Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Akbar Kurtha, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths,
Directors : Udayan Prasad,

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.

Actors : Robert John Burke, Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Jeannetta Arnette,
Directors : Jesse Peretz,

Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.

Actors : Francie Swift, Eric Schaeffer, Rudolf Martin, Amanda De Cadenet,
Directors : Eric Schaeffer,

Cab driver Michael and supermodel Sarah fall in love while her gorgeous husband Phillippe is in Madrid for two months.

Actors : Amy Tam Ka-Chuen, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Sam Lee,
Directors : Fruit Chan,

Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, John Stockwell, Jerry Stiller, Gerald Anthony,
Directors : Gavin Wilding,

Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when...

Actors : Silvia Munt, Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Vicky Peña,
Directors : Montxo Armendáriz,

Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is ...

Actors : Matthew Powers, Anna Levine, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tahnee Welch,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further ...

Actors : Eric Kot, Karen Mok, Stephen Chow, Chingmy Yau,
Directors : Joe Ma,

Chan Mong-Gut, a famous Chinese lawyer, who must defend his apprentice Foon, who got framed for murder, in court.

Actors : Antoine McLean, Mtume Gant, Shawn Elliott, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Morgan J. Freeman,

Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Ashish Vidyarthi, Raveena Tandon, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Guddu Dhanoa,

Omnipresent Bollywood acting dynamo Sunny Deol stars as Deva, the son of an honest lawyer (Anupam Kher) who lives with his brother, Aakash (Sachin Khedekar), and his beloved sister, Guddi (...

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Romane Bohringer, Olivier Martinez, Didier Bezace,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to ...

Actors : Patrick Bergin, James Bolam, Jack Warden, Jordan Kiziuk,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through ...

Actors : Isabel Ruth, Nuno Vaz, Vanda Duarte, Mariya Lipkina,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

The first film in Pedro Costa's transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, Julian Wadham, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Robert Bierman,

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his ...

Actors : Joseph Vijay, Shalini, Manivannan, Kaka Radhakrishnan,
Directors : Fazil,

Jeevanandhan "Jeeva" (Vijay) is a very rich young man. Although his parents (Sivakumar and Srividhya) want him to settle down, he goes to another city to do his MBA and stays with friends. ...

Actors : Jenny Lindroth, Johan Svangren, Christian Moscoso, Jonte Halldén,
Directors : David Flamholc,

A young racist man has been stabbed and inspector Falk gets the dirty job of solving the murder.

Actors : Suresh Gopi, Madhupal, Kaveri, Mohanlal,
Directors : Rajiv Anchal,

Situations turn a man who believes in secularism into an extremist. He plots to bomb a monastery where the survivors of a riot take refuge.

Actors : Lena Endre, Peter Dalle, Johan Ulveson, Suzanne Reuter,
Directors : Peter Dalle,

Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.

Actors : Jacob Nordenson, Tintin Anderzon, Oliver Loftéen, Tuva Novotny,
Directors : Daniel Alfredson,

In a single night the paths of a random few are to cross which inevitably will seal their respective destinies. By dawn the city of Stockholm, though seemingly unchanged, to some is all very different - if they live to see it.

Actors : Debbie Harry, Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus, Paul D'Amato,
Directors : Adam Bernstein,

Eighteen-year-old mothers' son Harry (he lives with his overprotective mother Kate) shows his cruel side at one occasion and is hired as hitman/enforcer by the Jewish mob.