Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Theresa Lee, Ya-Lei Kuei, Charlie Yeung, Carina Lau,
Directors : Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung,

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner ...

Actors : Geoff Moody, Héctor Mercado, Sean Tataryn, Christopher Bradley,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Kyle is 18, an aspiring poet hoping to find inspiration by moving to the arty Silver Lake neighborhood of LA, and maybe love too. On day one, he finds a funky coffee shop, where he hopes to do some writing, but instead meets an older hunk.

Actors : Sumiko Mikami, Toshiyuki Sugihara, Shigeru Bokuda, Shunsuke Sawada,
Directors : Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,

While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and ...

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Mohnish Bahl, Sonali Bendre, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Vimal Kumar,

Honest and diligent police inspector Ram Yadav investigations into the burning to death of a female college student lead him to conclude that Janardan the son of notorious gangster, Appa ...

Actors : Lasse Baunkilde, Björn Granath, Lars Lohmann, Nijas Ørnbak-Fjeldmose,
Directors : Peter Flinth,

In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's ...

Actors : Carl Davis, Audrey Reid, Paul Campbell, Mark Danvers,

A single street vendor disguises herself for a dance contest, and pits her enemies against each other.

Actors : Ditte Gråbøl, Sixten Tobias Kai Nielsen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Niels Olsen,
Directors : Niels Gråbøl,

Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like ...

Actors : Ali Ahmed, Saban Bajramovic, Petre Arsovski, Bekir Adnan,
Directors : Stole Popov,

In a Macedonian gypsy village local man meets an Indian UNPROFOR physician whom he sees as solution to all his troubles.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

Reece McHenry is a used-clothing store owner and Carol Fitzsimmons is a seamstress working in that store. The film follows the story of their relationships from 1960s till present time (as ...

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah, Raveena Tandon, Akshay Anand,
Directors : Sunil Agnihotri,

Underworld thugs kill one of three brothers, in order to create a rift between the remaining two.

Actors : Michael Vartan, Kari Wuhrer, Peter Facinelli, Amanda Peet,
Directors : H. Gordon Boos,

Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, ...

Actors : Moeko Ezawa, Takeshi Caesar, Seiji Chihara, Noriko Eguchi,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

Actors : Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Shilpa Shirodkar, Ayub Khan,
Directors : Prakash Jha,

In a rural Indian village two corrupt villagers contractor Tirpat Singh and his colleague MLA Durga Pandey are rallying the other villagers into doing things that will benefit themselves. ...

Actors : Robin Wright, William Hurt, Evelyn Dignam, Sean Penn,
Directors : Erin Dignam,

After a husband is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.

Actors : Wolney de Assis, Murilo Benício, Maria Padilha, Chico Díaz,
Directors : Beto Brant,

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Actors : Zachary Badalucco, Amy Brenneman, Michael Badalucco, Dayton Callie,
Directors : William DeVizia,

The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his ...

Actors : Marc Duret, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maïdi Roth, Virginie Ledoyen,
Directors : Gérard Krawczyk,

Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France. One year at the Miners' Ball, the music group The Sirens perform, of which Johanna and ...

Actors : Nicolaj Kopernikus, Troels Lyby, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Bjarne Henriksen,
Directors : Jonas Elmer,

Three friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. At...

Actors : Trevor St. John, Price Carson, David Shackelford, Rory Cochrane,
Directors : George Hickenlooper,

Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like ...

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Farha Naaz, Naseeruddin Shah, Karisma Kapoor,
Directors : Mehul Kumar,

Customs Officer Bharat Srivastav lives with his wife, Sangita, a sister, Rajni and a small son, Bunty; he gets Rajni marry to police inspector, Gautam. His attempts to expose the criminal ...