Best movies of 1988

Titles indexed: 120

Shahenshah

Rating: 6.4

Inspector Srivastav is framed by a wily and cunning gangster, J.K., and unable to prove his innocence, hangs himself, leaving behind his wif...

Die Hard

Rating: 7.8

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office'...

Beetlejuice

Rating: 7.4

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home....

Big

Rating: 7.2

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his bod...

Akira

Rating: 7.9

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers ...

Child's Play

Rating: 6.7

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy,...

Nightfall

Rating: 4.0

The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with three suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of ...

Waxwork

Rating: 6.2

Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museu...

Coming to America

Rating: 6.9

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. I...

Hairspray

Rating: 6.8

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she st...

Demonwarp

Rating: 3.8

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that t...

Cinema Paradiso

Rating: 8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theat...

Rain Man

Rating: 7.7

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a s...

Rambo III

Rating: 6.2

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman ...

Deep Space

Rating: 4.4

Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it...

Varasudochadu

Rating: 6.0

Varasudochadu is a 1988 Telugu film directed by A Mohan Gandhi. The film stars Venkatesh, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Mohan Babu and Kota Srinivas...

They Live

Rating: 7.3

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading ...

Beaches

Rating: 6.7

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years....

Ariel

Rating: 7.1

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide....

Framed

Rating: 5.8

Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret e...

36 Fillette

Rating: 5.0

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conve...

Blood Call

Rating: 3.8

A series of strange stalkings leads three girls to flee to the remote countryside, where the nightmare really begins....

Big Top Pee-wee

Rating: 4.9

Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in hi...

Twins

Rating: 6.0

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athleti...

Spellbinder

Rating: 5.9

After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. J...

The Blob

Rating: 6.8

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everythin...

Top Model

Rating: 4.9

Gloria works as a top nude model and prostitute, but she has a secret. In reality she is writer and social critic Sarah Asproon researching ...

Demon Warrior

Rating: 3.7

A group of young friends go hunting during their holidays near a small town in Texas, where the father of one of them own a piece of land. B...

Scrooged

Rating: 6.8

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. Bu...

Red Heat

Rating: 6.2

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian d...

The Accused

Rating: 7.1

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. Distric...

The Big Blue

Rating: 7.4

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footstep...

Evil Angels

Rating: 6.7

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a d...

Macho Madness

Rating: 0.0

Delving into the mind of Macho Madness in this home video classic that highlights the one and only "Macho Man" Randy Savage; "Mean" Gene Oke...

Moving

Rating: 5.5

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems....

Climb Dance

Rating: 8.1

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified...

Critters 2

Rating: 6.2

Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs....

Jack's Back

Rating: 5.3

A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, hi...

Cop

Rating: 6.3

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch h...

Betrayed

Rating: 6.1

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist....

Taffin

Rating: 5.6

When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war....

Some Girls

Rating: 5.6

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long ...

Casual Sex?

Rating: 5.1

Two girls go away to a holiday resort looking for a change of pace, hoping to meet some nice men for a change. They discover that they can't...

The Seventh Sign

Rating: 6.0

Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the A...

Shoot to Kill

Rating: 6.6

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familia...

Alien from L.A.

Rating: 3.4

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, whe...

Monkey Shines

Rating: 6.3

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rag...

The Presidio

Rating: 5.9

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police ove...

Stealing Home

Rating: 6.3

Billy Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former chil...

Dead Ringers

Rating: 7.1

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients an...

Phantom of Death

Rating: 5.6

Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon anothe...

Slugs

Rating: 5.7

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution...

Alien Nation

Rating: 6.0

A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be int...

Space Mutiny

Rating: 2.7

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery....

Let's Get Lost

Rating: 7.0

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years....

Transformations

Rating: 3.9

Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. T...

Phantasm II

Rating: 6.2

Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A myste...

Faceless

Rating: 5.7

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret involving kidnapped women, blood, and orga...

Rejuvenatrix

Rating: 4.3

A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula invol...

Hanussen

Rating: 6.1

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettle...

Across the Lake

Rating: 5.8

Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. Set in 1967, Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved Bluebird K...

The Third Class

Rating: 5.5

A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping ...

Terminal Entry

Rating: 3.8

The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highs...

The Little Thief

Rating: 6.2

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a marri...

Dial: Help

Rating: 4.3

A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriousl...

Matar al Nani

Rating: 3.9

The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation...

Praise the Lord

Rating: 0.0

PBS Frontline traces rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorou...

Jakarta

Rating: 4.3

A CIA agent roams the streets of New York haunted by the death of the beautiful woman he fell in love with while on assignment in Jakarta. W...

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