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Good Will Hunting
1997 film by Gus Van Sant
Contact
1997 film by Robert Zemeckis
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
Seven Years in Tibet
1997 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Amistad
1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Boogie Nights
1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Edge
1997 film by Lee Tamahori
Taste of Cherry
1997 film directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Children of Heaven
1997 film directed by Majid Majidi
Dante's Peak
1997 film by Roger Donaldson
Lolita
1997 film by Adrian Lyne
The Peacemaker
1997 film directed by Mimi Leder
The Rainmaker
1997 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Conspiracy Theory
1997 film by Richard Donner
Kundun
Kundun is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (known also as Kundun), the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. A grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while the Dalai Lama's niece Tencho Gyalpo appears as his mother.
Affliction
1997 film by Paul Schrader
Funny Games
1997 film by Michael Haneke
Character
1997 film directed by Mike van Diem
Selena
1997 film directed by Gregory Nava
Volcano
1997 film by Mick Jackson
The Ice Storm
1997 film by Ang Lee
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 film by Atom Egoyan
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 film directed by Clint Eastwood
The End of Evangelion
1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno
The Eel
1997 film directed by Shōhei Imamura
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997 family film directed by Sam Pillsbury
Mrs. Brown
1997 film by John Madden
Robinson Crusoe
1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
1997 film directed by Hideaki Anno
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 film directed by Bille August
The Boxer
1997 film by Jim Sheridan
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.
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997 film by Michael Winterbottom
Bent
1997 film by Sean Mathias
The Brave
1997 film by Johnny Depp
Hamam
1997 film by Ferzan Özpetek
A Thousand Acres
1997 film by Jocelyn Moorhouse
Destiny
Egyptian film 1997
The Apostle
1997 film by directed by Robert Duvall
One Night Stand
1997 film directed by Mike Figgis
Ishq
1997 film by Indra Kumar
Lawn Dogs
1997 film by John Duigan
Made in Hong Kong
1997 Hong Kong film by Fruit Chan
All Over Me
1997 film directed by Alex Sichel
Paradise Road
1997 film by Bruce Beresford
Secrets of the Heart
1997 film by Montxo Armendáriz
The End of Violence
1997 film by Wim Wenders
Ulee's Gold
1997 film by Victor Nuñez
La Vie de Jésus
1997 film by Bruno Dumont
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
Mother and Son
1997 film by Alexander Sokurov
Border (1997 film)
Border is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language epic war film written, produced and directed by J. P. Dutta. Set during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, the film is based on the events of Battle of Longewala (1971). It stars an ensemble cast of Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar, Sudesh Berry and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in pivotal roles, along with Tabu, Pooja Bhatt, Rakhee Gulzar, Sharbani Mukherjee, Sapna Bedi and Rajiv Goswami.
Artemisia
1997 film by Agnès Merlet
Barbara
1997 Danish-Norwegian-Swedish film directed by Nils Malmros
Nil by Mouth
1997 film by Gary Oldman
The Truce
1997 film by Francesco Rosi
Kini and Adams
1997 film directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo
Eve's Bayou
1997 film by Kasi Lemmons
Mandela and de Klerk
1997 film by Joseph Sargent
Digging to China
1997 film by Timothy Hutton