Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Caleb Packham, May Lloyd, Graham Harvey, David Franklin,
Directors : Richard Turner,

Violet, a fiesty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes...

Actors : Karl Heil, Franz von Lucke, Frank Behnke, Coraly von le Fort,
Directors : Ulrike Pfeiffer,

Children act as adults and adults behave like children. A neglected French castle, its surroundings and 18th century music are the stage for a costume comedy adapted from Carlo Goldoni.

Actors : Katharine Ross, Stephanie Castellarin, Brian Delate, Ellen Stone,
Directors : Maureen Foley,

An eleven-year-old girl tries to stay afloat in her rural Massachusetts town despite the grief, gloom and doom surrounding her from her family.

Actors : Baby Cele, Thulani Nyembe, Michele Burgers, Lionel Newton,
Directors : Les Blair,

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "...

Actors : Marialisa Costanzo, Sherry Ham-Bernard, Melissa Errico, Tom Verica,
Directors : Paul F. Bernard,

On the brink of turning 30, friends Rachel Gail and Tracy navigate the clubs of New York City dissing on their relationships and men in general

Actors : Philip Henson, Rita Magdalena, Romano Vasquez, Vic Vargas,
Directors : Karlo Montero,

Her name is Katrina Salazar, a beautiful woman admired by men but sincerely loved by just one. But behind the lovely face and the pleasant countenance is a dark secret no one knows: she is a nymphomaniac.

Actors : Nida Blanca, Jao Mapa, Nora Aunor, Judy Ann Santos,
Directors : Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara,

Three generations of women whose lives are connected by blood and fate as they cope with relationships with men. Bea is an architect who has just got promoted but this professional success ...

Actors : Amy Austria, Diana Barton, Vernon Wells, Tom Taus,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

This is also listed here as Vulcan 1997

Actors : Olga Zubarry, Villanueva Cosse, Norman Briski, Vera Fogwill,
Directors : Fernando Díaz,

Marcelo makes a living as a painter in a Buenos Aires square, with other street artists. Rejected and lonely as a result of his family's break up, he devotes himself to his girlfriend, and ...

Actors : Kenji Imai, Mikio Ohsawa, Naomi Kawashima, Akira Emoto,
Directors : Toshiharu Ikeda,

Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with ...

Actors : Neena Gupta, Abhishek Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Twinkle Khanna,
Directors : Vipin Handa,

St. George's College in Bombay has two sweethearts namely, Chiclet (Saddiya Siddiqui), and Raja (Abhishek Kapoor), until Raja sets his eyes on Sonia Verma (Twinkle Khanna). But Sonia will ...

Actors : Eulàlia Ramon, Nancho Novo, Carlos Hipólito, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo,
Directors : Ángel Fernández Santos,

Andrés's wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and ...

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Joseph Bottoms, Remy Auberjonois, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Dr Cohen works in a mental institution where all patients believe they're historical members of the German Nazi Party, including Hitler. They are allowed to live out their delusions, so "Hitler" tries to consolidate his power.

Actors : Cheryl Cook, Michael M. Joshua, Amanda Bernacchi, Sean Michael Burke,
Directors : Michael M. Joshua,

Get married, get laid, get something, get a job, get a girl, get a guy, how about money, decisions to be made, With Nobody

Actors : Coralie Tetard, Pierre Berriau, Élisabeth Commelin, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Manuel Poirier,

Marion is a 10 year old schoolgirl, her family just moved into a Normandy village : the father is a mason, the mother takes care of their four children. She meets "the Parisians", a wealthy...

Actors : Lina Sivio, Matthew Del Negro, Tony Darrow, Frank Vincent,
Directors : Frank Ciota,

Two friends are living in the Boston Italian neighbourhood. Freddie is a documentary filmmaker who wants to finish a film profile of the area and Mac is an investment banker. To make his ...

Actors : Beatrix Ost, Dominic Hamilton-Little, Steven J. Levy, Anthony Hamilton,
Directors : Susan Winter,

A retired game show baron and his estranged gay son spar over old family bitterness and popular culture while testing recipes for a book on the history of cocktails.

Actors : Bernadette Lafont, David Amigoni, Aurore Clément, Jean-Luc Godard,
Directors : Anne-Marie Miéville,

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading...

Actors : Cassandra Ray, Benjamin Heflin, Christopher Boyer, Sarah Paulson,
Directors : Scott D. Goldstein,

Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.

Actors : Simon Fisher, Aneirin Hughes, Daniel Evans, Phylip Hughes,
Directors : Ceri Sherlock,

1942. Delme Davies, a wayward idealistic young man, joins the army in a quest for excitement and adventure. One night he returns home unexpectedly to his widowed mother, Iwanna and brother,...