Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Christiane Paul, Christina Papamichou, Ricky Tomlinson, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Wolfgang Becker,

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...

Actors : Gérard Meylan, Ariane Ascaride, Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts,
Directors : Robert Guédiguian,

Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator ...

Actors : Soundarya, Rajinikanth, Rambha, Jaishankar,
Directors : Sundar C.,

The movie revolves around Arunachalam (Rajini), who is the son of the VIP of a village who finds out about his past but destiny has its own play.

Actors : Cherry Jones, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks, Christian Slater,
Directors : Alan Wade,

Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out his reason for moving in frustration.

Actors : Augustine, Alleppey Ashraf, Kollam Ajith, Mohanlal,
Directors : Shaji Kailas,

A stranger comes to live in a small town and rapidly changes the local balance of power.

Actors : Amy Tam Ka-Chuen, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Sam Lee,
Directors : Fruit Chan,

Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.

Actors : Jacob Nordenson, Tintin Anderzon, Tuva Novotny, Oliver Loftéen,
Directors : Daniel Alfredson,

In a single night the paths of a random few are to cross which inevitably will seal their respective destinies. By dawn the city of Stockholm, though seemingly unchanged, to some is all very different - if they live to see it.

Actors : Nuno Vaz, Isabel Ruth, Vanda Duarte, Mariya Lipkina,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

The first film in Pedro Costa's transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal ...

Actors : Matthew Powers, Anna Levine, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tahnee Welch,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further ...

Actors : Antoine McLean, Mtume Gant, Shawn Elliott, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Morgan J. Freeman,

Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four ...

Actors : Eric Kot, Karen Mok, Stephen Chow, Chingmy Yau,
Directors : Joe Ma,

Chan Mong-Gut, a famous Chinese lawyer, who must defend his apprentice Foon, who got framed for murder, in court.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, Julian Wadham, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Robert Bierman,

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Ashish Vidyarthi, Raveena Tandon, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Guddu Dhanoa,

Omnipresent Bollywood acting dynamo Sunny Deol stars as Deva, the son of an honest lawyer (Anupam Kher) who lives with his brother, Aakash (Sachin Khedekar), and his beloved sister, Guddi (...

Actors : Jenny Lindroth, Johan Svangren, Christian Moscoso, Jonte Halldén,
Directors : David Flamholc,

A young racist man has been stabbed and inspector Falk gets the dirty job of solving the murder.

Actors : Suresh Gopi, Madhupal, Kaveri, Mohanlal,
Directors : Rajiv Anchal,

Situations turn a man who believes in secularism into an extremist. He plots to bomb a monastery where the survivors of a riot take refuge.

Actors : Lena Endre, Peter Dalle, Johan Ulveson, Suzanne Reuter,
Directors : Peter Dalle,

Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.

Actors : David Thewlis, Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Paul Chart,

Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Romane Bohringer, Olivier Martinez, Didier Bezace,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to ...

Actors : Joseph Vijay, Shalini, Manivannan, Kaka Radhakrishnan,
Directors : Fazil,

Jeevanandhan "Jeeva" (Vijay) is a very rich young man. Although his parents (Sivakumar and Srividhya) want him to settle down, he goes to another city to do his MBA and stays with friends. ...

Actors : Debbie Harry, Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus, Paul D'Amato,
Directors : Adam Bernstein,

Eighteen-year-old mothers' son Harry (he lives with his overprotective mother Kate) shows his cruel side at one occasion and is hired as hitman/enforcer by the Jewish mob.