1997 Movies

Nine-year-old Roy likes a bottle of colored sand. A bedouin in Sinai tries to sell it to him.

In Memphis, a middle-class white teenager and a black Vietnamese immigrant meet in a gay cruising spot and discover what they don't have in common.

Six gay friends discuss love, friendship and infidelity over the course of three significant evenings

Lionel tries to get into a building through the stairwell, but are on each floor upheld by strange people.

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and “impossible” stains - while...

Sometimes, a church is the most romantic place on Earth.

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

An experimental cut-up portrait of Maggie Chung made by Olivier Assayas for the Foundation of Contemporary Art.

Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it...

This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe leader as he falls in love and strives for peace.

Quarreled sisters; Sarah and Wanda inherit property from their mother. It has always belonged to the family. Sarah insists on selling it as soon as...

In November of 1988 four young men abducted and held Junko Furuta for several weeks in the house of one of her captors. This is her story.

Four aging animals, a dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster escape from their former homes because they weren't as productive and useful for their...

Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic Pasadena Playhouse as a benefit for the Pediatric...

A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.

Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...

When a renowned New York photographer and her new husband arrive for a holiday in a close-knit Jamaican resort town, their dream vacation becomes a...

Video director Jerome Cornuau made his feature-film debut with this showbiz-themed French film. Young Alice (Ambre Boukebza) hitchhikes into the city...

Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.

A short by Steve Street. The film was aqquired on VHS Tape by the BFI National Archive on the 7th of June 1998.

Ramudu, an orphan raised by Taraka, who discovers he is the son of a wealthy man named Gajapathi. He faces conspiracies from his stepmother and her...

9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.

Mac and Monica want to add an element of sexual intrigue to their marriage so they begin picking up men and playing games with them. Monica gets to...

This four-channel video installation was shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called...

A modern update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog. Starring Steve Evets,...

Bad guys are poisoning drinking water, and there is only one man who can stop them, Jeff Fahey.

Asian American drama. interracial romance

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de...

Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of...

Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a...

An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and...

Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.

Fun short movie about wolf, goat and cabbage.

After being run off the road by two fleeing car thieves, an amnesiac starts to put her life back together, unraveling a plot by the carjackers to...

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just...

Kathryn runs a restaurant but one night she calls the police after she sees a suspicious man waiting in his car. However Kathryn sees one of the...

Documentary featuring the British alternative rock band Bush on tour.

For one night Michael Pilz rides through New York with a remarkable taxi driver, Jeff Perkins. Sitting by his side, looking and listening, sometimes...