Movies produced in 1997

Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling towards the New World in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been captured, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing the Atlantic, Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release.

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), an eccentric, sarcastic writer, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder which shows itself in many different ways. For example, he avoids stepping on the crack in the sidewalk. Every time he wants to wash his hands, he takes a new bar of soap. Melvin brings a plastic spoon and fork in a hermetically sealed bag to the café where he eats every day. He generally hates people and the only person he befriends is Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), a single-mother waitress. Melvin finally comes out of his shell when his neighbor, Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear), ends up in hospital after being brutally beaten and left penniless by muggers. He is forced to look after Simon's dog that teaches him to be kind-hearted and devoted.

Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is a famous spy from 60's who is cryonically frozen and then brought back to life in the middle of 1990's. The world has changed dramatically, his mission still being the same: to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Having got back his wonderful belongings, such as "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump", a receipt for a "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump" and a book written by Austin entitled "Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby)", Austin teams up with lovely Miss Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), his ex-partner's daughter and they go to Vegas to face the dangerous adventure there. Unfortunately, the secret agent's free love credo taken from the 1960s doesn't seem to really work out with Vanessa...

Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

This political thriller tells about how the train which was to transport the russian nuclear missils was blown up by terrorists to steal the arms from aboard. When the information about what was happen reached the White House of US, now is to nuclear physics specialist (Nicole Kidman) and the US Army colonel (George Clooney) to take control over the situation. The missils are in hands of the terrorists, and these guys should be stopped at any cost.

Pierce plays a vulcanologist who arrives at a country side (fictitious) named Dante's Peak after his boss instructs him to investigate the possibility of a dormant volcano (the Dante's Peak) getting active again in that region. As story progresses, we see that Dalton (Brosnan) getting increasingly convinced that the volcano might blow up but his boss is reluctant to declare an emergency in the city yet (because of possibility that if the volcano finally does never erupt, the real estate prices will plummet anyway and the city might loose a huge financial investment deal). Unfortunately, the common residents of the area know nothing about it until very late. Finally, when Dante's peak does erupt, the city panics, some does not survive the catastrophe, including Dalton's boss and for Dalton and the mayor of the city (who falls in love with Dalton) and her children, it becomes a race against the pyroclastic cloud to save their own lives.

Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer's son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux's things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster's identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer's face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

Annie Porter is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex Shaw presents her with two tickets for a cruise to the Bahamas on a Norwegian luxury liner. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has just learned that Alex is a police officer who's been lying to her about his choice of profession. Alex lied because Annie didn't want to date any more cops after what happened with the bus in Los Angeles. The cruise ship's passengers include members of a diamond dealers' association, who have filled the ship's vault with valuable diamonds. Little do they know that passenger John Geiger, the designer of the ship's computer system, has planned to take over the ship, steal the diamonds, and set the ship on a collision course with an oil tanker anchored at the island of St. Martin. Geiger was fired and cast aside by the computer company he worked for, and he wants revenge. Now it's up to Alex to stop him.

Set in the small British town of Sheffield, six old friends, Gary "Gaz" (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), Lomper (Steve Huison), Gerald (Tom Wilkinson) and Guy (Hugo Speer), find themselves out of job and out of money when their steel mill shuts down. The former steel workers are desperate and depressed over their unemployment and Lomper is so despondent that he attempts to commit suicide. Meanwhile, the Chippendales, a troupe of male strippers, arrive in town and their act is a tremendous success with the local women. Inspired by the exotic dancers, Gaz comes up with the brilliant idea of putting on a similar show of his own, with one difference – they are daring to end the performance "fully nude". But there is only one snag: their bodies are far from perfect and they can't dance at all.

When a man is murdered in Moscow, experimental bionic research brings him back to life. He then sets out to find his murderers and money that was stolen during the crime.

When the president of the United States is about to get caught in a sex scandal 14 days from the election it is time to create a war. Perception and reality, life and death all flow from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Eddie is an aspiring actor who gets discovered by Jack Horner, a porn director who considers his job an art form. Eddie then changes his name to Dirk Diggler and gets sucked in the lifestyle and relationships of the pornography industry of the late-1970s.

Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren't dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.

"The Escort" is a decent soft core sex thriller featuring Shauna O'Brien and always beautiful Landon Hall. The sex scenes are steamy and great. Shauna performs these scenes in the shower, jacuzzi, bed, etc. She's great as always. The plot is the last thing you should care about. Shauna works as an escort that goes mad and starts some killing after a series of certain events. Expect great sex scenes and beautiful women. What else can you ask for?!

The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane's mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia - the Devil himself - offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of "energy", but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him... His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York's alleys...

Based on a popular video game, this Japanese animated movie revolves around a family feud between a powerful and merciless tycoon, Heihachi Mishima (John Paul Shepard), and his son, Kazuya (Adam Dudley), whom he abandoned as a kid at the bottom of a deep ravine. When Heihachi organizes the Tekken Iron Fist Tournament on an isolated Chinese island and invites the world's most brutal fighters, his son, who managed to survive the pit, also arrives to participate in the contest. Kazuya is not interested in the prize of 1 billion dollars; all he cares about is taking revenge on his fierce father.

Harmony Korine presents the viewer with a barrage of random vignettes depicting the lives of definitely odd yet vivid characters which make the movie unique and memorable. The main characters are Solomon (Jacob Reynolds) and Tummler (Nick Sutton), two bored teenagers living in the small shattered town of Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a devastating tornado swept through the town, dealing death and destruction along its path. Since then the teenage boys have been involved in antisocial behaviour in order to kill time. Their outrageous adventures include killing cats and selling their carcasses, sniffing glue, having sex with mentally handicapped girls, riding bikes through the mud, playing practical jokes, and meeting various queer, disturbing and depraved people. Among them is a troubled drunk man (Harmony Korine) flirting with a black midget (Bryant L. Crenshaw); a man pimping his mentally retarded sister; two boy-crazy sisters, Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Bara), who dream of becoming strippers; Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell), a pre-adolescent skateboarder wearing a pair of long pink ears.

Set in 2057, the science fiction horror movie follows the flight of a rescue spaceship sent to reach the outer limits of the solar system and investigate what happened to an experimental ship called Event Horizon seven years before. The ship was designed by Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) for faster than light travel and mysteriously went missing on its maiden voyage. With its unexpected reappearance in Neptune's orbit comes even more mystery. When the astronauts board the ship, they are perplexed to find that the entire crew has vanished. They start exploring Event Horizon only to discover the terrifying truth.

New York based freelance journalist John Kelso (John Cusack) arrives in the small town of Savannah to write a feature on an extravagant Christmas party held by local wealthy socialite James 'Jim' Williams (Kevin Spacey). Later that night, the host of the party acting in self-defence shoots dead his gay lover, Billy Carl Hanson (Jude Law), a troublesome young man. Clint Eastwood depicts the murder trial in great detail and states two different versions of the incident without giving any definite answer how the murder was committed.

A young Mormon missionary named Joe Young (Trey Parker) finds himself fortuitously on the set of a new porno movie directed by Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) who immediately offers him the part of noble Captain Orgazmo, a superhero who fights against enemies using his ' Orgazmorator'. Both the movie and Joe become an overnight success with audiences. All his dreams seem to have materialized: he has won hordes of fans worldwide, and money flows like water. Maxxx is about to make the movie into a series, but Joe's fiancée, Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab), tells him to quit his scandalous job. Joe decides to leave the porn industry for the sake of love. But the perfidious film-maker abducts Lisa and thus forces Joe to take part in further filming.