Absolute Power, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Dennis Haysbert, Scott Glenn, E. G. Marshall

Addicted to Love, starring Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick

Air Bud

Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman

The Alarmist, starring David Arquette and Stanley Tucci

Albino Alligator, directed by Kevin Spacey, starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Viggo Mortensen

Alien Resurrection, starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder

All Over Me

An American Werewolf in Paris, starring Tom Everett Scott

Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou

Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Jon Voight

Anastasia, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

Another Day in Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith and James Woods

The Apostle, directed by and starring Robert Duvall, with Miranda Richardson, Farrah Fawcett

As Good as It Gets, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

The Assignment

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach and starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Mimi Rogers, Michael York

Bang

Batman & Robin, starring George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman

Bean, directed by Mel Smith, starring Rowan Atkinson - (UK)

Bent, starring Clive Owen - (UK)

Best Men, starring Dean Cain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Drew Barrymore, Fred Ward, Andy Dick

Beverly Hills Ninja, starring Chris Farley

Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle

Booty Call, starring Jamie Foxx

The Borrowers, starring John Goodman

Le Bossu (The Hunchback), starring Daniel Auteuil - (France)

The Boxer, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J. T. Walsh

Brother (Brat) - (Russia)

Buddy, starring Rene Russo

The Butcher Boy, directed by Neil Jordan - (Ireland)

Buud Yam - (Burkina Faso)

Campfire Tales

Career Girls, directed by Mike Leigh - (UK)

The Castle - (Australia)

Cats Don't Dance, directed by Mark Dindal

Character (Karakter) - (Netherlands/Belgium) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Chasing Amy, directed by Kevin Smith, starring Ben Affleck

Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان), directed by Majid Majidi - (Iran) - first Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar

City of Industry, directed by John Sayles

Clockwatchers, starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow

Commandments, starring Courteney Cox

Con Air, starring John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi

Conspiracy Theory, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts

Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt

Cop Land, directed by James Mangold, starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro

Crayola Kids Adventures: Tales of Gulliver's Travels

Cube - (Canada)

Dakan (Destiny) (Guinea)

Dangerous Ground, starring Ice Cube

Dante's Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton

Deconstructing Harry, directed by and starring Woody Allen

Def Jam's How to Be a Player

Defying Gravity

The Devil's Advocate, starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino

The Devil's Own, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt

Different Strokes, starring Dana Plato and Bentley Mitchum

Dogtown, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Jon Favreau

Donnie Brasco, directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp

Double Team, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mickey Rourke

Dream with the Fishes

The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin

The Eel, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award

The End of Evangelion (July 19 - Japan)

Evangelion: Death and Rebirth - (Japan)

Event Horizon, starring Laurence Fishburne

Eve's Bayou, starring Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson

Excess Baggage, starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro

Face, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone - (UK)

Face/Off, directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage

Fathers' Day, starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal

FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue

Fever Pitch, starring Colin Firth - (UK)

Fierce Creatures, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin - (UK/US)

The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker - (France)

Fire Down Below, starring Steven Seagal

...First Do No Harm, starring Meryl Streep, Fred Ward

First Time Felon, starring Omar Epps and Delroy Lindo

Flubber, directed by Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams, Christopher McDonald, Clancy Brown, voices by Jodi Benson

Fools Rush In, starring Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry

For Richer or Poorer, starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley

Free Willy 3: The Rescue, directed by Sam Pillsbury

The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring Robert Carlyle - (UK)

Funny Games, directed by Michael Haneke - (Austria)

G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore and Anne Bancroft

The Game, directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn

Gang Related, starring James Belushi, Dennis Quaid, Tupac Shakur

Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

George of the Jungle, directed by Sam Weisman, starring Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree and John Cleese (voice only)

Ghosts, a music short featuring Michael Jackson

Gone Fishin', starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover

Good Burger, starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell

Goodbye America - (Philippines/US)

Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Ben Affleck

Gridlock'd, starring Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur

Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd

Hacks, starring Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter

Hamam - (Italy/Spain/Turkey)

Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano - Palme d'Or award - (Japan)

Heaven's Burning, starring Russell Crowe and Youki Kudoh - (Australia)

Henry Fool, directed by Hal Hartley - winner of Best Screenplay Cannes Film Festival

Hercules

Highball, starring Justine Bateman

Hold You Tight, directed by Stanley Kwan - (Hong Kong)

Home Alone 3, starring Alex D. Linz and Scarlett Johansson

Hoodlum, starring Laurence Fishburne

The Hound

Hugo Pool, starring Alyssa Milano

Hurricane Streets

I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe

The Ice Storm, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire

In & Out, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Matt Dillon, Bob Newhart

Incognito, starring Jason Patric

Into Thin Air

Inventing the Abbotts, starring Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly

The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere

Jackie Brown, directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro

Jackie Chan's First Strike - (Hong Kong)

Josh and the Big Wall!

