Movies123 - 1997 Movies

Ai qing lai le (1997) Ah-Sheng is a baker. He loves singing a lot although he sings poorly. For a long time, he has been thinking about participating in a singing contest program on the cable TV. One day, he meets his dream girl who went to the same elementary school. Her name is Li-Hua. She does no

The Three Lives of Karen 1997 State trooper Matt patiently accompanies his bride, Karen Winthrop, when businessman Paul turns up and claims shes his missing wife and the mother of his daughter Jessica He could be right, since Karen has amnesia Evidence she was indeed Emily Riggs convinces Karen to s

Mixed Signals (1997) Judy, Alex and Nick are three friends in their early twenties who haven't quite figured things out. Judy is stuck at a dead-end job and is about to make a big move in her life when her boyfriend unexpectedly proposes to her via voicemail. The engagement ring is coming via expres

Minotaur (1997) Alex Abramov is Mossad secret agent looking after some bad guys. He falls in love with young music student Thea, but can not reveal himself and sends her gifts secretly. Thea first thinks that it must be another student, G.R., who sends gifts, and bad guys, knowing about Alex's feeli

Lykkefanten 1997 Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol 7 year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake Idas father has left the family for a

Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997) Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in...

Shadow of the Bear (1997) Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997) Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life, where she became a much respected author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The t

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must*

Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan (1997) It is summer holidays in the late 1950s and a fun fair comes to Wall-Entuna. All children obviously want to go there including Lilla Jönssonligan. Sickan then obviously has a plan for how to get hold of hundreds of "free tickets".

Moonlight Serenade (1997) Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII. The lad spends much of the tri

In the Line of Duty Blaze of Glory 1997 Former marine and cop Jeff Erickson starts a new life after meeting his dream girl, Jill, running a bookshop, until they decide to become the modern Bonnie and Clyde Learning on the job the hard way, Jeff becomes famous through m

Color of Justice (1997) Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case 'cause it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the fire is a bombastic and vocal black community leader, who's saying that they will not have a fair trial. And also that they were

In the Gloaming (1997) Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.

Detention The Siege at Johnson High 1997 A former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school

Ma Yong Zhen (1997) Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster (Tam Sei) Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the terri

Falling Fire (1997) In the not so distant future mankind has squandered their resources. A team of specialists is sent to the nearby asteroid field to retrieve an asteroid that will serve to replenish some of our natural resources. However, unbeknownst to the team, there is a killer on board determi

Sudden Fury (1997) Intent on seizing control of South East England's cocaine business, small-time crime boss Randall hires notorious hit-man Walker to take out his competition. When Randall betrays the hit-man, however, the tables are turned.

Riot (1997) In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and his parents run Good Neighbor Liquor in South Central L.A. Theirs is an Asian family of "old

The Killing Jar 1997 Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business However, gruesome murders of children start to happen Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police Is he th

Bombshell 1997 Workers in a biotech firm utilise nanotechnology to control others for their own good

Running Time (1997) Running Time was filmed in black and white, in real time, and seemingly takes place in one continuous, fluid shot. It's a little like Hitchcock's "Rope," but it's on location! Carl, an ex-con who sets out to rob the prison laundry system where he worked for 5 years (whi

Aisuru (1997) Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.

Cannes Man (1997) The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's where the art of the deal can be filled with more laughs than the deal itself. Sy Lerner is th

Bloodmoon 1997 Martial arts action film finds a retired detective returning to action to stop a martial arts master with steel fingers who is killing champions from all sports

Holiday in Your Heart (1997) LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a choice: Does she perform at the Grand Ole...

Caught in the Act 1997 Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her childhood crush Neville, a talent agent holding a gala night

A Christmas Memory 1997 A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried Buddy brings life to the house and develops a close friendship with one of the older, simple

A Kid in Aladdins Palace 1997 A teenager goes back in time to help the legendary Ali Baba save Aladdin and his kingdom from an evil villain

Time Tracers 1997 When the discovery of a five thousand year old artifact of a humanoid reptile leads an investigative reporter to the Kronos Project, he uncovers an experimental device created to send humans through time, controlled by a ruthless multi billionaire As the Kronos experiment progresse

Trekkies 1997 From a television series that barely lasted three seasons in the 1960s, Star Trek has grown into a multibillion dollar industry involving several spin off series, numerous movies, and countless merchandise items This phenomenon is due to the series legions of rabidly devoted fans, popu

Hysteria 1997 The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens

Le cousin 1997 Nounours is the nickname of a cousin an informer with a special arrangement with the police he gets 10 of the drugs seized thanks to his help When his personal contact, inspector Maurin, commits suicide, inspector Gerard Delvaux takes over Meanwhile, judge Lambert is uncovering the il

You Only Live Until You Die 1997 Rod Steele aka Agent 0014 is anything but the worlds greatest super spy, but when diabolical villainess Tangerina threatens the world again, hes the worlds last and only hope

House of Frankenstein 1997 Detective Coyle is trying to solve several bizarre murders and is having no luck finding a suspect But when his girlfriend turns into a werewolf and gets kidnapped by a vampire, things start to fall into place

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) What do an elderly topiary gardener, a retired lion tamer, a man fascinated by mole rats, and a cutting-edge robotics designer have in common? Both nothing and everything in this unconventional documentary directed by Erroll Morris. Fast, Cheap & Out of Co

Tout doit disparaitre 1997 Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom based on all the noise technologies thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that broke the camel Irene ha

Year of the Dogs 1997 Year of the Dogs is a documentary detailing the turbulent 1996 season of the Australian Football League AFL team Footscray Football Club now Western Bulldogs

Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997) Jed and his veterinarian mother are looking after a wolf-dog that was rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after being injured in a long-running spirit battle with a raven. Despite being a wild animal, the dog takes a liking to Jed, who has a poor relationship with his

Solomon 1997 David, now an old man, is still king of Israel Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon The two young men are fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be successful During a hunting expedition, Adonijah challenges his younger br

Fang lang 1997 Its a story about love, desire Taboo love between a sister and a brother

The history of Christmas and the traditions that make the holidays the most wonderful time of the year

20 seiki nosutarujia 1997 A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time and taken over his body to infiltrate and study humanity, to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction He replicates the spirit of another alien in a g

Love and Death on Long Island 1997 Giles DeAth Sir John Hurt is a widower who doesnt like anything modern He goes to movies and falls in love with movie star Ronnie Bostock Jason Priestly He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie After that, he travels to Long Island City, where Ron

Dog Watch 1997 A San Francisco detective Elliott goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man Dumping the man in the river, he returns t

Brothers and Sisters 1997 Erol, Ahmed and Leyla live with their Turkish father and German mother in Berlin Kreuzberg Erol, a petty criminal, will save the family honor by completing his military service in Turkey However, he must first confront his loan shark

The Mirror 1997 When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself In this ingenious and daringly original feature, world renowned director Jafar Panahi The White Balloon, Crimson gold has wrapped a blunt politic

An American Affair 1997 Mutual friends Barbara and Genevieve are both sleeping with District Attorney Sam Brady When they become aware of their bizarre love triangle, they plot against him