Movies by Year - 1988 (855)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 13th Floor, TheAs a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father. | 1988 | Chris Roache | Horror | 4.5 (625 votes) | 88 | 20240722 |
| 18 Again!An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident. | 1988 | Paul Flaherty | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 5.7 (4.6K votes) | 93 | 20220315 |
| 32 December [32 Dekabrya]New Year's musical. About what happened to Santa Claus on his way to the New Year. | 1988 | Vladimir Samsonov | Animation, Short | 5.6 (26 votes) | 16 | 20230126 |
| 555A psycho dressed as a hippie is killing couples in Lake Front. As the police search for more clues and the body count gets higher, they discover every five years, for five days, the killer kills 5 couples. Will they catch this madman | 1988 | Wally Koz | Horror | 4.1 (391 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| 976-EVILPeople who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul. | 1988 | Robert Englund | Comedy, Horror | 5.1 (5.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Above The LawA former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing. | 1988 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (31.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Abyss, The [L'oeuvre au noir]In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic | 1988 | André Delvaux | Drama | 6.7 (390 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Accidental Tourist, TheAn emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. | 1988 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (15.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Accused, TheAfter a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack. | 1988 | Jonathan Kaplan | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (34.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Across the LakeThis movie charts the last sixty days in the life of speed ace Donald Campbell (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who, in 1967, famously crashed his craft "The Bluebird" while trying the break the three-hundred-mile-per-hour barrier on Coniston | 1988 | Tony Maylam | Drama | 7.2 (149 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Act of BetrayalAn IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down. | 1988 | Lawrence Gordon Clark | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (88 votes) | 0 | 20240625 |
| Act of PiracyTed Andrews persuades his ex-wife Sandy to let their children accompany him on a journey on his multi-million dollar yacht to Australia, where he wants to sell it. However after a few days it turns out that his girlfriend Laura is... | 1988 | John 'Bud' Cardos | Action, Crime, Thriller | 4.4 (362 votes) | 96 | 20240219 |
| Action JacksonVengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power-hungry auto magnate who is systematically eliminating his competition. | 1988 | Craig R. Baxley | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 5.5 (11.9K votes) | 96 | 20231001 |
| Adventures of Baron Munchausen, TheAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits. | 1988 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.2 (52.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| AkiraA secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics. | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo (*) | Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (178.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| AlexaAlexa is very attentive to her customer's requests, but soon realizes that prostitution has limited long term career potential. She meets Tony, a scriptwriter who is writing a piece on prostitutes. Alexa falls for him, and decides to | 1988 | Sean Delgado | Drama | 4.2 (42 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Alice [Neco z Alenky]A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Alien from L.A.A young woman with a childish voice travels to Africa looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization. | 1988 | Albert Pyun | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 3.0 (3.9K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Alien NationIn 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine. | 1988 | Graham Baker | Action, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (15.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| American HunterA lethal hunter of bad guys tries to retrieve a microfilm containing information that would cause a Wall Street panic and an economic crisis for Western governments. | 1988 | Arizal | Action | 6.3 (163 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| American Scream, TheFamily vacationing in the mountains is terrorized by local wackos. | 1988 | Mitchell Linden | Comedy, Horror | 4.7 (198 votes) | 85 | 20220315 |
| AmsterdamnedA hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam. | 1988 | Dick Maas | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (8.2K votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
| And God Created WomanAspiring and incarcerated rock singer, Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) seduces prison guard Billy Moran (Vincent Spano). Robin marries Billy to get out of jail, but Robin's concerns are on politician James Tiernan (Frank Langella). | 1988 | Roger Vadim (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4.3 (1.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| And the Violins Stopped PlayingThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust. | 1988 | Alexander Ramati | Biography, Drama, War | 6.9 (191 votes) | 116 | 20231001 |
| AnegoThe widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge. | 1988 | Ryuichi Takamori | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (50 votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| Angel Guts 5: Red VertigoNami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner. | 1988 | Takashi Ishii | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (182 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Angel III - The Final ChapterMolly accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her fourteen years ago. She tracks her down, only to find that she has another daughter, and both are connected to a dangerous crime element. | 1988 | Tom DeSimone | Action, Drama | 4.9 (808 votes) | 99 | 20230126 |
| Another WomanFacing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help. | 1988 | Woody Allen (*) | Drama | 7.3 (13.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Apartment ZeroSet in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane mother's room due to poor ticket sales at his revi | 1988 | Martin Donovan | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Appleseed [Appurushîdo]In a vast futuristic city, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism. | 1988 | Kazuyoshi Katayama | Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (3K votes) | 71 | 20240511 |
| Appointment With DeathWhen a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects. | 1988 | Michael Winner | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (4.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Apprentice to MurderFire-and-brimstone preacher sees Satan everywhere, trains gullible young boy to "detect" evil, and the two of them commit several murders in the name of Jesus. Based on a true story. | 1988 | Ralph L. Thomas | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.9 (621 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| April MorningOn the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with the ""shot heard 'round the world"". | 1988 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.4 (779 votes) | 100 | 20240407 |
| ArielA Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide. | 1988 | Aki Kaurismäki (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.5 (6.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Arizona HeatA tough Arizona cop is teamed with a lesbian cop to catch a serial killer who is murdering police officers. | 1988 | John G. Thomas | Action, Crime | 4.5 (204 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Arrogant, TheA waitress hitchhiking in Nevada is picked up by a man on a motorcycle. Unbeknownst to her, the man is a narcissist who thinks he's God. | 1988 | Philippe Blot | Action, Crime, Thriller | 3.3 (138 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| As Tears Go By [Wong Gok ka moon]Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly. | 1988 | Kar-Wai Wong | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (9.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| As Time Goes byA surfer who stops in for a bite to eat at a 1940s-type diner eventually realizes that it is not a diner at all - it is a spaceship disguised as one, and the "owners" of the diner are aliens. | 1988 | Barry Peak | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (146 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ashik Kerib [Ashug-Karibi]A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter. | 1988 | Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze | Drama | 7.3 (2K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Assault of the Killer BimbosTwo go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head | 1988 | Anita Rosenberg | Action, Comedy, Crime | 4.8 (538 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Baby DollA young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the young woman and leads her to scary delusions | 1988 | Jon Bang Carlsen | Horror, Thriller | 4.9 (73 votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
| BackwoodsA hillbilly father and his idiot son terrorize and murder campers. | 1988 | Dean Crow | Horror, Thriller | 4.3 (413 votes) | 85 | 20240419 |
| Bad DreamsThe lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances. | 1988 | Andrew Fleming | Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (3.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Baja OklahomaDan Jenkins co-wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name about Juanita, a barmaid in Ft. Worth, Texas, who wants to be a country-western songwriter. | 1988 | Bobby Roth | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (380 votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Bat 21During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues. | 1988 | Peter Markle | Drama, War | 6.5 (8.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Baton RougePoor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles. | 1988 | Rafael Moleón | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (295 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| BeachesA privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years. | 1988 | Garry Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.0 (28.9K votes) | 123 | 20240501 |
| Bear, The [L'ours]An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters. | 1988 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.7 (19.1K votes) | 96 | 20240419 |
| Beast of War, The [The Beast]A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks. | 1988 | Kevin Reynolds | Adventure, Drama, War | 7.3 (9.8K votes) | 111 | 20220731 |
| BeetlejuiceThe spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out. | 1988 | Tim Burton (*) | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.5 (286.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| BetrayedAn FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist. | 1988 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (6.2K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| BigAfter wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. | 1988 | Penny Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (212.6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Big Blue, TheThe rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown. | 1988 | Luc Besson (*) | Adventure, Drama, Sport | 7.6 (50.6K votes) | 168 | 20211228 |
| Big BusinessTwo couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way. | 1988 | Jim Abrahams | Comedy | 6.4 (13.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Big Heat, The [Seng fat dak ging]Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more | 1988 | Yeung-Wah Kam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (676 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Big TimeBringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect. | 1988 | Chris Blum | Documentary, Music | 8.1 (824 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Big Top Pee-weePee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist. | 1988 | Randal Kleiser | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 5.1 (10.2K votes) | 86 | 20240605 |
| Biloxi BluesA group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. | 1988 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (15.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| BirdThe troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker. | 1988 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.2 (12.3K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief, ARobots made of metal and animal parts compete for dominance in a subterranean cavern. | 1988 | Jon Reiss | Short | 7.0 (50 votes) | 13 | 20230715 |
| Bizarre Country, The [Neka cudna zemlja]A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his fa | 1988 | Dragan Marinkovic | Drama, Fantasy | 7.1 (71 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Black EagleCIA agent must outrace KGB agent in searching of super weapon lost in Mediterranean. | 1988 | Eric Karson | Action, Drama | 3.9 (7.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Black RosesDemons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band. | 1988 | John Fasano | Horror, Music | 5.1 (2K votes) | 90 | 20220423 |
| Black TulipWhen a 100,000-guilder contest is announced in 1800s Holland, Cornelius sets about to grow one to win the prize. However, at the same time, the local alchemist, Bochstel, is trying to cast a spell that will give him unlimited powe... | 1988 | Unknown | Animation, Adventure | 5.9 (65 votes) | 49 | 20240715 |
| Blackadder - The Cavalier YearsSir Edmund Blackadder must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I from the Roundheads. | 1988 | Mandie Fletcher | Short, Comedy, History | 7.8 (6.1K votes) | 15 | 20240727 |
| Blackbird [Cavka]Story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences. | 1988 | Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic | Drama | 6.9 (199 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| BlackoutA young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, and gradually her childhood memories return; a childhood with incest and violence. | 1988 | Doug Adams | Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (108 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Bless This House [Meng gui fo tiao qiang]Building designer Bill and his family move into a seemingly wonderful house, but not aware of the house is haunted. | 1988 | Ronny Yu | Comedy, Horror | 4.7 (311 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Blob, TheA deadly entity from space crashes near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature. | 1988 | Chuck Russell | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (36K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Blood Call [Xue Call ji]Ah Mike is in love with Anna and cannot let her go. Anna is in love with Max. Ah Jing is in love with Ah Mike. When they call each other, blood stirs. | 1988 | Oli Nicole, Lu Tung | Action | 3.4 (11 votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Blood Delirium [Delirio di sangue]After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle a | 1988 | Sergio Bergonzelli | Horror | 4.7 (163 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blood Orgy of the Leather GirlsGang of women wreak havoc in the city and kill various men who treat women bad. Not entirely for this reason and sometimes just for fun. | 1988 | Meredith Lucas | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (52 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Blood RelationsThe members of a severely dysfunctional family get together at a snow-covered, isolated mansion in the winter. There the family members - including the father, an arrogant surgeon who may have murdered his wealthy wife - expose each | 1988 | Graeme Campbell | Horror | 4.8 (350 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blood StreetLeo Fong reprises the role of P.I. Joe Wong from LOW BLOW in this direct-to-video action flick. Wong gets caught up in the middle of a gang war between Richard Norton and some Italian guy when the Italian guy's wife (Playboy Playm... | 1988 | George Chung, Leo Fong | Action | 4.0 (175 votes) | 0 | 20221116 |
| Bloodsport"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur. | 1988 | Newt Arnold | Action, Biography, Drama, Sport | 6.8 (82.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Bloodstained Painting [Lukisan Berlumur Darah]A school teacher and his wife relocate to Indonesia and move into a new home, only to discover the former owner had been killed by burglars and now the place is haunted. | 1988 | Torro Margens | Horror | 6.1 (169 votes) | 86 | 20231213 |
| BloodstoneAn American couple on a business trip to Bangalore, India is dragged into the theft of a ruby called 'Bloodstone'. The wife is kidnapped, and the husband teams up with a resourceful taxi driver to free his wife and retrieve the ruby. | 1988 | Dwight H. Little | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 4.6 (1.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Bloody Fight, A [Lie xue feng yun]Keung and Fai had been good friends since childhood. They both had keen interest in boxing-matches. Having parted with Keung for more than ten years, Fai had become a police officer. On the contrary, Keung had joined an illegal organ | 1988 | Wilson Tong | Action, Drama | 6.1 (40 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Bloody Pom PomsA group of cheerleaders become the targets of an unknown killer at a remote summer camp. | 1988 | John Quinn | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 4.8 (3.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Bloody WednesdayHarry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his | 1988 | Mark G. Gilhuis | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 3.9 (474 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Body of EvidenceNurse Carol Dwyer suspects that her new husband Alex, a forensic psychologist, may be responsible for serial murders in their neighborhood. | 1988 | Roy Campanella II | Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (116 votes) | 100 | 20220419 |
| Bony a klidIn Prague, a young man from Mladá Boleslav joins a criminal gang and adapts to the environment of big money, debauched parties, prostitutes, and police raids. | 1988 | Vít Olmer | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (299 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Boost, TheA real estate developer who enjoyed short-lived success seeks to regain his edge by using cocaine, but takes himself to new lows as he gets lost in the downward spiral of drug addiction. | 1988 | Harold Becker | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (2.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Born to RaceA race-car driver falls in love with a beautiful Italian automobile engineer who is travelling the NASCAR circuit to sell her controversial engine technology. | 1988 | James Fargo | Action, Drama | 3.9 (143 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| Bourne Identity, TheAn injured, unconscious man washes ashore in a small French town. As he recovers, it becomes quite clear, someone is trying to kill him. | 1988 | Roger Young | Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (4.3K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Boy from Hell [Bloodspell], TheA teenage boy is hidden at an orphanage by his mother to protect him against his father, who wants to use the boys body to be reborn. | 1988 | Deryn Warren | Horror | 4.1 (157 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Braddock - Missing in Action IIIBraddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp. | 1988 | Aaron Norris | Action, War | 4.9 (6.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Brain DamageOne morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return. | 1988 | Frank Henenlotter | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 6.6 (10.9K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Brain, TheWith the help of an alien organism, a man brainwashes audiences through television; a troubled high school student is determined to stop them. | 1988 | Ed Hunt | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (2.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Bright Lights, Big CityA disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife. | 1988 | James Bridges | Drama | 5.7 (8.3K votes) | 107 | 20220806 |
| Broken Glass [Glerbrot]On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1988 | Kristín Jóhannesdóttir | Drama | 5.4 (20 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Brothers in ArmsTwo brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hill-billies, when they save a girl from rape. | 1988 | George Bloom | Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (115 votes) | 95 | 20230619 |
| Bruce's Secret Kung Fu [Lóng quán mì gông]nan | 1988 | Joseph Velasco | Action, Adventure | 5.9 (36 votes) | 87 | 20240630 |
| Bull DurhamA fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him. | 1988 | Ron Shelton (*) | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 7.1 (52.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Burning SecretWhile being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound fr | 1988 | Andrew Birkin | Drama | 6.5 (462 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Burning Snow [Xue zai shao]A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive an | 1988 | Patrick Tam | Drama | 7.2 (40 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| BusterBased on the story of Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards (Phil Collins), one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963. | 1988 | David Green | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (3.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Caddyshack IIWhen a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park. | 1988 | Allan Arkush | Comedy, Sport | 3.8 (15.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, TheA full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". | 1988 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, War | 6.9 (600 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Call Girl 1988 [Ying zhao nu lang 1988]A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad. | 1988 | David Lam, Chi Wong | Drama | 6.3 (75 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Call MeA journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder. | 1988 | Sollace Mitchell | Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (709 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Cameron's ClosetA father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul. | 1988 | Armand Mastroianni | Fantasy, Horror | 5.0 (956 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Camille ClaudelCamille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow | 1988 | Bruno Nuytten | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (6.7K votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Camp de ThiaroyeIn this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home. | 1988 | Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow | Drama, War | 7.7 (535 votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| Cane Toads - An Unnatural HistoryA documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests. | 1988 | Mark Lewis | Documentary, Comedy | 7.6 (1.3K votes) | 47 | 20220723 |
| Cannibal Curse [Chu nu jiang]A woman tries to attract her reincarnated lover from her previous life but eventually turns to the aid of an evil sorcerer who rules over a tribe of cannibal midgets. | 1988 | Yeung Kong | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 4.6 (86 votes) | 85 | 20221116 |
| Cannibals, The [Os Canibais]A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society. | 1988 | Manoel de Oliveira (*) | Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.1 (494 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Captive RageAn innocent group of college girls become the pawns in a deadly game of revenge when a South American cocaine baron retaliates against the chief of an American intelligence agency for jailing his son on drug charges. | 1988 | Cedric Sundstrom | Action, Drama | 3.9 (401 votes) | 99 | 20241019 |
| Carmen 1945 [Nikutai no mon]During the post-World War II occupation of Japan, a group of women forced to resort to prostitution band together in the ruins to save up for a dancehall. | 1988 | Hideo Gosha | Action, Crime | 6.3 (45 votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Carpenter, TheA mad woman and her cheating husband hire men to fix up their new house. Mysterious carpenter, Ed, becomes her guardian angel, but he is actually an executed killer whose spirit has returned to finish the dream house he once started. | 1988 | David Wellington | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 4.9 (578 votes) | 87 | 20220315 |
| Carrier, TheThe main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they are dissolved into it. No one knows that Jak | 1988 | Nathan J. White | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (521 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Cat, The [Die Katze]Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move. | 1988 | Dominik Graf | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (871 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| CatacombsA demon is trapped in a monastery. 400 years later a young girl arrives at the monastery to study. | 1988 | David Schmoeller | Horror | 4.6 (816 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Caterpillar [Kyatapira]A monster with a caterpillar shape and a ghastly face roams the streets of Japan, affecting the lives of several people that seem to be interconnected. | 1988 | Shozin Fukui | Short, Action | 5.9 (103 votes) | 33 | 20231001 |
