1997 Movies

Renee Tajima-Peña takes to the road to investigate questions about Asian-American identity.

Stand-up comedian Warren Hutcherson performs before a Broadway Studios audience in San Francisco.

In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.

The two friends Tuna & Fedai, who lead their lives with various mischief, decide to escape to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.

Kalyani (1997) is a Kannada drama directed by S. Narayan, starring Kumar Govind and Shilpa (Chippy). The plot revolves around a young woman who is raped by a man but subsequently succeeds in marrying him. It is a family drama focused on emotional conflict and...

A petroleum engineer from Texas travels to an oil operation in Central America where he clashes with his boss, romances two women, and finds himself caught in a guerrilla war.

Guerilla fighters take hostage twenty Korean workers in the Philippines. The Korean army dispatches five special unit agents to carry out a rescue mission. But when a mischievous computer hacker tampers with military computer records, five soldiers are sent to...

A patient dies beneath Dr. Robert Stenzel's hands. His wife, the virologist Simone, realizes too late that the deceased was carrying a contagious virus. Robert has long since been infected too. For Simone, a merciless race against time begins...

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An an in-depth look at the creation of Paul McCartney's new symphonic work, from the very beginnings of the piece through to the world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 14 October 1997.

This mythic love story set in a timeless, lavishly colorful and mystical Jerusalem incorporates hard rock, striking set design, computer-generated imagery and modern-day tensions between the secular and the Orthodox worlds. Hanan, a handsome young traveler - w...

U2 performs live in Mexico City in support of their 1997 album Pop.

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Li...

Trouble on the line for Percy, James, Thomas, Gordon, Henry, Edward, Harold, Duck, Annie, Clarabel, Donald, Douglas, Daisy, Toby, Mavis, Oliver, Sir Handel, George, Caroline and Stepney!

Tsukimi had just married Masao. One night, while they were having sex, Tsukimi received a call from her younger sister, Hanami, a high school student. Hanami told her that their eldest sister, Yukimi, had been divorced after her affair was discovered and she h...

It was a nightmare that shocked not only New York, but all of America. The public outcry about the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities resulted from Geraldo Rivera's expose on WABC after he had entered Willowbrook with a film cr...

Dusty wishes to propose marriage to Poppy. Wilfred and Primrose try to bring the couple together. Finally comes the day of the wedding. Unfortunately, Wilfred's blunder causes the wedding raft to drift down the stream, away from the bride.

The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev goes to the organization for help because his boss Br...