1997 Movies

In 1997, Embargo used images and sound to convey the physical suffering of the Iraqi people, who alone bore the brunt of the political punishment mete...

The Spitfire was the plane no-one wanted - government, industry and even the Royal Air Force turned it down. Only the faith of its brilliant designer...

A film by Tommaso Cotronei.

Film from Christine Laurent

Rod Steiger narrates this profile of science fiction novelist and playwright Ray Bradbury, highlighting the full scope of the writer's five-decade car...

This video-film examines the events that led to the coup of 18 March 1970 and its consequences culminating with the takeover of Cambodia by the fanati...

1996 saw Budapest's famous Sziget Festival christened Pepsi Sziget '96 with a bigger budget, more star performers and a broader selection of cultural...

A video by Bianco-Valente

In this stop-motion made in the chiaroscuro style of German Expressionism, a poor man sells his face to a pawnshop for a penny, hoping to use it to bu...

A newly-wed couple is on a boat in the forests of Sunderbans. The boat gets wrecked in a storm and their house help, Goga, only manages to save the wo...

An excruciatingly tender look at the frayed lives of the family and friends of Jesse Rahim Hall, a promising young hip hop artist from East Oakland, C...

All their life two brothers have cherished the same passion for film. They brought along with them their spouse, Marinette and Marguerite. For over 50...

Max is on the run from a quasi-military posse. Outnumbered and caught in a pickle between the posse and the enemy outpost, the odds are not in Max's f...

Hawak Ko Buhay Mo is a 1997 Philippine action film starring Ronnie Ricketts, who wrote and directed the film under the name Ronn Rick.

"In infernal black and white and spooky multiple exposure, it recounts a fractured narrative as creepy as any of the millennial visions found in Don D...

The girl isn't bad. She's just taken her life into her own hands.