde prison power struggle as witnessed through the point of view of the inmates’ only television set with the biggest troublemaker...

250 million years ago, a carnivorous species 'planted' a crop of humans on an uninhabited planet known as Earth. Now, the alien life form has...

A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the...

Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed...

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve...

Lee Lap Cheung is a immature slacker who is going nowhere. His ex-wife Yip Ting has become a powerful woman in the business world within a few years....

A woman is provoked by a loud neighbor in her New York apartment.

Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall....

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

The protagonist, Semyon, tries to unyoke himself from the enforced optimism of a bureaucratic order that prohibits any discussion of disappointment...

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first...

Translated as The Pleasures of Fetishism, the film eschews a traditional, narrative-driven storyline in favor of a vignette-style structure. It...

After a quiet fishing trip, Rockford is tricked into taking over a fellow PI's case involving alleged Police misconduct, which lands him in the...

The legendary live heavy metal concert filmed in Tokyo, Japan, featuring their Generation Swine-era lineup.

Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.

Legends is one of the most musically accomplished groups of all time. With Eric Clapton on guitar, Joe Sample of The Crusaders on keyboards, virtuoso...

Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is...

A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.

a queen seeks bloody revenge on the husband who betrayed her.

Henry Winkler stars as Jack, a stressed-out computer salesman who can't sell his company's defective product and can't take any more noise from his...

Barney takes the kids on his imaginary adventure bus ride to go some places including the castle, the pizza place, the horse ranch, and even the...

David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 1975 cult classic Trilogy of Terror.

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and...

Kasis Road lies just outside of town. It is a world of corrugated iron shacks, dirt roads, no electricity, fatherless children adn gangs of aimless...

An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends...

When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major...

Documentary focusing The Monkees, the 1960s pop group originally created for a TV sitcom. Interviews with the band members, the show's creators, and...

Mike is a burned-out bartender who gives Al a hard time because he is the new guy at the bar. Cal and Stu are regulars and keep getting into trouble...

This computer-animated mini-movie follows the adventures of an advanced alien race called the Phleig, who are searching for a mythical planet which...

A stylish, character driven drama that explores the life of a driven actor turned bartender whose world is coming apart as his career and personal...