1988 Movies

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The Films of 1988

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A full list of 1988 Wide Release Films on Wikipedia

My Top Picks

Die Hard
Big
Alice (Něco z Alenky)
Beetlejuice
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Vanishing
Beaches

Notable Mentions ("Surprise" Films)

Akira
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
My Neighbour Totoro
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Last Temptation of Christ
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Grave of the Fireflies
The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Biggest Disappointments

Coming to America
Crocodile Dundee II
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Poltergeist III
The Seventh Sign

All the films I've seen from 1988 at the Movies

Beaches
Beetlejuice
Cinema Paradiso - (Italy)
Crocodile Dundee II
Die Hard
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A
Scrooged
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Einstein

All the films I've seen from 1988 on the Small Screen

18 Again!
Akira
Alice (Něco z Alenky)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Big
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
The Blob
Caddyshack II
Coming to America
Cocoon: The Return
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Calm
Dead Pool, The
Earth Girls Are Easy
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Fish Called Wanda, A
Frantic
Fright Night II
Funny Farm
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) - (Japan)
Great Outdoors, The
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Hansel and Gretel
Heathers
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Lair of the White Worm
Last Temptation of Christ, The
Midnight Crossing
Midnight Run
Monkey Shines
My Neighbour Totoro
My Stepmother Is an Alien
Phantasm II
Poltergeist III
Police Story 2 (Ging chaat goo si juk jaap) – (Hong Kong)
Presido, The
Pumpkinhead
Rain Man
Rambo III
Red Heat
Return of the Living Dead: Part II
Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
Serpent and the Rainbow, The
Seventh Sign, The
Short Circuit 2
They Live
Twins
Vanishing, The (Spoorloos)
Watchers
Willow
Without a Clue
Working Girl
Young Guns
Zombi 3 - (Italy)

What's Left to see from 1988?