| Cellar, TheA family moves into an old house in the Texas desert that is haunted by a Native American curse in the form of a ferocious creature that dwells underground. | 1988 | Kevin Tenney | Horror | 4.6 (704 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Celluloid Nightmares [Abunômaru - Ingyaku]A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist.The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. | 1988 | Hisayasu Satô | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (134 votes) | 64 | 20221116 |
| Cemetery HighA group of High School girls with guns go on a killing spree. They are intent on ridding the world of scummy men. | 1988 | Gorman Bechard | Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror | 3.0 (431 votes) | 80 | 20231001 |
| Chair, TheA psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it. | 1988 | Waldemar Korzeniowsky | Horror | 3.8 (226 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Chaos of Flowers, A [Hana no ran]Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Her passion flows towards Takeo Arishima, a noted novelist. | 1988 | Kinji Fukasaku | Drama | 7.1 (83 votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Chicken and Duck Talk [Gai tung ngap gong]Old Hui runs a restaurant specializing in roast duck. His secret duck recipe is very tasty, but customers and staff alike have to put up with the filthy shop and Hui's cost-cutting way of doing business. When ''Danny Fried Chicken'' | 1988 | Clifton Ko | Comedy | 7.3 (737 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Child's PlayA single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer. | 1988 | Tom Holland | Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (99.1K votes) | 87 | 20220423 |
| Chilsu and MansuA painter quits his job and looks to an old acquaintance for work and a place to stay. | 1988 | Kwang-su Park | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (212 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| ChocolatA French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant. | 1988 | Claire Denis (*) | Drama | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Chouans!In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy. | 1988 | Philippe de Broca | Adventure, History, War | 6.2 (786 votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Christmas at Pee-wee's PlayhousePee-Wee Herman throws a Christmas party at his playhouse with his friends and some celebrity guests. | 1988 | Wayne Orr, Paul Reubens | Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.8 (1.4K votes) | 49 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Wife, TheA widower not wanting to face his first Christmas alone responds to an ad for ""social introductions"". | 1988 | David Hugh Jones | Drama | 6.1 (423 votes) | 73 | 20240622 |
| Cinema ParadisoA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist. | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.5 (250.8K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Citadel, The [El kalaa]In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father, who guarantees that his son will be married that same day, or his four wives will be | 1988 | Mohamed Chouikh | Drama | 6.0 (65 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Citizen Piszczyk [Obywatel Piszczyk]nan | 1988 | Andrzej Kotkowski | Comedy | 6.8 (201 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Clean and SoberA hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs. | 1988 | Glenn Gordon Caron | Drama | 6.7 (7.3K votes) | 124 | 20240820 |
| Clinton and NadineClinton is desperate to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua. | 1988 | Jerry Schatzberg | Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Romance | 4.9 (698 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| CocktailA talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love. | 1988 | Roger Donaldson | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (83.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Cocoon - The ReturnThe seniors return to Earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on Earth? | 1988 | Daniel Petrie | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.4 (16.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Cognac [Tajna manastirske rakije]A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor. | 1988 | Slobodan Sijan | Comedy | 5.8 (327 votes) | 89 | 20231109 |
| Cohen and TateWhen a little boy witnesses a mob hit, he is kidnapped by two professional assassins who are not what they seem. | 1988 | Eric Red | Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (2.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Cold Summer of 1953, The [Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego]Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants. | 1988 | Aleksandr Proshkin | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (2.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| ColorsAn experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control. | 1988 | Dennis Hopper (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.7 (25.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Comedy of Work, The [La comédie du travail]From the very beginning, film comedy focused on the world of work. From exploitation to unemployment, from adaptation to resistance, directors multiplied their points of view on survival in the modern world, especially from Chaplin o | 1988 | Luc Moullet | Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime | 6.5 (69 votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
| Coming ThroughCelebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth cen | 1988 | Peter Barber-Fleming | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (171 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Coming To AmericaAn extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will. | 1988 | John Landis (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (201.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| CommanderCommander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russ... | 1988 | Ignazio Dolce | Action, War | 5.3 (202 votes) | 99 | 20240614 |
| Commander, The [Der Commander]A Major leads a group of mercenaries whose mission is to protect a disc full of secrets, located in South Asia. | 1988 | Antonio Margheriti | Action, War | 4.8 (459 votes) | 105 | 20240609 |
| Congress, TheThe U. S. Congress is one of the country's most important and misunderstood institutions. Ken Burns tells the story behind this branch of government. | 1988 | Ken Burns | Documentary | 7.2 (302 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Consuming PassionsA tragic mishap at a chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets. The problem is that they want more! | 1988 | Giles Foster | Comedy | 6.0 (548 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Contrainte par corpsClaire, a French tourist, is arrested by a puritanical and brutal policeman, who sends her to a women's prison. | 1988 | Serge Leroy | Drama | 5.5 (70 votes) | 98 | 20230715 |
| CopAn obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him. | 1988 | James B. Harris | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (5.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Cop GameIn the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The trail leads from the streets of Saigon to the war zone. | 1988 | Bruno Mattei | Action, Crime, Drama, War | 5.3 (107 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Couch Trip, TheA burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show. | 1988 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy | 5.8 (5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Crackdown MissionDevil worshippers devise a scheme to bring Lucifer to the world, by taking advantage of mentally and emotionally women to rack up a body count. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Horror | 3.7 (28 votes) | 90 | 20230806 |
| Crime ZoneHelen and Bone live in a repressive futuristic dystopian society they badly want to escape from. Mysterious Jason hires them to steal a disc for him. It's practically a suicide mission, but he claims he can smuggle them out, in retur | 1988 | Luis Llosa | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 4.8 (526 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Criminal LawA lawyer defends a killer, but soon after he wins, he finds out that the killer is guilty. | 1988 | Martin Campbell | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Critters 2Eggs of the small but voracious alien creatures called Crites are left behind on earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the small farm town of Grover's Bend. | 1988 | Mick Garris | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.5 (15.2K votes) | 86 | 20220423 |
| Crocodile Dundee IIAustralian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under. | 1988 | John Cornell | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5.7 (59.8K votes) | 108 | 20231013 |
| Crossing DelanceyA Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker. | 1988 | Joan Micklin Silver | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (5K votes) | 97 | 20240416 |
| Crossing, The [La Passerelle]Jean Nevers is a solitary middle-aged bachelor whose apartment is next to that of Cora Elbaz, an erotic dancer who lives alone with her five year old son Antoine. | 1988 | Jean-Claude Sussfeld | Drama | 5.5 (122 votes) | 92 | 20220531 |
| CrusoeRobinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives. | 1988 | Caleb Deschanel | Adventure, Drama | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Cry in the Dark, A [Evil Angels]A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder. | 1988 | Fred Schepisi (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (10.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Curse of Snakes Valley [Klatwa doliny wezy]The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Tibetian jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin. | 1988 | Marek Piestrak | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.4 (624 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Curse of the Blue LightsA group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard. | 1988 | John Henry Johnson | Horror | 3.9 (351 votes) | 93 | 20230619 |
| Curse of the QueerwolfAfter being bitten by what he thinks is a transvestite, Larry starts having nightmares about hillbillies, ominous visits from an old gypsy woman, and having the strangest reactions to the full moon... | 1988 | Mark Pirro | Comedy, Horror | 4.7 (327 votes) | 86 | 20231207 |
| Cyber NinjaIn a futuristic version of medieval Japan, a band of swordsmen battles an evil warlord and his mechanical army of ninjas, and are aided by a mysterious heroic cyborg ninja, Shiranui. | 1988 | Keita Amemiya | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (302 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| D.O.A.A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time? | 1988 | Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (10.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Damnation [Kárhozat]A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer. | 1988 | Béla Tarr (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (5.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Dance 'Til DawnWill prom night live up to the high school seniors' expectations? Will they have the right date? Can they avoid their parents? | 1988 | Paul Schneider | Comedy | 7.0 (1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous GameA computer expert and his friends manage to disable a department store's security system so they can rob it, but once inside they find themselves stalked by a killer. | 1988 | Stephen Hopkins, David Lewis | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.0 (374 votes) | 98 | 20221116 |
| Dangerous LiaisonsA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. | 1988 | Stephen Frears (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (68.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous LoveSomeone is videotaping & killing members of a video dating club. | 1988 | Marty Ollstein | Mystery, Thriller | 4.2 (230 votes) | 96 | 20240625 |
| Dark Mission: Evil FlowersAn undercover C.I.A. Agent goes to South America to stop a drug syndicate. | 1988 | Jesús Franco | Action, Adventure | 3.8 (171 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Dawning, TheAn I.R.A. gunman (Sir Anthony Hopkins) on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman (Rebecca Pidgeon) and attempts to win her support for his cause. | 1988 | Robert Knights | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (404 votes) | 97 | 20231126 |
| Day of the PantherA martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner. | 1988 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Action | 4.4 (431 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Days of Eclipse [Dni zatmeniya]Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia. | 1988 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Days of Inspector Ambrosio [I giorni del commissario Ambrosio]A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house. | 1988 | Sergio Corbucci | Crime, Drama | 6.1 (103 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Dead End CityThe government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property. | 1988 | Peter Yuval | Action, Thriller | 4.8 (147 votes) | 85 | 20230328 |
| Dead HeatA cop and his undead partner must chase down the diabolical villain who killed him. | 1988 | Mark Goldblatt | Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.0 (8.2K votes) | 84 | 20220806 |
| Dead Man Visits the Living, A [Yi ge si zhe dui sheng zhe de fang wen]nan | 1988 | Jianzhong Huang | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.8 (28 votes) | 105 | 20230126 |
| Dead Man WalkingAfter Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive. | 1988 | Gregory Dark | Action, Sci-Fi | 5.0 (357 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dead of NightAn abused woman conjures up a spirit to take revenge on the men who have misused her. | 1988 | Deryn Warren | Action, Comedy, Horror | 3.6 (134 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dead PoolInspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. | 1988 | Buddy Van Horn | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (44.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Dead RingersTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. | 1988 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (45.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Dead Solid PerfectRandy Quaid stars as Kenny Lee, a talented but underachieving pro golfer trying to break through on the tour while learning that the most important things in life go far beyond the game. | 1988 | Bobby Roth | Drama, Sport | 6.7 (524 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Dead Tree, The [L'arbre mort]The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America. | 1988 | Joseph Morder | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (46 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Deadbeat at DawnOne last job separates the leader of the Ravens gang from an early retirement. When he finds his girlfriend beaten to death by members of a rival gang, he seeks revenge, knowing that he may be dead by dawn. Will more blood bring her | 1988 | Jim Van Bebber | Action, Crime, Horror | 6.6 (2.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Deadly DreamsFrom the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaug | 1988 | Kristine Peterson | Horror, Thriller | 4.8 (405 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Deadly IntentAn archaeologist smuggles a valuable ancient jewel into the US. He is soon murdered by people looking for the jewel, but he had hidden it. The killers, believe that his widow knows where the artifact is hidden, go after her. | 1988 | Nigel Dick | Drama, Thriller | 4.5 (158 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Deadly ObsessionA psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars. | 1988 | Jenö Hodi | Thriller | 5.3 (83 votes) | 95 | 20231101 |
| Death by DialogueA guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set. Pretty soon people start being killed in the manner they are in the script of the movie being filmed next door. | 1988 | Thomas Dewier | Horror | 3.3 (343 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Death CollectorIn a future time, when things have reverted back to the days of the Old West, a man goes after the gang that murdered his brother. | 1988 | Tom Garrett | Action, Sci-Fi, Western | 4.4 (135 votes) | 92 | 20220531 |
| Death House [Zombie Death House]A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors. | 1988 | John Saxon | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.2 (511 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Death Nurse 2That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food. | 1988 | Nick Millard | Horror | 2.9 (137 votes) | 56 | 20220414 |
| Death Street USA [Nightmare at Noon]Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through. | 1988 | Nico Mastorakis | Action, Sci-Fi, Horror | 4.8 (1.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Deathstalker III - Deathstalker and the Warriors from HellThe third thrilling saga of Deathstalker pits him against the evil wizard and ruler of the Southland, Troxartes, and his band of undead warriors. | 1988 | Alfonso Corona | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 2.8 (2.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Deceivers, TheFact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825. | 1988 | Nicholas Meyer | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (1.3K votes) | 102 | 20240419 |
| Deep SpaceA spaceship with a hideous monster with an incredible appetite for flesh crashes to Earth. Unsuspecting policemen Ian Mclemore and Jerry Merris investigate the wreckage. They discover several small pods, which they remove. | 1988 | Fred Olen Ray | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.5 (908 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Demon City Shinjuku [Makaitoshi Shinjuku]A young swordsman ventures into a disaster stricken Shinjuku, Tokyo, to try and stop a powerful man, who has made a deal with the demon realm, from opening a portal that will allow demons to cross over to the human world. | 1988 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror | 6.4 (2.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| DemonwarpA 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 they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft. | 1988 | Emmett Alston | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.7 (638 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Der LindenbaumA young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school. | 1988 | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Drama | nan | 90 | 20240519 |
| DestroyerA prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick. | 1988 | Robert Kirk | Horror, Thriller | 4.8 (778 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Devil Sorcery [Ban xian jiang]"Devil Sorcery" directed by Do Gong-Yue is an entertaining HK black magic film about a wizard who performs many hideous magic rituals.The student of a good wizard decides to get it on with his master's wife and all hell breaks loose | 1988 | Lu-Po Tu | Horror | 4.3 (46 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Diable Rose, LeDouble-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called ""Le Diable Rose"" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike. | 1988 | Pierre B. Reinhard | Comedy, War | 5.0 (102 votes) | 75 | 20221116 |
| Dial - Help [Minaccia d'amore]A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause. | 1988 | Ruggero Deodato | Horror, Mystery | 4.6 (480 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Diamond Ninja ForceWe begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian thugs led by a Chinese man, Kogan, threaten h | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 3.6 (195 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Diamond Run [Java Burn]Back alleys are home to Nicky, who handles women and his fists with equal style. When he unknowingly sets up his girlfriend in an assassination plot, she escapes, only to become the hitman's next target and now Nicky must save her... | 1988 | Robert Chappell | Action, Crime | 4.1 (36 votes) | 85 | 20240219 |
| Diamond's Edge [Just Ask for Diamond]When the man who left a package in his care is murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, he sets out to unravel the mysteriou... | 1988 | Stephen Bayly | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery | 6.2 (308 votes) | 83 | 20240419 |
| Die Hard I - Die HardAn NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. | 1988 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Thriller | 8.2 (847.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Dirty Dozen The Fatal Mission, TheA team of renegade soldiers in World War II tries to stop the creation of the Fourth Reich in the Middle East. | 1988 | Lee H. Katzin | Action, Adventure, War | 5.1 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Dirty LoveValentine Demy and Susan Little star in this erotic tale of a young girl who sets off from the suburbs of New York City to seek fame as a dancer on Broadway. She finds that her exuberant body brings her into contact with many diff... | 1988 | Joe D'Amato | Drama | 4.5 (170 votes) | 95 | 20221212 |
| Dirty Rotten ScoundrelsTwo con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first. | 1988 | Frank Oz | Comedy, Crime | 7.4 (69.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Discarnates, The [Ijin-tachi to no natsu]Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and g | 1988 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 (326 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Distant Voices, Still LivesThe lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children. | 1988 | Terence Davies (*) | Drama, Music | 7.4 (4.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Doc's KingdomDoc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc | 1988 | Robert Kramer | Drama | 7.0 (93 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dogra Magra [Dogura Magura]A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity. | 1988 | Toshio Matsumoto | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (441 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Dominick and EugeneDominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when | 1988 | Robert M. Young | Drama | 7.0 (2.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| DominoA girl in the video industry travels with a jeweled turtle and makes Billie Holliday videos. Though having relations with some of her friends, she is looking for love. She begins getting calls from a stranger who tells her not to wor | 1988 | Ivana Massetti | Drama | 3.6 (391 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| DoorAfter several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door. | 1988 | Banmei Takahashi | Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (104 votes) | 95 | 20231110 |
| Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator [À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur]Two next door couples can not figure out finally who hates whom and who loves whom. | 1988 | Édouard Molinaro | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Dr. HackensteinDr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together. | 1988 | Richard Clark | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.0 (266 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Dracula's WidowThe young owner of a waxworks in Hollywood receives five instead of six ordered chests with Romanian antiques. He does not know that Vanessa, widow of Count Dracula, sleeps in the sixth chest. She rises in the night and walks around | 1988 | Christopher Coppola | Horror, Thriller | 4.1 (438 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| DragonardOn an 18th century Caribbean island run by debauched colonial plantation owners, an enslaved Scotsman joins a slave revolt. | 1988 | Gérard Kikoïne | Drama | 4.4 (338 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Dragons ForeverThree successful Hong Kong lawyers are hired by a chemical company of questionable ethics and must eventually make a difficult decision when their employer's motives become clear. | 1988 | Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Corey Yuen | Action, Comedy, Romance | 7.2 (8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dream DemonA young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders. | 1988 | Harley Cokeliss | Horror | 5.5 (905 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dreaming, TheA doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing dreams and finds herself involved in a 200-year-old mystery. | 1988 | Mario Andreacchio | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.9 (236 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Dressmaker, TheIn England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier. | 1988 | Jim O'Brien | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (248 votes) | 92 | 20220806 |
| Drifter, TheA young interior designer with a jealous boyfriend has a one-night stand with a handsome drifter who won't go away. | 1988 | Larry Brand | Thriller | 4.7 (540 votes) | 89 | 20240427 |
