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	$76,081,498	16,575,490	$119,012,018
2	Kiss the Girls	Thriller/Suspense	R	$59,721,359	13,011,189	$93,420,337
3	The Jackal	Thriller/Suspense	R	$53,107,285	11,570,215	$83,074,144
4	Breakdown	Thriller/Suspense	R	$50,129,186	10,921,391	$78,415,587
5	Absolute Power	Thriller/Suspense	R	$50,007,168	10,894,808	$78,224,721
6	The Game	Thriller/Suspense	R	$48,265,581	10,515,377	$75,500,407
7	The Devil's Own	Thriller/Suspense	R	$42,877,165	9,341,430	$67,071,467
8	The Edge	Thriller/Suspense	R	$27,779,888	6,052,263	$43,455,248
9	Murder at 1600	Thriller/Suspense	R	$25,826,788	5,626,751	$40,400,072
10	Red Corner	Thriller/Suspense	R	$22,282,785	4,854,637	$34,856,294
11	Turbulence	Thriller/Suspense	R	$11,466,088	2,498,058	$17,936,056
12	Dangerous Ground	Thriller/Suspense	R	$5,079,851	1,106,721	$7,946,257
13	Playing God	Thriller/Suspense	R	$4,068,285	886,337	$6,363,900
14	Lost Highway	Thriller/Suspense	R	$3,796,699	827,168	$5,939,066
15	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Thriller/Suspense	R	$2,221,994	484,095	$3,475,802
16	Shadow Conspiracy	Thriller/Suspense	R	$2,154,540	469,399	$3,370,285
17	Blood and Wine	Thriller/Suspense	R	$1,075,288	234,268	$1,682,044
18	Kiss or Kill	Thriller/Suspense	R	$771,091	167,994	$1,206,197
19	The Assignment	Thriller/Suspense	R	$540,063	117,661	$844,806
20	Fargo	Thriller/Suspense	R	$531,868	115,875	$831,983
21	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca	Thriller/Suspense	R	$226,427	49,331	$354,197
22	The Rich Man's Wife	Thriller/Suspense	R	$29,030	6,325	$45,414
Total Gross of All Movies				$488,039,927
Total Tickets Sold					106,326,783
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$763,426,302

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.