1997 Movies

This film was provoked by a trip on the overhead railway through the centre of Chicago in 1991. I filmed a twelve minute piece facing forwards in the...

Up-and-coming lawyer Sayoko Kirishima takes on the defense of Onodera, the suspect in a rape case involving a high school girl. Onodera, harboring an...

Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride...

An audiovisual journey through the strangest of Argentine cinema.

Sixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks...

1997 indie about friendship and soul music, starring Bill Cobbs, Zachary Throne, and Christine Cavanaugh.

François is 39, Muriel is 22... He is married, with a child, and lives comfortably. She is single and unattached. They meet by chance... He...

The evil Weather Man is intent on destroying New Metro City with a series of malevolent meteorological mishaps. Can the super-powered (and...

Haruka finds a cat in an abandoned building and names it "Nyan". Little does she know that this cat is actually "Ultra-Nyan" who has come from outer...

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination...

Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the...

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. After...

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first...

After witnessing the brutal murder of his family by a vicious killer, criminal psychologist Gregory Burroughs is engulfed with an obsession for...

A 15 minute short that teases a strange (and difficult to describe) feature that was never made. The story involves the Frank army and a caveman...

A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy...

A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.

Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the...

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

Documentary of the extraordinary Willie Nelson at home.

Valdeir is an insane coroner who takes pleasure in his work with corpses. Much gore and horror in short film Directed by Dimitri Kozma and Leonardo...

In this sensual horror tale, Paul Stevens is transported to a mysterious world where he is surrounded by strange and beautiful women, led by Tara...

An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a...

British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and...

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."

After failing school, 18 year old Irishman leaves his small town in Kerry to find work. In London, he finds a job at an oil refinery and befriends a...

Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a...

Quarreled sisters; Sarah and Wanda inherit property from their mother. It has always belonged to the family. Sarah insists on selling it as soon as...

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

Unhappy with her sexual life, Fa wants to seduce the handsome Jim. But after a romantic night she discovers the naked truth: Jim is a gangster!

A band of mercenaries are hired to combat a militia terrorizing a group of Mexican immigrants in a Texas border town.

When cholera-tainted shrimp from Mexico is served to people on a Los Angeles-bound plane, an outbreak ensues and a doctor sets out to find and...

In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.

Brain cells from a murdered woman are transplanted into an FBI agent, in the hopes of finding the killer.

A chance reunion in a cafe; a remembrance of a childhood acquaintance set against a vivid landscape of recollection.

Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six...

Wanna learn a little about the music industry? Mr. Bill Boggs answers your questions with Liz Phair, Yo La Tango, and kids just like you!

Shaw, an inveterate explorer and Willa, the headstrong daughter of a famous archaeologist, team up to search for a lost treasure described in an old...