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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 )
The seniors return 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?
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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 )
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
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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 )
Will prom night live up to the high school seniors' expectations? Will they have the right date? Can they avoid their parents?
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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 was lucky 3 years ago at the arrest of Terror, a serial killer of young women. Danny's about to be a dad, when Terror escapes prison and is back killing. Will Danny get lucky this time?
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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 )
With high hopes on their quest to track down the perfect man, two young women take a vacation at a plush health resort. Unfortunately, the men they encounter seem to wilt at the thought of anything more than casual sex.
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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 )
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power-hungry auto magnate who is systematically eliminating his competition.
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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 bad memories and personal tragedy.
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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 homemaker/mom try to make it as stand-up comedians. They become friends and help each other out at a New York City 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, meets with Reggie, and discover his dreams (the events of the original film) are real, and they both journey to find and stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.
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Movie: Patty Hearst ( 1988 )
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
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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 )
A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.
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Movie: Dead Heat ( 1988 )
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man 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 heiress meets a young racing yacht captain in the Long Island Hamptons. He shows interest in her, but love may not be the reason.
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Movie: 976-EVIL ( 1989 )
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.
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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 aid 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 )
Divorced executive Marshall and his 11-year-old son Charlie casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers Marshall's mind to Charlie's body and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.
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Movie: Vibes ( 1988 )
Two psychics are hired to find the location of a lost Incan city Located somewhere in the Ecuadorian mountains, that is said to hide a great treasure.
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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 )
In this feel-good body-switchers comedy, aging worldly-wise businessman Jack Watson swaps bodies with his grandson David in the wake of an automobile accident. George Burns shines in his final leading role.
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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, 50-year-old college dean Marion Post takes a sabbatical and rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, then is 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.
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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 ( 1989 )
Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll.
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Movie: Arthur 2: On the Rocks ( 1988 )
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his money back, but first he must sober up and get a real job.
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Movie: Bad Dreams ( 1988 )
Lone survivor Cynthia Weston of the Unity Fields cult's mass suicide 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 )
Cub Scout Pack 18 organizes a 25-year reunion to relive their fond boyhood memories. But when the five friends meet for a camping trip, they discover that what little they had once known about wilderness survival has dwindled to nothing.
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Movie: Moving Target ( 1988 )
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
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Movie: Witchcraft ( 1989 )
Grace visits husband John's family manor. Peculiar events ensue, butler Ellsworth suspicious. Friend's demise unveils John and mother-in-law are 1687 witches through secret book. Grace and baby's fate unclear amid supernatural occurrences.
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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, takes over the Land of Oriana, prompting Felix the Cat to save its princess and restore order once again.
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Movie: Inherit the Wind ( 1988 )
A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.
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Movie: Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis ( 1988 )
Nearly a generation later, the middle-aged Dobie Gillis is nothing like he was as a youth, having sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into predictable adult life married to the reliable Zelda (who pursued him all through high school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. Suddenly, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds...Read all