Best Mystery movies of 1997

Actors : Masaaki Ôkura, Junko Iwao, Shinpachi Tsuji, Rica Matsumoto,
Directors : Satoshi Kon,

A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger, Tim Roth, Chris Penn,

Textile company heir Wayland is accused of murder of a prostitute named Elizabeth, whose body was found cut in two in the park. The murder is investigated by tough detective Kennesaw and ...

Actors : Gisken Armand, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Mathiesen,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.

Actors : Sarah Lassez, Matthew Modine, Béatrice Dalle, Claudia Schiffer,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

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 that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.

Actors : Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Betty Schuurman, Fedja van Huêt,
Directors : Mike van Diem,

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Actors : Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Megumi Ogata,

A recap of the first 24 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, followed by a 30-minute continuation of the plot that would later form the first third of The End of Evangelion.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

The film tells the story of Russian emigree, and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall, and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and...

Actors : Toby Stephens, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Emily Woof,
Directors : Nick Willing,

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in ...

Actors : Frank Gorshin, Shelley Duvall, Pascale Bussières, Alice Krige,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, ...

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Rachael Leigh Cook, Stanley Tucci, Wendy Crewson,
Directors : William Bindley,

Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but ...

Actors : Daniel Kuzniecka, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Marcelo Piñeyro,

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who...

Actors : Eric Acsell, Blake Pickett, Jacqueline Lovell, Everett Rodd,
Directors : Cybil Richards,

The action heats up when history's most memorable icons come to life for an amorous meltdown in this interactive "please touch" museum.

Actors : Terele Pávez, Ruth Gabriel, María Barranco, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Agustí Villaronga,

Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village. She learns that he was conducting ...

Actors : Tomoka Kurotani, Rena Komine, Kotomi Kyôno, Tadanobu Asano,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Bus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

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 : Paul-Ottar Haga, Sina Langfeldt, Sofie Gråbøl, Martin Slaatto,
Directors : Trygve Allister Diesen,

Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern ...

Actors : Judy Thompson, Jack Becker, Kim Yates, John Logan,
Directors : Rick Blaine,

Michael and Janie are a pair of young grad students living together on a quiet college campus. One day, Janie discovers that Michael has been cheating on her. She walks out on him, only to ...

Actors : Annabel Schofield, Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Damian Chapa,
Directors : Skott Snider,

Twins Martine/Georgine dupe a love-stricken executive (Martin) into helping them steal $5 million from Georgine's husband.

Actors : Tim Abell, Max Goldberg, Cory Lane, Tane McClure,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

When a man's wife dies, the new executive of his company makes a move. Though they know that sexual relations could cause problems, that does not stop them.

Actors : Johnny Keatth, Mellara Gold, Elina Madison, Landon Hall,
Directors : Eric Gibson,

When a mysterious incident nearly claims the life of a beautiful actress during rehearsals for her upcoming play, everyone deduces that her ambitious understudy, Elizabeth (Mellara Gold), ...