| Drowning by NumbersThree generations of women all share the same problem: marriage woes, and they want to put an end to it. | 1988 | Peter Greenaway (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (10K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Earth Girls Are EasyA Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool. | 1988 | Julien Temple | Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.4 (22.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Edge of Darkness [Haam ging bin yuen]A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a connection between his supervisor and the crime syndicate he's investigating. | 1988 | Hark-On Fung | Action, Drama | 6.1 (31 votes) | 99 | 20230728 |
| Edge of the AxeAn axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings. | 1988 | José Ramón Larraz | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.4 (2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Eight Men OutA dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. | 1988 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, History, Sport | 7.2 (20K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| El Lute II_ Tomorrow I'll Be Free [El Lute II_ mañana seré libre]Eleuterio escapes from prison, joins with his children and embarks on a journey with his family avoiding the hunt for the Civil Guard. | 1988 | Vicente Aranda | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (312 votes) | 120 | 20240201 |
| Elvira - Mistress of the DarkUpon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake. | 1988 | James Signorelli | Comedy, Horror | 6.5 (19.7K votes) | 96 | 20230830 |
| Elvis and MeThe story of Priscilla Presley's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley. | 1988 | Larry Peerce | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.9 (1K votes) | 240 | 20240511 |
| Emerald CityA couple is being tested by the temptations of a big city. | 1988 | Michael Jenkins | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 (607 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Emissary, TheJack Cavanaugh, handpicked by the US president, is a hard-nosed diplomat constantly on the move between hot-spots around the world. When Russia's KGB use his wife to get access to a top secret computer system, the world's future i... | 1988 | Jan Scholtz | Thriller | 4.5 (62 votes) | 98 | 20230619 |
| Emmanuelle 65 models board a cruise ship with a cute Indian stowaway in Emmanuelle's trunk. A 2nd officer plans a kidnap of them with jewels once they reach the Amazon jungle. | 1988 | Bruno Zincone, Jean Rollin | Drama | 3.3 (836 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Emma's Shadow [Skyggen af Emma]Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven-year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be t | 1988 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (325 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Emperor [Shahenshah]Vijay who is a corrupt officer by day, turns a vigilante by night in order to make the city crime free. | 1988 | Tinnu Anand | Action, Adventure | 6.3 (2.4K votes) | 175 | 20240403 |
| Empire of AshIn post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan. | 1988 | Michael Mazo, Lloyd A. Simandl | Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy | 3.7 (198 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Empire Of The Spiritual NinjaCriminal activities of the spiritual ninja are headed by a ruthless ninja warlord and follows the CIA's subsequent attempts to bring them to justice. Enter Captain Scott, one of the CIA's 'Action Men' who also happens to be a Tamo ni | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Drama | 3.6 (41 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Ernest Saves ChristmasErnest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor. | 1988 | John R. Cherry III | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 5.7 (11.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Everlasting Secret Family, TheA beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function... | 1988 | Michael Thornhill | Drama, Romance | 5.5 (370 votes) | 94 | 20240122 |
| Evil Clergyman, TheIn this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and finally a sequel | 1988 | Charles Band | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (238 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Evil Dead Trap [Shiryô no wana]A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them. | 1988 | Toshiharu Ikeda | Horror | 6.3 (2.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Exotic Mask in Hell [Dan Oniroku; Yôen nômen jigoku]Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video. | 1988 | Fumihiko Katô | Unknown | 5.6 (20 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Experte, DerAfter car mechanic Willi Schulze and election expert Willy Schneider get a car accident, they both lose their memory. The police assume Schulze is the expert and rapidly he turns into the pivot in a stone-hard election-contest. | 1988 | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Comedy | 5.9 (383 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Fair Game [Mamba]Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake. | 1988 | Mario Orfini | Horror, Thriller | 4.8 (554 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Fantozzi va in PensionneAfter 30 years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina with her shopping, babysitting granddaughter Uga, traveling to Venice, and | 1988 | Neri Parenti | Comedy | 6.1 (1.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Fatal Exposure 2 [Intrigo d'amore]nan | 1988 | Mario Gariazzo | Drama | 5.4 (61 votes) | 89 | 20240715 |
| Fatal PulseA girl is killed and raped minutes after fighting with her boyfriend (Jeff) and he left her. Jeff is the assistant of professor Caldwell at the university, and he wanted to return with his old girlfriend (Lisa). The girl lived with a | 1988 | Anthony J. Christopher | Crime, Thriller, Horror | 3.5 (320 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Fatal Temptation [Errore fatale]Paolo Piattelli owns a restaurant, he is married to Silvia and he is unfaithful to her. One day Paolo has a car accident with a motor-cyclist while driving with his lover. Silvia gets engaged to the motor-cyclist Alessio while Pao... | 1988 | Remo Angioli, Beppe Cino | Drama, Thriller | 4.4 (95 votes) | 84 | 20240519 |
| Father, The [En far]A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. | 1988 | Bo Widerberg | Drama | 7.4 (52 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| FedsWhile Ellie is strong, streetwise, practical, social but scholarly weak, Janis is the opposite and thus make ideal room and team mates at a tough 16 week FBI training course. | 1988 | Daniel Goldberg | Comedy, Crime | 5.4 (3.1K votes) | 82 | 20220414 |
| FeverPoliceman (Bill Hunter) discovers a suitcase full of drug money during the normal course of his duties. The temptation to keep the money leads to an ever deepening set of circumstances. | 1988 | Craig Lahiff | Crime, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (109 votes) | 84 | 20230126 |
| Few Days with Me, AMartial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The mana | 1988 | Claude Sautet | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (986 votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Fighting Madam 2 [Tian shi xing dong II zhi huo feng kuanAction movie about a group of female renegades stopping a fascist psychopath who has formed a guerrilla army in his jungle hideaway | 1988 | Teresa Woo | Action | 6.3 (246 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Final ReprisalSeargant David Callahan leads a task force of U.S. Marines that are sent in behind enemy lines to perform a secret mission. The mission becomes a failure, when commandos kills daughter of powerful Captain Vinai. Five years later C... | 1988 | Teddy Page | Action, War | 5.1 (91 votes) | 88 | 20230619 |
| FingeredFINGERED is an art film that's constructed like a regular movie. Lydia Lunch plays a phone sex operator/prostitute that gets together with a guy she's been on the phone with. After a semi-hardcore sex scene, the violence begins. The | 1988 | Richard Kern | Short | 6.2 (534 votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
| First BornEdward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, ... | 1988 | Philip Saville | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (295 votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
| Fish Called Wanda, AIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister. | 1988 | Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Comedy, Crime | 7.5 (139.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Flesh Eating MothersSuburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer. | 1988 | James Aviles Martin | Comedy, Horror | 4.3 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| FleshEaterA group of college students on an overnite hayride come across a group of maneating zombies. They must fight for their lives while trying to escape and warn the authorities. | 1988 | S. William Hinzman | Horror | 4.8 (1.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| For KeepsAfter she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not. | 1988 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (4.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| For Queen & CountryA retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty. | 1988 | Martin Stellman | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (2.6K votes) | 105 | 20231201 |
| Force of the NinjaIn the Arizona desert, during attack to military convoy, mercenaries keep young Kasuko, from the Japanese royal family, as a hostage. While the Yakuza tries to gather the money asked, her family asks for the help of a powerful nin... | 1988 | Emmett Alston | Action | 3.2 (55 votes) | 93 | 20240803 |
| Framed [Strul]A chemistry teacher is framed for making drugs. In prison he discovers a passage out. A gang forces him to reveal it and join them in their crimes outside, returning each time. He meets a cutie that turns out to be a cop. | 1988 | Jonas Frick | Action, Comedy, Crime | 5.9 (2.6K votes) | 101 | 20240329 |
| Frank Nitti - The EnforcerTrue story of Al Capone's notorious hitman. | 1988 | Michael Switzer | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (371 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Frankenstein General HospitalA mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works. | 1988 | Deborah Sahagun | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.7 (317 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| FranticIn a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder. | 1988 | Roman Polanski (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (52.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| FreewayA deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways. | 1988 | Francis Delia | Thriller | 5.0 (434 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Frequent Death [Fréquence meurtre]Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station.She got a raw deal when she was a child. | 1988 | Élisabeth Rappeneau | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (262 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Fresh HorsesA college student from Cincinnati breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after falling in love with a girl from Kentucky. She claims to be 20, but he learns she is actually only 16 and already married. | 1988 | David Anspaugh | Drama, Romance | 5.0 (2.1K votes) | 105 | 20240222 |
| Fresh KillLeona and Allen unintentionally kill two offenders who have in their wake a lot of "friends". Since that day, the couple begins a slow metamorphosis that involves their existence and their moral values. | 1988 | Joseph Merhi | Horror | 4.4 (103 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Friday the 13th Part VII - The New BloodJason Voorhees is accidentally freed from his watery prison by a telekinetic teenager. Now, only she can stop him. | 1988 | John Carl Buechler | Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (36.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Friend [Drug]Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's | 1988 | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (323 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Fright Night Part 2Charley Brewster and Peter Vincent must face more vampires, out for revenge. | 1988 | Tommy Lee Wallace | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 5.9 (12.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| From Hollywood to DeadwoodTwo loser detectives need to score a case or give it up. Finding a missing starlet leaving a trail of blackmail and murder may be too much for them. | 1988 | Rex Pickett | Crime, Mystery | 5.8 (104 votes) | 90 | 20240709 |
| Fruit Machine, TheTwo gay teenagers go on the run after witnessing a murder. | 1988 | Philip Saville | Drama | 6.4 (535 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Full Moon in Blue WaterIn Texas, Floyd is the owner of a decadent bar nearby the coast. He misses his wife Dorothy, who disappeared one year ago, and does not pay attention to the business, giving credit to everybody. His senile father-in-law The Genera... | 1988 | Peter Masterson | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (762 votes) | 95 | 20221212 |
| Funny FarmA couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting. | 1988 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy | 6.2 (22.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck, TheA drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though, the guide begins to suspect that there's more to the expedition than j | 1988 | David Keith | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 4.6 (625 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Future HuntersA man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple. | 1988 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4.3 (523 votes) | 96 | 20240622 |
| Gamble, The [La partita]A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager. | 1988 | Carlo Vanzina | Comedy, History | 4.9 (237 votes) | 104 | 20240116 |
| Game They Called Sex, The [Huang se gu shi]The turbulent life of Chu Hsiao-Min and her growth from girl to woman. | 1988 | Sylvia Chang, Kuo-Chao Chin, Shaudi Wang | Romance | 6.5 (34 votes) | 99 | 20240110 |
| Game, TheTo avenge the death of his family, a man infiltrates a group of wealthy killers who take homeless people and use them as prey in a sadistic game of "hunt the man down". | 1988 | Cole S. McKay | Action, Drama | 5.1 (43 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| 'Gator Bait 2 - Cajun JusticeA sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband ""Big T"". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Ler... | 1988 | Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian | Action | 4.4 (345 votes) | 99 | 20230806 |
| GeorgiaA young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident? | 1988 | Ben Lewin | Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (165 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Getting Blue in Color [Kanashi iro yanen]A man works at a bank. He is the son of a yakuza thug. One day his father's gang fights another group of thugs and the son steps in and helps. The son's high school class-mate is also the son of a yakuza member. This man does not wan | 1988 | Yoshimitsu Morita | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.3 (30 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Ghost TownA modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her. | 1988 | Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg | Action, Horror, Western | 5.4 (1.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| GhosthouseVisions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house. | 1988 | Umberto Lenzi | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.8 (2.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Ghosts... of the Civil DeadPrison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules. | 1988 | John Hillcoat | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (1.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Giallo alla regolanan | 1988 | Stefano Roncoroni | Thriller | 5.3 (16 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Girlfriend, The [La amiga]María and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos. | 1988 | Jeanine Meerapfel | Drama | 5.9 (120 votes) | 110 | 20220315 |
| GlitzVincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against. Vincent's girlfriend leaves him for a job as a "hostess" in an Atlantic City casino, then turns up dead. I | 1988 | Sandor Stern | Action, Thriller | 5.3 (153 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Glorious Asuka gang, The [Hana no asuka gumi!]In this flower of the bird group action film, according to the high mouth pure title for the comic book ""Flower of the bird group"" adaptation, and violent flooding of the 199X Shinjuku Kabukicho, there is a girl like the wind, her... | 1988 | Yôichi Sai | Action | 5.4 (27 votes) | 100 | 20230619 |
| Good Mother, TheA divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend. | 1988 | Leonard Nimoy | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (1.7K votes) | 103 | 20220806 |
| Gorillas In The MistThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. | 1988 | Michael Apted | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (25.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| GothamEddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Nothing strange about that ?, well 'ex' refers to the fact that she died 10 years ago. Eddie thinks this will be an | 1988 | Lloyd Fonvielle | Thriller | 6.3 (903 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Grandmother's HouseAfter the death of their beloved father, two teens go to their grandmother's house in California and begin to suspect their grandparents of murder. | 1988 | Peter Rader | Horror, Thriller | 5.2 (1.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Grave of the FirefliesA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. | 1988 | Isao Takahata | Animation, Drama, War | 8.5 (260.2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Graverobbers [Dead Mate]Cute waitress/hooker is romanced and wed to handsome stranger/funeral director. He, as well as most of the town prefer their women dead. She is the obvious candidate for that position, as his two previous wives were in terrible shape | 1988 | Straw Weisman | Comedy, Horror | 4.6 (312 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Graveyard Shift II [The Understudy - Graveyard Shift II]A film crew making a low budget vampire film is unaware that the leading man is a real vampire and has his sights set on the leading lady. | 1988 | Jerry Ciccoritti | Horror | 3.7 (176 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Great Escape II_ The Untold Story, TheAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis. | 1988 | Jud Taylor, Paul Wendkos | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 5.5 (477 votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Great Outdoors, TheA Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law. | 1988 | Howard Deutch | Comedy | 6.6 (49.7K votes) | 91 | 20230806 |
| Green Inferno, The [Paradiso infernale]Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives. | 1988 | Antonio Climati | Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror | 3.9 (874 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Grievous Bodily HarmA schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks. | 1988 | Mark Joffe | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (249 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| GrotesqueA gang of crazed punks breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. | 1988 | Joe Tornatore | Horror | 4.3 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the ManholeAn artist rescues a mermaid in a sewer who develops bleeding sores all over her body, paints a portrait with her oozes and eventually disjoints her. | 1988 | Hideshi Hino | Horror | 5.4 (2.2K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Gunmen [Tian luo di wang]This story follows a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade. | 1988 | Kirk Wong | Action, Drama, Western | 6.0 (208 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Guys in the Cafe [Le café des Jules]Absurd revenge of the blue collars against the white ones in a cafe. | 1988 | Paul Vecchiali | Drama | 7.1 (44 votes) | 65 | 20220315 |
| Hack-O-LanternA kindly old grandfather is actually the leader of a murderous satanic cult which sacrifices its victims on Halloween. | 1988 | Jag Mundhra | Horror | 4.7 (1.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| HairsprayA 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. | 1988 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (21.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Halloween 4 The Return Of Michael Myers 1988Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him? | 1988 | Dwight H. Little | Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (50.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Handful of Dust, AThe wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage. | 1988 | Charles Sturridge | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.1K votes) | 118 | 20221116 |
| Hanna's WarDuring WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps. | 1988 | Menahem Golan | Biography, Drama, War | 6.2 (411 votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| HanussenA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that coul | 1988 | István Szabó | Drama, History | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Hard KnuckleIn the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier form of pool. Steve Bisley (Goose from Mad Max) is Harry, a pool hustler, who wants to beat Knuckle champ Top Dog, to get his bike bac | 1988 | Lex Marinos | Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport | 5.7 (41 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hard Rock NightmareA child is convinced his grandfather is a monster and kills him. Years later he returns with his friends to the sight of the killing. It appears to be his grandfather's revenge as one by one his friends are brutally murdered. | 1988 | Dominick Brascia | Horror | 5.1 (140 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Hard Times [Tempos Difíceis]A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s. | 1988 | João Botelho | Drama | 6.9 (100 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Haunted Cop Shop II, The [Meng gui xue tang]Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies. | 1988 | Jeffrey Lau | Action, Comedy, Horror | 5.4 (168 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Haunted SummerIn 1815, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex. | 1988 | Ivan Passer | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (530 votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| HawksTwo terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time. | 1988 | Robert Ellis Miller | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Head Hunter, The [Headhunter]Miami cop Pete is having a tough time: first he learns his wife is having an affair with another woman (they split up), then him and his partner Kat are pitted against a shape-shifting voodoo demon from Africa who is decapitating ... | 1988 | Francis Schaeffer | Horror | 4.1 (499 votes) | 92 | 20221116 |
| Heart of a Dog [Sobache serdtse]In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name. | 1988 | Vladimir Bortko | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (7.6K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Heart of MidnightCarol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special relationship with her uncle as she battles her memor | 1988 | Matthew Chapman | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Heartbreak HotelA teen tries to set up a band at his school, when his mother, who was a big fan of Elvis Presley, gets in a wreck. He and his band members decide to kidnap Elvis to meet her. | 1988 | Chris Columbus (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (1.5K votes) | 97 | 20240306 |
| HeathersAt Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count. | 1988 | Michael Lehmann | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (98.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Hell Comes to FrogtownAfter a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid | 1988 | Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (6.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| HellbentA bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success. | 1988 | Richard Casey | Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.9 (231 votes) | 88 | 20230328 |
| Hellraiser 2 - HellboundKirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld. | 1988 | Tony Randel | Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (46.9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Her Vengeance [Huet mui gwai]Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to enlist the aid of her former brother-in-law (Lam | 1988 | Ngai Choi Lam | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (241 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Hero and the TerrorDanny was lucky 3 years ago at the arrest of Terror, a serial killer of young women. Danny's about to be dad, when Terror escapes prison and is back killing. Will Danny get lucky this time? | 1988 | William Tannen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.3 (3.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Hero HiralalHiralal, a rickshaw driver, falls in love with a starlet, Roopa. He follows her to Bombay with the intention of marrying her. But her family forces her to reject him and concentrate on her career. | 1988 | Ketan Mehta, V. Menon | Action, Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (317 votes) | 146 | 20240416 |
