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Movies: Popular Movies of 1997

Movies in chronological context: 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade. ()

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Titanic(1997)

K12
| 3h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 11,932 votes)

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Directed by James Cameron - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, ...
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Men in Black(1997)

13
| 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 6,469 votes)

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld - With Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Gries, ...
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Life Is Beautiful(1997)

1h 56min | Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 5,868 votes)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Directed by Roberto Benigni - With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Amerigo Fontani, ...

Good Will Hunting(1997)

12
| 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, ...

The Fifth Element(1997)

13
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 5,103 votes)

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Directed by Luc Besson - With Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Ian Holm, Tricky, ...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

PG
| 2h 9min | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 3,687 votes)

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Richard Schiff, Peter Stormare, ...
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Princess Mononoke(1997)

2h 14min | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
4.2/5 (with 3,435 votes)

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Hercules(1997)

1h 33min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 3,312 votes)

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!

Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker
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The Game(1997)

2h 9min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 3,022 votes)

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

Directed by David Fincher - With Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carroll Baker, ...

Jackie Brown(1997)

2h 34min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 2,810 votes)

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, ...

Gattaca(1997)

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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The Devil's Advocate(1997)

16
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,579 votes)

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

Directed by Taylor Hackford - With Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Connie Nielsen, ...
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Liar Liar(1997)

13
| 1h 26min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 2,463 votes)

Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.

Directed by Tom Shadyac - With Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Jason Bernard, ...
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Anastasia(1997)

G
| 1h 34min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 2,427 votes)

This animated adventure spins a more optimistic twist on the long-mythicized story of the "lost daughter" of Russia's last czar. A wicked sorcerer places a curse on the Romanov family, and Anastasia is separated from them during their attempts to escape from a rowdy revolt seizing their palace. Years later, after growing up with amnesia in an orphanage, "Anya" encounters two Russian men seeking a reward offered by the Dowager Empress Marie, for the return of her missing granddaughter. They decide to travel together to visit the Empress in Paris. Will Anya finally be reunited with her remaining family and find a loving home at last?

Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
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Face/Off(1997)

2h 18min | Action, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2,359 votes)

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Directed by John Woo - With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Alessandro Nivola, ...

Batman & Robin(1997)

2h 5min | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
2.2/5 (with 2,330 votes)

Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Michael Gough, ...
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Alien Resurrection(1997)

1h 49min | Science Fiction, Horror, Action
3.1/5 (with 2,115 votes)

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, ...
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L.A. Confidential(1997)

2h 18min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 2,110 votes)

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

Directed by Curtis Hanson - With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, ...
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Starship Troopers(1997)

2h 9min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 2,110 votes)

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

Directed by Paul Verhoeven - With Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, Clancy Brown, ...

Cube(1997)

1h 30min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2,054 votes)

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

Directed by Vincenzo Natali - With Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings, Wayne Robson, ...
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Donnie Brasco(1997)

16
| 2h 7min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,976 votes)

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Directed by Mike Newell - With Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, ...

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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Con Air(1997)

1h 56min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,790 votes)

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Directed by Simon West - With Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, ...
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Scream 2(1997)

2h | Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 1,684 votes)

Away at college, Sidney thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her... until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Neve Campbell, Jamie Kennedy, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Laurie Metcalf, ...

As Good as It Gets(1997)

13
| 2h 19min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 1,654 votes)

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to look after Simon's dog. In addition, Carol, the only waitress at the local diner who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Directed by James L. Brooks - With Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, ...
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery(1997)

PG
| 1h 34min | Science Fiction, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 1,559 votes)

As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

Directed by Jay Roach - With Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Fabiana Udenio, ...

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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Home Alone 3(1997)

1h 42min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 1,330 votes)

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.

Directed by Raja Gosnell - With Alex D. Linz, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksander Krupa, Marian Seldes, Lenny Von Dohlen, David Thornton, ...

Tomorrow Never Dies(1997)

1h 59min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 1,322 votes)

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode - With Pierce Brosnan, Teri Hatcher, Jonathan Pryce, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Michelle Yeoh, ...
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Air Force One(1997)

2h 4min | Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,311 votes)

Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen - With Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Dean Stockwell, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, ...
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