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The Best Movies of 1988
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Movie: High Spirits ( 1988 )
When 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.
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Movie: Some Girls ( 1988 )
Michael flies up to French Canada to visit his girlfriend and her wacky family. She doesn't love him anymore, the grandma mistakes him for her late husband, the sister appears naked and makes advances, the dad likes to be naked as well.
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Movie: Cocoon: The Return ( 1988 )
Art, Ben and Joe are back! So are their wives and good friend Bernie in their first adventure since their last! Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who's still hangin' on. Art, Ben and Joe had forgotten what it was like on earth and immediately begin to feel their weaknesses, except for Art's wife who's pregnant! Meanwhile in the ocean, a biologist company snatched a cocoon out of the ocean and are doing research on it...
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Movie: School Daze ( 1988 )
A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
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Movie: Brain Damage ( 1988 )
One 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.
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Movie: Biloxi Blues ( 1988 )
New York City teenager Eugene Jerome starts military service thoughtfully yet patriotically prepared to take part in World War II. At boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, he faces the brutally opposed views of other recruits, which he must live with. Still they must bind, if not bond, facing the sadistic drill sergeant during their physically ruthless and mentally abusive training, which is heading for tragedy. Meanwhile, their boyish minds wander often to sexual frustrations, from obsession with potency (and escaping virginity) to prejudice against gays. Armed only with his sense of humor, Eugene is determined to leave camp with everything he came with.
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Movie: Gorillas in the Mist ( 1988 )
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Movie: Dance 'Til Dawn ( 1988 )
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to. The adults also have there problems to contend with: Nancy and Larry must find out a way to patch up their marriage or get a divorce; Jack spends the night tracking down his son Dan to find out why he didn't go to the prom; and overprotective Ed and Ruth keep tabs on their daughter Angela throughout the night.
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Movie: For Keeps? ( 1988 )
After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.
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Movie: Hero and the Terror ( 1988 )
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
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Movie: A Cry in the Dark ( 1988 )
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.
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Movie: Casual Sex? ( 1988 )
While attending a singles retreat, two female friends-- one promiscuous, the other unlucky with men-- share their philosophies on love, sex, men, and dating in the wake of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
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Movie: Shoot to Kill ( 1988 )
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Movie: The Nest ( 1988 )
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
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Movie: Action Jackson ( 1988 )
Jericho "Action" Jackson is a Detroit police sergeant who was demoted from lieutenant for almost tearing the arm off of sexually violent sociopath Sean Dellaplane, whose father is Peter Dellaplane, a major car manufacturer. But Dellaplane himself is violent as well. Dellaplane kills his wife Patrice by shooting her. And then he plants her body in Jackson's apartment, framing Jackson. Dellaplane won't miss Patrice very much, because he has a drug-addicted mistress named Sydney Ash. He keeps Sydney hooked with a free supply of heroin. Jackson suspects Dellaplane of masterminding a murder spree against local officials from the auto workers' union. Dellaplane's mission is to gain a political power base and choose the next president of the United States. Because of what happened to Dellaplane's son Sean, Dellaplane has taken a particular dislike to Jackson. Jackson gets Sydney's help in going after Dellaplane.
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Movie: The Accidental Tourist ( 1989 )
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
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Movie: Bright Lights, Big City ( 1988 )
A 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.
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Movie: Braddock: Missing in Action III ( 1988 )
Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.
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Movie: Punchline ( 1988 )
A 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.
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Movie: Hobgoblins ( 1988 )
A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.
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Movie: Phantasm II ( 1988 )
Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.
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Movie: Patty Hearst ( 1988 )
The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a scandal in the US and since then Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.
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Movie: Moon Over Parador ( 1988 )
A 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?
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Movie: The Beast of War ( 1988 )
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.
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Movie: Dead Heat ( 1988 )
A cop and his undead partner must chase down the diabolical villain who killed him.
