Best movies of 1997

Titles indexed: 175

Titanic

Rating: 7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mothe...

Lolita

Rating: 7.1

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes ...

Men in Black

Rating: 7.2

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to mo...

RocketMan

Rating: 5.2

An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in...

Hercules

Rating: 7.5

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Z...

Anna Karenina

Rating: 6.1

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer V...

Bloodmoon

Rating: 6.7

Ken O'Hara is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer intent on killing the strongest fighters in New...

Hoodlum

Rating: 6.4

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the sca...

Air Bud

Rating: 5.6

A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their ...

Turbulence

Rating: 5.4

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As va...

Con Air

Rating: 6.8

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailb...

Toothless

Rating: 5.3

A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be...

Batman & Robin

Rating: 4.4

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Fr...

Face/Off

Rating: 7.1

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The p...

Contact

Rating: 7.4

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the me...

Anastasia

Rating: 7.6

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of...

Star Kid

Rating: 6.4

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong ...

Running Time

Rating: 5.6

Carl, a career criminal, receives an early release from prison and immediately begins preparations for his next big heist....

Boogie Nights

Rating: 7.6

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to eleva...

The Game

Rating: 7.6

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present ...

Bombshell

Rating: 3.7

Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good....

Scream 2

Rating: 6.5

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new s...

Anaconda

Rating: 5.3

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — a...

Hameshaa

Rating: 6.6

Two close friends, Yash and Raja, share a passion for cars and beautiful women. Both come from different backgrounds, while Yash is wealthy,...

Switchback

Rating: 6.0

After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes...

Gattaca

Rating: 7.6

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of...

XXL

Rating: 4.0

Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Ma...

Event Horizon

Rating: 6.6

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years bef...

Flubber

Rating: 5.7

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of ...

Mimic

Rating: 6.1

A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creat...

Volcano

Rating: 5.9

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volca...

Dante's Peak

Rating: 6.2

Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is n...

Kiss the Girls

Rating: 6.5

Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "C...

Steel

Rating: 4.3

When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fea...

Air Force One

Rating: 6.5

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly...

Home Alone 3

Rating: 5.3

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concea...

Liar Liar

Rating: 6.7

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours....

Motel Blue

Rating: 3.3

Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a background check on Lana Hawking, scientist fo...

Alien Escape

Rating: 2.5

Cindy and her beautiful friends are on vacation when they are assaulted by a ruthless gang of aliens attempting to take control of Earth. Th...

Picture Perfect

Rating: 5.9

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a ma...

Good Burger

Rating: 6.1

Two L.A. teens with summer jobs at Good Burger try to save their small restaurant when a corporate giant burger franchise moves in across th...

Wishmaster

Rating: 6.1

The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal...

Nowhere

Rating: 6.8

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfri...

Lost Highway

Rating: 7.5

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossib...

Didier

Rating: 6.1

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Did...

Funny Games

Rating: 7.3

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one anot...

Cure

Rating: 7.5

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo....

Grind

Rating: 4.7

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for ...

Kiss or Kill

Rating: 4.1

Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them...

Taste of Cherry

Rating: 7.7

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city,...

G.I. Jane

Rating: 6.5

In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration...

The House of Yes

Rating: 6.2

Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even mo...

Periya Thambi

Rating: 0.0

Siva lives with his father Soundarapandian, a police officer, and his little sister Geetha. Geetha gets engaged and Siva notes that his fath...

Murder at 1600

Rating: 6.1

A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investiga...

The Love Bug

Rating: 5.7

The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new leas...

Assassin(s)

Rating: 6.3

Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionles...

Brittle

Rating: 6.0

The parents of five sisters have been married for forty years; the daughters have gathered in the family beach house to make a video for the...

The Saint

Rating: 6.1

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor...

Sharpe's Revenge

Rating: 7.1

Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on b...

Nothing to Lose

Rating: 6.6

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief w...

Pressure Point

Rating: 2.1

A CIA assassin is embroiled in a deadly game across two continents. Betrayed and imprisoned, he faces one last mission to regain his freedom...

Double Team

Rating: 5.2

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms d...

The Truce

Rating: 6.1

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war a...

Soul Food

Rating: 6.2

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivic...

Border

Rating: 6.5

Amidst the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a company of 120 Indian soldiers stationed at the border region of Longewala in Rajasthan must defend their po...

Traveller

Rating: 5.6

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 firs...

Wild America

Rating: 6.1

Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes ...

Lawn Dogs

Rating: 7.1

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperatel...

Insomnia

Rating: 7.0

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arre...

Ishq

Rating: 6.3

The children of two wealthy businessman fall in love with someone from a poor background, much to their parents' disapprovals....

Masterminds

Rating: 5.3

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school ...

On Guard

Rating: 6.7

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful re...

The Blackout

Rating: 5.8

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon ...

Fall

Rating: 6.3

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head ov...

Asteroid

Rating: 5.8

With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can...

Fierce Creatures

Rating: 6.2

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets...

Defying Gravity

Rating: 5.9

Popular frat guy Griff, the ultimate boy next boy, has a great big secret... Pete. Given an ultimatum by Pete, Griff goes the straight route...

Twisted

Rating: 0.0

Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost...

Intensity

Rating: 6.9

Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, ...

Dusting Cliff 7

Rating: 4.6

In this action adventure, a former hit woman comes out of retirement to rescue her daughter from kidnappers. The child's abductors demand th...

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