American films of 1997

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A list of American films released in 1997.
Titanic became the highest grossing film of all time, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.


















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[edit] Highest grossing

1997
Rank
Title Studio Box Office Gross
Total Int.l U.S./Canada
1. Titanic Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox $1,835,300,000 $600,788,188
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Universal Pictures $615,100,000 $229,086,679
3. Men in Black Columbia Pictures $576,747,615 $250,690,539
4. Tomorrow Never Dies MGM/United Artists $346,632,007 $125,304,276
5. As Good As It Gets Sony Pictures $314,178,011 $280,337,474
6. Air Force One Columbia Pictures/Buena Vista International $302,888,056 $172,956,409
7. Liar Liar Universal Pictures $302,710,615 $181,410,615
8. My Best Friend's Wedding Sony Pictures $299,288,605 $127,120,029
9. The Fifth Element Columbia Pictures (distribution only) $249,340,020 $63,820,180
10. The Full Monty Fox Searchlight Pictures $243,957,453 $45,948,975

[edit] # - A

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1997
...First Do No Harm
12 Angry Men
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Hallmark film)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film)
4 Little Girls
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
9 millimeter
Aberration
Absolute Power
Addicted to Love
Affliction
Aflatoon
Afterglow
Air Bud
Air Force One Wolfgang Petersen Harrison Ford Action
The Alarmist
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Albino Alligator
Alien: Resurrection
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
All Over Me
All's Well, Ends Well 1997
An American Werewolf in Paris
Amistad
Anaconda
Anastasia Don Bluth, Gary Goldman Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Hank Azaria, Christopher Lloyd, Angela Lansbury Animated film
Angels in the Endzone
Anna Karenina
Another Day in Paradise
Anthem to Beauty
The Apostle
Area 51: The Alien Interview
Armageddon Bruce Willis Suspense, Thriller
As Good as It Gets James L. Brooks Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr. Romantic comedy
The Assignment
Asteroid
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Spoof Spy comedy

[edit] B

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Batman and Robin Joel Schumacher Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone Action
B*A*P*S
Back in Business Philippe Mora Brian Bosworth, Joe Torry Action, Adventure direct-to-video
Bajo Bandera
Bean Mel Smith Rowan Atkinson Comedy
The Beautician and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Animated film
Below Utopia Kurt Voss Alyssa Milano, Ice-T Thriller also known as "Body Count", direct-to-video
Bent
The Best Bad Thing
Best Men Tamra Davis Fred Ward, Drew Barrymore, Dean Cain Comedy direct-to-video
Bet
A Better Place
Beverly Hills Ninja Dennis Dugan Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou Action comedy
Bharathi Kannamma
The Big One Michael Moore Michael Moore Documentary
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock
Blackrock
The Blood Oranges
Bloodsport III Alan Mehrez Daniel Bernhardt, John Rhys-Davies, James Hong, Pat Morita Action direct-to-video
Bongwater
Boogie Boy
Boogie Nights Paul Thomas Anderson Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Heather Graham Drama
Booty Call
Border
The Boxer
Boys Life 2
Les Boys
The Brave
Breakdown
Breast Men
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Broadway Damage
Brother Aleksei Balabanov Crime
Buddy
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
The Butcher Boy

[edit] C

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Campfire Tales
Cannibal Rollerbabes
Career Girls
Casper: A Spirited Beginning Sean McNamara Direct-to-video
The Castle
Cats Don't Dance Animated film
Character
Chasing Amy
Children of Heaven
Chinese Box
Chinese Midnight Express
A Christmas Carol
Chronicle of a Disappearance
City of Industry
Clockwatchers
Common Bonds
Con Air Simon West Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich Action thriller
Conspiracy Theory
Contact
The Contact
Cop Land
Coven
Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Cremaster Cycle
Crossed Swords
Crowned and Dangerous
Cube
Cure

[edit] D

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Dancehall Queen
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters
Danger Zone
Dante's Peak Roger Donaldson Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton Action-adventure
Daud
Dead Fire
Deconstructing Harry Woody Allen Woody Allen
Def Jam's How to Be a Player Lionel C. Martin Comedy
Defying Gravity
Demolition University
The Designated Mourner
The Devil's Advocate
Dogtown
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Donnie Brasco
Double Team Tsui Hark Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke Action

