The Longest Nite

1997

Cn

7.2

♡ 8

82%

Tat-Chi Yau Director

Suet Lam as Cafe Owner's Assistant

Tian-Lin Wang as (Guest star) (as Wong Tin Lam)

Tony Chiu Wai Leung as Sam

Bun Yuen as Sam's Cop Buddy

Caught in the middle of a fierce gang war in Macau, a corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. He meets a suspicious bald man named Tony, who keeps following him around and disrupting his personal business. But when Sam finds out he's a suspect in a nightclub owner's murder, he's sure his stalker has something to do with it.

Rhyme & Reason

1997

English

7.4

♡ 5

71%

Peter Spirer Director

Wyclef Jean as Self

Busta Rhymes as Self Ice-T

Ice-T as Self

Lauryn Hill as Self

A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

Bent

1997

English

7.1

♡ 17

74%

76%

Action

based on play or musical

concentration camp prisoner

Sean Mathias Director

Paul Bettany as Captain

Rachel Weisz as Prostitute

Jude Law as Stormtrooper

Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

American Perfekt

1997

English

5.9

♡ 5

59%

Paul Chart Director

Belinda Balaski as Rita

Amanda Plummer as Sandra

David Thewlis as Santini

Joanna Gleason as Shirley

Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...

The Beautician and the Beast

1997

English

5.5

♡ 14

23%

parent child relationship

Romance

Ken Kwapis Director

Timothy Dalton as Boris Pochenko

Ed Cambridge as Elderly Man

Billy Brown as Fireman

Ian McNeice as Ira Grushinsky

A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Anna Karenina

1997

English

6.3

♡ 13

19th century

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Drama

imperial russia

Romance

st. petersburg, russia

Bernard Rose Director

Sophie Marceau as Anna Karenina

Mia Kirshner as Kitty

Kseniya Rappoport as Maria

Sean Bean as Vronsky

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

Wild Flowers

1997

Danish

5.5

♡ 1

86%

Niels Gråbøl Director

John Martinus as Betjent 3

Irene Bedard as Oglala

Peter Frödin as Palle

Søren Sætter-Lassen as Svend Erik

Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.

How to Be a Player

1997

English

5.3

♡ 6

14%

Lionel C. Martin Director

Devika Parikh as Barbara

Natalie Desselle Reid as Jenny Jackson

Elise Neal as Nadine

Natashia Williams as Pink Bikini Girl

Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong and organize a party in Malibu, inviting all of his girlfriends.

Robinson Crusoe

1997

English

♡ 17

39%

George Miller Director

Polly Walker as Mary McGregor

Damian Lewis as Patrick Connor

James Frain as Robert / Defoe's Publisher

Pierce Brosnan as Robinson Crusoe

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.

Niagara, Niagara

1997

English

6.8

♡ 6

53%

Bob Gosse Director

Stephen Lang as Claude

Shawn Hatosy as Lead High School Punk

Robin Tunney as Marcy

Henry Thomas as Seth

An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan

1997

Swedish

4.4

♡ 2

Action

Family

Christjan Wegner Director

Loa Falkman as Direktör Wall-Enberg

Robert Gustafsson as Kanonkulan

Andreas Almén as Kanonkulan

Olof Thunberg as Morfar Elis

When their circus tickets get swiped, the Jönsson League boys hatch a plan to steal them back, but end up suspects in an even bigger crime!

High Voltage

1997

English

4.5

♡ 5

21%

Isaac Florentine Director

Donald Gibb as Bartender

William Zabka as Bulldog

Lochlyn Munro as Larry

Amy Smart as Molly

After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.

Swept from the Sea

1997

English

6.7

♡ 5

28%

Beeban Kidron Director

Rachel Weisz as Amy Foster

Ian McKellen as Dr. James Kennedy

Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Finn

Tony Haygarth as Mr. Smith

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

1997

English

6.1

♡ 46

58%

Michael Cohn Director

Sigourney Weaver as Claudia Hoffman

Sam Neill as Frederick Hoffman

Miroslav Táborský as Gustav

Chris Bauer as Konrad

When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.

Red Corner

1997

English

6.3

♡ 17

27%

Jon Avnet Director

Richard Venture as Ambassador Reed

Robert Stanton as Ed Pratt

Richard Gere as Jack Moore

Ken Leung as Peng

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.

The Fatal Game

1997

English

6.8

♡ 2

Richard Dennison Director

Mark Whetu as

In 1994, New Zealand mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summitted Mt Everest with climbing partner and friend Mike Reinberger. However it was late in the day and after a freezing night on the summit, Whetu was faced with a terrible decision...to leave Reinberger or stay with him forever.

Alien Visitor

♡ 5

Rolf de Heer Director

Chloe Ferguson as Child

Alethea McGrath as Grandmother

Ullie Birve as She

Syd Brisbane as The Man

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Perdita Durango

1997

Spanish

6.3

♡ 8

43%

Álex de la Iglesia Director

Forrie J. Smith as Armendariz

Gerardo Zepeda as La Florida Barman

Javier Bardem as Romeo

Don Stroud as Santos

She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.

Mousehunt

1997

English

6.5

♡ 66

Gore Verbinski Director

Christopher Walken as Caeser, the Exterminator

Scott Alan Smith as City Paramedic

Eric Christmas as Ernie and Lars' Lawyer

Michael Jeter as Quincy Thorpe

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.

The Advocate's Devil

1997

English

5.6

♡ 2

40%

Jeff Bleckner Director

Ken Olin as Abe Ringel

Holt McCallany as Joe Campbell

Angela Moore as Patty

Mariska Hargitay as Rendi

A charismatic basketball star (Holt McCallany) is accused of rape. A lawyer (Ken Olin) in need of a big win is brought in to get the star off. The lawyer wins the case, but along the way he discovers that the player may not be as innocent as he leads on to the public. Then things get worse when he discovers the player has led his teen-age daughter to a hotel room for a "special" birthday party for her.

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Rhyme & Reason

Bent

American Perfekt

The Beautician and the Beast

Anna Karenina

Wild Flowers

How to Be a Player

Robinson Crusoe

Niagara, Niagara

Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan

High Voltage

Swept from the Sea

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Red Corner

The Fatal Game

Alien Visitor

Perdita Durango

Mousehunt

The Advocate's Devil