Jungle 2 Jungle, starring Tim Allen

Just Write, starring Jeremy Piven

Kini and Adams - (Burkina Faso)

Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Germany)

Kull the Conqueror

Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese

L.A. Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell

Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!

Lawn Dogs, starring Sam Rockwell

Leave It to Beaver, starring Christopher McDonald and Janine Turner

Lewis and Clark and George

Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey

Life is Beautiful, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni - (Italy) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

A Life Less Ordinary, starring Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz - (UK/US)

Little City, starring Jon Bon Jovi

Live Flesh, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Bardem - (Spain)

Lolita, starring Jeremy Irons

Lost Highway, directed by David Lynch, starring Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore

Love and Death on Long Island, starring John Hurt - (Canada/UK)

Love Jones

Lovelife, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Carla Gugino

Nevada, starring Amy Brenneman

Night Falls on Manhattan, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Andy García

Night of the Demons 3

Nil by Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, starring Ray Winstone - (UK)

Nothing to Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins

Nowhere

187, starring Samuel L. Jackson

One Night Stand, starring Wesley Snipes

Orgazmo starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar

Ossos (Portugal)

Out to Sea, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman

Perdita Durango, starring Javier Bardem and Rosie Perez - (Spain)

The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug), directed by Ademir Kenović - (Bosnia and Herzogovina)

Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston

Pippi Longstocking - (Sweden)

Playing God, starring David Duchovny

The Postman, directed by and starring Kevin Costner

Prefontaine, starring Jared Leto

Pride Divide

Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) - (Japan)

Private Parts, starring Howard Stern

The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight

Red Corner, starring Richard Gere

Regeneration, starring Jonathan Pryce - (UK)

The Relic, starring Penelope Ann Miller

Retroactive

A River Made to Drown In

RocketMan

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino

Rosewood, directed by John Singleton, starring Ving Rhames

The Saint, starring Val Kilmer

Scream 2, starring Neve Campbell

Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez

Seven Years in Tibet, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt - (US/UK)

She's So Lovely, starring Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta

Shooting Fish - (UK)

The 6th Man, starring Marlon Wayans

Soul Food, starring Vanessa L. Williams and Vivica A. Fox

The Soong Sisters, starring Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh and Vivian Wu - (Hong Kong)

Space Marines

Spaceman

The Spanish Prisoner, directed by David Mamet, starring Campbell Scott and Steve Martin

Spawn, starring Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Frank Welker and Martin Sheen

Speed 2: Cruise Control, starring Sandra Bullock

Spice World, featuring The Spice Girls and Richard E. Grant - (UK/US)

Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition)

Starship Troopers, directed by Paul Verhoeven

Steel, starring Shaquille O'Neal

Strawberry Fields

Suicide Kings, starring Christopher Walken

Sunday

Super Speedway

The Sweet Hereafter, starring Ian Holm - (Canada)

Switchback, starring Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid

Taste of Cherry, directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran) - Palme d'Or award

That Old Feeling, starring Bette Midler and Dennis Farina

The Thief (vor) - (Russia)

This World, Then the Fireworks, starring Billy Zane and Gina Gershon

Time Under Fire

Titanic, directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture

Tomorrow Never Dies, starring Pierce Brosnan (as James Bond), Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench - (UK)

Trojan War

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

Turbulence, starring Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly

U Turn, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte

Under the Lighthouse Dancing - (Australia)

Ulee's Gold, starring Peter Fonda

Vegas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase

Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones

Wag the Dog, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman

Waiting for Guffman, directed by Christopher Guest

Warriors of Virtue - (US/China)

Welcome to Sarajevo, starring Woody Harrelson

The Wiggles Movie - (Australia)

Wild America

The Wings of the Dove, starring Helena Bonham Carter - (UK/US)

Wishmaster

The Wrong Guy, starring Dave Foley - (Canada)

Year of the Horse, a documentary film about Neil Young directed by Jim Jarmusch

Zeus and Roxanne, starring Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan

Highest-grossing films[edit]

The top ten films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows: