1997 Movies

Independent films that do not have a less than 20 years history. They do not have lost hope and passion despite repeated conflicts and ups and downs....

Riko, a suicide-obsessed young woman meets up with K, an angry young man whose dream is to blow out all of existence. Together they join up with...

A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the...

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap...

Vaudeville is a 1997 PBS documentary under its American Masters program. Using film clips and photos, the art and history of vaudeville (1890-1930s)...

Maasilamani, a dreaded don, spreads terror around him: triggering riots, smuggling illicit liquor and drugs. The police are exasperated by...

"Eyes of the Rainbow" deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given...

A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades...

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the...

"The Vengador", always concerned about society and mainly about young people, is like a father to Saul and Robert. He always guides them on the right...

This film describes a feeling of longing, longing for sun, longing for salt, and longing for the sea.

The parents of five sisters have been married for forty years; the daughters have gathered in the family beach house to make a video for them. The...

Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at...

Set on a modern kibbutz, as the spectre of an Arab invasion lurks in the backgroun,d and financial pressures are breaking down traditional communal...

Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the...

Housuke Atami is dating Shizuka, the hottest girl in school, but it's just a platonic relationship. He and his friend Shinohara channel their...

The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore,...

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...

After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her...

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...

Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After...

Short film made in 1997 while David Gordon Green was attending the North Carolina School of Arts that formed the genesis of his feature film debut,...

Darcy is back on the force, but still fights on as the Black Scorpion because "it's in her nature." This time, she fights Gangster Prankster; and a...

With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is...

Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage.

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the...

A Yorkshire miner tells the animated tale of his life down the pit.

A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a...

The court has given custody of Emma Hayes' child to the baby's father, a man who raped Emma when she was only fifteen years old. It's up to the...

In the Barrio there's one way in...no way out. When a young man is arrested for dealing drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some...

Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his...

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."

The inhabitants of a Spanish village gather for the visit of a death defying tightrope walker. He comes with his own attractive aura of danger and...

A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering...

This film considers the subject of HIV and AIDS from a variety of different viewpoints. On the one hand using textual material in both English and...

When a young couple loses all of their money at a casino, the husband performs certain "favours" in order to work the debt off, while his wife is...

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,...