| Hero of Tomorrow [Gong woo jip ban yan]When Lee Sam, a ten-year veteran of the Hong Kong underworld, is released from prison, he dispatches two enemies and goes into hiding in Taipei where his old friend Billy is a boss. Billy is a hothead whose rivalries with other ga... | 1988 | Man Kit Poon | Action, Crime | 6.0 (49 votes) | 86 | 20221116 |
| Hide And Go ShriekA group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one. | 1988 | Skip Schoolnik | Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| High Frequency [Qualcuno in ascolto]A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim. | 1988 | Faliero Rosati | Thriller | 6.4 (251 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| High HopesThe life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family. | 1988 | Mike Leigh (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| High SpiritsWhen a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests. | 1988 | Neil Jordan | Comedy, Fantasy | 5.8 (9.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Higher EducationAnother Canadian screwball comedy involving a horny college man who can't decide between his girlfriend and his teacher. | 1988 | John Sheppard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (79 votes) | 92 | 20220531 |
| Higher GroundA retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. There, he investigates his friends murder, and drug smuggling. He also plays guitar and sings for his friends from time to time. | 1988 | Robert Day | Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller | 6.0 (176 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Hiroshima MaidenA young Japanese girl moves to the United States 10 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and faces prejudice. | 1988 | Joan Darling | Drama, Family | 7.6 (70 votes) | 53 | 20230328 |
| HobgoblinsA young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true. | 1988 | Rick Sloane | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 2.3 (12.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Hollow GateAt a Halloween party, a young boy is almost killed by his drunken, alcoholic father. Ten years afterward, the boy goes on a murder spree. | 1988 | Ray Di Zazzo | Horror | 3.3 (319 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Hollywood Chainsaw HookersA detective embarks on a mission to track down a woman in L.A.'s seedy nightclubs, only to come face-to-face with a blood-thirsty cult of lethally beautiful prostitutes. Is he the next victim of Hollywood's demented Chainsaw Hookers? | 1988 | Fred Olen Ray | Comedy, Horror | 5.3 (3.5K votes) | 75 | 20220806 |
| Hollywood's New BloodThe ghosts of a family accidentally killed on a movie set come back for revenge. | 1988 | James Shyman | Horror | 2.7 (201 votes) | 77 | 20230328 |
| Home at LastThis heart-warming story about an orphaned 13-year old NYC street urchin who is sent via the Orphan Train to Nebraska where he is adopted by a Swedish immigrant family who recently lost their older son to typhoid. | 1988 | David Devries | Drama | 6.9 (78 votes) | 58 | 20230728 |
| HomeboyA simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planning a bi... | 1988 | Michael Seresin | Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.8 (2.7K votes) | 116 | 20230728 |
| Honeybun [Honneponnetje]A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped. | 1988 | Ruud van Hemert | Comedy, Romance | 4.5 (362 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Horror Queen [Il bosco 1]The story of a hideous monster who takes the form of a beautiful, seductive woman who in a torrent of special effects, beauty and monster transform into a climax of pure evil. For years this monster woman has cursed a small villag... | 1988 | Andrea Marfori | Horror | 3.6 (645 votes) | 85 | 20240727 |
| Hostile TakeoverA man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands. | 1988 | George Mihalka | Thriller | 5.1 (195 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Hot to TrotComedian Bob Goldthwait stars as an insecure stockbroker who teams up with Don the Talking Horse, a chatty four-legged financial advisor. | 1988 | Michael Dinner | Comedy, Fantasy | 4.5 (3.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Hotch-Potch [Kogel-mogel]A country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there. | 1988 | Roman Zaluski | Comedy | 6.7 (2K votes) | 105 | 20240323 |
| Hôtel TerminusA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war. | 1988 | Marcel Ophüls (*) | Documentary, Biography, History, War | 7.7 (1.4K votes) | 267 | 20211228 |
| House of WitchcraftA new mother and her child move into her mother-in-law's dark old mansion. She soon begns to suspect that neither the house nor her mother-in-law are quite what they seem to be. | 1988 | Rob Spera | Horror | 3.4 (775 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Howl of the Devil [El aullido del diablo]Paul Naschy plays several roles in this film about a nowhere actor who likes to pick up prostitutes and play sex games. His nephew resides with him, and is lost in a fantasy world of his own. | 1988 | Paul Naschy | Horror | 5.5 (249 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| The Howling IV - The Original NightmareA successful author moves to a small town after suffering a mental breakdown and is tormented by demons and werewolves. | 1988 | John Hough, Clive Turner | Horror | 3.4 (2.8K votes) | 94 | 20220423 |
| Hugh Cornwell - Another Kind of LoveSvankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's ""Another Kind of Love."" | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Music | 6.5 (618 votes) | 4 | 20231001 |
| Hunting Time [Av Zamani]A writer who lost his friend as a result of assassination leaves everything and returns to the island where he grew up. One day he witnesses a murder. This event will cause him to face the political conflicts he thought he had left b | 1988 | Erden Kiral | Drama | 5.2 (110 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| I Love Maria [Tie jia wu di Ma Li Ya]The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria, the gang's #2 thug. When Pioneer 2 gets da | 1988 | David Chung, Hark Tsui | Sci-Fi | 6.1 (446 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| I Saw What You DidA group of pranksters unintentionally get the attention of a serial killer who soon starts targeting them. | 1988 | Fred Walton | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.5 (793 votes) | 93 | 20220912 |
| IacobIacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive. | 1988 | Mircea Daneliuc | Drama | 7.2 (266 votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| IguanaIn the 19th century, a bullied, disfigured man dubbed Iguana flees from abusive locals, finds his own island and declares himself tyrant of his new domain. A man and a woman get stranded there and become victims of his new sadistic n | 1988 | Monte Hellman (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (476 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Il fantasma di SodomaSix teenagers are terrorized in an isolated villa by ghosts of Nazis killed during World War II by an air raid while participating in an orgy. | 1988 | Lucio Fulci, Mario Bianchi | Horror | 3.8 (789 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Il Piccolo DiavoloDuring an exorcism, father Maurice meets a little devil named Giuditta, who refuses to return to hell and decides to discover the world. | 1988 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| I'll Be Home for ChristmasThe Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War 2. | 1988 | Marvin J. Chomsky | Drama | 6.7 (273 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Illegally YoursA college dropout called for jury duty tries to prove his childhood crush innocent. | 1988 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy, Crime | 4.3 (1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| I'm Gonna Git You SuckaIn this parody of blaxploitation movies, a black hero wannabe reunites former black heroes from the 70s to help him get revenge on Mr. Big. | 1988 | Keenen Ivory Wayans | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.6 (13.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Importance of Being Earnest, TheAlgernon "Algy" Moncrieff (Rupert Frazer) and Jack Worthing (Paul McGann) discover that they have been "Bunberrying", that is, assuming different identities in order to enjoy themselves in a guilt-free manner. Jack's pretending to be | 1988 | Stuart Burge | Comedy | 7.3 (260 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| In Dangerous CompanyA beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin. | 1988 | Ruben Preuss | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 3.5 (164 votes) | 92 | 20240519 |
| In Love with the Bearded Woman [Amoureux de la femme à baVisit our Sundance guide for everything you need to know about the 2018 Sundance Film Festival including videos, a guide to what's showing this year, trending titles, and more. | 1988 | Chun-Liang Chen, Yang-Ming Tsai | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.9 (19 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| In the AftermathOn a post-apocalyptic Earth, an angel descends to help the survivors. | 1988 | Carl Colpaert | Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 4.8 (263 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| In the Line of Duty III [Huang jia shi jie zhi III - Ci xiong da dao]Genji Nakamura and his soul-mate and partner Michiko Nishiwaki are thieves for the notorious Red Army terrorist organization in Japan. After pulling off the jewelry heist of the century (in which dozens of people get killed includ... | 1988 | Arthur Wong, Brandy Yuen | Action | 6.5 (687 votes) | 90 | 20231114 |
| In the Mouth of the Wolf [La boca del lobo]The Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade. | 1988 | Francisco J. Lombardi | Drama, Action, War | 7.4 (585 votes) | 128 | 20220414 |
| Incident at Raven's GateA small Australian town is stricken by unusual occurrences; electrical faults, violent and psychotic human behavior. | 1988 | Rolf de Heer | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.4 (568 votes) | 94 | 20230328 |
| Incredible Hulk Returns, TheHopefully on the verge of curing his Hulk condition, Banner meets his colleague, Don Blake, who is mystically linked to a Viking warrior, Thor. | 1988 | Nicholas Corea, Bill Bixby | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (3.3K votes) | 100 | 20220912 |
| IndiscreetA British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood. | 1988 | Richard Michaels | Comedy | 6.3 (87 votes) | 94 | 20240709 |
| Infernal Rapist, The [El violador infernal]Carlos ""El Gato"" is a serial rapist who's condemned to the electric chair. Immediately after his electrocution, he makes a deal with Satan and gets resurrected. Carlos begins raping and killing in the name of the devil. | 1988 | Damián Acosta Esparza, José Medina | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.2 (217 votes) | 83 | 20230328 |
| Inherit the WindA biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South. | 1988 | David Greene | Drama, History | 6.6 (617 votes) | 96 | 20240622 |
| Intrépidos punksA gang of punks, led by a masquerader named Tarzan; terrorizing a small Mexican city, robbing banks, raping women, and killing people with cruelties. Two enforcers Marco and Javier fight this gang of punks. | 1988 | Francisco Guerrero | Action, Crime | 5.9 (187 votes) | 91 | 20220723 |
| Invasion Earth - The Aliens Are HereInsect-like aliens invade a small town. The local teenagers have been watching a sci-fi marathon in the local theater, and from those films they get ideas on how to fight the creatures. | 1988 | Robert Skotak | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 3.0 (246 votes) | 82 | 20231216 |
| It Came from Somewhere ElseKung fu aliens from space have invaded the small town of Grand Bosh, accompanied by a surge of spontaneous human combustion and other mysterious phenomena in this awkward spoof of 50s sci-fi. | 1988 | Howard Hassler | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (140 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| It Takes TwoIn Texas, the naive Travis Rogers quits his job to marry his beloved Stephanie "Stephi" Lawrence and work with his father-in-law. However he decides to buy a car with his US$ 5,000.00 savings in Dallas before the wedding. He goes to | 1988 | David Beaird | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 (759 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Itineraire d'un enfant gateA successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways. | 1988 | Claude Lelouch (*) | Drama, Adventure, Comedy | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled ChildA successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways. | 1988 | Claude Lelouch (*) | Drama, Adventure, Comedy | 7.0 (2.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled Child [Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté]A successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways. | 1988 | Claude Lelouch (*) | Drama, Adventure, Comedy | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading BooksA nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane activities. Richard Linklater presents an uncon... | 1988 | Richard Linklater (*) | Drama | 5.6 (909 votes) | 85 | 20230715 |
| It's Murphy's FaultA down-on-his-luck, struggling writer hits rock bottom just when he meets a sexy policewoman. But bad luck seems to follow him like a lost puppy and just when things start looking up, a story sold, a new camper and a new love life, h | 1988 | Robert J. Smawley | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (31 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Jack the RipperA Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen. | 1988 | David Wickes | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (5K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Jack's BackA serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him. | 1988 | Rowdy Herrington | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (3.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Jane B. for Agnes V. [Jane B. par Agnès V.]"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a wom | 1988 | Agnès Varda (*) | Biography, Fantasy | 7.2 (850 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Jeweller's Shop, The [La bottega dell'orefice]The Jeweller sells wedding rings to a young couple and teaches them some precious truths about the meaning of love and marriage. He also helps another couple fight for their troubled marriage, rebuilding their relationship. | 1988 | Michael Anderson | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.8 (327 votes) | 95 | 20240316 |
| Johnny Be GoodJohnny's the top high-school football player and many colleges want him. His girlfriend, coach and best friend want him in the college, serving themselves most. | 1988 | Bud S. Smith | Comedy, Sport | 4.6 (6.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Journey to the Center of the EarthYoung people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, and wind up in the lost city of Atlantis. | 1988 | Rusty Lemorande, Albert Pyun | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 2.6 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Judgement DayTwo travelers stop over in a small village named Santana. Unbeknownst to them, Santana is a village where, once a year, Satan comes to Earth to claim souls, and they just happened to enter the village on that day. | 1988 | Ferde Grofé Jr. | Horror | 5.1 (202 votes) | 93 | 20240412 |
| Judgment in BerlinAmerican judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified. | 1988 | Leo Penn | Drama | 5.8 (884 votes) | 96 | 20240501 |
| July [Shilde]One hot summer afternoon, two boys try to earn the cash for a movie in this beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood. | 1988 | Darezhan Omirbayev | Short, Drama | 7.3 (117 votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
| Karate Warrior 2 [Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro 2]After studying martial arts in the Philippines and defeating his opponent Quino, Anthony Scott heads back to the U.S. to attend college and makes a new friend named Luke. Making the promise to his teacher that he will not fight, Anth | 1988 | Fabrizio De Angelis | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport | 4.2 (236 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| KeanThe great actor, Edmund Kean, has difficulty separating acting from reality. | 1988 | Pierre Badel | Drama | 8.1 (26 votes) | 0 | 20240609 |
| Killer Klowns from Outer SpaceAliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town. | 1988 | Stephen Chiodo | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (36.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Killing American StyleWalking jawline Tony Stone (Robert Z'Dar), is a tough criminal with questionable recruitment criteria for his henchmen. After he and his goons pull off a heist at a surprisingly well-guarded ice cream truck depot, they're caught by L | 1988 | Amir Shervan | Action, Crime, Thriller | 4.0 (571 votes) | 101 | 20220315 |
| King of the Children [Hai zi wang]This film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a young man is assigned to teach in village school. | 1988 | Kaige Chen | Drama | 6.9 (554 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| King Size [Kingsajz]This comedy follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of | 1988 | Juliusz Machulski (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Kiss of Judas, The [Il bacio di Giuda]nan | 1988 | Paolo Benvenuti | Unknown | 7.4 (16 votes) | 87 | 20230424 |
| Kiss, TheAfter the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives. | 1988 | Pen Densham | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (1.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Labyrinth of Flower Garden [Hanazono no meikyu]A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel. | 1988 | Shun'ya Itô | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (24 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Labyrinth Romanesque [Hanazono no meikyu]A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel. | 1988 | Shun'ya Itô | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.6 (43 votes) | 118 | 20240519 |
| Lady and the Highwayman, TheSwashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II. | 1988 | John Hough | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 5.5 (1.1K votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Lady in WhiteAn author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl. | 1988 | Frank LaLoggia | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (6.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Lair Of The White Worm, TheWhen an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences. | 1988 | Ken Russell (*) | Comedy, Horror | 6.0 (12.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Land Before Time, TheAn orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley. | 1988 | Don Bluth | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.4 (98.9K votes) | 69 | 20240511 |
| Landscape in the Mist [Topio stin omichli]Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father. | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos (*) | Drama | 8.0 (8K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Last Conflict, TheDonnie Yen plays an Interpol officer brought in to help Stephen Chow and the local police investigate a criminal gang. | 1988 | Raymond Lee | Action, Crime | 6.8 (61 votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Last RitesAngela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena. | 1988 | Donald P. Bellisario | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.1 (1.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Last Romance [Liu jin sui yue]Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies. | 1988 | Yonfan | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (169 votes) | 105 | 20230715 |
| The Last Slumber PartyLinda, Tracy, and Chris are a trio of teenage girls who decide to celebrate the last day of high school by having a slumber party at Linda's house. A few guys also show up to further enhance the merry festivities. However, things tak | 1988 | Stephen Tyler | Horror | 2.5 (809 votes) | 80 | 20220423 |
| Last Temptation of Christ, TheThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.8K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation, The [O teleftaios peirasmos]The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.6K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Laura Lansing Slept HereA famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can't survive one week of living with an average family. | 1988 | George Schaefer | Comedy | 6.3 (242 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Legend of the Holy Drinker, The [La leggenda del santo bevitore]An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral. | 1988 | Ermanno Olmi (*) | Drama | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Legend Of The Holy Drinker, The [La leggenda del santo bevitore]An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral. | 1988 | Ermanno Olmi (*) | Drama | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Lemon SkyAn out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping his past may not be as easy as he had hoped...or is it all a dream? | 1988 | Jan Egleson | Drama | 6.4 (313 votes) | 106 | 20221116 |
| Let Sleeping Cops Lie [Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort]This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) unde | 1988 | José Pinheiro | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (797 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Lethal Film [Livsfarlig film]The real horror is worse than - than a horror film, worse than - than the worst horror film. A story about some who are producing horror and special effects. | 1988 | Suzanne Osten | Unknown | 4.4 (56 votes) | 109 | 20241012 |
| Lethal PursuitA rock star babe and her hunky honey find themselves targeted by her psychotic ex, whose insane jealously sparks a deadly game of desert cat-and-mouse. | 1988 | Don Jones | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (65 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Let's Get LostDocumentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances. | 1988 | Bruce Weber | Documentary, Biography, Music | 7.9 (2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Letters from the Park [Cartas del parque]Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters. | 1988 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (*) | Drama | 6.8 (113 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| L'étudianteWeeks from her final exams, part-time teacher Valentine meets a very different musician. Just a one-night stand and back to preparing for exams, she thinks. | 1988 | Claude Pinoteau | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| LibidoThe male fly is desperately in love, but does not meet reciprocity. Flycatchers are waiting for him everywhere. The hero does not notice the caterpillar's sympathy. The goldfish offers to fulfill his wish. He wants to become as bi... | 1988 | Velislav Kazakov | Animation, Short | 6.6 (6 votes) | 8 | 20230806 |
| Life ClassesThe odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right. | 1988 | William D. MacGillivray | Drama | 6.8 (65 votes) | 117 | 20220414 |
| Life Is a Long Quiet River [La vie est un long fleuve tranquille]A revengeful nurse switches a girl and a boy at birth. They are raised in two radically different families. When the switch is revealed many years later, the now teenagers and families need to cope with their new environments. | 1988 | Étienne Chatiliez | Comedy | 6.9 (4.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, TheFour kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan. | 1988 | Marilyn Fox | Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.2 (6.3K votes) | 2 | 20231001 |
| Lip ServiceA young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he's been hired to promote. | 1988 | William H. Macy | Comedy | 5.5 (80 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Little Devil, The [Il Piccolo Diavolo]During an exorcism, father Maurice meets a little devil named Giuditta, who refuses to return to hell and decides to discover the world. | 1988 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Little NikitaAn F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son. | 1988 | Richard Benjamin | Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (6K votes) | 98 | 20240501 |
| Little SweetheartA criminal couple, hiding out in a remote property become the unwitting victims of a plot to blackmail them by the most unlikely of conspirators. | 1988 | Anthony Simmons | Thriller | 6.0 (311 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Little Thief, The [La petite voleuse]In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow t | 1988 | Claude Miller | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Little Vera [Malenkaya Vera]A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town. | 1988 | Vasili Pichul | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Lone WolfA struggling rock band and other college students cope with the usual trials and tribulations of their young lives, such as determining what exactly is behind the recent full-moon killings which have been attributed to wild dogs. | 1988 | John Callas | Horror, Music, Mystery | 4.3 (371 votes) | 97 | 20230619 |
