Best Drama movies of 1997

Actors : Victor Checo, Kamar de los Reyes, Randolph Feliz, Rafael Decena,
Directors : Joseph Medina,

Two friends in Washington Heights take different paths to earn a living: one working in a grocery store, the other as a drug dealer.

Actors : John Savage, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Beltran, Assumpta Serna,
Directors : Michael Taverna,

A retired US soldier is sent to Managua, the capital of war-torn Nicaragua, to recover the body of his friend, a US journalist killed on the job. Once there, he becomes suspicious. A local woman helps him untangle the web of conspiracy.

Actors : Parthiban, Meena, Indu, Vadivelu,
Directors : Cheran,

The story revolves around Bharathi (Parthiban), a worker for a rich Thevar Zamindar (Vijayakumar). He comes from a lower caste and falls in love with the rich Zamindar's daughter Kannamma (Meena).

Actors : Karl Geary, James Belushi, Ian Hart, Jared Harris,
Directors : Elizabeth Gill,

Liam moves away from Ireland to USA, where he settles in Bronx. There he works in a little bar owned by Italian Mario and lives with other illegal immigrants who are afraid that they'll get...

Actors : Ron Wicks, Suzanne Labatt, Mike Passion, Lonnie Jackson,
Directors : Michele Pacitto,

Generation Xtinct tells the story of a group of twenty-somethings who plot revenge on the Mercedes-driving yuppie who killed their best friend, unleashing a violent rampage of street justice.

Actors : Erran Booker, Anthony Skordi, Lew Temple,
Directors : Don Okolo,

A thriller set against the background of post-civil-war Nigeria, and an international crime cartel.

Actors : Rhali Ixa, Mohamed Ichika, Mohamed Ixa, Ibrahim Paris,
Directors : Jacques Dubuisson,

A Parisian lad spends a brief, life-changing time with a clan of the Imûhar, a high desert Berber people, called Tuaregs by the French. At age ten, Khénan's mother dies, and his father ...

Actors : Mamta Kulkarni, Mithun Chakraborty, Atul Agnihotri, Rakhee Gulzar,
Directors : Partho Ghosh,

Vasudev Rai lives in a small town with his wife, and a son, Rohit. Vasudev works as a teacher in a school owned and operated by the kind-hearted and generous Gajraj Choudhry. Then one day, ...

Actors : Karen Mok, Eric Tsang, Leo Ku, Charlie Yeung,
Directors : Patrick Leung,

Actors : Hemasiri Liyanage, Jackson Anthony, Swarna Mallawarachchi, W. Jayasiri,
Directors : Dharmasiri Bandaranayake,

Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's ...

Actors : Norman Briski, Belén Blanco, Walter Quiroz, Antonio Birabent,
Directors : Alejandro Maci,

Young Sebastian flees his parents' home in Buenos Aires and hides in their vacant estate in the pampas. Troubled by the news, the father sends a spy to lure the boy back. The spy, however, ...

Actors : Resham, Shaan Shahid, Sana, Saleem Sheikh,
Directors : Syed Noor,

Story of an obsessive fan who is quarantined because of a deadly ailment.

Actors : Brando Legaspi, Ramon Christopher, Donita Rose, Joko Diaz,
Directors : Toto Natividad,

Nap never knew his father and wanting to please his mother, he never bothered to find out anything about the notorious small time hood. But in his heart, he knew he deserved more than the shanty he grew up in.

Actors : María Fernanda García, María Prado, Roberto Ruy, Cuitlahuac Rodríguez,
Directors : Ismael Rodríguez,

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women",...

Actors : Muzafer Zifla, Artan Ago, Armando Dauti, Akis Sakellariou,

This Greek-Bulgarian-Cypriot co-production depicts the plight of Albanian illegals in Athens and its Piraeus port. Greek intellectual Christos (Akis Sakellariou) unintentionally falls in ...

Actors : Ed Begley Jr., Sandra Taylor, Sally Kellerman, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Larry Arrick,

Harvey Dankworth is having an affair on the side, and the problems in his family life with wife Mary Jane arise. But she is also not interested in sex with him.. They start going to ...

Actors : Min-jong Kim, Jin-shil Choi, Dong-gun Jang, Hee-kyung Jin,
Directors : Ui-seok Kim,

A hotel bellboy having recently been dumped falls in love with a leg model who's a regular guest at the hotel' she and her lover meet regularly in room 901. One day, her lover gets killed ...

Actors : Kathy Shower, Timothy Dale Agee, Chanda, Chris Johnston,
Directors : Mike Sedan,

A married woman is pushed to her boundaries about her desires, but she is just an unwitting pawn in an elaborate conspiracy.

Actors : Rachana Banerjee, Hara Patnaik, Mihir Das, Siddhant Mahapatra,
Directors : Hara Patnaik,

Geeta is a widow, who lives with her two children. Bikram makes a plan and marries Geeta to Capture her property.

Actors : Damien Hope, Jaap Spijkers, Elsie de Brauw, Isabel Erisman,
Directors : Maarten Treurniet,

Wander is working as an engine operator on a cargo-ship. When he takes a coffee-break, a woman appears in a talkshow on TV. In an instant, Wander recognizes her to be his long lost ...