Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : John Hurt, Gregory Smith, David Strathairn, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

John Langer, a crusty old civic engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. With irreverent wit, he rattles on, in his irascible humorous style, burning his spicy stories into the ...

Actors : Tuncel Kurtiz, Nüvit Özdogru, Sahika Tekand, Mehmet Aslantug,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery ...

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, David Strathairn, Caroleen Feeney, Saul Rubinek,
Directors : Jonathan Kaufer,

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who ...

Actors : Floriano Peixoto, Fernando Torres, Lima Duarte, Leandra Leal,
Directors : Walter Lima Jr.,

A fantasy/mystery about the disappearance of a lighthouse owner and his daughter.

Actors : Fernando Gallardo, Nora Escobar, Rodrigo González, Armando Cavieres,
Directors : Andrés Wood,

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals.

Actors : Deborah Worthing, Karl Bury, Robert Patrick, Tom Poster,
Directors : James Seale,

A private investigator, mentally disturbed by his father's suicide, goes undercover in a mental institution to discover the murderer of a friend who was a doctor at the clinic.

Actors : Prakash Raj, Devayani, Raghuvaran, Pawan Kalyan,
Directors : Srinivasa Rao Bhimaneni,

Actors : Diogo Infante, Ana Bustorff, Joaquim de Almeida, Cristina Câmara,
Directors : Joaquim Leitão,

Father Antonio is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father Anthony is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful...

Actors : Ekin Cheng, Pinky Cheung, Chi Fai Chan, Jordan Chan,
Directors : Wai-Keung Lau,

The boss of the Hung Hing gang, Tian Sang, has died. Ho Nam and Hon Bun find Sangs younger brother, Yang to lead the gang. Meanwhile, Hon Bun receives news that his younger brother, a ...

Actors : Brianne Brozey, Brady Bluhm, Sakura Tange, Makoto Tsumura,
Directors : Yoshio Kuroda,

A small poor boy lives with his caring grandfather in a small Flemish village in the 19th century Belgium, has a lovable pet dog, loves art and dreams of becoming a famous painter one day. Based on a famous Flemish novel.

Actors : Billy Crudup, Adrienne Shelly, Paul Schulze, Frank Vincent,
Directors : Chris Kentis,

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. ...

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Armando del Río, Loles León,

In 1990s Spain, the strong friendship between a gay man and his female best friend is tested by his entering into a relationship with another man. The girlfriend, used to getting all the ...

Actors : Inés Sastre, Cinzia Mascoli, Dario Cantarelli, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her ...

Actors : Antzela Gerekou, Branislav Lecic, Lazar Ristovski, Ana Sofrenovic,
Directors : Darko Bajic,

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one ...

Actors : Aramis Trindade, Duda Mamberti, Chico Díaz, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos,

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.

Actors : Oliver Cotton, Nigel Davenport, Debra Beaumont, Guoan Bao,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of...

Actors : Leea Klemola, Rea Mauranen, Henriikka Salo, Elina Hurme,
Directors : Auli Mantila,

Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.

Actors : Omar Fanucci, Gabriela Salas, Mabel Dai, Gustavo Domínguez,
Directors : Víctor González,

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Actors : Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Scott Lee, Jimmy Smits, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Andrew Morahan,

A woman undergoes hypnosis to determine who murdered her husband, a crime for which she is the chief suspect.