| LoolA collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s. | 1988 | Boaz Davidson, Uri Zohar | Comedy | 7.4 (68 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Love Bites Back [Kamu onna]Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyo... | 1988 | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Unknown | 6.0 (32 votes) | 102 | 20241012 |
| Love is always amand pinknan | 1988 | Hiroto Yokoyama | Comedy | nan | 93 | 20230424 |
| Love on a Daily Basis [Koiko no Mainichi]The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend. | 1988 | Akiyoshi Kimata | Romance | nan | 96 | 20220315 |
| Mac and MeAn alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy. | 1988 | Stewart Raffill | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi | 3.3 (14.5K votes) | 99 | 20220806 |
| Macho DancerAbandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution... | 1988 | Lino Brocka | Drama | 6.6 (447 votes) | 136 | 20240105 |
| Madame SousatzkaRenowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision. | 1988 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama, Music | 6.7 (1.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| MagdaleneFather Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and while doing so, they fall in love. | 1988 | Monica Teuber | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (100 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Magic of Spell [Tao da liang da xian shen wei]Peach Boy and his mother live in a village. One day a young man comes to the village and asks Peach Boy as his teacher. At the same time, the Elder of Devil Palace kills his mother. The battle between Peach Boy and the devil is un... | 1988 | Chung-Hsing Chao | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.2 (84 votes) | 80 | 20230619 |
| MaicolLittle Maicol's night journey on the subway, through a Milan asleep and deserted. | 1988 | Mario Brenta | Drama | 6.3 (17 votes) | 90 | 20230830 |
| Man Against the MobIn 1930s Los Angeles, a police detective leads an elite squad against a vicious organized crime ring. | 1988 | Steven Hilliard Stern | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (74 votes) | 100 | 20240722 |
| Man for All Seasons, AKing Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, and seeks the approval of the aristocracy. Sir Thomas More is a man of principle and reason, and is thus placed in a difficult position: should he stand up for his principles, risking the wr | 1988 | Charlton Heston | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (639 votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| MangeclousA mysterious letter lures a family to Geneva in search of a treasure. | 1988 | Moshé Mizrahi | Comedy, Drama | 5.1 (159 votes) | 118 | 20230715 |
| MångudenA serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, appears in a film apparently filmed by himself. | 1988 | Jonas Cornell | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.2 (126 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Maniac CopA killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City. | 1988 | William Lustig | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery | 6.1 (16.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| ManifestoIn a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be. | 1988 | Dusan Makavejev | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (403 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Manly Games [Muzné hry]A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Short, Comedy, Horror, Sport | 7.4 (1.3K votes) | 14 | 20231001 |
| Marquis de Sades Prosperities of Vice [Akutoku no sakae]An obsession with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade leads a depraved, 1920s-era Japanese count down the path of tragedy and self-destruction in this erotic drama. In order to impress his wealthy, jaded friends, a decadent nob | 1988 | Akio Jissôji | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (120 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Married to The MobA mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her. | 1988 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.2 (17.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Martha, Ruth & EdieTwo women attending a Women's Seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emo... | 1988 | Norma Bailey, Deepa Mehta, Danièle J. Suissa | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 (64 votes) | 92 | 20241012 |
| Mask of MurderIn a Canadian village, women are being killed by a psychopath. Chief Superintendent Rich and Superintendent McLane have no leads in the case until McLane shoots a suspect. From that moment on, the killing spree seems to have ended, b | 1988 | Arne Mattsson | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.6 (251 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Mask, The [La maschera]A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul. | 1988 | Fiorella Infascelli | Fantasy, Romance | 6.0 (163 votes) | 90 | 20230328 |
| MasqueradeA recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason. | 1988 | Bob Swaim | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (3.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| MauriNear the remote East Cape the matriarch lives in her very basic dwelling with real fire in the hearth, where she cooks. We get an insight in the whanau in this saga, where troubles are met with kindmess, except by the pakeha or th... | 1988 | Merata Mita | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (93 votes) | 101 | 20220912 |
| Maybe Some Other Time [Shayad Vaghti Deegar]Mr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the documentary he finds the stranger who has a pawn s... | 1988 | Bahram Beyzaie | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (710 votes) | 159 | 20221212 |
| Me and Him [Ich und er]A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane. | 1988 | Doris Dörrie | Comedy, Fantasy | 4.4 (548 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Meadow of Things, The [Die Wiese der Sachen]A terrorist defector comments on the fate of an abducted car salesman. | 1988 | Heinz Emigholz | Drama | 7.4 (6 votes) | 88 | 20221116 |
| MedeaMedea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the throne. In exchange, Medea and the boys are | 1988 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Memories of You [Rabu sutori o kimini]University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live. So the mother entreats Akira to be her sp... | 1988 | Shin'ichirô Sawai | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (36 votes) | 0 | 20241019 |
| Men Behind the Sun - Camp 731 [Hei tai yang 731]Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons. | 1988 | Tun-Fei Mou | Drama, History, Horror, War | 6.1 (6.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Mercenary FightersvThe president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity, the president doesn't use his army, but... | 1988 | Riki Shelach Nissimoff | Action, Adventure, Drama | 4.5 (196 votes) | 90 | 20221116 |
| Messenger of DeathA Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado. | 1988 | J. Lee Thompson | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 5.5 (2.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Microscope, The [Das Mikroskop]nan | 1988 | Rudolf Thome | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (50 votes) | 97 | 20230619 |
| Midas Touch, The [Eldorádó] Sandor Monori thinks that he can buy everything with his gold. The story takes place after the World War II at the famous Teleki ter where he is the King of the market. | 1988 | Géza Bereményi | Drama | 7.7 (1.2K votes) | 104 | 20240609 |
| Midnight [tt0097876]Midnight"" is a 1988 movie where Lynn Redgrave plays the horror host ""Midnight"" on the television horror movie show ""Midnight"". | 1988 | Norman Thaddeus Vane | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 3.6 (257 votes) | 86 | 20240427 |
| Midnight Movie MassacreA Martian begins to attack the patrons and staff of a movie theater during the 1950's as a low budget science fiction film plays on the screen. | 1988 | Laurence Jacobs, Mark Stock | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.0 (255 votes) | 85 | 20230619 |
| Midnight RunA bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail. | 1988 | Martin Brest (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 (83.9K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Mignon Has Come to Stay [Mignon è partita]A French teenage girl is forced to move in with her less well off Italian relatives. | 1988 | Francesca Archibugi | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (338 votes) | 96 | 20221212 |
| Milagro Beanfield War, TheAn accidental breakdown of a valve on the irrigation ditch launches a hot confrontation between local farmers and corrupt authorities. | 1988 | Robert Redford (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 (6.6K votes) | 117 | 20230728 |
| Mindshadows [Hersenschimmen]Maarten, a Dutch immigrant in America, is suffering from dementia and finds senility gradually robbing him of his identity. | 1988 | Heddy Honigmann | Drama | 7.3 (131 votes) | 115 | 20231110 |
| Miracle MileA young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes. | 1988 | Steve De Jarnatt | Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Miss ArizonaStory of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII. | 1988 | Pál Sándor | Drama, Musical, War | 6.5 (82 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| MissileFollows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained to man the Launch Control Centers for the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile | 1988 | Frederick Wiseman (*) | Documentary | 7.1 (143 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Missing LinkA million years ago in Africa, the last of the Australopithecines is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steppes, deserts and mountains until he reaches the c... | 1988 | Carol Hughes, David Hughes | Adventure | 6.0 (428 votes) | 91 | 20240605 |
| Mississippi BurningTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. | 1988 | Alan Parker | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (97K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Moderns, TheA struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband. | 1988 | Alan Rudolph | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Mon cher sujetnan | 1988 | Anne-Marie Miéville | Drama, Musical | 6.9 (49 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Mondo New YorkA young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo | 1988 | Harvey Keith | Documentary, Comedy, Music | 5.9 (187 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| Monkey ShinesA quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master. | 1988 | George A. Romero (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (11.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Moon Over ParadorA U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador? | 1988 | Paul Mazursky | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (6.6K votes) | 103 | 20230728 |
| Moonlight Sonata, The [Kuutamosonaatti]A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as the home of Santa Claus) for a vacation. Litt | 1988 | Olli Soinio | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (947 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| MoontrapThe Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions. | 1988 | Robert Dyke | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.9 (3.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MoonwalkerAnthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big. | 1988 | Jerry Kramer, Colin Chilvers | Action, Crime, Fantasy, Music, Thriller | 6.1 (16.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Mortu NegaThe story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together | 1988 | Flora Gomes | Drama, War | 7.0 (69 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Mortuary Academy"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necrophiliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sor | 1988 | Michael Schroeder | Comedy | 4.9 (376 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Mountain LanguangeA study in interrogation and imprisonment. | 1988 | Harold Pinter | Short, Drama | 8.2 (10 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| MovingArlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems. | 1988 | Alan Metter | Comedy | 6.2 (5.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Moving TargetA teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone. | 1988 | Chris Thomson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (667 votes) | 100 | 20230424 |
| Mr. Blob in the Universe [Pan Kleks w kosmosie]Kids from the orphanage in Malishev receive for Christmas a newest computer from a former pupil of this children's home, and now the president of a large electronic corporation, as a gift. The computer tells them a story that can hap | 1988 | Krzysztof Gradowski | Adventure, Family, Musical, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (361 votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Mr. NorthAfter gaining a reputation as a mysterious healer, a charming Yale graduate must defend his honor before his unique talent lands him in jail. | 1988 | Danny Huston | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (1.6K votes) | 93 | 20240622 |
| Mr. Vampire Saga [Geung see suk suk]A Taoist Priest isn't happy when his Buddhist Priest colleague moves in next door. They are subject to feuds and duels, but soon must overcome their problems when a vampire breaks loose from his coffin and wreaks havoc to the coun... | 1988 | Ricky Lau | Action, Comedy, Horror | 6.4 (536 votes) | 96 | 20230424 |
| Murder of Mary Phagan, TheIn early twentieth-century Atlanta, the murder of a young girl prompts strong reactions from the community, and ultimately leads to the arrest of a man who may actually be innocent. | 1988 | William Hale | Crime, Drama, History | 7.3 (730 votes) | 0 | 20220414 |
| Murder OneFreshly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people. | 1988 | Graeme Campbell | Biography, Crime, Drama | 5.6 (337 votes) | 82 | 20220315 |
| Murder RapWhen Christopher, a young audio fanatic accidentally records a brutal murder, his pursuit of the killer lures him into a sinister plot of revenge and deceit. | 1988 | Kliff Keuhl | Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (51 votes) | 108 | 20230619 |
| Murder Secret, The [Non aver paura della zia Marta]A family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day...if they survive the night. | 1988 | Mario Bianchi | Horror | 5.2 (335 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Murdered House, The [La maison assassinée]After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month | 1988 | Georges Lautner | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (533 votes) | 110 | 20220414 |
| Music Teacher, The [Le maître de musique]Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of | 1988 | Gérard Corbiau | Drama, Music | 7.1 (891 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Mutant WarThe sequel to 'Galaxy Destroyer' which finds our hero Harry Trent wandering Earth's post-apocalyptic landscape full of mutants, monsters, and fragmented human tribes. Harry's attempt to help a young girl rescue her sisters, leads him | 1988 | Brett Piper | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 4.6 (218 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Mutters MaskeThe drama of a family resident in Ruhradel. | 1988 | Christoph Schlingensief | Comedy | 6.4 (110 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| My Father, My SonWhen an admiral orders the use of Agent Orange in Vetnam, he has no idea what deadly consequences this will have on his son. | 1988 | Jeff Bleckner | Drama, War | 7.0 (73 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| My Heart Belongs to Daddy [Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono]nan | 1988 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Comedy, Drama | nan | 95 | 20231114 |
| My Neighbor TotoroWhen two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki (*) | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.2 (320.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau, The [La mort mystérieuse de Nina Chéreau]A young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman th | 1988 | Dennis Berry | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.2 (96 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Mystic PizzaThree teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic. | 1988 | Donald Petrie | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (32.3K votes) | 104 | 20240319 |
| Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad, TheIncompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. | 1988 | David Zucker (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (163.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Navigator - A Mediaeval Odyssey, TheMen seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand. | 1988 | Vincent Ward | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (3.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| NecromancerJulie, a college student, is sexually assaulted by two fellow students. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who begins using her demonic powers to get rid of any guy Julie hates. | 1988 | Dusty Nelson | Horror | 4.3 (774 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Needle, The [Igla]Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight th | 1988 | Rashid Nugmanov | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (2.4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Never Say DieA young couple are mysteriously pursued by people with increasingly elaborate attempts to kill them; they narrowly escape death repeatedly via a series of car chases and shoot-outs. | 1988 | Geoff Murphy | Action, Comedy | 5.4 (179 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, TheAfter her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood chi | 1988 | Ken Annakin | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 5.9 (4.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Newlydeads, TheThe owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, a spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples. | 1988 | Joseph Merhi | Horror | 3.9 (230 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Night FeederFear chokes the free-wheeling underbelly of San Francisco's punk scene as a killer stalks the night to feed an unspeakable appetite. Community suspicion focuses on Disease, a band that is tainted by groupie deaths allegedly induced b | 1988 | Jim Whiteaker | Horror | 5.7 (94 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, AA charming womanizer must find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love, or else go to his father's chosen business school. | 1988 | William Richert | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.5 (3K votes) | 90 | 20231126 |
| Night Journey [Gece yolculugu]A confused script writer takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church at a remote village while looking for locations for his next film. | 1988 | Ömer Kavur | Drama | 7.2 (433 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Night of the DemonsTen teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell. | 1988 | Kevin Tenney | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.2 (15.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Night of the NinjaFamous real life giant sapphire called the Star of India has been stolen. Special agent Nick Goldman is assign to find it. | 1988 | Bob Chan | Action, Crime | 2.9 (13 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Sharks [La notte degli squali]David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who w | 1988 | Tonino Ricci | Action | 3.7 (404 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Night Train to Kathmandu, TheA young girl leaves for Nepal with her parents and brother. She is unhappy to leave her home at first, but soon isn't when she meets a handome young man. The story unfolds into a romantic and daring quest in search of the "Invisible | 1988 | Robert Wiemer | Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Drama | 6.2 (459 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Night WarsTwo Vietnam Veterans have realistic nightmares about the war. So real are these nightmares that they start getting injured in them, and bringing things back that they had in the dream. They then buy weapons and go in to try and get o | 1988 | David A. Prior | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, War | 4.2 (192 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| NightfallFar across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Soon nightfall will come and bring with it tremendous destruction. Science struggles against superstition in this dramatic portrayal of Isaac Asimov's a | 1988 | Paul Mayersberg | Mystery, Sci-Fi | 2.6 (713 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare at BittercreekFour women play a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they encounter a Neo-Nazi hideout while making a trip through the Sierra Mountans. | 1988 | Tim Burstall | Action, Thriller | 5.0 (258 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master, AFreddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good. | 1988 | Renny Harlin | Horror | 5.7 (54.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare SistersThree geeky college girls who can't get a date, organize a seance and become sex starved vamps. | 1988 | David DeCoteau | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 5.1 (1.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Ninja Force Of AssassinsAs gangster boss Cole continues his violent rivalry with the White Ninja, an interpol agent appears on the scene to try and put a stop to their antics. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action | 5.0 (32 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Ninja Knight 2- Blood BrothersA Chinese couple moves in together, but the boy secretly wants the daughter of a business tycoon. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action | 4.2 (49 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Ninja Operation 7 - Royal Warriors [Hands of Death]When the Purple Ninja Empire get their hands on a lost treasure map, the race is on to find the legendary Burmese treasure. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Adventure | 4.4 (89 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Ninja Powerforce [Ninja Operation 4- Thunderbolt Angels]In a struggle for supremacy, two childhood buddies are caught on opposite sides of a deadly gang war. Their capture and subsequent release by the police sparks off another confrontation between the notorious Red Ninjas and the Golden | 1988 | Joseph Lai, Godfrey Ho | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.0 (52 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Ninja Showdown, TheA ruthless gang of Ninja marauders, a kidnapped maiden and a young man seeking vengeance set the stage for "The Ninja Showdown." Warlord boss Jing and his evil band of Purple Ninjas are unstoppable-hihgly trained assassins who ravage | 1988 | Joseph Lai, Godfrey Ho | Action, Drama | 4.8 (46 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ninja-Demons MassacrePolice are hot on the heels of ninjas involved in international espionage and that's got ninja gang leader Willie worried. When the police try to trick him, Willie reaches his boiling point. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action | 3.8 (89 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| No Harm Intended [En toute innocence]Paul Duchene, owner of a thriving enterprise, works with his son Thomas and his wife Catherine. Drama begins when Paul unexpectedly catch his daughter-in-law sleeping with one of his son's colleagues. | 1988 | Alain Jessua | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (325 votes) | 95 | 20230830 |
| Noble HouseIan Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan & Company, the oldest and largest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, that also makes him ""Tai-Pan"" (""supreme leader"") of the ""Noble House"". Unfortunately, with his ... | 1988 | Gary Nelson | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (1.6K votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
| Noisy Requiem [Tsuitô no zawameki]In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism. | 1988 | Yoshihiko Matsui | Drama | 7.1 (295 votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Not of This EarthAn alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet. | 1988 | Jim Wynorski | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.9 (2.4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| ÖdipussiGray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival cl | 1988 | Vicco von Bülow | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (3.9K votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Off LimitsMcGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the se | 1988 | Christopher Crowe | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.2 (2.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Oh, Moon! [A Ay]Story of a little girl with pigeon and her grand dad, missing her mother. | 1988 | Reha Erdem | Drama | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Oil Gobblers [Ropáci]A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers. | 1988 | Jan Sverák | Short, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (596 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Oliver & CompanyA lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City. | 1988 | George Scribner | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 6.7 (47.2K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss14-year-old Ralph and his All-American family head off on their annual trek to summer resort Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss. | 1988 | Dick Bartlett | Comedy, Family | 6.9 (542 votes) | 89 | 20231001 |
