In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

1997

Japanese

8.1

♡ 54

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Hideaki Anno Director

Yûko Miyamura as Asuka Langley Sôryû

Henry Dittman as Council Member C

Akira Ishida as Kaworu Nagisa

Takehito Koyasu as Shigeru Aoba

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

Trojan War

1997

English

5.7

♡ 30

41%

George Huang Director

David Patrick Kelly as Bagman

Wendy Worthington as Jowly Clerk

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Leah Jones

Danny Trejo as Scarface

Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into many obstacles along the way, while not knowing his best friend, Leah is in love with him.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

1997

English

3.6

♡ 98

John R. Leonetti Director

Dennis Keiffer as Baraka

Lance LeGault as Elder God #1

James Remar as Rayden

Musetta Vander as Sindel

A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

1997

English

5.2

♡ 6

Action

bratva (russian mafia)

David Greene Director

Charles Bronson as Commissioner Paul Fein

Sebastian Spence as Eddie Fein

Tom Melissis as Restaurant Owner

David Ferry as Victor

The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.

Dante's Peak

1997

English

6.1

♡ 78

28%

Roger Donaldson Director

Pierce Brosnan as Harry Dalton

Peter Jason as Norman Gates

Christopher Murray as Pilot

Linda Hamilton as Rachel Wando

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.

Good Will Hunting

1997

English

8.3

♡ 359

97%

94%

Action

baseball

boston, massachusetts

Gus Van Sant Director

Ben Affleck as Chuckie Sullivan

George Plimpton as Henry Lipkin - Psychologist

Robin Williams as Sean Maguire

Matt Damon as Will Hunting

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, 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 gets court-ordered therapy. Eventually, therapist Dr. Sean Maguire helps Will confront the demons that are holding him back.

Rainy Dog

1997

Japanese

7.0

♡ 12

Takashi Miike Director

Vicky Wei as

Shih Chang as

Jianqin He as Chen

Shô Aikawa as Yuuji

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

Jackie Brown

1997

English

7.5

♡ 153

88%

based on novel or book

Quentin Tarantino Director

Quentin Tarantino as Answering Machine Voice

Robert De Niro as Louis Gara

Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie

Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolette

Hattie Winston as Simone

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.

TwentyFourSeven

1997

English

7.0

♡ 5

35%

Shane Meadows Director

Bob Hoskins as Alan Darcy

Johann Myers as Benny

Frank Harper as Ronnie Marsh

James Corden as Tonka

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

A Thousand Acres

1997

English

6.1

♡ 16

22%

42%

Action

based on novel or book

shakespeare in modern dress

tragedy

Jocelyn Moorhouse Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Caroline Cook

Colin Firth as Jess Clark

Elisabeth Moss as Linda

Michelle Pfeiffer as Rose Cook Lewis

The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

The Eel

1997

Japanese

7.3

♡ 4

82%

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sei Hiraizumi as

Kazuki Kitamura as

Misa Shimizu as Keiko Hattori

Shô Aikawa as Yuji Nozawa

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

English

8.0

♡ 2

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Dieter Dengler as Self

Eugene Deatrick as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

Vegas Vacation

1997

English

5.9

♡ 37

15%

Stephen Kessler Director

Miriam Flynn as Cousin Catherine

Juliette Brewer as Cousin Ruby Sue

Julia Sweeney as Mirage Reception Person

Wayne Newton as Wayne Newton

The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.

Contact

1997

English

7.5

♡ 147

69%

79%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

extraterrestrial technology

Robert Zemeckis Director

Tom Skerritt as David Drumlin

Jodie Foster as Eleanor Arroway

Bill Clinton as Himself

Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss

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.

Life Is Beautiful

1997

Italian

8.6

♡ 168

80%

Roberto Benigni Director

Horst Buchholz as Dottor Lessing

Giorgio Cantarini as Giosué

Nikky Smedley as Minor Role

Richard Sammel as Ufficiale stanzioncina

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.

Mystery Monsters

1997

English

4.2

♡ 5

Family

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Charles Band Director

Robert Craighead as Attorney

Michael Dennis as Captain Mike

Sam Zeller as Groon

Caroline Ambrose as Queen Mara

Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Adding to the situation, the monsters' original owner, evil Queen Mara, has returned to Earth to reclaim her property and take revenge on Captain Mike for stealing them.

Home Alone 3

1997

English

4.6

♡ 95

36%

Raja Gosnell Director

Rya Kihlstedt as Alice Ribbons

James Saito as Chinese Mob Boss

Scarlett Johansson as Molly Pruitt

Marian Seldes as Mrs. Hess

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.

Stargames

1997

English

1.6

♡ 4

Greydon Clark Director

Daran Norris as Happy

Tony Curtis as King Fendel

Darby Hinton as Robert

Brian Fitzpatrick as Sev

A young space prince on the run from an evil space villain, stranded on Earth and waiting for his grandfather the king to rescue him, befriends an Earth child named Brian and together they evade robots, bears, and triangles.