20th Anniversary of 1997 Films

20^th Anniversary of 1997 Films

Absolute Power (1997) - A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.

Air Force One (1997) - Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.

Alien Resurrection (1997) – Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.

Amistad (1997) - In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) - An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

Anaconda (1997) - A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.

Anastasia (1997) - The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.

As Good as It Gets (1997) - A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - A 1960s hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy in the 1990s, where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.

Batman & Robin (1997) - Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Boogie Nights (1997) - The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Breakdown (1997) - A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.

Chasing Amy (1997) - Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

Con Air (1997) - Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Contact (1997) - Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.

Cop Land (1997) - The sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City police officers slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.

Cube (1997) - Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

Dante's Peak (1997) - A volcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment.

Donnie Brasco (1997) - An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Event Horizon (1997) - A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

Face/Off (1997) - In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.

Funny Games (1997)  - Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

G.I. Jane (1997) - A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

Gattaca (1997) - A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

George of the Jungle (1997) - A man raised in the jungle by apes falls in love with a wealthy American heiress.

Good Will Hunting (1997) - Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) - Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Hercules (1997) - The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.

Home Alone 3 (1997) - Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fends off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - After a nasty accident, four friends begin to drift apart. One year later Julie James gets an anonymous message and then a slicker wearing, hook wielding killer begins to rip apart her life.

Jackie Brown (1997) - A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.

L.A. Confidential (1997) - As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Liar Liar (1997) - A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time.

Life Is Beautiful (1997) - When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Lolita (1997) - A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.

Lost Highway (1997) - After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

Men in Black (1997) - A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) - When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.

Picture Perfect (1997) - A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

Princess Mononoke (1997) - On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Private Parts (1997) - The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) - Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.

Scream 2 (1997) - Two years after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume and a new string of killings begins.

Selena (1997) - The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.

Seven Years in Tibet (1997) - True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.

Soul Food (1997) - One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.

Spawn (1997) – An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.

Starship Troopers (1997) - Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.

The Borrowers (1997) - A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save

The Boxer (1997) - Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

The Devil's Advocate (1997) - An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.

The Fifth Element (1997) - In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.

The Full Monty (1997) - Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

The Game (1997) - After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality.

The Jackal (1997) - An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) - A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B Island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.

The Rainmaker (1997) - An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.

The Relic (1997) – A Homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

The Saint (1997) - Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

Titanic (1997) - A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

Volcano (1997) - A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.

Wag the Dog (1997) - Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

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