Subgenre Sampler
L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey… - Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)- Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg…
- Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…
Live Flesh (1997)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal - Five aggrieved characters get wrapped in a sticky web of consequence after a fateful incident leaves one paralysed and another in jail. Dir.…
Locusts, The (1997)- Dir. John Patrick Kelley
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kate Capshaw, Ashley Judd - Tawdry, mostly shallow slice of Southern 'Faulkner–esque' pulp has Vince Vaughn (SWINGERS) drifting into a hot spot of small–town trouble…
Lost Highway (1997)- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty… - Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms. David Lynch…
Lost Valley (1997)- Dir. Dale G Bradley
Feat. Andrea Thompson, Meg Foster, Mandie Gillette… - Straight–to–video local thriller concerning two backpackers (Meg Foster and Andrea Thompson) and their daughters (Mandie Gillette and…
Maker, The (1997)- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Johnathon Rhys-Myers, Matthew Modine, Fairuza Balk… - To all appearances a straightforward crime–film, the dir. of RIVER'S EDGE distinguishes the coming–of–age tale of troubled teen…
Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1997)- Feat. Tim Dutton, Julie Walters, Adrian Dunbar…
- Alan Bleasdale cleverly reworks Francis Durbridge's famous novel, relocating its thriller premise of a man who falls in love with a mysterious,…
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. John Cusack, Kevin Spacey - John Cusack and Kevin Spacey convene for Clint Eastwood's moody adaptation of John Berendt's fact–based novel – a complex, atmospheric…
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