Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Yi-Ching Lu, Tien Miao, Ann Hui, Kang-sheng Lee,
Directors : Ming-liang Tsai,

In Taiwan, Xiao-kang, a young man in his early 20s, lives with his parents in near silence. He is plagued by severe neck pain. His father is bedeviled by water first leaking into his ...

Actors : Traci Lind, Andie MacDowell, Bill Pullman, Rosalind Chao,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two ...

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

Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series "Shin Seiki Evangelion" (1995).

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 : Brandon Flynn Wells, Alan Douglas, Hermine Douglas, Anisa Dickens,
Directors : David D. Williams,

This film follows a year in the life of a young African-American girl as she turns 13. Temporarily running away from home to sort out her life, which of course sends her family and friends ...

Actors : Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Actors : James Gammon, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Jack N. Green,

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an ...

Actors : Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan, Romain Duris, Rona Hartner,
Directors : Tony Gatlif,

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Rockwell, Mischa Barton,
Directors : John Duigan,

When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.

Actors : Vincent Berry, Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley,
Directors : Sam Pillsbury,

A teenage Jesse and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.

Actors : Lela Rochon, James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Two corrupt cops murder an undercover DEA agent by mistake, and frantically try to cover their tracks by framing a homeless man for the crime. That involves juggling evidence, coaching ...

Actors : Miranda Otto, Frank Wilson, Pamela Rabe, Paul Chubb,
Directors : Samantha Lang,

Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much ...

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

A grand musical about three passionate and dreamy characters: Rahul, Pooja and Nisha. Will their dreams come true? Will they find their true love?

Actors : Homayoun Ershadi, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Abdolrahman Bagheri,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

Actors : Elizabeth Earl, Florence Hoath, Paul McGann, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Natascha McElhone,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

In 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an old suitor she had known 33 years earlier.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Alfred Molina, Sean Bean, Mia Kirshner,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.

Actors : Parker Posey, Alanna Ubach, Toni Collette, Lisa Kudrow,
Directors : Jill Sprecher,

The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Bodrov, Mariya Zhukova, Svetlana Pismichenko,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Actors : Nathan Bexton, James Duval, Chiara Mastroianni, Rachel True,
Directors : Gregg Araki,

Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.