1997 Movies

Culticide in California explores the grim events surrounding the mass suicide of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult, led by Marshall Applewhite. Thi...

Documentary film by Duan Jinchuan

It’s been 16 years, and finally the Diary ends, an unintended ending that visits familiar territory.

Film released in 1997

The twentieth century is sweeping through Central Europe. States, systems, governments, ideologies, and slogans are changing. No one born under the Au...

3 min 40 seconds made in 1997

BAGLIGHT, as the title implies, was inspired by Stan Brakhage's legendary MOTHLIGHT. Only this version, as the filmmaker aptly describes, is "cruelty...

Maybe Never restages both a multitude of narratives about the loss of innocence and the changing nature of sexual fantasy and activity in the age of A...

A mustachioed dandy gallops up and scales a high tower to "rescue" a sweet, innocent-looking damsel. She captures him and ties him down, for what he t...

A mock promotional film unveiling the Cybracero Program, an effort that will allow Mexican laborers to tele-commute to agricultural work in the US wit...

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

After failing to get into college, Lu Lin has to take up the same job as his father, a railway mechanic, when his dream is to work in the Air Force. L...

Clearly inspired by the then-mayor of Naples Antonio Bassolino, with references to the problems of the city and its hopes of a renaissance, the works...

'Call Waiting' (1997) is a superb representation of Simpson's adeptness at playing with race and relationships through cinematic depiction. 'Call Wait...

Sandra is the daughter of an ex-club dancer who is trying to live a decent life. However, her stepdad has other plans for her so she rans away from ho...

“Sambal Belacan in San Francisco” is a documentary which revolves around three women from Singapore who move to San Francisco in the 1980s to enjoy th...

A painter who has lost the meaning of life due to war recalls a story from his childhood in a brief moment when he tries to commit suicide. The child...