Best movies of 1987

Titles indexed: 111

Predator

Rating: 7.5

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior....

Yu Pui Tsuen II

Rating: 5.2

Before Michael Mak’s Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the ’90s, there was Ho Fan’s Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But wit...

Retribution

Rating: 5.9

After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possess...

Orphans

Rating: 5.6

Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives....

Spaceballs

Rating: 6.9

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clu...

Snow White

Rating: 6.6

A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautifu...

Dirty Dancing

Rating: 7.3

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to f...

Hotshot

Rating: 3.8

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance....

Lethal Weapon

Rating: 7.3

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring ...

The Untouchables

Rating: 7.8

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the...

Walker

Rating: 6.4

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'et...

Overboard

Rating: 6.8

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. B...

The Running Man

Rating: 6.5

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The gove...

Creepozoids

Rating: 4.5

Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poi...

Cobra Verde

Rating: 6.9

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. N...

The Lost Boys

Rating: 7.1

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him....

Barfly

Rating: 6.9

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like ea...

Top Model

Rating: 3.7

Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of...

Hunk

Rating: 5.6

A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchan...

No Way Out

Rating: 6.9

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defens...

Hellraiser

Rating: 6.9

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities o...

Stakeout

Rating: 6.5

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her....

Radio Days

Rating: 7.0

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's...

Mala Noche

Rating: 6.1

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common...

The Believers

Rating: 5.9

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is r...

Séo!

Rating: 8.0

The film shows Catherine Destivelle's trip to Dogon Country, in Mali, where she will make spectacular free solo rock climbing ascents in the...

Gardens of Stone

Rating: 6.2

At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in comb...

Broadcast News

Rating: 6.8

A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who em...

Hachiko

Rating: 7.8

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death....

The Barbarians

Rating: 5.4

Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary the owner of a powerful jewel. The evil Kadar wants both Canary and ...

Dragnet

Rating: 6.0

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freew...

Blind Date

Rating: 6.0

When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaoti...

Aria

Rating: 5.3

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Ro...

The Sicilian

Rating: 5.2

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian inde...

Nayakan

Rating: 7.8

Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster....

Fatal Beauty

Rating: 5.5

Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-u...

Cherry 2000

Rating: 6.0

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E....

Bloody New Year

Rating: 5.2

A group of friends take refuge in an island hotel decorated for New Year's. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the wal...

Making Mr. Right

Rating: 5.0

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developi...

Russkies

Rating: 5.0

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friend...

The Gate

Rating: 6.1

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic ...

Andy Warhol

Rating: 5.7

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews...

Kachchi Kali

Rating: 0.0

Sonika Gill plays an innocent virgin girl (Kachchi Kali as the title indicates) who is tricked by her lover (Ajinkya Deo) who is a blue film...

Steel Dawn

Rating: 5.0

In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang...

White of the Eye

Rating: 5.8

In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban ...

Renegade

Rating: 6.1

While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt,...

Zombie Nightmare

Rating: 3.3

Tony Washington is killed in a hit-and-run after saving the local bodega clerk from robbers. Molly Mokembe is a Haitian voodou practitioner ...

World Gone Wild

Rating: 5.1

In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. The isolated Lost Wells outpost survived the holocaust a...

Young Love

Rating: 5.3

While his parents are on holiday, Huey and his buddies borrow their car and go out. After pursuing a gang of girls, Huey crashes the car, an...

Vicious Lips

Rating: 4.9

Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to ...

Straight to Hell

Rating: 5.4

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal ...

The Lesson

Rating: 3.5

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions....

Rosa Mistica

Rating: 2.0

A Filipino fantasy/horror anthology starring Snooky Serna. In "Mga Puting Rosas ni Rosalie", Rosalie dies in a freak accident on the day of ...

Going Bananas

Rating: 3.0

An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent ...

For Your Eyes

Rating: 6.0

A respectable man inherits a cabaret from his brother and finds himself obliged to manage him and take care of a young girl who dreams of pe...

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