Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Seong-kyu Han, Seong-kun Mun, Jae-yeong Jeong, Suk-kyu Han,
Directors : Chang-dong Lee,

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

Actors : Christien Anholt, Julie Graham, Tom Bell, Guinevere Turner,
Directors : Stuart Urban,

Minister on a moral crusade employs young computer whizzkid Peter to infiltrate the London S&M scene. Peter has to gather evidence of physical "assaults" in order for the Minister to ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Rebecca Facey, Helena Af Sandeberg, Steve Aalam, Paolo Roberto,
Directors : Peter Lindmark,

The suburb that is a society in a society, a place where young guys do anything for respect. A place where criminality and violence is a part of life. The movie is about Malik, a guy ...

Actors : Alyssa Milano, Justin Theroux, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Ice-T,
Directors : Kurt Voss,

Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother...

Actors : Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata, Machiko Ono, Jun Kunimura,
Directors : Naomi Kawase,

Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.

Actors : Tony Haygarth, Cal MacAninch, Rufus Sewell, Emily Woof,
Directors : Phil Agland,

The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she ...

Actors : Cláudia Abreu, Marieta Severo, Paulo Betti, José Wilker,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

The drama of a poor family in the bloodiest war in the History of Brazil: the war of Canudos.

Actors : Til Schweiger, John Hurt, Polly Walker, Pete Postlethwaite,
Directors : Maciej Dejczer,

In the start of the 1990s, the British government decided to send prisoners with short sentences to serve abroad. Some went to Romania, to serve in schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Some were brutal beasts.

Actors : Frank Whaley, William McNamara, Valérie Kaprisky, Natasha Gregson Wagner,
Directors : Josh Evans,

Traveling from the backwoods to Los Angeles to visit his cousin, a writer discovers a world of sex, drugs, crime and violence revolving around a beautiful young woman and her mobster boyfriend.

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, James Belushi, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Jack Ersgard,

The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Leonor Silveira, Jean-Yves Gautier, Diogo Dória,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in...

Actors : Sophie Niedergang, Nathalie Conio, Isabelle Carré, Philippe Harel,
Directors : Philippe Harel,

This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of Isabelle Carré's face. She is capable of changing her facial ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Glynis Barber,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Joanne Rha, Susan Rha, Matthew Barney,
Directors : Matthew Barney,

Actors : Jürgen Tarrach, Oliver Korittke, Ellen Ten Damme, Herbert Knaup,
Directors : Ralf Huettner,

Anticipating a major drug deal the Düsseldorf LKA (state police) conducts an observation of a flat in Cologne. The night shift in the camera-equipped camper is assigned to local police ...

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Frances O'Connor, Linden Wilkinson,
Directors : Cherie Nowlan,

The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.

Actors : Eric Mabius, Tara Subkoff, Chad Lindberg, Scott Bairstow,
Directors : Matthew Carnahan,

All-American Kyle is the newest initiate of the Black Circle Boys, an underworld society of gothic groupies whose primary interests are creating mayhem and studying the Occult. By the time ...

Actors : Alexandra Dahlström, Tove Edfeldt, Anna Gabrielsson, Emelina Lindberg-Filippoupoullou,
Directors : Christina Olofson,

Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, ...

Actors : Arco Descat C., Mustapha Ziad, Jean-Marie Robert, Malik Zeggou,
Directors : Jean-François Richet,

Young people and their chances of creating a loving life.