| Om Dar-B-DarA carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village. | 1988 | Kamal Swaroop | Drama | 7.1 (462 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| On the LooseAs a couples relationship ends a series of encounters unfolds that eventually brings them back together. | 1988 | Henri Pachard | Adult, Romance | 5.4 (107 votes) | 74 | 20240224 |
| On the Run [Mong ming yuen yeung]When his wife, also working for the the police, but in a different department, is being brutally murdered, a police officer begins to investigate the case on his own. Soon he has the hitwoman, who did it arrested, but must find out t | 1988 | Alfred Cheung | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (328 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| On the Silver Globe [Na srebrnym globie]A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah. | 1988 | Andrzej Zulawski | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (3K votes) | 166 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Texas TrainAn outlaw and a Texas Ranger Captain have a life-long personal feud, but twenty years later, with old-age settling in, they must put their differences aside in order to face the latest Texas problem, the youngest generation of outlaw | 1988 | Burt Kennedy | Action, Comedy, Romance, Western | 5.7 (602 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Only We Can Love Like This [Ingen kan älska som vi]Anneli is soon to be 17 years old. She lives alone with her mother and can barely remember her father who left the family 10 years ago. One day she receive a letter from her father, who is a helicopter pilot up north. Anneli decid... | 1988 | Staffan Hildebrand | Drama, Music, Romance | 4.3 (393 votes) | 101 | 20230715 |
| Out of the DarkBeautiful young women who work at the offices of a phone-sex company are being stalked by a psychopathic killer. | 1988 | Michael Schroeder | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Out of TimeA cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his great grandfather to capture a master criminal. | 1988 | Robert Butler | Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (205 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, TheA young Jewish adolescent from an overbearing family likes a Christian girl and is helped by a fun-loving rabbi. | 1988 | Allan A. Goldstein | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.0 (244 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Paganini HorrorWhen a female rock band uses an infamous old piece of sheet music to record their new album in an old mansion, they accidentally open a portal to hell. | 1988 | Luigi Cozzi | Horror, Music | 4.3 (982 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Painted Faces [Qi xiao fu]The story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students. | 1988 | Alex Law | Drama | 7.2 (499 votes) | 112 | 20220414 |
| Paper Marriage [Guo bu xin lang]An illegal immigrant in Canada does anything he can to survive, like taking part in a kickboxing match. When he comes into possession of stolen drug money, he and his new wife find themselves pursued by gangsters. | 1988 | Alfred Cheung | Action, Comedy | 6.3 (214 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| PaperhouseA young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book. | 1988 | Bernard Rose | Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 (5.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Paris by NightClara Paige (Charlotte Rampling) is a busy Euro Member of Parliament with a husband and child at home and a high powered career, but on a trip to Paris, her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter. | 1988 | David Hare | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (186 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Party LineA rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the killers and bring them in. | 1988 | William Webb | Thriller | 4.9 (397 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Pascali's IslandA secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue. | 1988 | James Dearden | Drama | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Path, The [Pereval]A starship crashed on an uninhabitate planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mounta | 1988 | Vladimir Tarasov | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (386 votes) | 31 | 20211228 |
| Patty HearstIn the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead. | 1988 | Paul Schrader (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (2K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Peacock King [Hung cheuk wong ji]Two magically powerful monks are sent on a quest to fight the King of Hell. | 1988 | Ngai Choi Lam, Biao Yuen | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 5.9 (339 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Penitent, TheTension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Cruci | 1988 | Cliff Osmond | Drama | 6.1 (164 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| People Across the Lake, TheA city-slicker family, tired of the urban grime and crime, moves to a quaint little lakeside village. All seems like paradise - until corpses start showing up in the water. Will the family be the new victims? | 1988 | Arthur Allan Seidelman | Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (598 votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| Perfect VictimsA psycho who has contracted AIDS blames women for his disease, and begins to stalk and kill beautiful girls. | 1988 | Shuki Levy | Horror, Thriller | 4.2 (173 votes) | 90 | 20240501 |
| Permanent RecordA man who seemingly has it all together, being smart, talented, funny, and popular, is secretly overwhelmed by expectations of himself and those of his parents, and suffers what is assumed to be a horrible accident. | 1988 | Marisa Silver | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.3 (2.2K votes) | 91 | 20230619 |
| Pervert Ward - Torturing the White Uniform [Hentai byôtô - Hakui seme]A hospital nurse treating a patient for amnesia discovers that he is the serial killer who has been roaming the city armed with a metal baseball bat. | 1988 | Hisayasu Satô | Drama, Mystery | 6.9 (94 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Petit Amour, Le [Kung-fu master!]Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy. | 1988 | Agnès Varda (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Phantasm IIMike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, meets with Reggie, and discover his dreams ( the events of the original film) are real, and they both journey to find and stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work. | 1988 | Don Coscarelli | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (14.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Empire, TheWhen a man-eating cave creature appears with a fortune in uncut diamonds around his neck, Dr. Chambers' daughter Denae hires adventurers C & C Salvage to find the underground source of the gems. Accompanied by archeaological intern A | 1988 | Fred Olen Ray | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 4.1 (603 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Phoenix the WarriorBig hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each othe... | 1988 | Robert Hayes | Action, Sci-Fi | 3.7 (944 votes) | 89 | 20230424 |
| Picasso TriggerAfter his brother got eliminated in Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987), a crime lord triggers a ruthless hunt against all agents responsible, and the remaining agents will have to avenge their fallen comrades. | 1988 | Andy Sidaris | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4.5 (1.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| PinIsolated by his strange parents, Leon finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father's doctor office. Unfortunately, the doll begins to take over Leon's life, and his sister's life as well. | 1988 | Sandor Stern | Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (4.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Platoon LeaderA young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander | 1988 | Aaron Norris | Drama, War | 5.3 (1.8K votes) | 97 | 20220315 |
| Pledge NightA college fraternity in the middle of hazing their new pledges during "hell week" incur the wrath of a long deceased pledge who died during a hazing gone wrong 20 years ago. | 1988 | Paul Ziller | Comedy, Horror | 4.6 (968 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
| Police Academy 5 - Miami BeachThe Police Academy's commandant will be honored at a police convention in Miami Beach. At the airport he picks a wrong bag with stolen diamonds. The "owners" want them back. | 1988 | Alan Myerson | Comedy, Crime | 4.6 (35.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Police Story 2The Hong Kong supercop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers, while the villains of Ging chaat goo si (1985) are out for revenge. | 1988 | Jackie Chan (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (19.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Poltergeist IIICarol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return. | 1988 | Gary Sherman | Horror, Thriller | 4.7 (18.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Portrait of a White MarriageJoyce and Hal Harrison have a perfect marriage until Joyce asks her favorite daytime talk show host Martin Mull to visit their small town in Ohio and shoot an episode of his TV show there. Hal quickly becomes jealous and acts out on | 1988 | Harry Shearer | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (115 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Possessed, TheIn 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means. | 1988 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Drama | 6.2 (593 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| PowaqqatsiAn exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them. | 1988 | Godfrey Reggio (*) | Documentary, Music | 7.3 (8.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Power of Ninjitsu, The [Ninja Operation 5 - Godfather the Master]Raymond's father is the leader of the Scorpios and he is preparing to hand over the business to his son. Other gang leaders, Phoenix and Anders, know this too well. | 1988 | Joseph Lai, Godfrey Ho | Action, Crime | 5.9 (54 votes) | 90 | 20240613 |
| Powwow HighwayTwo Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage. | 1988 | Jonathan Wacks | Drama | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Predator: The QuietusThe unexplainable disappearances of innocently-courting teenagers and a child, plus the brutal slaying of livestock, attracts the international media. | 1988 | Leslie McCarthy | Horror | 3.2 (130 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Primal Rage [Rage - Furia primitiva]A scientist at a Florida university inadvertantly creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten b | 1988 | Vittorio Rambaldi | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.3 (738 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Prime EvilA coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies. | 1988 | Roberta Findlay | Horror | 3.9 (821 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Prince of Pennsylvania, TheA teenager in love, who needs money to arrange his future life with his mistress, kidnaps his own father for ransom, but nobody cares. | 1988 | Ron Nyswaner | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 (1.4K votes) | 87 | 20240219 |
| Prince Of Terror, The [Il maestro del terrore]The Master of Terror is the director Vincent Omen, originally from Romania, who made his fortune by directing horror films. He lives with his wife and daughter in a beautiful isolated villa. But when he gets writer Paul fired, strang | 1988 | Lamberto Bava | Horror | 5.3 (157 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Prisoner of RioThe story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs. | 1988 | Lech Majewski | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (102 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| PulseA visiting son tries to warn his father and stepmother that they are being menaced by a living and intelligent pulse of electricity that moves from house to house and terrorizes the residents therein. | 1988 | Paul Golding | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.4 (2.6K votes) | 91 | 20221212 |
| PumpkinheadAfter a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers. | 1988 | Stan Winston | Fantasy, Horror | 6.2 (23K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| PunchlineA medical school dropout and a housewife/mom try to make it as stand-up comedians. They become friends and help each other out at an NYC comedy club. | 1988 | David Seltzer | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (8.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| PurgatoryTwo Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison. | 1988 | Ami Artzi | Action, Drama | 3.8 (332 votes) | 89 | 20220315 |
| Purgatory [Fegefeuer]The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger, who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault. | 1988 | Willi Hengstler | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (16 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Purple People EaterA kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord. | 1988 | Linda Shayne | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi | 4.7 (1000 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Pursuit of Happiness, The [A Tale of Happiness; Ureshi hazukashi monogatari]Bored with their marriage, a middle-aged husband and wife each take on a lover half their age. | 1988 | Yôichi Higashi | Comedy | 5.5 (44 votes) | 89 | 20220723 |
| Puss in BootsDelightful tale of a cat who becomes a sharp gentleman and sets out to restore his master's name and wealth after he gives Puss a pair of magic boots. | 1988 | Eugene Marner | Fantasy, Musical, Family | 6.1 (736 votes) | 96 | 20230728 |
| Rabid GranniesTwo sweet little old ladies fall victim to an ancient curse that transforms them into bloodthirsty killers! | 1988 | Emmanuel Kervyn | Comedy, Horror | 4.9 (1.8K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Raggedy Rawney, TheDuring WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes a... | 1988 | Bob Hoskins | Drama, Romance, War | 6.3 (385 votes) | 103 | 20231001 |
| Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan | 1988 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 8.0 (497.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Rambo First Blood IIIRambo mounts a one-man mission to rescue his friend Colonel Trautman from the clutches of the formidable invading Soviet forces in Afghanistan. | 1988 | Peter MacDonald | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 5.8 (128.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Rat Man [Quella villa in fondo al parco]A maniac butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investagation and decides to go snooping on her own. With her fr | 1988 | Giuliano Carnimeo | Horror | 4.4 (830 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Reader, The [La lectrice]A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constan | 1988 | Michel Deville | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Real BulletsA group of stuntmen and women travel to the wilderness for a weekend party. Two of the women stumble upon the secret entrance to a drug-lord's narcotics operation and are abducted. Out-gunned and out-numbered, the stunt team must ... | 1988 | Lance Lindsay | Action, Crime, Drama | 3.6 (81 votes) | 86 | 20240622 |
| Red Account - My Bloody Angel [Akai hokokusho - Senketsu no tenshi]The beautiful Tomoko loves her husband Masao with all her heart. Unfortunately, the devil has taken Kawakami to exorcise Masao to get rid of the "Evil One". The fact was established that the immortal had nested himself in Masao's eye | 1988 | Toshiki Satô | Horror | 4.4 (27 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Red HeatA tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country. | 1988 | Walter Hill | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (69K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Red Monks, The [I frati rossi]A young woman weds a seemingly charming young man, and moves into his ancient mansion. She quickly learns to hate the old mansion and its inhabitants, while she gets frustrated with her husband's secrecy on his late night activities | 1988 | Gianni Martucci | Horror | 4.1 (354 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Red ScorpionA Spetsnaz commando is sent on a covert mission by his Soviet superiors to infiltrate a rebel army and assassinate its leader. | 1988 | Joseph Zito | Action, Adventure | 5.2 (8.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang]When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. | 1988 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.4 (8.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Reflections of Light [Riflessi di luce]After a car incident, in which he lost his wife, a musician remains paralytic. He retire in a lonely villa together with a bisexual, a lesbian and a vicious kid. | 1988 | Mario Bianchi | Drama | 4.3 (140 votes) | 89 | 20221212 |
| Rejuvenator, The [Rejuvenatrix]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 involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforsee... | 1988 | Brian Thomas Jones | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.3 (597 votes) | 90 | 20220531 |
| Remembrance [Kyôshû]nan | 1988 | Avi Dassberg | Documentary, Short | nan | 15 | 20220414 |
| Remo Williams - The ProphecyWhile Remo and his teacher work their missions, an elite assassin targets Remo. | 1988 | Christian I. Nyby II | Action, Comedy | 4.9 (240 votes) | 48 | 20230619 |
| Remote ControlA video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over Earth by brain-washing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friend must find a way to stop the aliens before the tapes can be distributed worldwide. | 1988 | Jeff Lieberman | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.6 (934 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Rescue, TheA group of kids venture into enemy territory in an audacious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea. | 1988 | Ferdinand Fairfax | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.5 (1.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Return of Desperado, TheThis second entry in the ""Desperado"" film series again follows Duell McCall, a wandering cowboy who's been framed for murder. He hides in a small town run by black folk who are trying to protect themselves from a greedy landowner. | 1988 | E.W. Swackhamer | Western | 6.8 (130 votes) | 92 | 20220822 |
| Return of the Killer TomatoesCrazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion. | 1988 | John De Bello | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (7.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Return of the Living Dead IICurious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm. | 1988 | Ken Wiederhorn | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (19.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| RevolverIn what turned out to be the final work of Toshiya Fujita, we follow the titular revolver as it passes, coincidentally or deliberately, from owner to owner and home to home bringing misery, curse or surprise to its then current owner | 1988 | Toshiya Fujita | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (48 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| River Pirates, The [Good Old Boy - A Delta Boyhood]A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, playing practical jokes, and getting into trouble. | 1988 | Tom G. Robertson | Action, Adventure, Family | 6.8 (182 votes) | 108 | 20240622 |
| Robo VampireNarcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.4 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20240630 |
| Robowar - Robot da guerraA clone/mix of PREDATOR, RAMBO, and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an international cast, exotic locale and good electronic music. | 1988 | Bruno Mattei | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (1.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Rock Kids [Yaogun Qingnian]A young dancer tries his best to make some modern innovation in his work. | 1988 | Zhuangzhuang Tian | Drama, Music | 5.9 (26 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Rocket GibraltarAn old patriarch unites all members of his family for his birthday, but the group of people are full of personal and social problems. | 1988 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 99 | 20240316 |
| Rouge of the North [Yuan nu]It tells a tragic story in the early 20th century of China, a beautiful girl Yin Di got married to a sick wealthy man through an arranged marriage, despite the fact that she actually loves a neighborhood boy. After surviving in th... | 1988 | Fred Tan | Drama | 7.0 (50 votes) | 106 | 20231013 |
| Rowing with the Wind [Remando al viento]Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together. | 1988 | Gonzalo Suárez | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 5.7 (1.1K votes) | 105 | 20221116 |
| Run If You CanA young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer. | 1988 | Virginia L. Stone | Thriller | 5.5 (75 votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
| Runaway Blues [Biao cheng]nan | 1988 | David Lai | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (71 votes) | 96 | 20240403 |
| Running on EmptyThe eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own. | 1988 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 116 | 20230806 |
| SagolandetWhen the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity. | 1988 | Jan Troell | Documentary | 7.2 (197 votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| Salaam Bombay!Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India. | 1988 | Mira Nair | Crime, Drama | 7.9 (9.3K votes) | 113 | 20220414 |
| Salome's Last DanceOn Guy Fawkes Day 1892m Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre' is a brothel and the performers are prostitutes. | 1988 | Ken Russell (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (1.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Salt, Saliva, Sperm and SweatStrange experimental short film that follows four days of a writer. | 1988 | Philip Brophy | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (48 votes) | 47 | 20221116 |
| Sanguine [Sanguines]A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for the job. And for good reason: Johann is a painter who, after a recent break-up,... | 1988 | Christian François | Comedy, Drama | nan | 95 | 20230328 |
| SantetAfter poisoning his wife, a local gangster blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric's wife escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting a hal... | 1988 | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Horror | 6.1 (64 votes) | 94 | 20240316 |
| Satan Place - A Soap Opera from HellA horror anthology, in which the beautiful bleach-blonde Stephanie Spencer fields a series of crude remarks from belching, T-shirt-wearing, pickup-driving character actors, then watches them die in grisly blood-spurting closeups a... | 1988 | Scott Aschbrenner, Alfred Ramirez | Comedy, Horror | 5.4 (42 votes) | 67 | 20230126 |
| Scandal in a Small TownLeda Beth Vincent (Raquel Welch) lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of, as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter | 1988 | Anthony Page | Drama | 5.8 (109 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| ScarecrowsCriminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows. | 1988 | William Wesley | Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller | 5.5 (5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| SchmetterlingeAndy is walking around the town on a very hot summer day. Yesterday he witnessed the drowning of a girl, and gave the police a statement. Today he has to talk to the girl's father - but at least it will break the monotony. | 1988 | Wolfgang Becker | Drama | 7.3 (66 votes) | 57 | 20240127 |
| School on Fire [Hok hau fung wan]A young schoolgirl gets involved in the triads of Hong Kong after a classmate is killed in a fight. | 1988 | Ringo Lam (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (538 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul SchoolWhile working as gym teachers at an all-girls finishing school, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy-Doo get tangled up in a monstrous mystery. | 1988 | Charles A. Nichols, Ray Patterson | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror | 6.9 (5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant WerewolfShaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and his girlfriend to help him win the contest. | 1988 | Ray Patterson | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sport | 6.8 (4.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Screwball HotelThree boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it's about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. They prove that sex sells by holding "Miss Purity Pageant" st | 1988 | Rafal Zielinski | Comedy | 3.8 (298 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| ScroogedA selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. | 1988 | Richard Donner | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (98K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Season of FearA famous inventor marries a beautiful but much younger woman. His son becomes romantically involved with her. | 1988 | Doug Campbell | Thriller | 4.8 (144 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Secret of the Secret Weapon, The [Secretul armei secrete]nan | 1988 | Alexandru Tatos | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (158 votes) | 88 | 20220315 |