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Movie: Police Story 2 ( 1988 )
The Hong Kong supercop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers, while the villains of Police Story (1985) are out for revenge.
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Movie: Masquerade ( 1988 )
A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning a blind eye to incriminating evidence.
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Movie: 976-EVIL ( 1989 )
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers.
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Movie: The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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Movie: Shakedown ( 1988 )
A legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.
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Movie: Splash, Too ( 1988 )
Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a dolphin in captivity.
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Movie: Vice Versa ( 1988 )
During an argument, a divorced executive and his 11 year old son casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers the father's mind to the body of the son and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.
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Movie: Vibes ( 1988 )
Psychics hired to find lost temple...
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Movie: Appointment with Death ( 1988 )
When 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.
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TV Show: Jack the Ripper ( 1988 )
During the latter half of 1888 a notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper terrorises London by murdering prostitutes in a terribly violent way. Inspector Frederick Abberline is assigned to the case but finds that it is not just a simple murder enquiry.
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Movie: Without a Clue ( 1988 )
A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective, Dr. Watson.
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Movie: Torch Song Trilogy ( 1988 )
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
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Movie: The Brain ( 1988 )
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
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Movie: Moving ( 1988 )
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
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Movie: 18 Again! ( 1988 )
By means of an accident the soul of David and his swinging grandfather get swapped. While the grandfather's body is still in coma, he enjoys having a young body again and repairs some facts in David's life, who he finds not to be self-confident enough.
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Movie: D.O.A. ( 1988 )
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?
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Movie: Purple People Eater ( 1988 )
A 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.
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Movie: Another Woman ( 1988 )
Facing 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.
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Movie: Clean and Sober ( 1988 )
A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.
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Movie: Return of the Killer Tomatoes! ( 1988 )
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
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Movie: Bat*21 ( 1988 )
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.
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Movie: Jack's Back ( 1988 )
A 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.
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Movie: Off Limits ( 1988 )
McGriff 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 serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
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Movie: Young Einstein ( 1988 )
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beautiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
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Movie: Arthur 2: On the Rocks ( 1988 )
Arthur loses all of his money, and his wife wants a baby.
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Movie: Bad Dreams ( 1988 )
The 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.
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Movie: Tapeheads ( 1988 )
A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.
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Movie: The Wrong Guys ( 1988 )
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.
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Movie: Moving Target ( 1988 )
Toby Kellogg is an aspiring musician, who's sent off to music school over the summer. Not wishing to stay away from his band and potential girlfriend, he slips away late one night, where soon after police storm his sleeping dorm in looking for him. He returns home, expecting further grief from his folks and disappointment from his kid brother David, only to find his family is nowhere to be found, in fact house is completely devoid of all it's contents...in-short abandoned. He isn't aware that his father stumbled across a mafia conspiracy and has been spirited away along with his wife and son, by witness protection program. But none of that matters know since an ace assassin has just gunned down his closest friend in mistaken identity and is now back to correct his goof.
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Movie: Witchcraft ( 1989 )
A 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.
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Movie: Felix the Cat: The Movie ( 1990 )
In another dimension, the villainous scientist Duke of Zill, with the help of his mechanical, geometric army, ultimately takes over the golden kingdom of Oriana, where Duke has just escaped exile! But Felix the Cat must bravely save Princess Oriana and restore order once again, from her terrible Uncle Zill and his smoke-belching mechanical troops before he can put his sinister plot into action! The Duke has designs on turning the beautiful pastoral kingdom into a profitable. But industrial nightmare!
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Movie: Inherit the Wind ( 1988 )
A teacher has taught about evolution in a small town in Tennessee. He has violated state law by doing this. Two great lawyers appear, one to assist in his defense, the other to help prosecute him. The town is divided in many ways which become apparent as the trial progresses. This is a dramatization of the Scopes Monkey Trial that pitted William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow in a real case.
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Movie: Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis ( 1988 )
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high-school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.