Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1997

4 Little Girls – Spike Lee

9 Millimeter – Peter Lindmark

12 Storeys – Eric Khoo

Abre los ojos – Alejandro Amenabar

Addicted to Love – Griffin Dunne

Air Bud – Charles Martin Smith

Akrebin Yolculugu – Omer Kavur

Alarmist – Evan Dunsky

Albino Alligator - Kevin Spacey

All Over Me – Alex Sichel

Afterglow – Alan Rudolph

Airbag – Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Amor de hombre – Serrano / Iborra

Amour et confusions – Patrick Braoude

Anaconda – Luis Llosa

Anastasio – Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

Ang Lalaki sa Buhay ni Selya – Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Anna Karenina – Bernard Rose

Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Love in Paris) – Anne Goursaud

Armour of God II: Operation Condor – Jackie Chan

Ashes of Paradise – Marcelo Pineyro

Assassin(s) – Mathieu Kassovitz

The Assignment – Christian Duguay

Bang – Ash

The Banned Woman (La Femme defendue) – Philippe Harel

B*A*P*S – Robert Townsend

Bean – Mel Smith

The Beautician and the Beast – Ken Kwapis

Bent – Sean Mathis

Beveryly Hills Ninja – Dennis Dugan

The Bet – Didier Bourdon / Bernard Campan

Border – J.P. Dutta

The Borrowers – Peter Hewitt

Le Bossu (On Guard) – Philippe de Broca

The Boxer – Jim Sheridan

Les Boys – Louis Saia

The Brave – Johnny Depp

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis – John Henderson

Brother – Aleksei Balabanov

Buddy – Caroline Thompson

La Buena Estrella – Ricardo Franco

Buud Yam – Gaston Kabore

Cats Don’t Dance – Mark Dindal

The Castle – Rob Sitch

The Chambermaid on the Titanic – Bigas Luna

Character – Mike van Diem

City of Industry – John Irvin

Chinese Box – Wayne Wang

Chronical of a Disappearance – Elia Suleiman

Clockwatchers – Jill Sprecher

Comanche Territory – Gerardo Herrero

Conspiracy Theory – Richard Donner

The Contact – Change Yoon-Hyun

La cruz – Alejandro Agresti

Cube – Vincenzo Natali

Cure – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Dakan – Mohamed Camara

Dance of the Wind – Rajan Khosa

Dang Bireley’s and Young Gangsters – Nonzee Nimbuture

Dangerous Ground – Darrell Roodt

Dante’s Peak – Roger Donaldson

Darklands – Julian Richards

Deceiver – Pate Bros.

Def Jam’s How to Be a Player – Lionel C. Martin

Defying Gravity – John Keitel

Destiny – Youssef Chahine

The Designated Mourner – David Hare

The Devil’s Advocate – Taylor Hackford

Dogtown – George Hickenlooper

Driftwood – Ronan O’Leary

Doom Runners – Brendan Maher

Double Team – Tsui Hark

Dream with the Fishes – Finn Taylor

The Eel – Shohei Imamura

The End of Evangelion – Kazuya Tsurumaki / Hideaki Anno

The End of Violence – Wim Wenders

Evangelion: Death and Rebirth - Hideaki Anno

Event Horizon – Paul W.S. Anderson

Excess Baggage – Marco Brambilla

Face – Antonia Bird

FairyTale: A True Story – Charles Sturridge

Fakin’ da Kunk – Tim Chey

Father’s Day – Ivan Reitman

Fire Down Below – Felix Enriquez Alcala

Firelight – William Nicholson

…First Do No Harm – Jim Abrahams

First Time Felon – Charles S. Dutton

Flubber – Les Mayflied

Food of Love – Stephen Poliakoff

Fools Rush In – Andy Tennant

For Richard or Poorer – Bryan Spicer

Four Days in September – Bruno Barreto

Fun Bar Karaoke – Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

A Furhter Gesture – Robert Dornhelm

The Gambler – Karoly Makk

Gang Related – Jim Kouf

George of the Jungle – Sam Weisman

Gone Fishin’ Christopher Cain

Goodbye America – Thierry Notz

Green Fish – Lee Chang-dong

Gridlock’d – Vondie Curtis-Hall

Gupt: The Hidden Truth – Rajiv

Hacks – Gary Rosen

Hamam – Ferzan Ozpetek

Hana-bi – Takeshi Kitano

The Hanging Garden – Thom Fitzgerald

Heaven’s Burning – Craig Lahiff

Highball – Noah Baumback (as Ernie Fusco)

The Hole – Kim Sung-hong

Home Alone 3 – Raja Gosnell

The House of Angelo – Jim Goddard

Hurricane Streets – Morgan J. Freedman

I Know What You Did Last Summer – Jim Gillespie

Innocence (Masumiyet) – Zeki Demirkubuz

Insomnia – Erik Skjoldbjaerg

Inventing the Abbotts – Pat O’Connor

Iruvar – Mani Ratnam

The Island on Bird Street – Soren Kragh-Jacobsen

Jungle 2 Jungle – John Pasquin

Junk Mail – Pal Sletaune

Just Write – Andrew Gallerani

Keep Cool – Zhang Yimou

Keys to Tulsa – Leslie Greif

Kini and Adams – Idrissa Ouedraogo

Kiss or Kill – Bill Bennett

Kiss the Girls – Gary Fleder

Kitchen – Yim Ho

Kull the Conqueror – John Niclella

Kummeli: Kultakuume – Matti Gronberg

The Last Time I Committed Suicide – Stephen T. Kay

Lewis and Clark and George – Rod McCall

Liar Liar – Tom Shadyac

Life is All You Get – Wolfgang Becker

Life is Beautiful – Roberto Benigni

A Life Less Ordinary – Danny Boyle

Little City – Roberto Benabib

Live Flesh – Pedro Almodovar

The Locusts – John Patrick Kelley

Loop – Allan Niblo

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health – Manuel Gomez Pereira