| Secret WitnessTwo children play amateur detectives in their neighborhood. | 1988 | Eric Laneuville | Drama | 5.8 (104 votes) | 72 | 20240715 |
| Serpent and the Rainbow, TheAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies. | 1988 | Wes Craven (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (24.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Seven Hours to JudgmentA distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife. | 1988 | Beau Bridges | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.6 (264 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Seventh Sign, TheAbby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams where she suffers a miscarriage. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she realizes a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity. | 1988 | Carl Schultz | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 5.9 (14.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Shadow of the RavenTrausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now take | 1988 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Drama | 6.4 (838 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Shadowed Mind, TheStephanie, arrives as a patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction run by Dr Hildesheimer. Stephanie's fellow patients all have their own issues including inhibition, neurosis, fixation, delusions etc. Stephanie | 1988 | Cedric Sundstrom | Thriller | 5.0 (29 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Shadows in the StormA married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing | 1988 | Terrell Tannen | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 3.9 (222 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| ShagSummer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend. | 1988 | Zelda Barron | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (4.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| ShakedownA legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop. | 1988 | James Glickenhaus | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (3.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ShameAsta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes | 1988 | Steve Jodrell | Drama | 7.0 (546 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the BaskervillesWhen the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth. | 1988 | Brian Mills | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | 8.0 (5.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| She's Having a BabyYoung newlyweds find out just how unprepared they are for their future together. | 1988 | John Hughes (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (12.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| ShirakShirak's village is under the attack of the wild boars and he has lost his father in one of their attacks. To help his village he buys a dog from the Gypsies in return of some dates. He trained his dog and become ready to one nigh... | 1988 | Dariush Mehrjui | Drama, Family | 6.1 (77 votes) | 110 | 20231101 |
| Shoot to KillAn F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group. | 1988 | Roger Spottiswoode | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (13.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Short Circuit 2Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes. | 1988 | Kenneth Johnson | Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi | 5.7 (26.6K votes) | 110 | 20240210 |
| Short Film About Killing, A [Krótki film o zabijaniu]A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man. | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.0 (19.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Short Film About Love, A [Krótki film o milosci]An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting. | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (22.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Shuto Konsoku Trial [Freeway Speedway - Megalopolis Express Way Trial; Shuto Kôsoku toraiaru]Street racers challenge each other to exceed the current speed record held by the F1 racer. However, in order to break the record of the Shuto Expressway, you need to have ""luck"" in addition to a high-powered street-machine and dr... | 1988 | Katsuji Kanazawa | Adventure, Action | 7.1 (95 votes) | 95 | 20221116 |
| Side RoadsStylish noir thriller about an ex-con attempting to get his life in order, who is slowly drawn into an intricate murder plot. | 1988 | Bill Bordy | Thriller | 3.7 (71 votes) | 144 | 20230424 |
| Siege of Firebase Gloria, TheA tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase, where they attempt to rebuild morale and fortifications amid a climactic battle with the Viet Cong. | 1988 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Action, Drama, War | 6.8 (3K votes) | 97 | 20220531 |
| Sisterhood, TheIn the year 2021, women have been enslaved by men, with their only hope for freedom lying in the hands of a nomadic band of maiden warriors. The maiden warriors Alee and Vera tap Marya and her hawk to help them. | 1988 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3.6 (600 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Sleepaway Camp II Unhappy CampersAngela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways. | 1988 | Michael A. Simpson | Comedy, Horror | 5.7 (11.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Slime CityA student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster. | 1988 | Gregory Lamberson | Horror | 5.4 (1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Slipping Into DarknessThree spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death. | 1988 | Eleanor Gaver | Thriller | 4.0 (151 votes) | 87 | 20221116 |
| Slugs [Slugs, muerte viscosa]Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community. | 1988 | Juan Piquer Simón | Horror | 5.3 (5.8K votes) | 89 | 20240313 |
| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'EmWhen a nuclear war hits Melbourne, Australia, we find that there's more than one way to survive in the fallout - why sit around wasting what air's left when there's time now to get loose and dance? | 1988 | Ray Boseley | Comedy | 7.3 (95 votes) | 48 | 20220912 |
| Snack Bar BudapestA lawyer is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo. Escorting prostitute Milena, impregnated by Sapo, to an unnamed sea resort of grotesquerie, he encounters the ambitious young ringleader Molecola who has bought several ol | 1988 | Tinto Brass (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 4.2 (712 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Sodoma's GhostSix teenagers are terrorized in an isolated villa by ghosts of Nazis killed during World War II by an air raid while participating in an orgy. | 1988 | Lucio Fulci, Mario Bianchi | Horror | 3.8 (789 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Sokol Did Not Love HimThe story begins in a small rural village in Slavonia,Ladimirevci in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Benos, who is enlisted in the Ge | 1988 | Branko Schmidt | Drama, War | 7.7 (492 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Someone's Watching Me [Biri beni gözlüyor]nan | 1988 | Ömer Ugur | Drama, Thriller | 5.0 (35 votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Something Is Out ThereTwo police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is an alien from an inte | 1988 | Richard A. Colla | Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (583 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Son of the Stars, The [Fiul stelelor]In the year 6470, a husband and wife team receive a mysterious distress signal. They leave their son on board ship to search for the missing astronaut, but fate intervenes, their ship crashes, leaving their son alone - or is he? | 1988 | Calin Cazan, Dan Chisovski, Mircea Toia | Animation | 6.7 (74 votes) | 78 | 20240820 |
| Sons of SteelIn a futuristic Australia, a scheme to blow up the Sydney Opera House is discovered. The only way to stop it is to send an agent back in time to prevent the plotters from hatching it. | 1988 | Gary L. Keady | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi | 5.3 (123 votes) | 104 | 20221116 |
| Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-RamaAs part of a sorority ritual, pledges and their male companions steal a trophy from a bowling alley; unbeknownst to them, it contains a devilish imp who makes their lives a living Hell. | 1988 | David DeCoteau | Comedy, Horror | 4.9 (4.4K votes) | 80 | 20230328 |
| Sound and Fury [De Bruit et de Fureur]Bruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to live in Bagnolet with his mother who is so rarely there that he never sees her. He has the mind of a 7-year-old, and finds himself in a class who all share the same learning probl | 1988 | Jean-Claude Brisseau | Drama | 7.3 (978 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| South of RenoIn a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his drifting life. | 1988 | Mark Rezyka | Drama | 5.7 (220 votes) | 97 | 20230424 |
| South, The [Sur]The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and especially discovering his | 1988 | Fernando E. Solanas (*) | Drama | 7.3 (931 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Space MutinyA 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. | 1988 | David Winters, Neal Sundstrom | Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi | 2.0 (7.1K votes) | 91 | 20220822 |
| Sparrow's Fluttering, The [Il frullo del passero]A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have | 1988 | Gianfranco Mingozzi | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (150 votes) | 95 | 20220315 |
| SpellbinderA young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past. | 1988 | Janet Greek | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (2.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Spider Labyrinth, The [Il nido del ragno]Alan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus". Once he arrives in the Hungarian capital, Alan finds Roth who hands him a black bo | 1988 | Gianfranco Giagni | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (607 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Spies, Lies & Naked ThighsTJ's newest crop of global agents move into headquarters, where the twists and turns are already at play; agents catch up with one another and get to know their rookie competitors. | 1988 | Unknown | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV | 8.2 (26 votes) | 41 | 20220414 |
| Spike of BensonhurstSpike Fumo is an Italian kid aspiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto | 1988 | Paul Morrissey (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (433 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Split DecisionsWhen a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically. | 1988 | David Drury | Action, Drama, Sport | 5.2 (1.1K votes) | 95 | 20240306 |
| Spooky Spooky [Gui meng jiao]Years ago, a village head in the Hong Kong countryside executed a man for committing adultery by drowning him in the ocean. His mistress, in attempts to flee the village, dies when she plummets into a pool of quicksand. Years later, | 1988 | Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Wei Don Lo | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.7 (106 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Stand and DeliverThe story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus. | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (19.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Starry is the Night [Jin ye xing guang can lan]A University student has an affair with her English Literature Professor. | 1988 | Ann Hui | Drama, Romance | 5.4 (76 votes) | 94 | 20220414 |
| Stars and BarsA British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process. | 1988 | Pat O'Connor | Comedy | 4.8 (902 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Stars in Broad Daylight [Estrellas de Dia]In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film expos... | 1988 | Ossama Mohammed | Drama | 6.9 (83 votes) | 105 | 20230424 |
| Stay Awake, TheThe ghost of a serial killer, executed for murdering students at a Catholic girls' school, returns to the school to take revenge on the current student body. | 1988 | John Bernard | Horror | 2.7 (314 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Stealing HeavenIn medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished. | 1988 | Clive Donner | Drama, History, Romance | 6.4 (810 votes) | 108 | 20230806 |
| Stick, TheDuring the apartheid era in South Africa, a young naive soldier is assigned to a unit of racist white soldiers. After they annihilate a remote village led by a witch doctor, the spirits of those they've killed target them. | 1988 | Darrell Roodt | Action, Horror, War | 5.5 (186 votes) | 90 | 20240122 |
| Sticky FingersTwo classical musician girls in NYC are short on money for rent etc. when a drug dealer stores a bag with them. It turns out to contain USD900,000. At first they panic. | 1988 | Catlin Adams | Comedy | 4.9 (465 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Stones of Death [Kadaicha]The residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it. | 1988 | James Bogle | Horror | 4.5 (183 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Stormy MondayA crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot. | 1988 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.2 (4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Story of Women [Une affaire de femmes]A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war. | 1988 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Straight for the Heart [À corps perdu]A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart. | 1988 | Léa Pool | Drama, Romance, War | 7.0 (226 votes) | 92 | 20220315 |
| Strange InterludeIn this experimental play, first produced in 1928, Eugene O'Neill bares the inner souls of his characters by having them speak their thoughts as well as their dialog. Nins Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, is devasta... | 1988 | Herbert Wise | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (46 votes) | 253 | 20230806 |
| Strange Place for an Encounter [Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre]A woman thrown out of a car by her husband and a surgeon repairing his car are meeting at a highway rest stop. Both are slowly coming closer. | 1988 | François Dupeyron | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (372 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Streets of DeathTwo serial killers disguised as student filmmakers make snuff films. | 1988 | Jeff Hathcock | Horror, Thriller | 4.4 (79 votes) | 93 | 20221212 |
| Strike Commando 2 [Trappola diabolica]An ex-army major is kidnapped by terrorists in the Philippines, demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds. Michael, a Vietnam vet who served under him, goes on a solo mission determined to rescue him. | 1988 | Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Action, Adventure, War | 4.7 (424 votes) | 95 | 20240210 |
| Student, The [Ge bi ban de nan sheng]The IMDb Show"" explores the sometimes lavish trailers used by your favorite celebs. Plus, ""Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"" star Rachel Bloom reveals her crazy-ex Watchlist. | 1988 | Ching-Chieh Lin | Comedy, Romance | nan | 96 | 20211228 |
| Suicide Club, TheA woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder. | 1988 | James Bruce | Drama, Thriller | 4.5 (121 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Summer of Aviya, The [Ha-Kayitz Shel Aviya]A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel. | 1988 | Eli Cohen | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (398 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Summer Story, AAshton and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor when he twists his ankle. Ashton goes for help at a nearby farmhouse, where he stays for a few days and falls in love with Megan. | 1988 | Piers Haggard | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Summer Temptations [Provocazione]In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi/. Vanessa had married their father above all because he was very rich. After her husband's death, she dec... | 1988 | Piero Vivarelli | Drama | 4.7 (209 votes) | 83 | 20240427 |
| Summer Vacation 1999 [1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi]Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness h | 1988 | Shûsuke Kaneko | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | 6.8 (243 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| SunsetTom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood. | 1988 | Blake Edwards (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Western | 5.7 (4.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Survey Map of a Paradise LostReporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club. | 1988 | Hisayasu Satô | Mystery | 6.5 (117 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Survival QuestA group on an Outward Bound-type adventure runs across a paramilitary team with a sadistic leader who has harmful intentions towards anyone who may find themselves in their path. | 1988 | Don Coscarelli | Adventure, Thriller | 6.0 (1.1K votes) | 96 | 20220419 |
| SweetwaterAfter a ruining war in a grim anarchist future civilization, Allan and his family decide to move out of the city and settle at a big garbage dump to survive on the waste. But there is a great shortage of water. It's a struggle to ... | 1988 | Lasse Glomm | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (171 votes) | 115 | 20240329 |
| Switching ChannelsA television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. | 1988 | Ted Kotcheff | Comedy, Crime | 5.9 (3.8K votes) | 105 | 20220806 |
| Taboo [Tabu]Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have ev... | 1988 | Andrzej Baranski | Drama | 6.6 (66 votes) | 105 | 20230328 |
| TaffinAn Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless and have sent their heavies into town to ... | 1988 | Francis Megahy | Action, Thriller | 5.6 (2K votes) | 96 | 20230328 |
| Tale of the Wind, A [Une histoire de vent]An elderly, asthmatic filmmaker travels to China, hoping to film the wind. | 1988 | Joris Ivens | Documentary | 7.0 (840 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Tales from the Gimli HospitalWhile their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old. | 1988 | Guy Maddin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Talk RadioA rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national. | 1988 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (13.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Talking to StrangersAn aspiring writer wanders through a city looking for inspiration. Over the course of a day, he has nine distinct encounters. | 1988 | Rob Tregenza | Drama | 7.1 (80 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Tall Stories [Uma Pedra no Bolso]A story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first "stone in his pocket. | 1988 | Joaquim Pinto | Drama | 6.7 (92 votes) | 91 | 20220723 |
| Tanner '88A behind-the-scenes look at a former Michigan U.S. Representative's campaign as he vies for his party's Presidential nomination. | 1988 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (854 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| TapeheadsA couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry. | 1988 | Bill Fishman | Comedy, Music | 5.8 (4.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Taste of Life [Una botta di vita]Ferragosto and Elvio Battistini are home alone after their family went to Greece. | 1988 | Enrico Oldoini | Comedy | 5.7 (201 votes) | 106 | 20221212 |
| Taxing Woman's Return, A [Marusa no onna 2]Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher. | 1988 | Jûzô Itami | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (609 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Telephone, TheA crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life. | 1988 | Rip Torn | Comedy, Drama | 4.0 (1.2K votes) | 96 | 20240625 |
| Tenth Man, TheBased on the novel by Graham Greene, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who, while imprisoned by the Germans during the occupation, trades his material possessions to another prisoner in exchange fo... | 1988 | Jack Gold | Drama, War | 6.9 (1.5K votes) | 100 | 20220731 |
| Tequila SunriseA former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels. | 1988 | Robert Towne | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (31K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| They LiveThey influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. | 1988 | John Carpenter (*) | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (124K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Thin Blue Line, TheA film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. | 1988 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary, Crime | 8.0 (24.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Things ChangeShoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember. | 1988 | David Mamet | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 100 | 20220414 |
| Third Solution, The [Russicum - I giorni del diavolo]The Pope is planning a re-conciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in Piazza Navona, a nun is ass | 1988 | Pasquale Squitieri | Crime, Thriller | 4.8 (100 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| This Is America, Charlie Brown [The Mayflower Voyagers]The Peanuts gang tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage from England to the new world detailing the hardships they faced, how the Natives helped them survive, and ending the following autumn in a feast of Thanksgiving. | 1988 | Evert Brown | Animation, Comedy, Family, History | 6.6 (430 votes) | 24 | 20231128 |
| Thomas Hart BentonThomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate. | 1988 | Ken Burns | Documentary, Biography | 7.2 (158 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Those Swell Yakuza [Yakuza tosei no sutekina menmen]After getting a beating from a yakuza, a record store owner decides that being a yakuza would be his dream job. | 1988 | Akiyoshi Kimata | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.2 (26 votes) | 109 | 20220414 |
| Three Seats For The 26thA pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past | 1988 | Jacques Demy (*) | Biography, Drama, Musical | 6.2 (414 votes) | 106 | 20220414 |
| Three Sisters [Paura e amore]Roberto and his three sisters don't know what to do with their lives. | 1988 | Margarethe von Trotta | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (305 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Through the FireA young woman asks a policeman to help her find her missing sister. They find a medallion, sought after by some worshipers of demon Moloch, a beast that may be invoked and wreaks havoc, but can only be stopped with the amulet. | 1988 | Gary Marcum | Horror | 3.6 (182 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Thunder of Gigantic SerpentA secret formula that can cause plants and animals to expand a thousand-fold in size is stolen by a terrorist group. During a wild chase and shoot-out, the formula is lost. It's found by a little girl who accidently gives the form... | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.6 (179 votes) | 87 | 20220912 |
| Tiger CageA team of cops get brutally exposed to violence after raiding a drug operation and discovering a link between few members of the police force and an American crime syndicate dealing with drug trafficking. | 1988 | Woo-Ping Yuen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (713 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tiger on Beat [Lo foo chut gang]A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker. | 1988 | Chia-Liang Liu | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 93 | 20240427 |
| Tight Skin 3 [Tesna koza 3]Dimitrije Pantic loses his suitcase with business projects in an overcrowded bus, only to find a similar one - yet full of foreign currencies. This money turns his life upside down, but it also influences other people's ambitions. | 1988 | Aleksandar Djordjevic | Comedy | 7.7 (1.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Time of Destiny, AA modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino". | 1988 | Gregory Nava | Drama, War | 5.1 (396 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Time of the Gypsies [Dom za vesanje]In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he love | 1988 | Emir Kusturica (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (30K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Time of Violence [Vreme na nasilie]In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to | 1988 | Ludmil Staikov | Drama | 9.0 (2.2K votes) | 288 | 20211228 |
| Time to Remember, AIt is small town America in the 1950's. Twelve year-old Angelo Villano has one dream: to someday sing like his idol, Mario Lanza. His grandmother, Mama Theresa encourages him; and his beautiful voice catches the attention of the form | 1988 | Thomas Travers | Drama, Music | 3.6 (148 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Times to Come [Lo que vendrá]Against the backdrop of an increasingly-powerful police state, Miguel returns to Buenos Aires. An innocent bystander, he's shot by a rogue cop, Morea, at a political demonstration. To avoid scandal, the police place Miguel in the ... | 1988 | Gustavo Mosquera R. | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (142 votes) | 96 | 20240524 |
