1997 Movies

An insight into life in the small Russian town of Borovichi.

"Batas Militar" is a definitive documentary about martial law under the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam...

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version...

When a renowned New York photographer and her new husband arrive for a holiday in a close-knit Jamaican resort town, their dream vacation becomes a...

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the...

One room, one man, common everyday actions. But what is happening here? Can someone explain it to me?… Continuity.

A bored motel clerk and his buddies go for a little joy ride in a woman's car. They don't realize until it is too late that she is a paid assassin...

Pepe Mujica, now a member of the Uruguayan parliament, and others of the Tupamaros recount the history of this urban guerrilla group: their use of...

Tragedy set in a public pool.

A lush, evocative dance video, featuring Alvin Erasga Tolentino. Light/dark, simple/complex, birth/death.

While visiting his sister, a man falls in love with a local girl. Problems arise when another suitor enters the picture. The matter worsens further...

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...

Balagopalan a coffee shop owner in a remote village gets an orphan girl- maya. she helps him in the shop and becomes dear with her neat and smart...

On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their...

Four sisters feel neglected since their father is more appreciative of their brother. But then what do they say about daughters being for their...

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out...

Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.

Short B&W haunted house film. Released on the DVD extras of Campfire Tales (1991)

They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town,...

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...

A documentary filmmaker sets out to reveal the dark underbelly of Oakland, CA. Due to very unexpected discoveries, he and his crew find themselves...

The magic box is finally destroyed.

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

Plagued by strange dreams, a young architect in New York takes a hotel design job in India in the hopes of finding an explanation. When he arrives,...

An alien searching for a human specimen for an intergalactic zoo gets more trouble than he bargained for in this family adventure.

A sixteen-year-old boy, who had thought that his father's death was an accident, suspects otherwise when he receives a ten-year-old lost letter his...

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...

FBI agent Kate Mason, an expert in martial arts, becomes the main target for a gangster, after she kills one of his closest employees.

People are trapped in a solitary building of infinite corridors and rooms where there appears to be no exit yet perhaps it is all part of an...

For more than nine hours, Francis Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melts.

Landscape film, The Ultraworld (1997) marks a certain break. The artist demonstrates the ability of the film device to transform the perception of a...

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his...

Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country...

British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and...

A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.