Top Movies of 1997


The top movies of 1997 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

111. Love and Other Catastrophes

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Actors: Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski, Alice Garner, Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell, Suzi Dougherty

112. The Education of Little Tree

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Actors: James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton, Mika Boorem, Graham Greene, Christopher Heyerdahl

113. Secrets of the Heart ( Secretos del corazón )

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Andoni Erburu, Silvia Munt, Vicky Peña, Álvaro Nagore

114. Deep Crimson ( Profundo carmesí )

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Actors: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovanni Florido, Fernando Palavicini, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

115. Don King: Only in America

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Herzfeld
Actors: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Darius McCrary, Keith David, Loretta Devine

116. What the Deaf Man Heard

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Kent Harrison
Actors: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell, Bernadette Peters
Plot: The last words Sammy Ayres' mother every says to him are "Not one more word out of you." as they ride the bus to a new life. When he wakes up in the morning, however, his mother is gone and the bus is at the end of the line. He takes his mothers advice to heart and grows up at the bus station, pretending to be deaf and dumb. As an adult, he continues the charade until events arise in his adopted town which force him to choose between justice and silence.

117. Playing God

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andy Wilson
Actors: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Peter Stormare, Gary Dourdan, Michael Massee
Plot: Former L.A. surgeon Eugene Sands, stripped of his license after operation while on drugs, meets up with infamous counterfeiter Raymond Blossom and soon becomes entangled in the underground crime when he becomes a "gun-shot" doctor to the criminals.

118. The Jackal

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons
Plot: Update of the 1973 spy thriller The Day of the Jackal. Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down.

119. Fierce Creatures

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fred Schepisi, Robert Young
Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Carey Lowell

120. The Odyssey

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

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