[edit] E

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Edge
The Eel
Eight Days a Week
Elevated
Elvis Meets Nixon
The End of Evangelion
The End of Violence
Ernest Goes to Africa
Ernest in the Army
Eve's Bayou
Event Horizon
Evil Ed
The Ex
Excess Baggage

[edit] F

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Face
Face/Off John Woo John Travolta, Nicolas Cage Action
FairyTale: A True Story
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Fathers' Day
Favorite Son
Fever Pitch
Fierce Creatures
The Fifth Element Luc Besson Bruce Willis Sci-Fi
Fire Down Below Félix Enríquez Alcalá Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson Action
Firehouse
Firelight
Flash
Flubber Les Mayfield Robin Williams Comedy, Fantasy
Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll
Fools Rush In
For Richer or Poorer
Four Days in September
Full Tilt Boogie
Fun Bar Karaoke
Funny Games
Future War

[edit] G

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
G.I. Jane Ridley Scott Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft Action
The Game
Gang Related
George Wallace
George of the Jungle Sam Weisman Brendan Fraser Comedy
Geri's Game
Get a Clue
Ghosts Stan Winston Michael Jackson
Gone Fishin'
Good Burger
Good Will Hunting Gus Van Sant Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver
Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here
Green Fish
Gridlock'd
Gupt: The Hidden Truth

[edit] H

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary
The Hanging Garden
Happy Together
Hav Plenty
Henry Fool
Hercules Animated film
Hitler
Hitman
Home Alone 3 Alex D. Linz
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves Rick Moranis
Hoodlum
Horsey
Hostile Waters
The House of Yes
Hugo Pool
Hurricane Streets

[edit] I

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Married a Strange Person!
I Went Down
I'm Bout It
The Ice Storm
In & Out
In the Company of Men
In the Gloaming
In the Presence of a Clown
Inferno
The Informant
Insomnia
Intensity
Inventing the Abbotts
It's In the Water

[edit] J

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Jackal
Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker
Jane Eyre
Jungle 2 Jungle John Pasquin Tim Allen, Martin Short Comedy
Jungle Emperor Leo
Just Write
Justice League of America

[edit] K

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Kangaroo Palace
Keeping the Promise
Keys to Tulsa
Kiss the Girls
Kitchen Party
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Kull the Conqueror
Kundun Martin Scorsese Spiritual Biopic Dalai Lama biopic -Tibetan nationalism raised Chinese condemnation of the film

[edit] L

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island Animated film
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Last Stand at Saber River
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Latter-Day Saints
Lawn Dogs
Lawyer Lawyer
Leave It to Beaver
Leprechaun 4: In Space
Liberty!
Life Is Beautiful Comedy, Drama
A Life Less Ordinary
Little Red Riding Hood
Live Flesh
Loha
Lolita
The Longest Nite
Lost Highway
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Love Jones
Love Stories
Love Today
Love and Death on Long Island
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Lovelife
Lucky Three

[edit] M

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
MPG: Motion Picture Genocide
Made in Hong Kong
Malcom and Melvin
Mama Don't Cry
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Man of the Day
Master
Masterminds
The Matchmaker
McHale's Navy
Mean Guns
Meet Wally Sparks
The Member of the Wedding
Men in Black Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones Sci-Fi Sparked a cult MIB following
Men with Guns
Metro Thomas Carter Eddie Murphy, Michelle Wincott Action, Crime
Metroland
The Midas Touch
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off
Mimic
Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Money Talks Brett Ratner Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen Action comedy
Monty Roberts: A Real Horse Whisperer
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation John R. Leonetti Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, Irina Pantaeva, James Remar Action adventure, Fantasy
Mousehunt
Mr. Nice Guy Samo Hung Jackie Chan, Richard Norton Action comedy
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs. Brown
Murder at 1600
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Dinner with Oswald
My Son the Fanatic
My Teacher Ate My Homework
The Myth of Fingerprints

