1997 Movies

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

Business executive Odile seeks a new, larger apartment. Her younger sister Camille, having completed her doctoral thesis in history, is a Paris tour...

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...

The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the good-looking Yannis, to the barbecue party in the...

Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and Flo (Mercedes Ruehl), the "batter" person on the...

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil...

Mad science runs in her family, but Hikaru has always been an ordinary girl. It’s a dream come true when she discovers that she’s really...

The setting is 1960s Hong Kong, and righteous reporter Ching On (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) publishes an article exposing corruption in the police force....

It’s been 16 years, and finally the Diary ends, an unintended ending that visits familiar territory.

A Cantonese librettist enjoys immense popularity over the course of decades, followed by decline.

A man tries to commit suicide for the love of his goldfish, but finds it surprisingly difficult to accomplish.

When cholera-tainted shrimp from Mexico is served to people on a Los Angeles-bound plane, an outbreak ensues and a doctor sets out to find and...

In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.

Brain cells from a murdered woman are transplanted into an FBI agent, in the hopes of finding the killer.

A chance reunion in a cafe; a remembrance of a childhood acquaintance set against a vivid landscape of recollection.

Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six...

Wanna learn a little about the music industry? Mr. Bill Boggs answers your questions with Liz Phair, Yo La Tango, and kids just like you!

Shaw, an inveterate explorer and Willa, the headstrong daughter of a famous archaeologist, team up to search for a lost treasure described in an old...

Review of Glasgow Rangers season 1996/97 when they won nine in a row.

The second short film to feature the character of Derek Zoolander, shown at the 1997 VH1 Fashion Awards.

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of...

Already suffering fiscal and emotional bankruptcy after a car crash shatters his life, young Van finds himself in a vacuum when his buddies go off to...

Told from the perspective of a returning native, Witch City is an uncompromising documentary about Salem, Massachusetts, a town that put the phrase...

When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger,...

A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday...

The desperate misadventures of a young man, racing against the clock toward a mysterious destination. This was the first short film that Nash wrote...

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his...

In our vision of the future, everyone has received a neuronal interface, also called a brainchip. This chip enables direct mental interaction with...

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

An unexpected surprise awaits dinner guests.

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.