L.A. Confidential(1997)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.



Titanic(1997)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.



Face/Off(1997)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.



Boogie Nights(1997)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.



Men in Black(1997)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Chasing Amy(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.



Jackie Brown(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Donnie Brasco(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.



Wag the Dog(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.



Liar Liar(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time.



The Sweet Hereafter(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.



Hercules(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.



The Full Monty(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.



Gattaca(1997)

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Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.



The Ice Storm(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.



Contact(1997)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.



Air Force One(1997)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.




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