[edit] N

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Never Too Late
Niagara, Niagara
Night Falls on Manhattan
The Night Flier
Night of the Demons 3
Nightwatch
No. 3
Northern Lights
Nothing to Lose
Nowhere

[edit] O

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Odyssey
Office Killer
Oliver Twist
Omega Doom
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
On the Edge of Innocence
Once Upon a Time in China and America
One Eight Seven
One Night Stand
Oscar and Lucinda
Out to Sea
Outsider

[edit] P

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Painted Angels
Paradise Road
Parasite Eve series
The Peacemaker Mimi Leder George Clooney, Nicole Kidman Action, Thriller
Perfect Blue
Perfect Body
The Pest
Photographing Fairies
Picture Perfect
Pippi Longstocking
Playing God
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
Police 2020
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin Animated film
The Postman Kevin Costner
Potential Sins
Preaching to the Perverted
Prefontaine
Pressurecooker
Private Parts Howard Stern
Pullet Surprise

[edit] Q

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Quicksilver Highway
Quiet days in hollywood

[edit] R

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Rainmaker
Rainy Dog
The Real Blonde
Rebecca
Red Corner
Regeneration
The Relic
A River Made to Drown In
Road to Nhill
Robinson Crusoe
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Rosewood
Rough Riders
Running Time

[edit] S

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
The Saint
Saint-Ex
Scream 2 Wes Craven David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O'Connell Horror, Thriller
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo
See the Sea
The Serpent's Kiss
Seven Years in Tibet Jean Jacuqes Annaud Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Victor Wong, Lhakpa Tsamchoe Based on Heinrich Harrer book. Pitt and Thewlis banned from China for life due to Tibetan nationalism.
Shadow Conspiracy
She's So Lovely
Shooting Fish
Shrieker
A Simple Wish Michael Ritchie Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Kathleen Turner Fantasy
Six Ways to Sunday
Sixth Happiness
The Sixth Man
Skyscraper
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Soul Food
Space Marines
Space Truckers
Spaceman
The Spanish Prisoner
Spawn
Speed 2: Cruise Control Action thriller
Sprung
Starship Troopers Sci-fi
Steel Kenneth Johnson Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Ray J Action adventure, Superhero
Stranger in the House
Strategic Command
Strawberry Fields
Suicide Kings
Super Ranger Kids
Super Speedway
The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain
Swept from the Sea
Switchback

[edit] T

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Tango Lesson
Tekken: The Motion Picture Animated film
Telling Lies in America
Thank God He Met Lizzie
That Darn Cat
That Old Feeling
The Butcher Boy
The Sweet Hereafter
The Well
This Is the Sea
Those Were the Days
A Thousand Acres
Detective Conan: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper Crime Animated film
Titanic James Cameron Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane Romantic disaster 11 Academy Awards, Broke box office records $1,835,300,000
Top of the World
Touch
Tower of Terror
Traveller
Trekkies
Trial and Error
Trojan War
Troops
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Jonathan Tzachor Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise, Jason David Frank, Catherine Sutherland, Amy Jo Johnson, Steve Cardenas, Austin St. John, Jason Narvy, Paul Schrier Action, Adventure, fantasy
Turbulence
The Twilight of the Golds
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Twin Town
Twisted
Two Girls and a Guy

[edit] U

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
U Turn Jennifer Lopez
The Ugly
Ulee's Gold
Uncut
Under Wraps
Under the Lighthouse Dancing

[edit] V

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Vampire Journals
Vanishing Point
Vegas Vacation
Velocity Trap
Volcano

[edit] W

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
Warriors of Virtue
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Welcome to Sarajevo
Welcome to Woop Woop
What the Deaf Man Heard
Whatever Will Be, Will Be
Who Is Running?
Wild America Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow Adventure comedy, Drama
Wilde
The Wings of the Dove
The Winter Guest
Wishmaster
Wolves Cry Under the Moon
The Woodlanders
The Wrong Guy

[edit] Y

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Year of the Horse
Yes Boss
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood

[edit] Z

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
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