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Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The principal character, Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to
Home Alone 3
1997 film directed by Raja Gosnell
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 film directed by Jim Gillespie
Con Air
1997 film directed by Simon West
The Full Monty
1997 film directed by Peter Cattaneo
Cube
1997 Canadian independent science-fiction horror film by Vincenzo Natali
Cats Don't Dance
1997 film by Mark Dindal
The Peacemaker
1997 film directed by Mimi Leder
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997 American animated film directed by Andy Knight
Mouse Hunt
1997 film by Gore Verbinski
Perfect Blue
1997 film by Satoshi Kon
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
1997 film directed by John R. Leonetti
Spawn
1997 film by Mark A.Z. Dippé
Fire Down Below
1997 film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997 film by David Mirkin
Money Talks
1997 film by Brett Ratner
Addicted to Love
1997 film directed by Griffin Dunne
Vegas Vacation
1997 film directed by Stephen Kessler
Gummo
Gummo is a 1997 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine (in his directorial debut), and starring Linda Manz, Max Perlich, Jacob Sewell, Jacob Reynolds, Chloë Sevigny, and Nick Sutton. It is set in Xenia, Ohio, a Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town.
Bent
1997 film by Sean Mathias
The Brave
1997 film by Johnny Depp
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
1997 film
Albino Alligator
1996 film by Kevin Spacey
Switchback
1997 film by Jeb Stuart
Gridlock'd
'''''Gridlock'd''''' is a 1997 American crime black comedy drama film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall (in his directorial debut film), and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, and Thandiwe Newton. It follows two heroin addicts, who decide to kick the habit following the overdose of their bandmate. They confront the police and local criminals, while bureaucracy prevents them from entering a drug rehabilitation program. Curtis-Hall had a small role for the film. Shakur died four months before the film's release. The film's opening was relatively low, despite critical acclaim. It
'Til There Was You
1997 film directed by Scott Winant
Firelight
Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the woman gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father is the anonymous landowner. Filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, the film premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 Sep
La Vie de Jésus
1997 film by Bruno Dumont
Nil by Mouth
1997 film by Gary Oldman
Minsara Kanavu
1997 Tamil film directed by Rajiv Menon
Keys to Tulsa
1997 film by Leslie Greif
Eve's Bayou
1997 film by Kasi Lemmons
The Wax Mask
1997 film by Sergio Stivaletti
In the Company of Men
1997 film directed by Neil LaBute
Digging to China
1997 film by Timothy Hutton
That Darn Cat
1997 film directed by Bob Spiers
The Serpent's Kiss
1997 film by Philippe Rousselot
Chachi 420
1998 film by Kamal Haasan
Going All the Way
1997 film by Mark Pellington
Chicago Cab
1997 film by Mary Cybulski
The House of Yes
1997 film by Mark Waters
Suicide Kings
1997 film by Peter O'Fallon
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997 film by Kiefer Sutherland
Twin Town
1997 film by Kevin Allen
Strays
1997 film directed by Vin Diesel
The Hanging Garden
1997 film by Thom Fitzgerald
The Winter Guest
1997 film by Alan Rickman
Leave It to Beaver
1997 film by Andy Cadiff
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1997 film by Tom Schulman
Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997 film by Cherie Nowlan
A Smile Like Yours
1997 film by Keith Samples
Didier
1997 film by Alain Chabat
Bliss
1997 film directed by Lance Young
Soul Food
1997 film directed by George Tillman, Jr.
Snake Spring
1997 film by Nikolai Lebedev
Cold Around the Heart
1997 film by John Ridley
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997 drama film directed by Stephen Kay
Under the Skin
1997 film directed by Carine Adler
Traveller
1997 film by Jack N. Green
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997 film by Bart Freundlich