Best Movies of 1988 – page 4

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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls.
Style: feel good, not serious, humorous, entertaining, spooky
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: scooby doo, cartoon dog, ghost, mummy, female vampire, amateur detective, supernatural, friendship, good versus evil, save the day, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s
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Apartment Zero (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, homoerotic friendship, loneliness, mental illness, murder, twists and turns, gay, lgbt, gender ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, california
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A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, prejudice, legal, court, investigation, injustice, false accusation, australian outback, murder, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: australia, sydney australia
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The Seventh Sign (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
Style: suspense, biblical, scary, psychological, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: pregnancy, supernatural, apocalypse, christianity, religion, clergy, end of the world, prophecy, curse, worldwide chaos, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: haiti, venice california, california, nicaragua, israel
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Short Circuit 2 (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Style: humorous, family comedy, exciting, grindhouse, fast ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, skyscraper, robbery, androids, androids and robots, hitman, boat, police, puppet, love affair ...
Time: 80s, near future
Place: new york, usa
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Night of the Demons (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style: scary, gothic, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, demon, halloween, gory, brutality, demonic possession, supernatural, killed during sex, teenager, ghost, dark humor, halloween party ...
Time: 80s
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Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.
Style: spooky, exciting, not serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot: scooby doo, werewolf, human becomes animal, dracula, frankenstein, supernatural, lycanthropy, teenager, hippie, hunchback, race, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe
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 5.5
 17K
Critters 2 (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, splatter, scary, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, evil alien, monster, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien, easter, little creatures, creature feature, space, disaster, mad scientist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: kansas, usa
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 6.5
 13K
Brain Damage (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
Style: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious ...
Plot: body horror, addiction, drug abuse, hallucination, parasite, gory, creature, exploitation, monster, surrealism, murder, misfit ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, parody, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night
Plot: alien, fish out of water, space and aliens, female alien, benign alien, alien disguised as human, transformation, friendship, porn actress, scientist, sexual humor, eccentricity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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 6.0
 20K
Maniac Cop (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police, violence, false accusation, police corruption, vengeance, unlikely criminals, danger, couple relations, stalking ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, vampire, monster, college, sexy female vampire, female vampire, zombie, vengeance, love affair, blood, violence, transformation ...
Time: 80s
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 5.9
 11K
Vice Versa (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Style: light, comedy drama, light hearted, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, family outing
Plot: body swap, body swapping, switching roles, school, switching bodies, childhood, transformation, christmas, youth, love affair, philosophy, regression ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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 7.7
 19K
The Bear (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Style: touching, scenic, uplifting, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: wilderness, bear, nature, dog, animal, survival, hunting, friendship, bear cub, rocky mountains, environmental, environment ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: canada, persia, british columbia
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style: funny, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, dark humor, undead, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, plague, gory, youth, night of the living dead, epidemic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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 6.1
 9K
Dead Heat (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.
Style: cult classic, spoof, scary, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, reluctant partners, undead, monster, zombie, gory, vengeance, supernatural, mad scientist, police investigation, exploitation, violence ...
Time: 80s
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Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire's death for a ...
Style: not serious, humorous, exciting, tense, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: vampire, looney tunes, giant bird, supernatural, ghost, monster, danger, cartoon duck, siblings relations, imaginary, disorder, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: arizona, new york state, transylvania, palm springs california, new york ...
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She's Having a Baby (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, emotional, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, baby, marriage, self discovery, midlife crisis, wedding, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, argument, dream, aspiring writer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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Dominick and Eugene (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do 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 Eugene must ...
Style: serious, uplifting, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: medical student, twins, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, family problems, intern, family life, brother brother relationship, intellectual disability, mental retardation, brother ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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 8.0
 203K
Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, surreal, futuristic, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, experiment, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, distopia, psychic power, protest, post apocalyptic, military, post thermonuclear war, hallucination, motorcycle ...
Time: future, 2010s, distant future, year 1988, year 2019 ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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 6.1
 11K
D.O.A. (1988)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, suspense thriller, mystical ...
Plot: race against time, divorce, murder, police investigation, destiny, xmas, hospital, teacher, mysticism, college, poison, relationships ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: austin texas, los angeles, australia
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Powwow Highway (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ...
Style: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: native american, native, road trip, indians, magic, indigenous people, friendship, on the road, journey, tribe, nature, american indian ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: montana, south dakota, usa
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 5.9
 4K
Buster (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, eighties
Plot: robbery, on the run, heist, railway, rock, train, manhunt, pregnancy, train travel, florist, englishman abroad, thief ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: scotland yard, london, europe, england, latin america ...
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot: matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, self discovery, workplace, couple relations, eligible bachelor, parents and children, unfulfilled love, dating ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 9K
Punchline (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style: talky, humorous, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot: stand up comedian, creativity, showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, self discovery, nightclub, housewife, friendship, couples, performer's life, comedian ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, commands ...
Style: not serious, offbeat, humorous, feel good, surreal ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, princess, holiday, xmas, christmas season, friendship, generosity, nativity, snowman, mannequin, snow, bell ...
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A Handful of Dust (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, ...
Style: costume drama, stylized, contemplative, biting, serious ...
Plot: catholic, love, literary, death of son, class differences, adultery, society, couple relations, betrayal, crumbling marriage, dealing with death, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe, brazil, london
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Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The old age pensioners that left at the end of the first film come back 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, or will they?
Style: touching, grindhouse, saga, epic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: alien, senior citizen, extraterrestrial, old age, friendly alien, cocoon, ufo, alien invasion, space and aliens, benign alien, alien disguised as human, shape shifting alien ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a ...
Style: light, humorous, surreal, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, unlikely friendships, violence, family relations, prank, mischievous children, save the day, partner, nothing goes right, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: future, year 1988, 80s
Place: orlando florida
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Stealing Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, baseball, friendship, life, love, aging, bittersweet, memory, suicide, family relations, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 1950s
Place: new jersey, philadelphia
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