1997 Movies

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover...

A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle,...

Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find...

A strange flying being has arrived in a remote town in Mexico, carelessly flying too low, crashes into a pole, and damages its wings. So he must...

A runaway human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present day.

A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she is going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of...

Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a...

The movie shows a true to life story related to a common run Indian family, where the esteem of a family is held in high regard. The story is an...

Another XX film. This time about a stalker who wears black.

A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong...

Whichever side he chooses, someone's gonna die. Death row inmate Rudy Salazar cuts a deal he can't refuse: he'll donate his rare bone marrow to a...

The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from...

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 over heels...

Austin Powers presents his own kind of shagadellic swinging shindig courtesy of MTV to promote his movie, Austin Powers International Man of Mystery....

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from...

A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.

An Eros drama about the shocking sexual experiences of ordinary women, based on a live-action version of the popular section of “Weekly Asahi...

Every Monday evening, at the arena, eleven men get together to lovingly put on the jersey of the Boys, the hockey team of a "garage" league to which...

In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of...

Norman joins forces with government agents stop a madman seeking to rule the world by controlling the human libido with a strange machine.

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

A Filipino police story about Mariano Mison one the head of bureau who investigated the Vizconde massacre.

Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black...

Jamie is a makeup artist for a local bikini contest on the beautiful South Beach of Miami. Her life appears to be falling apart when her boyfriend...

Undercover cop Doyle is working on a serial killer case that's left a trail of dead transvestites. Then, moonlighting as a private eye, Doyle and his...

FBI agents attempt to protect a woman who is testifying against her gangster boy friend. However, an army of assassins are after her in an endless...

When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of...

Horror documentary with interviews to William Friedkin, Stan Winston, John McNaughton, Tom Holland and Ridley Scott.

Chrysty walks through the desert carrying nothing and heading nowhere. She enters a very small town called Silver City. The local community of women...

Indie director Jim Jarmusch lenses a low-tech tribute to protean rocker Neil Young and his long-standing band, Crazy Horse. Stitched together from...

Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in “Oz: The American Fairyland” (1997) (V), tells about his experience making an...

They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being harassed by a firm on nasty lawyers. An encounter...

Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a...

We follow the Newman-Haas (Andretti) racing team through the process of building, testing, and racing for a season. This includes extensive race...

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...

WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails...

This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's...

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily...