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.

91. Good Luck

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard LaBrie
Actors: Gregory Hines, Vincent D'Onofrio, Joe Theismann, Max Gail, Roy Firestone, Robert O'Reilly
Plot: Two men, one needs a wheelchair and the other is blind, compete in a whitewater river contest together.

92. Hugo Pool

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Actors: Alyssa Milano, Richard Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr., Patrick Dempsey

93. Wind in the Willows, The ( Mr. Toad's Wild Ride )

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terry Jones
Actors: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Nicol Williamson

94. Bent

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Sean Mathias
Actors: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Plot: Max, a gay man who does everything to hide his nature, none-the-less finds
himself sent to the Dachau concentration camp. He is assigned a yellow
label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp, he
finds himself drawn to fellow prisoner Horst - one who wears his pink
label with no qualms.

95. Fire

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Deepa Mehta
Actors: Karishma Jhalani, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Javed Jaffrey, Ranjit Chowdhry

96. Selena

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gregory Nava
Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda, Edward James Olmos
Plot: Tells the real-life story of Selena Quintanilla, the Mexican-American
singer who topped the charts in the United States and beyond before she
was murdered at age 23.

97. The Saint

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeri Nikolayev, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong
Plot: A wealthy international thief has one last job to do before retiring: he
must steal a Russian scientist?s formula for cold-fusion to a Russian
billionaire who?s goal is to bring Russian back to communism.

98. Scream 2

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, Liev Schreiber, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf
Plot: Two years after the horrifying murders in Woodsboro, Sidney Prescott is haunted once again by tragedy when she sets off for college. A film version of her life is being made while a new killer begins to terrorize her and her friends.

99. A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker

100. Love Serenade

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shirley Barrett
Actors: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov, John Alansu, Jessica Napier, Jill McWilliam

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