Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Advocates, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Ewan Stewart, Isla Blair, Rachel Weisz…
- Obscure Scottish legal drama contrasting high powered lawyers with the sleazy underbelly of Edinburgh's streets, and the inevitable merging of the…
Affliction (1997)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek…
- A murder–mystery obscured in a snowbound landscape of wrecked relationships and alcoholic longings, this gets right under the skin of its…
Affluenza (1997)
- A fascinating look at how America turned from being a nation that prized thriftiness into a culture struck with "one of the greatest social maladies…
Air Force One (1997)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman
- Patriot tripe of the first order in which the private plane of the US president is infiltrated and held to ransom by Russkie terrorists.
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Alien Resurrection (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
- Sigourney is back from the dead in part four of the continuing Alien saga, this time in the hands of the French DELICATESSEN helmer who sneaks in as…
Alive and Kicking (Indian Summer) (1997)
- Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Jason Flemyng, Bill Nighy
- Solid British drama takes the post–AIDS–revelation scenario and couples it with an interesting setting – a crisis in a…
All Over Me (1997)
- Dir. Alex Sichel
Feat. Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser…
- A lesbian festival hit that has 'crossover' hit written all over it, as it persuasively pinpoints some of the universal, intense emotions of…
American Perfekt (1997)
- Dir. Paul Chart
Feat. Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis
- The most familiar of premises, an American desert road–trip entangling three motorists with a series of mysterious killings is elevated by an…
An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
- Dir. Anthony Waller
Feat. Julie Delpy, Tom Everett Scott
- Belated official sequel to the '80s horror–comedy classic takes up with the progeny of the London howler (Julie Delpy), also plagued by…
Anaconda (1997)
- Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…
- Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…