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  • Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    1. Cinema Paradiso

    19882h 54mPG80Metascore
    8.5 (302K)
    Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
    DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella Attili
  • A Short Film About Love (1988)

    2. A Short Film About Love

    19881h 27mNot Rated
    8.1 (27K)
    A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania Iwinska
  • Vincent Gauthier and Marie Rivière in The Green Ray (1986)

    3. The Green Ray

    19861h 39mR
    7.6 (11K)
    It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...
    DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMarie RivièreMaría Luisa GarcíaVincent Gauthier
  • Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)

    4. Where Is the Friend's House?

    19871h 23mNot Rated
    8.1 (21K)
    Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
    DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek AhmedpoorAhmed AhmedpoorKhodabakhsh Defaei
  • Time of the Gypsies (1988)

    5. Time of the Gypsies

    19882h 22mR
    8.1 (34K)
    In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
    DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica Adzovic
  • Blind Chance (1987)

    6. Blind Chance

    19871h 54mNot Rated
    7.7 (12K)
    Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaTadeusz LomnickiZbigniew Zapasiewicz
  • A Short Film About Killing (1988)

    7. A Short Film About Killing

    19881h 24mNot Rated
    8.0 (23K)
    A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMiroslaw BakaKrzysztof GlobiszJan Tesarz
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)

    8. Full Metal Jacket

    19871h 56mR78Metascore
    8.2 (823K)
    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'Onofrio
  • Wings of Desire (1987)

    9. Wings of Desire

    19872h 8mPG-1379Metascore
    7.9 (81K)
    An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto Sander
  • Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989)

    10. Alexandria: Again and Forever

    19891h 40mNot Rated
    6.6 (859)
    During a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraYoussef ChahineHussein Fahmy
  • Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

    11. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    19881h 28mR85Metascore
    7.5 (49K)
    A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta Serrano
  • Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing (1989)

    12. Do the Right Thing

    19892hR93Metascore
    8.0 (119K)
    On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby Dee
  • Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    13. Hannah and Her Sisters

    19861h 47mPG-1390Metascore
    7.8 (79K)
    Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMichael Caine
  • Dalida in Al-yawm al-Sadis (1986)

    14. Al-yawm al-Sadis

    19861h 45m
    7.0 (537)
    1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsDalidaMohsen MohieddinShouweikar
  • Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

    15. When Harry Met Sally...

    19891h 35mR76Metascore
    7.7 (256K)
    Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
    DirectorRob ReinerStarsBilly CrystalMeg RyanCarrie Fisher
  • Ana Wenty Wa Sa'at Alsafar (1988)

    16. Ana Wenty Wa Sa'at Alsafar

    19881h 20m
    7.2 (94)
    Salwa travels to Alexandria by train. By chance, she sees Ezzat, who loved him during the university days, preferring the rich man. The train crashes along the road, and the events of the story begin and each of them begins to follow the other. But will love end?
    DirectorMohamed NabihStarsYehia El-FakharanyNellyNashaat Abaza
  • Awdat mowatin (1986)

    17. Awdat mowatin

    19861h 40m
    7.1 (195)
    Returning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed AbdelazizMervat AminHussien El Sherbiny
  • Sarikat Sayfeya (1988)

    18. Sarikat Sayfeya

    19881h 42m
    7.1 (145)
    The struggle of Aristocratic family after the political desicisons taken in the 60's era of Egypt. Yasser is the grandchild whose parents are getting a divorce due to this struggle. A journey inside the family and the major changes due to Moral and Political ideologys.
    DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsAhmad Mohamad AhmadChohdi SrourMenha Batraoui
  • Bad Day Good Day (1988)

    19. Bad Day Good Day

    19882h 5m
    7.5 (324)
    A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her considerable efforts can't save her family from the inevitable problems of lower-class poverty, and her daughters resort to drawing up marriage contracts to find husbands. One women marries the oily Orabi, who later seduces his wife's sister. The youngest is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from home and becomes a beggar in the streets.
    DirectorKhairy BesharaStarsFaten HamamaMohamed MounirAbla Kamel
  • Ahlam Hind wa Kamilya (1988)

    20. Ahlam Hind wa Kamilya

    19881h 49m
    7.1 (640)
    Follows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiAida Riyad
  • The Wife of an Important Man (1987)

    21. The Wife of an Important Man

    19871h 55m
    7.9 (2K)
    When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim Hafez
  • Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future Part II (1989)

    22. Back to the Future Part II

    19891h 48mPG57Metascore
    7.8 (598K)
    After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
    DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea Thompson
  • Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm (1989)

    23. Dead Calm

    19891h 36mR70Metascore
    6.8 (46K)
    After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
    DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsNicole KidmanSam NeillBilly Zane
  • Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in The Karate Kid Part II (1986)

    24. The Karate Kid Part II

    19861h 53mPG55Metascore
    6.1 (105K)
    Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.
    DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsPat MoritaRalph MacchioPat E. Johnson
  • Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in The Karate Kid Part III (1989)

    25. The Karate Kid Part III

    19891h 52mPG36Metascore
    5.3 (73K)
    Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
    DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsRalph MacchioPat MoritaRobyn Lively

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