List of films released in 1997 in USA
by lucasmouraquaresma | created - 15 Nov 2022 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicAll films are released in 1997 in United States.
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1. Hercules (1997)
G | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Barbara Barrie
Votes: 254,694 | Gross: $99.05M
USA: 13 June 1997 (limited) USA: 14 June 1997 (New York City, New York) (premiere) USA: 27 June 1997
2. Cats Don't Dance (1997)
G | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Danny, an ambitious singing and dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
Director: Mark Dindal | Stars: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole, Ashley Peldon
Votes: 8,472 | Gross: $3.56M
USA: 26 March 1997
3. Metro (1997)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Kim Miyori, Art Evans
Votes: 29,044 | Gross: $31.99M
USA: 15 January 1997 (Hollywood, California) (premiere) USA: 17 January 1997
4. The Fifth Element (1997)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm
Votes: 505,322 | Gross: $63.54M
USA: 9 May 1997
5. Anastasia (1997)
G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
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.
Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer
Votes: 135,812 | Gross: $58.41M
USA: 14 November 1997 (New York City, New York) USA: 21 November 1997
6. The Little Mermaid (1989)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Votes: 290,584 | Gross: $111.54M
USA: 14 November 1997 (re-release)
7. Happy Together (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton
Votes: 33,953 | Gross: $0.19M
USA: 10 October 1997 (New York Film Festival)
8. Starship Troopers (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 320,581 | Gross: $54.81M
USA: 4 November 1997 (Westwood, California) (premiere) USA: 7 November 1997
9. Fallen Angels (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Votes: 50,638
USA: 7 October 1997 (New York Film Festival)
10. Mousehunt (1997)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
Two stumblebum inheritors are determined to rid their antique house of a mouse who is equally determined to stay where he is.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 60,419 | Gross: $61.92M
USA: 19 December 1997
11. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy
A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 256,803 | Gross: $53.88M
12. Napoleon (1995)
G | 81 min | Adventure, Family
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Jamie Croft, Philip Quast, Susan Lyons, Coralie Sawade
Votes: 2,037 | Gross: $0.05M
13. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy
Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Votes: 47,762 | Gross: $10.69M
14. Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
R | 84 min | Drama
Two girls wait outside a young actor's door and find out he's had them both as "only" girlfriend the last ten months. They wait inside after breaking in. When Blake comes home he just can't stop lying but they stay.
Director: James Toback | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Angel David
Votes: 8,706 | Gross: $1.95M
15. Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! (1997 Video)
Unrated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Family
When Junior asparagus breaks his Dad's bowling plate, Junior lies about it, then Junior lies more until he can't stop. And his friend fib, grows big and takes over Bumblyburg!
Directors: Chris Olsen, Phil Vischer | Stars: Mike Nawrocki, Tim Gregory, Phil Vischer, Lisa Vischer
Votes: 920
16. VeggieTales: Josh and the Big Wall (1997 Video)
Unrated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Family
The Israelites are trying to get to the promised land, but first they must pass through Jericho, which is guarded by...the French Peas. Also, some of Joshua's charges have their own ideas ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Olsen, Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki | Stars: Kurt Heinecke, Tim Johnson, Mike Nawrocki, Jim Poole
Votes: 770
17. Anastasia (I) (1997 Video)
G | 48 min | Animation, Family
Life is easy for young Russian Princess Anastasia, with the castles and fabulous wealth that go with being the daughter of Czar Nicholas.
Director: Diane Paloma Eskenazi | Star: Charles Martinet
Votes: 1,013
18. The Lost World (1925)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone
Votes: 5,799 | Gross: $1.19M
19. Bloodsport III (1996 Video)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Sport
After his trainer is murdered, Alex Cardo uses his martial arts skills and takes on the one responsible.
Director: Alan Mehrez | Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, John Rhys-Davies, Amber Kelleher-Andrews, Uni Park
Votes: 1,692
20. The Climb (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
Chuck, a crusty old civic engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. With irreverent wit, he rattles on, in his irascible humorous style, burning his spicy stories into the imagination of a young neighbor kid Danny.
Director: Bob Swaim | Stars: John Hurt, Gregory Smith, David Strathairn, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 422
21. East of Hope Street (1997)
88 min | Drama
A teenage Salvadoran refugee living in the U.S. struggles to survive the abuses of home, the inner city, and an overburdened social system in a Los Angeles most of us never see.
Director: Nate Thomas | Stars: Jude Herrera, Tim Russ, Roxanne Coyne, Magda Rivera
Votes: 80
22. How the Toys Saved Christmas (1996)
Not Rated | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
Director: Enzo D'Alò | Stars: Dario Fo, Mary Tyler Moore, Lella Costa, Tony Randall
Votes: 614
23. Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996 Video)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Our deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins, Guy Siner
Votes: 8,694
24. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Kristy Yeung
Votes: 7,569
25. Flushed (1997)
Comedy
A series of comic vignettes that take place primarily in a nightclub women's and men's room.
Director: Carrie Ansell | Stars: Miriam Shor, Sharon Houston, Adolph Dupree Brown, Adam Walden
Votes: 154 | Gross: $0.00M
26. Titanic (1997)
PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Votes: 1,278,175 | Gross: $659.33M
27. Eric Clapton: Live in Hyde Park (1997 TV Special)
89 min | Music
Director: Julia Knowles | Stars: Eric Clapton, Dave Bronze, Steve Gadd, Andy Fairweather Low
Votes: 122
28. Marvin's Room (1996)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
After seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.
Director: Jerry Zaks | Stars: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro
Votes: 29,977 | Gross: $12.78M
29. True Women (1997)
PG-13 | 183 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
Stars: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Michael York
Votes: 2,498
30. Natural Enemy (1996 Video)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A businessman (Donald Sutherland) begins to suspect his young new partner (William McNamara) has a deadly ulterior motive for getting close to him and his family.
Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Donald Sutherland, William McNamara, Lesley Ann Warren, Joe Pantoliano
Votes: 681
31. The Truce (1997)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,825 | Gross: $0.07M
32. Pronto (1997 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time ... See full summary »
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Peter Falk, Glenne Headly, James Le Gros, Sergio Castellitto
Votes: 230
33. 4 Little Girls (1997)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Maxine McNair, Walter Cronkite, Chris McNair, Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Votes: 3,572 | Gross: $0.13M
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