Best most potent award winning movies from 1997
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1 Life Is Beautiful (1997)
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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- 1997-12-20 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
Rating
8.449
2 Amistad (1997)
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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- 1997-12-10 | Drama / History
Cast
- Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
Rating
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7.023
3 The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
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- 1997-09-04 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache
Rating
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6.619
4 Eve's Bayou (1997)
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
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- 1997-11-07 | Drama
Cast
- Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good
Rating
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6.4
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5 Mrs Brown (1997)
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.
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- 1997-07-18 | Drama / History
Cast
- Judi Dench, Billy Connolly
Rating
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6.759
6 Good Will Hunting (1997)
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
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- 1997-12-05 | Drama
Cast
- Matt Damon, Robin Williams
Rating
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8.158
7 Fireworks (1997)
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi leaves the police force to spend time with his wife at home, and must find a way to pay off his debts to the yakuza.
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- 1997-10-30 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto
Rating
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7.678
8 Titanic (1997)
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
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- 1997-11-18 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Rating
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7.906
9 The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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- 1997-09-25 | Drama
Cast
- Ian Holm, Sarah Polley
Rating
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6.9
10 Happy Together (1997)
A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.
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- 1997-05-30 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Leslie Cheung
Rating
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7.561
