Trapped Alive

1988

English

4.6

♡ 11

Leszek Burzynski Director

Randy Baenen as Assistant Monster

Randy Powell as Billy Williams

Cameron Mitchell as John Adams

Mark Witsken as Randy Carter

A sheriff's deputy, some escaped prisoners and two young girls find themselves trapped in a mine shaft where a cannibalistic mutant is hunting them for food.

Dangerous Liaisons

1988

English

7.5

♡ 35

94%

83%

Action

based on novel or book

Stephen Frears Director

Uma Thurman as Cécile de Volanges

Keanu Reeves as Chevalier Danceny

Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame de Tourvel

John Malkovich as Vicomte de Valmont

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

The Undertaker

1988

English

4.8

♡ 2

Frank Avianca Director

Joel Nagle as Kevin

Joe Spinell as Roscoe

Steve Blackwood as Town Hall Meeting

Robert Amico as Town Hall Meeting

A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.

Memories of Me

1988

English

5.7

♡ 6

46%

Action

Comedy

Drama

father son relationship

heart attack

los angeles, california

parent child relationship

Henry Winkler Director

Karl Lukas as Bartender

Janet Carroll as Dorothy Davis

Phil Fondacaro as Horace Bosco

Sean Connery as Sean Connery

After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.

Scarecrows

1988

English

5.3

♡ 16

42%

William Wesley Director

David James Campbell as Al

Mike Balog as Benjamin Fowler

Michael David Simms as Curry

Phil Zenderland as Norman Fowler

Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

The Chocolate War

1988

English

6.6

♡ 6

83%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Keith Gordon Director

John Glover as Brother Leon

Adam Baldwin as Carter

John English as Darryl

Doug Hutchison as Obie

Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.

Der Experte

1988

German

5.8

♡ 2

Comedy

Reinhard Schwabenitzky Director

Günther Ungeheuer as Dr. Heck

Walo Lüönd as Horst Neumann

Jan Fedder as Kerschke

Peter Fricke as Peter Schmölling

Willi Schulze is a car mechanic. Together with Paul, who escaped from an orphanage, he runs a garage. During the testing of a car, Willi finds out the brakes aren't working that good. A fatal accident can just be prevented. He tries to hitchhike home and gets picked up by American election expert Willy Schneider. Together they also get an accident and both lose their memory. The police assumes Schulze is the election expert and rapidly he turns into the pivot in a stone-hard election-contest.

Biloxi Blues

1988

English

6.7

♡ 19

76%

63%

Action

based on play or musical

Mike Nichols Director

Shirley Jordan as Additional Voice

Matthew Broderick as Eugene Morris Jerome

Michael Dolan as James J. Hennesey

Christopher Walken as Sgt. Toomey

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.

Platoon Leader

1988

English

5.3

♡ 11

36%

Aaron Norris Director

Tony Pierce as Jan Shultz

William Smith as Major Flynn

Robert F. Lyons as Sgt. Michael McNamara

Brian Libby as Sgt. Roach

West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.

Paganini Horror

1988

Italian

4.4

♡ 11

18%

Luigi Cozzi Director

Roberto Giannini as

Pascal Persiano as Daniel

Donald Pleasence as Mr. Pickett

Luana Ravegnini as Rita

A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.

Imagine: John Lennon

1988

English

7.8

♡ 16

91%

Andrew Solt Director

George Harrison as Self

Eric Clapton as Self

Jack Palance as Self

John Lennon as Self / Narration

The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.

Hands of Death

1988

English

4.2

♡ 4

Action

Adventure

Godfrey Ho Director

Richard Harrison as

Jack Lam as

Peter Ramwa as

Tony Wong as (as Anthony Wong)

When the Purple Ninja Empire get their hands on a lost treasure map, the race is on to find the legendary Burmese treasure. Two warriors join forces to claim the riches, but treachery and deceit stand in their way.

The Dressmaker

1988

English

6.2

♡ 4

67%

Action

Drama

Romance

Jim O'Brien Director

Pete Postlethwaite as Jack

Tony Haygarth as Mr. Manders

Jane Horrocks as Rita

Tim Ransom as Wesley

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Tadao Ando

1988

English

7.9

♡ 3

Michael Blackwood Director

Tadao Andô as Self

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His architecture mixes Piranesian drama with contemplative spaces in urban complexes, residences and chapels. This film presents the formative years of his impressive career before he embarked on projects in Europe and the United States.

Paperhouse

1988

English

6.6

♡ 8

100%

Bernard Rose Director

Ben Cross as Dad Madden

Gemma Jones as Dr. Sarah Nicols

Glenne Headly as Kate Madden

Jane Bertish as Miss Vanstone

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Senior Week

1988

English

3.4

♡ 5

14%

Action

Comedy

Stuart A. Goldman Director

Don Thompson as Debbie Sue's Father

Michael St. Gerard as Everett

Alan Naggar as Kevin

Barbara Gruen as Miss Bagley

Everett and his party-hungry buddies embark on an all-night road-trip to the Florida beaches, for a week of fun, sun, and beautiful women. Mayhem ensues when 2 jealous girl-friends show up unexpectedly, along with a psycho teacher who's hunting down Everett because he owes her an overdue term-paper.

The Prince of Pennsylvania

1988

English

5.6

♡ 11

14%

Ron Nyswaner Director

Amy Madigan as Carla Headlee

Fred Ward as Gary Marshetta

Keanu Reeves as Rupert Marshetta

Jay O. Sanders as Trooper Joe

Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

English

7.8

♡ 8

76%

91%

Action

based on play or musical

Paul Bogart Director

Matthew Broderick as Alan Simon

Mark Zeisler as Basher #2

Robert Neary as Chorus Boy #2

Ken Page as Murray

Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

Messenger of Death

1988

English

5.4

♡ 8

24%

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

investigative reporter

J. Lee Thompson Director

Charles Bronson as Garret Smith

Marilyn Hassett as Josephine Fabrizio

Charles Dierkop as Orville Beecham

John Ireland as Zenas Beecham

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

Primal Rage

1988

English

5.4

♡ 12

31%

Vittorio Rambaldi Director

Jenny Cooper as (as Jenny Levine)

Sarah Buxton as Debbie

Bo Svenson as Ethridge

Mal Jones as Janitor

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

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Trapped Alive

Dangerous Liaisons

The Undertaker

Memories of Me

Scarecrows

The Chocolate War

Der Experte

Biloxi Blues

Platoon Leader

Paganini Horror

Imagine: John Lennon

Hands of Death

The Dressmaker

Tadao Ando

Paperhouse

Senior Week

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Torch Song Trilogy

Messenger of Death

Primal Rage