Tabu

1988

Polish

6.0

♡ 6

Drama

Andrzej Baranski Director

Grazyna Szapolowska as Milka's Mother

Bronislaw Pawlik as Organ Player

Olaf Lubaszenko as Stefek

Zofia Merle as Stefek's Mother

Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.

I Saw What You Did

1988

English

5.4

♡ 6

38%

Action

based on novel or book

Fred Walton Director

Shawnee Smith as Kim Fielding

Rosanna Huffman as Mrs. Harris

Jo Anderson as Robyn Griffin

Dana Gladstone as Sid

Two teens, Lisa and Kim, are playing games making prank calls on the phone. But when they call Adrian Lancer who has some mental problems, and say "I saw what you did", they ignite a human time bomb. Adrian has just killed someone and thinks they saw him do it. Now he is trying to find them.

Tjoet Nja' Dhien

1988

Indonesian

7.8

♡ 4

aceh

Drama

independence movement

Eros Djarot Director

Robert Syarif as Dutch Officer

Fritz G. Schadt as Dutch Officer

Roy Karyadi as Dutch Officer

Christine Hakim as Tjoet Nja' Dhien

Set in 1896, "Tjoet Nja' Dhien" celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Uma is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.

Catatan Si Boy 2

1988

Indonesian

6.3

♡ 1

Drama

Nasri Cheppy Director

Didi Petet as Emon

Btari Karlinda as Ina

Faradina as Ocha

Boy Iskak as Vera's Dad

A love triangle of young and wealthy in Jakarta. Returning from Los Angeles, two good friends, Vera and Priska, fall in love with the same guy, Boy.

Bear Ye One Another's Burden

1988

German

6.8

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Lothar Warneke Director

Marc Hetterle as

Ellis Heiden as Alte Dame

Hans-Jochen Röhrig as Jochen

Wilfried Pucher as Sittich

At the beginning of the 50s, two extremely disparate men meet in a private sanatorium for consumptives: an officer in the People's Police, Josef Heiliger; and a young Protestant curate, Hubertus Koschenz. On account of their consumption, they have to share a room. Initially, this is the only thing they have in common.

Preuve d'amour

1988

French

4.5

♡ 1

Mystery

Thriller

Miguel Courtois Director

Arsène Jiroyan as

Jacques Spiesser as Bernard

Jean Rougerie as Commissaire Berthomieu

Gérard Darmon as Martin Fresnel

A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.

Ikidomari no Banka: Break Out

1988

Japanese

6.2

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Tôru Murakawa Director

Masami Horiuchi as Kazumi

Yôko Ishino as Miku Sawano

Renji Ishibashi as Sakura

Yûzô Hayakawa as Seiji Tagawa

An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force for disregarding orders to halt his criminal investigation of a Congressman. However, even this setback won't stop the determined cop from getting to the bottom of the scandal.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

English

7.4

♡ 12

80%

Terence Davies Director

Pete Postlethwaite as Father

Andrew Schofield as Les

Lorraine Ashbourne as Maisie

Judith Barker as Rose's Family

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

Curse of the Blue Lights

1988

English

4.1

♡ 5

John Henry Johnson Director

Kent E. Fritzell as Bor

Don Warren as Farmer Jenks

Willard Hall as Forn

James Asbury as Sam

A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.

A World Apart

1988

English

7.0

♡ 3

91%

johannesburg south africa

johannesburg, south africa

south africa

Chris Menges Director

Tim Roth as Harold

Adrian Dunbar as Le Roux

Jodhi May as Molly Roth

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Harris

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

Sunset

1988

English

5.7

♡ 2

21%

Blake Edwards Director

Irene Olga López as Asuncion Maria Romero

Peter Jason as Frank Coe

Dermot Mulroney as Michael Alperin

Bruce Willis as Tom Mix

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Twice Dead

1988

English

5.3

♡ 4

38%

Action

Horror

Thriller

Bert L. Dragin Director

Raymond Cruz as Gang Member

Bob Mclean as Harry Cates, Sr.

Travis McKenna as Melvin

Brooke Bundy as Sylvia Cates

The ghost of a hanged movie star helps a brother and sister rid their mansion of punks.

Sukeban deka: Kazama sanshimai no gyakushû

1988

Japanese

5.5

♡ 5

Action

female martial artist

martial arts

sukeban deka

yo yo

Hideo Tanaka Director

Hiroyuki Nagato as Dark Director Kurayami

Kôji Tanaka as Goro

Masaki Kyômoto as Kurando Sekine

Kosuke Toyohara as Kyosuke Bando

After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.

On the Silver Globe

1988

Polish

7.1

♡ 11

destruction of a civilization

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Wieslaw Komasa as Aktor

Jerzy Trela as Jerzy

Henryk Bista as Malahuda

Andrzej Seweryn as Marek

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

Killing American Style

1988

English

4.1

♡ 5

Amir Shervan Director

Delia Sheppard as Blonde Woman at tryouts

Jimmy Williams as Loony

Jim Brown as Lt. Sunset

Robert Z'Dar as Tony Stone

A gang of hot headed brutes lead by Tony Stone and sexual sadist John Lynch execute a robbery with some inside help. A bloody shoot-out with the LAPD ensues and the criminals are apprehended. After a brief stint in the slammer, the gang escapes a prison-bus with the help of Tony s brother Jesse who is critically wounded in the process. He needs a doctor, fast. A hospital visit too risky, they seek out other options. Now on the run, they commandeer a palatial residence, taking hostages. All - American good guy John Morgan returns home becoming a pawn; sent out to retrieve the doctor.

Top Squad

1988

Cn

6.0

♡ 5

Wellson Chin Director Alex To

Alex To as Ah Man

Ann Bridgewater as Karen Ken Lo

Ken Lo as Tiger Squad Member Mars

Mars as Tiger Squad Member / Police Officer in-training

The film revolves around a crack squad of female police officers who have to deal with harassment and a lack of respect from their male colleagues, personal issues, as well as some serious criminals.

The Son of the Stars

1988

Romanian

6.6

♡ 4

Calin Cazan Director

Mircea Albulescu as

Virgil Ogasanu as

Ion Caramitru as (voice)

Mihai Cafrita as (voice)

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.

The American Scream

1988

English

4.8

♡ 1

33%

Mitchell Linden Director

Jennifer Darling as Barbara Benziger

Matthew Borlenghi as Brent Benziger

Edy Williams as Greta

Blackie Dammett as Pastor

An American family takes their classic Christmas vacation at a perfect mountain resort, but the strange residents of Wilson Creek seem to have something else planned... something gruesome.

As Tears Go By

1988

Cn

7.0

♡ 31

85%

Kar-Wai Wong Director

Jacky Cheung as Fly

Maggie Cheung as Ngor

Alex Man as Tony

Andy Lau as Wah

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Bird

1988

English

7.1

♡ 10

81%

Clint Eastwood Director

Keith David as Buster Franklin

Diane Venora as Chan Parker

Forest Whitaker as Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Arlen Dean Snyder as Dr. Heath

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

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I Saw What You Did

Tjoet Nja' Dhien

Catatan Si Boy 2

Bear Ye One Another's Burden

Preuve d'amour

Ikidomari no Banka: Break Out

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Curse of the Blue Lights

A World Apart

Sunset

Twice Dead

Sukeban deka: Kazama sanshimai no gyakushû

On the Silver Globe

Killing American Style

Top Squad

The Son of the Stars

The American Scream

As Tears Go By

Bird