1997 Movies

The origins of Halloween are explored in this engrossing program on the subject. A ghoulish array of costumes, make up, and decoration descend on...

Roast of Rodney Dangerfield recorded in Aspen on his 75th birthday.

The bourgeois couple Esther and Michael have got themselves caught up in a seemingly ironic game of power, provocation and sexuality. Esther is...

Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a...

This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on both the Collector's Edition and Franchise...

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront...

Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with...

The year is 1972. Finnish endurance running is in its golden age. The head physician of a mental hospital goes on a bike ride with a marathon runner...

A paper boy is invited in for a glass of milk by an elderly man. An alluring young woman enters the room. The paper boy leaves the room to take a...

In support of undocumented immigrants in France, a collective film jointly signed by 200 French filmmakers, producers, distributors, and cinema...

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and...

"Those Were the days" speculates on what would happen if a hot international art house director were transported back in time to the 1960s Hong Kong...

Nino, a baker's apprentice from the kingdom of Lailonia, has a very beautiful face. He notices that wrinkles are appearing on it. He borrows money...

Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now...

In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a...

A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case....

Documentary about U2's album Pop and following tour.

A dog is adopted by a moron, and is taken to the store to go shopping.

The three Szelid brothers go on a road trip after the disappearance of their father and death of their mother.

A USA Network Special that aired on January 14th, 1997 in the lead-up to that year's Royal Rumble show. Produced by the World Wrestling Federation...

Former Brownies recall their time in Girl Guides as seven and eight year olds.

This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven...

Documentary featuring the British alternative rock band Bush on tour.

FBI agents attempt to protect a woman who is testifying against her gangster boy friend. However, an army of assassins are after her in an endless...

A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this...

This playful video from famed director and photographer Tracey Moffatt turns the tables on traditional representations of desire to examine the power...

A little boy who doesn't want to resign to his father's death believes that his father's twin brother is his dad....

It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released,...

After his mother dies, Dan McCarthy returns to his upstate New York family home hoping to find out why his older brother Robert was not at the...

Tony Ferrino performs in a programme dedicated to his brilliant career as the Eurovision star from Portugal performs music and dance numbers with...

‘Casta Diva’ is the famous aria for soprano and men's chorus from the opera ‘Norma’ by Vincenzo Bellini and marks one of the...

A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a...

Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.

A businessman's son is kidnappped, but the kidnapper's sister-in-law and her husband are opposed to the plan. They take the boy and the ransom money...

Dr. Paul Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an approaching comet will collide with earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's...

Four teenagers discover the value of the variety of life on earth - and are inspired by positive actions to safeguard it.

A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

In the years following Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples learn to practice His teachings. While working at the salt mine, James witnesses two...

An unexpected surprise awaits dinner guests.