Movies In 1997
Director: Sharon Baker
Stars: N/A
Great TV special that looks at origins and history and golden moments of DICK CLARKs AMERICAN BANDSTAND. PBS TV PLEDGE DRIVE...
Director: Greydon Clark
Stars: Trevor Clark, Travis Clark, Darby Hinton
Hunted by an alien tyrant intent on inter-planetary domination the young prince of a far away space kingdom seeks refuge on Earth. There he meets Brian a troubled boy who is more in touch with science fiction than reality. The...
Director: Mauro Cappelloni
Stars: Gianmarco Tognazzi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Luca Lionello, Cinzia Carrea
Gian Luigi is a young aggressive financial consultant in Roma. He manages a huge amount of money often without knowing who the owners are. He deposits his profits in Switzerland evading...
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Shô Aikawa, Shun Sugata, Chikako Kobayashi
A lawman Shô Aikawa works under cover to infiltrate the...
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Shô Aikawa, Itsumi Ôsawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he...
Director: Antonia Keeler
Stars: Tracie May-Wagner, Robert Donavan, Gabriella Hall
Romance novelist Kathleen Connell meets the suave Jack at one of her book signings. He asks for a date and she agrees. Through various mishaps their date is postponed twice and we are shown the erotic wanderings of Kathleens...
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Stars: Gabriella Hall, Robert Donavan, Landon Hall, Libby George
A masseuse/call-girl gets into trouble when she overhears a VIP client discussing criminal...
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stars: Friedrich von Thun, Christine Neubauer, Raphael Ghobadloo
A child chooses a German Shepherd puppy named Rex to help him overcome the recent divorce of his...
Director: John Keitel
Stars: Daniel Chilson, Niklaus Lange, Don Handfield
Griff wants to maintain just a superficial relationship with his all-gay boyfriend who gets seriously wounded in a gay...
Director: Masato Hara
Stars: Ryôko Hirosue, Kiyoshi Koga, Kichitarô Negishi
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time and taken over his body to infiltrate and study humanity to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He...
Director: Michael Davis
Stars: Joshua Schaefer, Keri Russell, R.D. Robb
Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and on the advice of his grandfather decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer or until she agrees to go out with him. His father is none too happy about the idea and...
Director: Attila Janisch
Stars: Mari Törocsik, Imre Csuja, András Fekete
A sudden decision launches a traveler into a wild adventure. Is there hope for the survivor or is he captive of the torrential rain of a harsh dark world? An old womans journey full of secrets and surprises is half the way...
Director: Thomas Arslan
Stars: Tamer Yigit, Savas Yurderi, Serpil Turhan
Erol Ahmed and Leyla live with their Turkish father and German mother in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Erol a petty criminal will save the family honor by completing his military service in Turkey. However he must first confront his loan...
Director: Björn Melander
Stars: Margaretha Krook, Lil Terselius, Ulph Bergman
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Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
Stars: Güven Kiraç, Haluk Bilginer, Derya Alabora
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another...
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi
Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate...
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Samantha
While waiting her husband return from a business trip a young woman with a baby is getting close with a strange woman...
Director: Michael Cordell
Stars: N/A
Year of the Dogs is a documentary detailing the turbulent 1996 season of the Australian Football League AFL team Footscray Football Club now Western...
Director: Joseph Dorman
Stars: Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe
A true story of four Jewish intellectuals born in New York and educated at City College during the 1930s and their divergent paths over the next six...
Director: N/A
Stars: Peta Wilson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer
A clandestine anti-terrorist organization fakes the death of a convicted murderer and trains her in the fighting skills necessary to succeed in her new...
Director: Bruno Barreto
Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres
Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now the diplomats life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors...
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Mare Winningham, David Andrews
During a heat wave a fireman hero/Charlie Sheen has it in for the family next door and whoever else bothers...
Director: Masashi Yamamoto
Stars: Ali Ahmed, Arata Furuta, Mika Kumagai
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of...
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt
Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always...
Director: Richard Gabai
Stars: Lana Clarkson, Liat Goodson, Kimberley Roberts
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway...
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Jun Toba
Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother killed in the...
Director: Hakaru Sunamoto
Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Nanako Matsushima, Miki Sakai
Kunihiko Morihara was left a widower eight years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Kunihiko is too shy to show his...
Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham, Jon Favreau
A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up but he is lucky to have supportive...
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Jayce Bartok
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming...