Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Linus Roache, Helena Bonham Carter, Alex Jennings,
Directors : Iain Softley,

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Actors : Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A 25 year old female White House staffer, Carla Town, is murdered in the White House. D.C. homicide detective Regis is assigned to investigate, only to find evidence suppressed by the ...

Actors : Frank Langella, Dominique Swain, Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.

Actors : Larenz Tate, Will Patton, Kevin Costner, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Kevin Costner,

A nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America.

Actors : Jon Voight, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Matt Damon,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Jonathan Mostow,

A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.

Actors : Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Nia Long, Michael Beach,
Directors : George Tillman Jr.,

One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.

Actors : Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dillane, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near...

Actors : Susanne Lothar, Frank Giering, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Actors : Mark Watson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christopher Walken, Denis Leary,
Directors : Peter O'Fallon,

A group of youngsters kidnap a respected Mafia figure.

Actors : Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock,
Directors : Richard Kwietniowski,

Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. ...

Actors : John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer, Meg Ryan,

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.

Actors : Lara Tosh, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Jacob Reynolds,
Directors : Harmony Korine,

Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Matthew Perry, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gómez,
Directors : Andy Tennant,

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, John Travolta,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A disgruntled security guard holds a school trip group hostage, while a news reporter forms a bond with him.

Actors : Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, Mary McCormack,
Directors : Betty Thomas,

The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...

Actors : Maria Porter, Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak,
Directors : Hal Hartley,

Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talentless novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the ...

Actors : Gaby Hoffmann, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Mick Jackson,

A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.