1997 Drama Movies

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Good Will Hunting(1997)

| 2h 7min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 5,452 votes)

Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

Directed by Gus Van Sant - With Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Casey Affleck, ...

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Lolita(1997)

| 2h 17min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 746 votes)

Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.

Directed by Adrian Lyne - With Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd, Ben Silverstone, ...

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U Turn(1997)

| 2h 5min | Thriller

3.3/5 (with 301 votes)

When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

Directed by Oliver Stone - With Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Powers Boothe, Billy Bob Thornton, ...

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Contact(1997)

| 2h 30min | Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 1,919 votes)

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, ...

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Gattaca(1997)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 2,768 votes)

In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

Directed by Andrew Niccol - With Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, Alan Arkin, Gore Vidal, Ernest Borgnine, ...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion(1997)

1h 27min | Animation, Science Fiction, Action, Drama

4.2/5 (with 703 votes)

The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.

Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno

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The Edge(1997)

| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.4/5 (with 493 votes)

The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.

Directed by Lee Tamahori - With Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perrineau, Elle Macpherson, L. Q. Jones, Bart the Bear, ...

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Conspiracy Theory(1997)

| 2h 15min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 622 votes)

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan, Dean Winters, ...

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Taste of Cherry(1997)

1h 39min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 242 votes)

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami - With Homayoun Ershadi

Dante's Peak(1997)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 800 votes)

Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Directed by Roger Donaldson - With Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Jeremy Foley, Jamie Renée Smith, Grant Heslov, ...

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Boogie Nights(1997)

| 2h 36min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 1,450 votes)

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson - With Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, ...

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Volcano(1997)

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 692 votes)

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

Directed by Mick Jackson - With Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim, John Carroll Lynch, ...

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The Rainmaker(1997)

PG-13

| 2h 15min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 532 votes)

When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, ...

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Seven Years in Tibet(1997)

PG-13

| 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 1,232 votes)

Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - With Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Jetsun Pema, Mako, BD Wong, ...

Selena(1997)

| 2h 7min | Music, Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 536 votes)

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

Directed by Gregory Nava - With Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Constance Marie, Jon Seda, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas, ...

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The Ice Storm(1997)

| 1h 52min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 269 votes)

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Henry Czerny, ...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth(1997)

1h 41min | Drama, Science Fiction, Animation

3.7/5 (with 173 votes)

Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.

Directed by Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki

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Children of Heaven(1997)

1h 29min | Drama, Kids & Family

4.0/5 (with 260 votes)

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Directed by Majid Majidi - With Reza Naji, Mohammad Haj-Hosseini, Fereshte Sarabandi, Christopher Maleki

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One Eight Seven(1997)

| 1h 59min | Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 245 votes)

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.

Directed by Kevin Reynolds - With Samuel L. Jackson, Kelly Rowan, John Heard, Clifton Collins, Tony Plana, Jack Kehler, ...

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Free Willy 3: The Rescue(1997)

| 1h 26min | Kids & Family, Adventure

3.2/5 (with 149 votes)

Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse.

Directed by Sam Pillsbury - With Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Patrick Kilpatrick, Keiko, Stephen E. Miller, ...

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Funny Games(1997)

1h 49min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 777 votes)

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Directed by Michael Haneke - With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Doris Kunstmann, Frank Giering, Christoph Bantzer, ...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil(1997)

| 2h 35min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 240 votes)

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, Jude Law, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, ...

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Kundun(1997)

2h 14min | Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 206 votes)

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Yoon C. Joyce, Losang Samten, Tsewang Jigme Tsarong, Tencho Gyatso, Losang Gyatso, ...

Dil To Pagal Hai(1997)

2h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 68 votes)

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Directed by Yash Chopra - With Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Farida Jalal, Yash Chopra, ...

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Eve's Bayou(1997)

| 1h 49min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Directed by Kasi Lemmons - With Jurnee Smollett, Debbi Morgan, Lynn Whitfield, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Diahann Carroll, ...

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Gummo(1997)

| 1h 29min | Drama, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 265 votes)

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Directed by Harmony Korine - With Chloë Sevigny, Max Perlich, Harmony Korine, Linda Manz, Jacob Reynolds, Carisa Glucksman, ...

Rosewood(1997)

| 2h 20min | Drama, History, Action, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

Directed by John Singleton - With Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle, ...

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Mrs Brown(1997)

1h 45min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 82 votes)

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.

Directed by John Madden - With Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler, David Westhead, ...

Robinson Crusoe(1997)

PG-13

| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Drama

2.9/5 (with 91 votes)

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.

Directed by Rod Hardy, George T. Miller - With Pierce Brosnan, Ian Hart, William Takaku, James Frain, Polly Walker, Damian Lewis, ...

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Smilla's Sense of Snow(1997)

2h 1min | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 99 votes)

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

Directed by Bille August - With Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Jim Broadbent, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Loggia, ...

1997 Drama Movies

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Good Will Hunting(1997)

Lolita(1997)

U Turn(1997)

Contact(1997)

Gattaca(1997)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion(1997)

The Edge(1997)

Conspiracy Theory(1997)

Taste of Cherry(1997)

Dante's Peak(1997)

Boogie Nights(1997)

Volcano(1997)

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The Rainmaker(1997)

Seven Years in Tibet(1997)

Selena(1997)

The Ice Storm(1997)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth(1997)

Children of Heaven(1997)

One Eight Seven(1997)

Free Willy 3: The Rescue(1997)

Funny Games(1997)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil(1997)

Kundun(1997)

Dil To Pagal Hai(1997)

Eve's Bayou(1997)

Gummo(1997)

Rosewood(1997)

Mrs Brown(1997)

Robinson Crusoe(1997)

Smilla's Sense of Snow(1997)

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