| Tjoet Nja' DhienTjoet Nja' Dhien assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Umar is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch in Aceh in... | 1988 | Eros Djarot | Drama, War | 8.0 (533 votes) | 150 | 20231128 |
| To Die ForL.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood Hills where he wants to live and doesn't want | 1988 | Deran Sarafian | Horror, Romance, Thriller | 4.8 (522 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| To Kill a Dragon [Ubit drakona]Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. | 1988 | Mark Zakharov | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.0 (1.6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| To Kill A PriestA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. | 1988 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.1 (1.7K votes) | 117 | 20231223 |
| Tokyo - The Last Megalopolis [Teito monogatari]A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. | 1988 | Akio Jissôji | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (393 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo DaysA "home movie" by Chris Marker of his visit to Tokyo with his girlfriend, actress Arielle Dombaste, beginning with a chat with a live mannequin in a store window, then through the subway and to the market. | 1988 | Chris Marker (*) | Documentary, Short | 6.0 (56 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo PopA young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultura | 1988 | Fran Rubel Kuzui | Comedy | 6.6 (240 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Tommy Tricker and the Stamp TravellerWhen the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of ""stamp travel"" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the myst... | 1988 | Michael Rubbo | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 105 | 20240519 |
| Tomorrow [Ashita]On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy and sadness. For them, tomorrow would never come. | 1988 | Kazuo Kuroki | Drama | 7.4 (76 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Tomorrow [Tomorrow - ashita]On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy and sadness. For them, tomorrow would never come. | 1988 | Kazuo Kuroki | Drama | 7.4 (76 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Too Beautiful to Die [Sotto il vestito niente II]The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency, Alex. During the party, Alex is playing games in his computer and it looks like the girls have the house to themselves, but there's another guest. | 1988 | Dario Piana | Mystery, Thriller | 5.2 (326 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Top LineAuthor Ted Angelo discovers a U.F.O. in the Colombian jungle. When he tries to spread the word, he earns more than the usual disbelief. Suddenly he's hunted by almost every organization, like the C.I.A., the K.G.B., the mob, Nazis, a | 1988 | Nello Rossati | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4.7 (408 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Top ModelThe writer Sarah Asproon is completing her new book on high-profile prostitution, with the collaboration of her friend/agent Dorothy. To collect authentic material, they set up a girls-ringing agency, which is enjoying considerable s | 1988 | Joe D'Amato | Drama | 4.4 (595 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Top Squad [Ba wong fa]Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu) has been assigned to the Hong Kong Police Academy to train female Banshee Squad Members, next door to the male Tiger Squad Members lead by Inspector Kan (Shui-Fan Fung). After internal conflicts and courting... | 1988 | Wellson Chin | Action, Comedy | 5.9 (650 votes) | 96 | 20231207 |
| Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial [Otoko wa tsurai yo - Torajiro sarada kinenbi]In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship. | 1988 | Yôji Yamada | Comedy | 6.4 (63 votes) | 100 | 20230328 |
| Torch Song TrilogyArnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man. | 1988 | Paul Bogart | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (7.2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Touch of Death aka Quando Alice ruppe lo specchioA moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption. | 1988 | Lucio Fulci (*) | Comedy, Crime, Horror | 5.2 (1.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Track 29Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor. | 1988 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Drama, Mystery | 5.9 (2.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Tracker, TheAfter a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by ""Red Jack"" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows... | 1988 | John Guillermin | Western | 6.2 (512 votes) | 98 | 20231001 |
| Trancers I.V - City of Lost AngelsA trained female assassin escapes a maximum security holding cell and travels to 1988 to kill Jack Deth. | 1988 | Charles Band | Short, Sci-Fi | 6.4 (271 votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
| TransformationsWolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who | 1988 | Jay Kamen | Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.9 (390 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Trapped AliveSeveral escaped prisoners and two hostage women along with a sheriff's deputy find themselves trapped in a mine shaft, where a cannibalistic mutant is hunting them for food. | 1988 | Leszek Burzynski | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.6 (502 votes) | 92 | 20220723 |
| Travelling Circus [Ganh xiec rong]Tells the bittersweet story of a small traveling circus stopping in an impoverished ethnic minority village in Vietnam's central highlands. Through the eyes of a village youngster, we witness the magic of the circus, and the naive ho | 1988 | Linh Viet | Drama | 6.9 (81 votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
| TraxxTraxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himse | 1988 | Jerome Gary | Action, Comedy | 5.3 (411 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Tribulations of Balthazar Kober, The [Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera]A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany. | 1988 | Wojciech Has | Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 (238 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Tricks of the TradeCatherine's world goes to pieces when she learns from the police that her husband Donald got killed - shot in the apartment of a prostitute! To her he was a model husband, determined to make them wealthy by investment banking. Cather | 1988 | Jack Bender | Comedy, Mystery | 5.9 (191 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Trident Force, TheThe Palestinian terrorist Abu Hassad can only be stopped by a group of soldiers called the Trident Force. | 1988 | Richard Smith | Action | 4.0 (48 votes) | 90 | 20230424 |
| TrishagniThe film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes the Buddhist town of Sariput, leaving just four survivors - two monks and two children - in the upper floor of a monastery. | 1988 | Nabendu Ghosh | Drama | 7.2 (75 votes) | 114 | 20221116 |
| Troma's WarA group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological w | 1988 | Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror | 5.6 (2.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Tropical SnowNew York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle... | 1988 | Ciro Durán | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (299 votes) | 87 | 20240427 |
| True BelieversDramatization of Australian political life between 1945 and 1954. | 1988 | Peter Fisk | Drama, History | 7.0 (42 votes) | 0 | 20230830 |
| Truth, The [Fa nei qing]Orphaned lawyer Lau Chi Pang discovers his birth mother is a drug addict and accused of murdering a bad cop. | 1988 | Taylor Wong | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (173 votes) | 118 | 20240416 |
| Tucker - The Man and His DreamThe story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. | 1988 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (19.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| TumbledownBased on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C.. | 1988 | Richard Eyre | Biography, Drama, War | 7.1 (585 votes) | 115 | 20240214 |
| Tunnel, The [El túnel]A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works. | 1988 | Antonio Drove | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (287 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Twelfth NightA noblewoman disguises herself as a young man and falls for her employer, a lovesick count. Unfortunately, the count's beloved falls for the disguised noblewoman and a comedy of unrequited love and mistaken identities ensues. | 1988 | Paul Kafno | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (197 votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Twelve Months of Summer, The [Sommarens tolv månader]Two construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don't know where they're going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer. | 1988 | Richard Hobert | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (213 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Twelve Months of the Summer, The [Sommarens tolv månader]Two construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don't know where they're going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer. | 1988 | Richard Hobert | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (213 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Twice DeadA family moves into an old house. They start getting harassed by a gang, who eventually invade the house while the parents are away and start terrorizing the kids, but they didn't account for the deadly supernatural presence in the h | 1988 | Bert L. Dragin | Thriller, Horror | 5.3 (775 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| TwinsA physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook. | 1988 | Ivan Reitman (*) | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 (121.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Twisted IssuesLow budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree. | 1988 | Charles Pinion | Comedy, Horror | 5.6 (72 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Two Moon JunctionA young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival. | 1988 | Zalman King | Drama, Romance | 5.1 (5.6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Un maledetto soldatoFar East. A commando led by the mercenary Ernst, a veteran of Vietnam, assaults a gold refinery to steal a load of raw nuggets belonging to an old comrade of Ernst. | 1988 | Ferdinando Baldi | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 4.2 (145 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, TheCentral Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. | 1988 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (35.5K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
| Under the BoardwalkNick Rainwood and Allie Yorpin are a modern day Romeo and Juliet living in southern California, separated by the unbridgeable gulf of their backgrounds and torn between loyalty to their ""gangs"" and their real desires. | 1988 | Fritz Kiersch | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (436 votes) | 103 | 20240501 |
| Under The GunMike Braxton (Sam Jones) a St. Louis cop, receives an urgent call from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. The call ends abruptly and Mike rushes to LA to find his brother has been murdered. When qu | 1988 | James Sbardellati | Action, Comedy | 4.8 (142 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Underground Orchestra, TheAn angry New York cop is professionally damaged by an unflattering story about him in the paper, written by a nosy reporter with whom he proceeds to butt heads. Then, the two join forces to combat a ruthless gang of thugs in the subw | 1988 | James McCalmont | Action, Crime | 4.2 (65 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Undertaker, TheA deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home. | 1988 | Frank Avianca, Steve Bono | Horror | 4.9 (533 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Unforgettable Life [Te bie shou shu shi]nan | 1988 | Zhuangzhuang Tian | Drama | 5.0 (31 votes) | 0 | 20220315 |
| Unholy, TheA priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning. | 1988 | Camilo Vila | Horror | 5.1 (1.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Unmasked Part 25Jackson is a lonely serial killer who is really beginning to question the point of all his killing. He is losing focus on why he started to kill in the first place. The future looks bleak until he meets a blind girl, Shelly, who begi | 1988 | Anders Palm | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance | 5.8 (670 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Unnamable, TheCollege students check out a haunted house where in the 1800's an ugly monster called "the Unnamable" was trapped in a vault. | 1988 | Jean-Paul Ouellette | Horror | 4.9 (2.7K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Vampire in Venice [Nosferatu a Venezia]Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786. | 1988 | Augusto Caminito, Klaus Kinski, Maurizio Lucidi, Luigi Cozzi | Horror | 5.2 (1.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Vampire Raiders, TheThe fate of the entire hotel industry is at stake. A group of evil black ninjas have threatened to insinuate themselves into the industry, take over, and transform the operation into something unspeakable. | 1988 | Godfrey Ho | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 5.0 (103 votes) | 86 | 20240329 |
| Vampires KissAfter an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire. | 1988 | Robert Bierman | Comedy, Horror | 6.1 (16.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing, TheRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor. | 1988 | George Sluizer | Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (37.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Veerana [Vengeance of the Vampire]A beautiful young girl, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust. | 1988 | Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay | Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.7 (792 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Venus Trap, The [Die Venusfalle]30-year-old Max works as an emergency doctor in a Berlin hospital. He has been in love with the attractive Coco for a long time, with whom he shares a well-kept apartment. Coco jealously defends the relationship, while Max feels rest | 1988 | Robert van Ackeren | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (429 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, A [Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes]Although there is admittedly a non-Hollywood flavor to this movie--a cultural difference that will not be to everyone's taste--it's pretty faithful to Marquez's short story. Many of my students who read the story become nearly hostile about its cryptic, impenetrable refusal to make ""logical"" sense. The human characters behave abysmally; the angel is unreadable and ultimately undefined; the story is not so much a story as a long comment. | 1988 | Fernando Birri (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 5.2 (119 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| VibesTwo psychics are hired to find the location of a lost Incan city Located somewhere in the Ecuadorian mountains, that is said to hide a great treasure. | 1988 | Ken Kwapis | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (5.3K votes) | 99 | 20240820 |
| Video MurdersDavid Lee Shepherd, who desperately wants work in the video business, is luring hookers into his hotel room so that he can videotape himself strangling them. The police conclude that a serial killer is at work and thus begins an i... | 1988 | Jim McCullough Sr. | Thriller | 4.5 (104 votes) | 88 | 20240910 |
| ViperAfter Laura's husband James is murdered, she decides to find out who did it and why. She finds herself in a fight against an anti-terrorist organization in her desire for revenge. | 1988 | Peter Maris | Action, Drama | 5.3 (112 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Virgin [36 fillette]A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more. | 1988 | Catherine Breillat | Romance, Drama | 6.0 (1.2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Virgin Machine [Die Jungfrauen Maschine]A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club. | 1988 | Monika Treut | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (257 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Visitors, The [Besökarna]Frank, Sara and their two children have recently moved into the house of their dreams on the countryside. Frank is disturbed by mysterious sounds and somebody tears down the wallpaper from the walls. He contacts a ghost-hunter, Al... | 1988 | Jack Ersgard | Horror | 5.7 (2.1K votes) | 109 | 20220531 |
| War and RemembranceThe trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II. | 1988 | Dan Curtis | Drama, War | 8.3 (3.1K votes) | 1 | 20240205 |
| War PartyA group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Unfortunately racial hostilities and a real gun lead to some all too real casualties, and three young Blackfoot men a | 1988 | Franc Roddam | Action, Drama | 6.4 (663 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Warm Nights on a Slow Moving TrainA convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favors regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until on | 1988 | Bob Ellis | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (156 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| WatchersA boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab. | 1988 | Jon Hess | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.4 (4.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| WaxworkA wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world. | 1988 | Anthony Hickox | Comedy, Horror | 6.2 (12.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| We Think the World of YouAn aimless young man, Johnny (Gary Oldman), is sent to prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank (Sir Alan Bates). When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at hom | 1988 | Colin Gregg | Comedy | 6.0 (421 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Weekend of Deceased Persons, A [Vikend na mrtovci]Very black and grotesque comedy about the little office-worker Tase and his death wife Kata. She died in hospital in Skopje, the capitol of Macedonia, but the nurses mixed bodies of deaths. Then he must make exchange of bodies wit... | 1988 | Nikola-Kole Angelovski | Comedy, Drama | 8.7 (175 votes) | 94 | 20231109 |
| Welcome to Germany [Der Passagier - Welcome to Germany]An US-based film director returns from the US to Germany, where he was forced along with other concentration camp prisoners to participate in an Anti-Semitic propaganda film in 1942. He plans to make a documentary on this part of ... | 1988 | Thomas Brasch | Drama | 6.6 (84 votes) | 102 | 20220723 |
| Wherever You Are...An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. | 1988 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (107 votes) | 106 | 20220315 |
| White GhostAn M.I.A. US soldier nicknamed White Ghost lives in hiding in the jungles of communist Vietnam. The US army finds out about him and sends a black ops team to rescue him. However, the team is led by a man who wants White Ghost dead. | 1988 | BJ Davis | Action, Adventure, War | 4.5 (415 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| WhiteforceJohnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord and must find a way to clear his name before the bad guys and his own agency put him in the ground. | 1988 | Eddie Romero | Action, Drama | 5.1 (75 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Who Framed Roger RabbitA toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.7 (194.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| WillowA young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen. | 1988 | Ron Howard | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.2 (113.5K votes) | 126 | 20220806 |
| Wind, The [Veter]Antinuclear soviet short animation phantasmagoria. | 1988 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Short | 7.2 (78 votes) | 19 | 20240407 |
| WinnieWinnie is an intellectually disabled little girl who is committed to an institution by her mother at a very young age. Throughout the film, Winnie struggles for independence, and to feel as if she is "normal". It is a true story b... | 1988 | John Korty | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (166 votes) | 100 | 20220531 |
| WitchcraftA new mother and her child move into her mother-in-law's dark old mansion. She soon begns to suspect that neither the house nor her mother-in-law are quite what they seem to be. | 1988 | Rob Spera | Horror | 3.3 (774 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| WitcheryWhen a storm strands a group on a Massachusetts island where the only dwelling is an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress (Knef), the result is the standard horror film as each of the cast is picked of | 1988 | Fabrizio Laurenti | Horror | 4.3 (2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Witches' Sabbath, The [La visione del sabba]The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. The public health officer tells David, he's go | 1988 | Marco Bellocchio | Drama | 5.4 (314 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Without a ClueA drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective, Dr. Watson. | 1988 | Thom Eberhardt | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 7.0 (10.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Loneliness, TheAfter his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up. | 1988 | Jenny Bowen | Drama | 6.0 (260 votes) | 111 | 20220414 |
| Wizard of Speed and Time, TheA Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his | 1988 | Mike Jittlov | Biography, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (2K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Woman in a Box 2 [Hako no naka no onna II]A lonely ski resort manager seems to have an eerily strong impact on all the ladies around him. He is not notably handsome nor even particularly pleasant person, but for some inexplicable reason every female guest who enters his chal | 1988 | Masaru Konuma | Drama, Horror | 5.3 (96 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her. | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (39.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Woodchipper MassacreThree siblings begin to kill people with a woodchipper while their father is away. | 1988 | Jon McBride | Comedy, Horror | 4.3 (522 votes) | 80 | 20231223 |
| Working GirlWhen a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job. | 1988 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (55.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| World Apart, A1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue for her as although, under apartheid, the Roth | 1988 | Chris Menges | Drama | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Wrong Guys, TheCub Scout Pack 18 organizes a 25-year reunion to relive their fond boyhood memories. But when the five friends meet for a camping trip, they discover that what little they had once known about wilderness survival has dwindled to noth | 1988 | Danny Bilson | Comedy | 5.1 (814 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Wuthering Heights [Arashi ga oka]A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan. | 1988 | Yoshishige Yoshida | Drama | 7.0 (238 votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Yesterday [Vchera]The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teac | 1988 | Ivan Andonov | Drama | 9.0 (3.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Hurry LoveA comedy of a guy who is told the only way to be successful in LA is by ""pretending to be someone else."" Through a series of dates at a video dating service, he learns that isn't the case, and that it's better to be yourself, rath... | 1988 | Richard Martini | Comedy, Romance | 4.7 (568 votes) | 92 | 20231001 |
| Young EinsteinAlbert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll. | 1988 | Yahoo Serious | Comedy, History | 5.2 (8.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Young GunsA group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted. | 1988 | Christopher Cain | Action, Western | 6.9 (59.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Young Toscanini [Il giovane Toscanini]A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a young man. | 1988 | Franco Zeffirelli | Biography, Drama | 6.1 (338 votes) | 109 | 20230715 |
| Zan BokoIn the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called 'Zan Boko' - a phrase w | 1988 | Gaston Kaboré | Drama | 7.0 (76 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Zerograd [Gorod Zero]An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary | 1988 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.5 (2.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Zombi 3When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island. | 1988 | Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.9 (4.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Zombie 5 Killing BirdsA group of college students go into the woods to study birds. They encounter a strange blind man who's connected to the killer zombies that prowl a dilapidated house deep in the forest. | 1988 | Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D'Amato | Horror, Mystery | 3.5 (1.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |