1997 Movies

The son of a miser and the daughter of a wealthy man get married. However, their parents try to separate them as they oppose their union.

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam...

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

A strange series of cinematic doubts.

A successful, but unhappy man tries to be himself.

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.

"Waiting for the Passion" is a volatile male character study of a college student who wants to leave America to escape the turbulent relationships he...

A raw, rough-hewn look at the life of Screw publisher Al Goldstein.

Inspired by her own two children's multi-ethnic heritage, Ms. Hamanaka uses soaring text and beautiful art to celebrate the glorious diversity of...

A short created by John R. Dilworth involving the daily lives of a yellow man and a purple cat.

Huck feeds his mother a tainted baked alaska.

Sketch comedy performed a trio of performers.

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first...

Building contractor Nambiar learns that his spate of bad luck is due to a statue kept at home. He succeeds in transferring his misfortune to his...

Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film...

Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother...

This installment of the Classic Albums series follows the making of two Grateful Dead albums, the fiercely experimental Anthem of the Sun and the...

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 1975 cult classic Trilogy of Terror.

James Dean's remarkable talent and rebel attitude took Hollywood by storm. But as Dean's star begins to rise, his passionate affair with Italian...

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

Close, handheld studies of stone, sky and texture, an exploration of landscape in which the framing does the work. An animate! commission for Channel...

Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll, is a 12 minute spoof of a 1950s black and white science fiction B-movie. It was first released in 1997 and starred Ardal...

A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too...

Sylvester meets up with an adorable new character named Cornbread.

A young man tries to escape a conversation about pregnancy with his girlfriend by chasing a mouse around his apartment.

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

Back in Vietnam, Major Whittmar sold out his comrades to save his own skin. Now, he's a rich, ruthless land baron who's getting richer by squeezing...

Shockumentary featuring uncensored footage of real-life emergencies. It captures graphic scenes involving accidents, injuries, and medical...

Barney takes the kids on his imaginary adventure bus ride to go some places including the castle, the pizza place, the horse ranch, and even the...

Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their...

Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family...

a 30-minute short film about a desperate World War II P-47 fighter pilot

A gay man seeks to discover what kinship, if any, exists between his white family and the nearby blacks who share the name of Alston.

Elton John entertains a celebrity studio audience, answering questions and singing songs with his guests.

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...