Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : John Stockwell, Mario Van Peebles, 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 : 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 : Robert John Burke, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeannetta Arnette, Natasha Gregson Wagner,
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 : Soundarya, Rajinikanth, Rambha, Jaishankar,
Directors : Sundar C.,

The movie revolves around Arunachalam (Rajini), who is the son of the VIP of a village who finds out about his past but destiny has its own play.

Actors : Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : David Thewlis, Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Paul Chart,

Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Jacob Nordenson, Tintin Anderzon, Tuva Novotny, Oliver Loftéen,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.