Love Jones – Theodore Witcher

Lovelife – Jon Harmn Fildman

Love Stories – Jerzy Stuhr

Maborosi –

Mad City – Costa-Gavras

Made in Hong Kong – Fruit Chan

The Man Who Knew Too Little – Jon Amiel

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember – Anna Maria Tato

Martin (hache) – Adolfo Aristarain

Masterminds – Roger Christian

The MatchMaker – Mark Joffe

Meet Wally Sparks – Peter Baldwin

Men with Guns – John Sayles

Metro – Thomas Carter

Metroland – Philip Saville

Mimic – Guillermo del Toro

Money Talks – Brett Ratner

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation – John R. Leonetti

Most Wanted – David Hogan

MouseHunt – Gore Verbinski

Mr. Magoo – Stanley Tong

Mrs. Dalloway – Marleen Gorris

Murder at 1600 – Dwight H. Little

My Son the Fanatic – Udayan Prasad

The Myth of Fingerprints – Bart Freundilich

My Name is Joe – Ken Loach

Myself in the Distant Future – Jang In-hak

Neada – Gary Tieche

Never Too Late – Giles Walker

Nightwatch – Ole Bornedal

Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman

Nothing to Lose – Steve Odekerk

Nowhere – Gregg Araki

One Eight Seven – Kevin Reynolds

One Night Stand – Mike Figgis

The Only Thrill – Peter Masterson

Orgazmo – Trey Parker

Ossos – Pedro Costa

On connait la chanson – Alain Resnais

Oscar and Lucinda – Gillian Armstrong

Out to Sea – Martha Coolidge

Ovosodo – Paolo Virzi

Paradise Road – Bruce Beresford

The Peacemaker – Mimi Leder

Perdita Durango (Dance with the Devil) – Alex de la Iglesia

Perfect Blue – Satoshi Kon

The Perfect Circle – Ademir Kenovic

Picture Perfect – Glenn Gordon Caron

Playing God – Andy Wilson

The Postman – Kevin Costner

Preaching to the Perverted – Stuart Urban

Prefontaine – Steve James

Pride Divid – Paris Poirer

The Prince of Homburg – Marco Bellocchio

Princess Mononoke – Hayao Miyazaki

Rainy Dog – Takashi Miike

Red Corner – Jon Avet

Regeneration – Gillies MacKinnon

The River – Tsai Ming-Liang

A River Made to Drown In – James Meredino (as Alan Smithee)

Road to Nhill – Sue Brooks

RocketMan – Stuart Gillard

Rosewood – John Singleton

Same Old Song (On connait la chanson) – Alain Resnais

Secrets of the Heart – Montxo Armendariz

Selena – Gregory Nava

The Serpent’s Kiss – Philippe Rousselot

Seven Years in Tibet – Jean-Jacques Annaud

Shadow Conspiracy – Geroge P. Cosmatos

Shooting Fish – Stefan Schwartz

The 6th Man – Randall Miller

The Soong Sisters – Mabel Cheung

Soul Food – George Tilman, JR.

Spaceman – Scott Dikkers

Spawn – Mark A.Z. Dippe

Speed 2: Cruis Control – Jan de Bont

Spice World – Bob Spiers

Star Kid – Manny Coto

Strawberry Fields – Rea Tajiri

Still Breathing – James Ford Robinson

Suicide Kings – Peter O’Fallon

Sunday – Jonathan Nossiter

Super Speedway – Stephen Low

Swept from the Sea 0 Beeban Kidron

Switchback – Jeb Stuart

The Tango Lesson – Sally Potter

That Darn Cat – Bob Spiers

That Old Feeling – Carl Reiner

The Thief – Pavel Chukrai

A Thousand Acres – Jocelyn Moorhouse

Thank God he Met Lizzie – Cherie Nowlan

This Is the Sea – Mary McGuckian

Till There Was You – Scott Winant

Touch – Paul Shrader

Trial and Error – Janathan Lynn

Trojan War – George Huang

The Truce – Francesco Rosi

Truth or Consequences, N.M. – Kiefer Sutherland

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie – Levy / Winning

Turbulence – Robert Butler

Twin Town – Kevin Allen

Under Pressure (Bad Day on the Block) Craig R. Baxley

Under the Lighthouse Dancing – Graeme Rattigan

Vegas Vacation – Stephen Kessler

Volcano – Mick Jackson

Waco: The Rules of Engagement – William Gazecki

Warriors of Virtue – Ronny Yu

Weapons of Mass Distraction – Stephen Surjik

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

Welcome to Sarajevo – Michael Winterbottom

Western – Manuel Poirier

Who the Hell is Juliette? – Carlos Marcovich

The Wiggles Movie – Dean Covell

Wild America – William Dear

Wilde – Brian Gilbert

The Winter Guest – Alan Rickman

Wishful Thinking – Adam Park

Wishmaster – Robert Kurtzman

The Witman Boys – James Szasz

The Wrong Guy – David Steinberg

Xiao Wu – Jia Zhangke

Year of the Horse – Jim Jarnush

Zeus and Roxanne – George T. Miller