A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Ariel

1988

Finnish

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Marja Packalén as Judge

Juuso Hirvikangas as Man in the Harbor

Matti Pellonpää as Mikkonen

Sakari Kuosmanen as Prison Gatekeeper

Dead Heat

1988

English

6.1

♡ 15

11%

Mark Goldblatt Director

Vincent Price as Arthur P. Loudermilk

Darren McGavin as Dr. Ernest McNab

Gene LeBell as Guard

Beth Toussaint as Lab Technician

Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

Moonwalker

1988

English

6.1

♡ 54

69%

Jerry Kramer Director

Joseph Malone as Dancer

Joe Pesci as Mr. Big

Clancy Brown as Police Officer

John F. Kennedy as Self

This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.

Fractured Follies

1988

Cn

5.9

♡ 4

10%

Comedy

Romance

Chung Wang Director

Jobic Wong as

Bonnie Law as Cher

Yun-Fat Chow as Joe

Nina Li Chi as Scarlet

Joe, a reckless cab driver, accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The person he hit is May, a sweet girl who walks with a limp due to one of her legs being longer than the other. Joe mistakenly thinks that he's paralyzed May for life; so in order to make it up to her, he works for her family, helping them run their grocery store. Soon, Joe falls in love with May, but she's slow to return his affection.

The Accused

1988

English

7.1

♡ 38

93%

boston, massachusetts

Jonathan Kaplan Director

Andrew Kavadas as Defendant Matt Haines

Stephen E. Miller as Polito

Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias

Veena Sood as Woman Orderly

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.

Mutant War

1988

English

4.6

♡ 10

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Brett Piper Director

William Martin as Marty

Cara Lea Holmes as Prisoner

Cameron Mitchell as Reinhart Rex

Kristine Waterman as Spider

The sequel to 'Galaxy Destroyer' which finds our hero Harry Trent wandering Earth's post-apocalyptic landscape full of mutants, monsters, and fragmented human tribes. Harry's attempt to help a young girl rescue her sisters, leads him to a group of armed mutants led by a human madman attempting to breed them and take over the world.

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

1988

English

5.5

♡ 21

58%

Michael A. Simpson Director

Michael Hitchcock as Counselor

Renée Estevez as Molly

Brian Patrick Clarke as TC

Walter Gotell as Uncle John

Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.

Police Story 2

1988

Cn

♡ 74

84%

Jackie Chan Director

Jackie Chan as Chan Ka Kui Ken Lo

Ken Lo as Fireman Mars

Mars as Kim

Maggie Cheung as May

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

The Great Outdoors

1988

English

6.6

♡ 37

42%

Howard Deutch Director

Lucy Deakins as Cammie

John Candy as Chet Ripley

Lewis Arquette as Herm

Nancy Lenehan as Waitress

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.

Demon City Shinjuku

1988

Japanese

6.3

♡ 31

based on novel or book

Yoshiaki Kawajiri Director

Hirohiko Kakegawa as Earth Demon

Yûsaku Yara as Mephisto

Ichirô Nagai as Rai

Kôji Totani as Rapist

Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichiro's son, it falls to Kyoya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyoya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?

A Short Film About Killing

1988

Polish

7.9

♡ 26

91%

Krzysztof Kieslowski Director

Krzysztof Luft as (as K. luft)

Aleksander Bednarz as Kat

Artur Barcis as Mlody medczyzna

Jan Tesarz as Taksówkarz

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

Beetlejuice

1988

English

7.4

♡ 195

83%

Tim Burton Director

Jeffrey Jones as Charles Deetz

Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz

Robert Goulet as Maxie Dean

Glenn Shadix as Otho

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Another Woman

1988

English

7.2

♡ 11

59%

Woody Allen Director

Kenneth Welsh as Donald

Josh Hamilton as Laura's Boyfriend

John Houseman as Marion's Father

Stephen Mailer as Young Paul

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

Pin

1988

English

6.5

♡ 17

58%

Action

based on novel or book

Sandor Stern Director

David Hewlett as Leon

Jacob Tierney as Leon - Age 7

Jonathan Banks as PIN

Bruce Ramsay as Teenager

Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

Shootdown

1988

English

5.4

♡ 5

40%

Drama

Michael Pressman Director

Booth Colman as Bernard

François Chau as Korean Man #1

Diana Bellamy as Lillian

Paul Tulley as Tom

Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the "official" story maintains that the flight accidentally veered too far into Soviet territory, was mistaken as a spy plane and shot down when it failed to identify itself, Ms. Moore suspects otherwise. However, in the course of her struggles to get to the bottom of what actually happened, she finds herself constantly stonewalled. Facing a conspiracy of silence and the increasing hostility of the authorities, Ms. Moore attempts to find out exactly what occurred, but with every answer she discovers, new questions arise...

Monkey Shines

1988

English

6.2

♡ 18

55%

41%

Action

based on novel or book

George A. Romero Director

Jason Beghe as Allan Mann

Stanley Tucci as Dr. John Wiseman

John Pankow as Geoffrey Fisher

Patricia Tallman as Party Guest

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

The Carrier

1988

English

5.6

♡ 6

33%

Nathan J. White Director

Glenn K. Pearson as Andrew

Steve Dixon as Dr. Anthony King

Ron Asheton as Peter

Patrick Butler as Tim

An orphaned teen is attacked by a mysterious beast and struck with an infectious disease that turns everything he touches into a death trap.

Die Hard

1988

English

8.2

♡ 301

94%

Action

based on novel or book

christmas movie alternative

husband wife relationship

John McTiernan Director

Matt Landers as Capt. Mitchell

Shelley Pogoda as Dispatcher

Bruce Willis as Officer John McClane

Rick Ducommun as Walt, City Worker

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

Hot to Trot

1988

English

4.5

♡ 8

Michael Dinner Director

Jim Metzler as Boyd Osborne Jake

Jake as Dog at party

John Candy as Don

Cindy Pickett as Victoria Peyton

Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.

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A Short Film About Killing

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