Box Office Performance for Thriller/Suspense Movies in 1997

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1997 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Conspiracy Theory	Thriller/Suspense	R	$76,118,990	16,583,658	$114,095,567
2	Kiss the Girls	Thriller/Suspense	R	$59,721,359	13,011,189	$89,516,980
3	The Jackal	Thriller/Suspense	R	$53,107,285	11,570,215	$79,603,079
4	Breakdown	Thriller/Suspense	R	$50,159,144	10,927,918	$75,184,076
5	Absolute Power	Thriller/Suspense	R	$50,068,310	10,908,129	$75,047,928
6	The Game	Thriller/Suspense	R	$48,265,581	10,515,377	$72,345,794
7	The Devil's Own	Thriller/Suspense	R	$42,885,593	9,343,266	$64,281,670
8	The Edge	Thriller/Suspense	R	$27,799,255	6,056,483	$41,668,603
9	Murder at 1600	Thriller/Suspense	R	$25,842,024	5,630,071	$38,734,888
10	Red Corner	Thriller/Suspense	R	$22,282,785	4,854,637	$33,399,903
11	Turbulence	Thriller/Suspense	R	$11,532,774	2,512,587	$17,286,599
12	Dangerous Ground	Thriller/Suspense	R	$5,102,151	1,111,580	$7,647,670
13	Playing God	Thriller/Suspense	R	$4,166,918	907,825	$6,245,836
14	Lost Highway	Thriller/Suspense	R	$3,796,699	827,168	$5,690,916
15	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Thriller/Suspense	R	$2,221,994	484,095	$3,330,574
16	Shadow Conspiracy	Thriller/Suspense	R	$2,154,540	469,399	$3,229,465
17	Blood and Wine	Thriller/Suspense	R	$1,083,350	236,024	$1,623,845
18	Kiss or Kill	Thriller/Suspense	R	$771,091	167,994	$1,155,799
19	The Assignment	Thriller/Suspense	R	$600,843	130,903	$900,613
20	Fargo	Thriller/Suspense	R	$552,072	120,277	$827,506
21	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca	Thriller/Suspense	R	$226,427	49,331	$339,397
Total Gross of All Movies				$488,459,185
Total Tickets Sold					106,418,126
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$732,156,707

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1997. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1997. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1996 will most likely earn money in 1996 and 1997. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played.

Each box office year ends on the first Sunday of the following year. The next year starts the following day (Monday). For example, the "2004 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Inflation-adjusted figures are based ticket sale estimates, and may not be precise due to rounding errors.