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The Best Movies of 1987
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Movie: Back to the Beach ( 1987 )
Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel.
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Movie: The Whales of August ( 1987 )
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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Movie: Like Father Like Son ( 1987 )
A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.
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Movie: Born in East L.A. ( 1987 )
When a native-born American citizen of Mexican descent is mistakenly deported to Mexico, he has to risk everything to get back home.
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Movie: No Man's Land ( 1987 )
A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.
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Movie: White Water Summer ( 1987 )
An experienced guide (Vic) accompanies a city boy (Alan) and his three friends on their first wilderness experience. Hoping to teach the four boys lessons not only about the wilderness, but about themselves, Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
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Movie: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation ( 1987 )
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
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Movie: Project X ( 1987 )
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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Movie: Hot Pursuit ( 1987 )
Dan arrives too late for his girlfriend's family's plane to the Caribbean. He gets the next. Once there, Dan's hot pursuit of his girlfriend includes 3 friendly locals, a dubious yacht skipper, corrupt police, hijacker, pirates etc.
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Movie: Extreme Prejudice ( 1987 )
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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Movie: 84 Charing Cross Road ( 1987 )
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
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Movie: Bates Motel ( 1987 )
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.
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Movie: Street Smart ( 1987 )
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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Movie: The Sicilian ( 1987 )
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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Movie: Gardens of Stone ( 1987 )
In the late 60s, during the Vietnam War, the idealistic soldier Jackie Willow arrives at Fort Meyer expecting to go to the Academy and then to the Vietnam War. Jackie is the son of a veteran sergeant and soon he becomes the protégé of the former friends of his father, Sergeant Clell Hazard and Sergeant Major 'Goody' Nelson. Jackie is promoted and gets married with his childhood friend Rachel Feld, to recommend Jackie to the Academy. He is promoted to lieutenant and asks to go to the Vietnam, returning to the Arlington National Cemetery.
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Movie: My Best Friend Is a Vampire ( 1988 )
After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
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Movie: Tin Men ( 1987 )
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Movie: Prison ( 1987 )
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
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Movie: The Principal ( 1987 )
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.
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Movie: Light of Day ( 1987 )
A pair of siblings must choose whether to pursue their dream of touring with their rock band or support their family and stay in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Movie: Blood Diner ( 1987 )
Two brothers are entrusted by their uncle to uphold the ritualistic cannibalism of the ancient cult of Sheetar. In order to do so, they have to prepare a feast of sacrifice for the resurrection of their goddess.
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Movie: The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 )
John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
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Movie: Suspect ( 1987 )
A legal team defending a homeless, mute man of murder, find a web of corruption that may have dangerous implications.
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Movie: Hiding Out ( 1987 )
A stockbroker on the run from the mob decides to hide out from them by enrolling as a student in high school.
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Movie: Outrageous Fortune ( 1987 )
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
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Movie: Burglar ( 1987 )
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
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Movie: Blood Harvest ( 1987 )
Jill, visiting home from college, arrives to find her parents missing, and their home vandalized. Soon, matters take a turn for the worse, when she finds herself stalked, and her friends disappearing one by one.
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Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1987 )
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
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Movie: The Squeeze ( 1987 )
His ex-wife asks the unsuccessful gambler and inventor Harrison for a small favor: to get her a parcel from a friend's apartment - without telling him what's in it. Suddenly he finds himself assaulted by villains and shortly after even under suspect of murder. The inexperienced P.I. Rachel is hired by an unknown party to rid him of the parcel - but soon befriends him. Together they try to figure out what kind of game is being played.
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Movie: A Prayer for the Dying ( 1987 )
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
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Movie: Five Corners ( 1987 )
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
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Movie: Creepozoids ( 1987 )
A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III; when they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.
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Movie: Nightflyers ( 1988 )
Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
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Movie: Munchies ( 1988 )
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures -- and are they mean!
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Movie: The Big Town ( 1987 )
J.C. Cullen arrives in Chicago in 1957 from a small town. With a talent for winning at craps, he tries to embark as a professional gambler. He breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by the dangerous and brutal George Cole, and falls for two women, one of whom is Cole's wife. He ignores advice to steer clear of both Coles. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Movie: Nuts ( 1987 )
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
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Movie: Matewan ( 1988 )
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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Movie: The Secret Garden ( 1987 )
When a spoiled English girl living in nineteenth century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The Lord is a strange old man, frail and deformed, immensely kind, but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
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Movie: Leonard Part 6 ( 1987 )
Secret Agent Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby) is called out of retirement to save the world from evil genius Medusa Johnson (Gloria Foster).
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Movie: Ghoulies II ( 1987 )
The Ghoulies wreak havoc at an amusement park, disposing of those who mistake them for mere fairground attractions.
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Movie: Dead of Winter ( 1987 )
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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Movie: From a Whisper to a Scream ( 1987 )
In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.
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Movie: The BFG ( 1987 )
A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
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Movie: G.I. Joe: The Movie ( 1987 )
The heroic G.I. Joe action force must oppose the ruthless Cobra organization that has secretly allied with a subterranean reptilian people who were their founders.
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Movie: The Kindred ( 1987 )
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
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Movie: Deadly Prey ( 1987 )
A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the "students" at the camp can learn how to track down and kill their prey.
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Movie: Dudes ( 1988 )
Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way, they enlist the help of a young woman who runs a wrecking service.
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Movie: Maid to Order ( 1987 )
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson...
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Movie: American Gothic ( 1987 )
A group of travellers make emergency landing on an island in the Pacific Northwest after their seaplane malfunctioned, and stumble across an isolated and psychopathic family.
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Movie: White of the Eye ( 1987 )
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his young wife starts to uncover mysteries of her own...
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Movie: The Chipmunk Adventure ( 1987 )
The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round the world race.
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Movie: Howling III ( 1987 )
A female werewolf runs away from her family, and falls in love with a man who works in the movie business, while a sociologist who studies these creatures is looking for proof of their existence.
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Movie: Surf Nazis Must Die ( 1987 )
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
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Movie: It's Alive III: Island of the Alive ( 1987 )
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
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Movie: Fatal Beauty ( 1987 )
Rita is a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Outside a drug heist scene with several bodies and a hardly cut fatal drug, Fatal Beauty, she finds a Kroll Construction van with a dead Kroll employee in it. Who is Kroll?
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Movie: Walk Like a Man ( 1987 )
As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to life with humans. While his mother is overjoyed to see him again, Bobo's older brother Henry is more worried about losing his share of the inheritance. As Bobo progresses with Penny's lessons, Henry plots to have him eliminated.
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Movie: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 ( 1987 )
The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.
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Movie: Hello Again ( 1987 )
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
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Movie: From the Hip ( 1987 )
Apprentice lawyer Robin "Stormy" Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must re-examine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is apparently guilty of murder.
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Movie: Nadine ( 1987 )
In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.
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Movie: Lionheart ( 1987 )
A young knight sets out to join King Richard's crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
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Movie: Critical Condition ( 1987 )
Con man Kevin Lennihan, framed in a jewel smuggling, tries for an insanity plea, and is sent to a hospital for review, where he is confused for a doctor and takes over the hospital when a major storm hits.
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Movie: Tough Guys Don't Dance ( 1987 )
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
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Movie: Summer Camp Nightmare ( 1987 )
A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
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Movie: Eddie Murphy: Raw ( 1987 )
Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.
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Movie: Funland ( 1987 )
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.