1969
Above the Law
Abyss, The (L'Œuvre au noir) – (France/Belgium)
Accidental Tourist, The
Accused, The – (Canada)
Action Jackson
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The – (U.K.)
Alien Nation
Aloha Summer
Amsterdamned - (Netherlands)
And God Created Woman
Appointment With Death
Ariel
As Tears Go By (Wong gok Kaa mun) – (Hong Kong)
Ashik Kerib - (Soviet Union)
Aviya's Summer (HaKayitz Shel Aviya) – (Israel)
Bad Dreams
Bat*21
Bear Ye One Another's Burden (Einer trage des anderen Last) - (East Germany)
Bear, The (L'Ours) – (France)
Beast, The
Beetlejuice
Betrayed
Big Blue, The – (France/United States/Italy)
Big Business
Big Time
Big Top Pee-wee
Biloxi Blues
Bird
Black Eagle
Blind Justice
Bloodsport
Bloodstone
Blue Iguana, The
Boost, The
Braddock: Missing in Action III
Brain Damage
Bright Lights, Big City
Bull Durham
Bulletproof
Burning Secret
Buster – (U.K.)
Call Me
Camille Claudel – (France)
Candy Mountain - (Switzerland/Canada/France)
Cannibal Tours (Australia)
Cannibals, The (Os Canibais) - (Portugal)
Casual Sex?
Cat Who Walked by Herself, The (Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe) - (U.S.S.R.)
Celia - (Australia)
Chicken and Duck Talk (Gai tung aap gong) - (Hong Kong)
Chilsu and Mansu - (South Korea)
Chithram (Picture) – (India)
Chocolat - (France/Cameroon)
Chocolate War, The
Chorus of Disapproval, A – (U.K.)
Clara's Heart
Clean and Sober
Cocktail
Colors
Coming to America
Consuming Passions – (U.K.)
Cop
Couch Trip, The
Critters 2: The Main Course
Crossing Delancey
Cry in the Dark, A (aka Evil Angels) – (Australia/United States)
D.O.A.
Da
Dadah is Death – (Australia)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Damnation (Karhozat) - (Hungary)
Dancing in the Dust
Dawning, The
Days of Eclipse (Dni zatmeniya) - (U.S.S.R.)
Dead Heat
Dead Ringers – (Canada/United States) *
Dead Solid Perfect
Deceivers, The
Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, The
Distant Thunder
Distant Voices, Still Lives – (U.K.)
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
Dominick and Eugene
Dragons Forever (Fei lung maang jeung) – (Hong Kong)
Dream Demon – (U.K.)
Dressmaker, The - (U.K.)
Drowning by Numbers – (U.K.)
Eight Men Out
Eighth Happiness, The (Baat seng bou hei) – (Hong Kong)
Ernest Saves Christmas
Everlasting Secret Family, The
Everybody's All-American
Faceless - (France)
Far North
Feds
Few Days with Me, A (Quelques jours avec moi) – (France)
First Kangaroos, The – (U.K./Australia)
Fish Called Wanda, A – (UK/US)
Flesheater
For Keeps
Fox and the Hound, The
Fresh Horses
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Fruit Machine, The (U.K.)
Full Moon in Blue Water
Gamble, The – (Italy)
Georgia – (Australia)
Ghost Town
Ghosts… of the Civil Dead
Good Mother, The
Gorillas in the Mist
Gotham (aka) The Dead Can't Lie
Hairspray
Handful of Dust, A – (U.K.)
Hanna's War
Hanussen – (Hungary)
Hatya – (India)
Haunted Summer
Hawks – (U.K.)
Heart of Midnight
Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse) - (U.S.S.R.)
Heartbreak Hotel
Hero Hiralal - (India)
Hero and the Terror
High Hopes
High Spirits *
Hobgoblins
Hot to Trot
House on Carroll Street, The
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (Jak básníkům chutná život) - (Czechoslovakia)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps) – (France)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Illegally Yours
Imagine: John Lennon
In Crowd, The
Iron Eagle II
It Couldn't Happen Here – (U.K.)
It Takes Two
Johnny Be Good
Judgment in Berlin
Kabzaa - (India)
Kamilla and the Thief (Kamilla og Tyven) - (Norway)
Kansas
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Kiss, The – (United States/Canada)
Kitchen Toto, The
Kung-Fu Master (a.k.a. Le Petit Amour) – (France)
La Bohème
Lady in White
Land Before Time, The
Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli) - (Greece)
Last Rites
Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore) – (Italy/France)
License to Drive
Life Is a Long Quiet River (La vie est un long fleuve tranquille) - (France)
Light Years (Gandahar) - (France)
Little Devil, The (Il Piccolo Diavolo) - (Italy)
Little Dorrit – (U.K.)
Little Nikita - (U.S.S.R.)
Love and Fear (Fürchten und Lieben|Trois Soeurs) – (West Germany/France/Italy)
Mac and Me
Madame Sousatzka – (U.K.)
Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter - (Japan)
Maniac Cop
Mapantsula - (South Africa)
Married to the Mob
Masquerade
Memories of Me
Men Behind the Sun (hēi tài yáng) - (Hong Kong)
Messenger of Death
Milagro Beanfield War, The
Miles from Home
Miracle Mile
Missing Link
Mississippi Burning *
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Gyakushū no Shā) - (Japan)
Moderns, The
Mondo New York
Moon over Parador
Moonwalker
Moscow Elegy - (U.S.S.R.)
Moving
Mr. North - (Japan)
Music Teacher, The (Le maître de musique) - (Belgium)
Mystic Pizza
Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, The - (New Zealand)
Necromancer
New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, The - (Sweden/United States)
New Life, A
Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, A
Night of the Demons
Off Limits
Oliver & Company
On the Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie) - (Poland)
Painted Faces (Cat siu fuk) – (Hong Kong)
Paperhouse - (U.K.)
Pascali's Island – (U.K.)
Pass the Ammo
Patty Hearst
Permanent Record
Phantom of Death - (Italy)
Plain Clothes
Platoon Leader
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
Powaqqatsi
Prince of Pennsylvania, The
Prison
Prisoner of Rio – (Poland/U.K./Brazil)
Pulse
Punchline
Purple People Eater
Puss in Boots
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (From Disaster to Disaster) - (India)
Rattle and Hum
Rented Lips
Rescue, The
Return to Snowy River - (Australia)
Robowar - (Italy)
Rocket Gibraltar
Roots: The Gift
Rouge (Jin Zi Kau) – (Hong Kong)
Run for Your Life – (Italy)
Running on Empty
Salaam Bombay! - (India/U.K.)
Salome's Last Dance - (U.K.)
Salsa - (Sri Lanka)
Satisfaction
School Daze
Secret of the Sahara, The
Seven Hours to Judgment
Shadows in the Storm
Shakedown
She's Having a Baby
Shoot to Kill
Short Film About Killing, A (Krótki film o zabijaniu) - (Poland)
Short Film About Love, A (Krótki film o miłości) - (Poland)
Slugs
Sodoma's Ghost - (Italy)
Some Girls
Soursweet - (U.K.)
Space Mutiny - (South Africa)
Spellbinder
Spike of Bensonhurst
Split Decisions
Stand and Deliver
Stars and Bars
Stealing Heaven – (U.K.)
Stealing Home
Stormy Monday
Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) – (France)
Summer Story, A – (U.K.)
Sunset
Sur (South) - (Argentina)
Sweet Hearts Dance
Sweet Lies
Switching Channels
Taffin – (Ireland)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital - (Canada)
Talk Radio
Tapeheads
Telephone, The
Tequila Sunrise
Testimony – (U.K.)
They Live
Thin Blue Line, The
Things Change
Tiger Warsaw
Time of Destiny, A
Time of Violence (Vreme na nasilie)
Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje) - (Yugoslavia)
To Kill a Priest (Le Complot) – (France)
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller - (Canada)
Torch Song Trilogy
Touch of Death
Tougher Than Leather
Track 29
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Two Moon Junction *
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Unholy, The
Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter - (Japan)
Vchera (Yesterday) - (Bulgaria)
Verónico Cruz - (Argentina)
Vibes
Vice Versa
War Party
War and Remembrance
Waxwork
We Think the World of You
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) – (Spain) *
World Apart, A – (U.K./Zimbabwe)
World Gone Wild
Wrong Guys, The
Wuthering Heights (Arashi ga oka) - (Japan)