Best award winning movies with a stylized violence from 1997
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a stylized violence from 1997! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a stylized violence from 1997, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 L.A. Confidential (1997)
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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- 1997-09-19 | Crime / Mystery
Cast
- Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Rating
7.797
2 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
3 Boogie Nights (1997)
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
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- 1997-10-10 | Drama
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore
Rating
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7.642
4 Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
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- 1997-12-25 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson
Rating
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7.356
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5 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
6 Face/Off (1997)
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
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- 1997-06-27 | Action / Crime
Cast
- John Travolta, Nicolas Cage
Rating
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7.038
7 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
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8.449
8 Men in Black (1997)
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
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- 1997-07-02 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
Rating
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7.2
9 Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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- 1997-07-12 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Youji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida
Rating
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8.335
10 Starship Troopers (1997)
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
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- 1997-11-07 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer
Rating
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7.07
