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Top 50 Best Films of 1997. by Rama_Andor1416 • Created 11 years ago • Modified 3 years ago. List activity. 7.4K views. 153 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 55 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Good Will Hunting. 1997 2h 6m R. 8.3 (1.1M) Rate. 71 Metascore.
Sep 19, 2024 · With nearly 1,400 movie fans voting to shape this list of the best movies from 1997, it's clear that this was a banner year for cinema. From iconic blockbusters to masterfully-crafted indies, '97 saw a wide range of great films hit theaters across the globe.
- 10 ‘Contact’
- 9 ‘Donnie Brasco’
- 8 ‘The Fifth Element’
- 7 ‘Princess Mononoke’
- 6 ‘The Full Monty’
- 5 ‘Jackie Brown’
- 4 ‘Boogie Nights’
- 3 ‘L.A. Confidential’
- 2 ‘Good Will Hunting’
- 1 ‘Titanic’
Contact follows Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) who works for the SETI program, where part of her duties includes monitoring radio signals from space in search of evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. She is chosen to initiate contact when she discovers proof of life work. Contact is a movie that is situated at the nexus of religion, poli...
Based on a true story, Donnie Brasco follows an FBI undercover agent (Johnny Depp) who, in the 1970s, used the guise of the titular jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida, to infiltrate the Bonanno crime family in New York City. Since Donnie Brascopays equal attention to mob life's intricate clockwork and emotional elements, it provides the viewers w...
Taking place primarily in the 23rd century, The Fifth Elements follows Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), a taxi driver and former special forces major, who is suddenly put in charge of ensuring the Earth’s survival after a young girl (Milla Jovovich) accidentally falls into his car. Dallas then teams up with her to accomplish this by locating four myst...
Princess Mononoke follows Prince Ashitaka (Yôji Matsuda), the last Ainu prince of the Emishi tribe, who finds himself caught up in a conflict between Tatara, a mining colony, and the forest gods while searching for a remedy for a Tatarigami's curse. Ashitaka later encounters San (Yuriko Ishida), a young woman who was reared by wolves and harbors an...
The Full Monty follows six unemployed men, four of whom were formerly steelworkers, who decide to establish a male striptease show in order to raise some money and allow Gaz (Robert Carlyle) to visit his kid. Gaz then claims that their performance will be superior to that of the legendary Chippendales dancers since they will perform “the full monty...
Jackie Brown follows the titular character, played by Pam Grier, a flight attendant who smuggles money into the country from Mexico for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), a gun runner in Los Angeles. When she gets nabbed by ATF, she faces pressure to turn informant on Robbie and needs to find a method to do it without getting herself killed. Many p...
Boogie Nights center on a young nightclub dishwasher Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes a well-known porn star and assumes the screen name "Dirk Diggler.” The film traces his rise during the 1970s Golden Age of Porn through his fall during the 1980s excesses. Boogie Nights is an epic story of excess, pleasure, and porn, delivering the year's s...
Based on the 1990 novel of the same name by James Ellroy, L.A. Confidentialexplores the relationship between police corruption and Hollywood stardom and it also focuses on three policemen who have nothing in common as they look into a string of murders. L.A. Confidentialis one of the best cop movies, L.A. movies, and 1950s movies with the best cast...
Good Will Hunting follows the titular character, played by Matt Damon, a clever self-taught South Boston resident in his 20s, who is recently released from prison and is a natural genius. however, he struggles to find his identity and direction in life, and that's when he meets Dr. Sean Maguire (Robin Williams). There doesn't appear to be much goin...
Told by the 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater (Gloria Stuart), Titanic recounts the tale of the 17-year-old Rose (Kate Winslet) as she falls in love with a broke artist named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) on the titular ill-fated maiden voyage and how he saved her life in every way possible. James Cameron’s Titanicstill holds up against the test o...
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- Eve's Bayou" This is the astonishingly assured debut film by writer-director Kasi Lemmons, who explores the secrets of a Louisiana family through the not always understanding eyes of a 10-year-old girl (Jurnee Smollett).
- The Sweet Hereafter" Atom Egoyan's heartbreaking drama takes place in a small Canadian town in the dead of winter, as a cloud of grief settles over it.
- Boogie Nights" Set in the late 1970s world of X-rated porno films, this ambitious drama by Paul Thomas Anderson wasn't about sex so much as about need: The need to belong, the need to be famous, the need to be part of the Hollywood movie industry--however small and disreputable that part might be.
- Maborosi" There was no more beautiful film this year. Makiko Esumi, a fashion model with a quiet grace and introspection, played a woman who loses her husband, raises their baby until he is a small boy, and then marries again--to a man who lives in an isolated fishing village.
1997 2h 18m R. 8.2 (625K) Rate. 91 Metascore. As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. Director Curtis Hanson Stars Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce.
"Good Will Hunting", "L.A. Confidential", "The Fifth Element", "Princess Mononoke", & "Men in Black" are on The Best Movies of 1997 on Flickchart.
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Jun 17, 2020 · The flagship film of 1997 was James Cameron’s Titanic, a behemoth that went on to win a record number of 11 Oscars (including best picture and best director) and grossed over $1bn world-wide making it the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
