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The Best Movies of 1987
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Movie: Killer Workout ( 1987 )
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
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Movie: Broadcast News ( 1987 )
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
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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: Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans ( 1987 )
In this parody of the sword and sorcery films, a princess is deposed by an evil sorcerer. She enlists the aid of Deathstalker to battle the forces of evil, including a clone of the princess, and win back her kingdom.
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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: Someone to Watch Over Me ( 1987 )
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Movie: Cry Freedom ( 1987 )
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
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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: 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: The Believers ( 1987 )
A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.
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Movie: Barfly ( 1987 )
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Movie: Hard Ticket to Hawaii ( 1987 )
In Molokai, two undercover drug enforcement agents are after a vicious drug kingpin, but on the way, they will also have to deal with a contaminated giant python.
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Movie: House of Games ( 1987 )
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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Movie: Three O'Clock High ( 1987 )
A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.
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Movie: Teen Wolf Too ( 1987 )
Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
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Movie: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie ( 1987 )
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
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Movie: Who's That Girl ( 1987 )
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.
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Movie: Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II ( 1987 )
Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.
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Movie: House II: The Second Story ( 1987 )
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Ironweed ( 1988 )
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Slumber Party Massacre II ( 1987 )
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
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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: 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: Blood Rage ( 1987 )
A boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized, while his psychotic twin goes free. 10 years later, the innocent twin escapes, which triggers his brother into killing again.
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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: 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: Dolls ( 1987 )
A dysfunctional family of three stop by a mansion during a storm -- father, stepmother, and child. The child discovers that the elderly owners are magical toy makers and have a haunted collection of dolls.
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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: 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: Babette's Feast ( 1987 )
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
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Movie: The Bedroom Window ( 1987 )
Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't want to expose their relationship and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, wanting to help, gives the police the description of the attacker. He soon becomes the main suspect in the case. He then sets to find the real rapist/killer with some help from victim Denise.
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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: Extreme Prejudice ( 1987 )
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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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: No Man's Land ( 1987 )
A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.
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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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Radio Days ( 1987 )
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: R.O.T.O.R. ( 1988 )
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
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Movie: My Best Friend's Birthday ( 1987 )
It's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget.