Movies: 1997

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 the street....

Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal....

Victor gets released from jail upon proving his innocence to a crime he didn't commit. Concerned that he might meddle again, the real crooks give him hell on the outside....

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree an...

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard....

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests. Pedro, cruelly hurt, pursues the single-minded purp...

MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN is an experimental film in the form of a scientific documentary. A "remake" of the documentary film of the same name by Poudovkin (1926) on the work of Pavlov. Mechanics of the Brain presents 25 vignettes in 21 minutes, with an...

Frank Sinatra's beginnings in Hoboken New Jersey, and how he discovers his passion for singing. We see as Sinatra performs with various groups and bands, eventually working toward performing solo. These are also the years Sinatra develops his unique ...

Aahaa is a 1997 Tamil film directed by Suresh Krishna starring Rajiv Krishna and Sulekha in the lead roles. The film was a commercial success....

Tim Ormond's short drama starring June Ormond in which two women meet under extraordinary circumstances....

Yoko quits her job to study abroad, and after returning to Japan, she works at a movie theater. By chance, she meets her former colleague Eiji again, and although she lives a repetitive life, she starts dating him, but she begins to wonder if she rea...

After being persuaded by his uncle to join the police force, a previously carefree man gains a newfound appreciation of the seriousness of the job and makes a commitment to make a positive impact for himself and his fellow officers....

Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends...

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... ...

Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be tr...

In the spirit of Eaten Alive: A Tasteful Revenge, Dawn Murphy makes Dave Castiglione small....

A mountain lion escapes from animal trainers in Hollywood....

Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku d...

In 1932, the shadow of war threatens, but Japan is still at peace. A sponsor of the Imperial Symphony, Lord Kuretake Kimiya, is deathly ill. He calls to his bedside Sanjou Kaoru, who is both the fiancé of his daughter Umeko and an up-and-coming condu...

An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host's home....