When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.

Portion d'éternité

1988

French

6.3

Action

Drama

Sci-Fi

Robert Favreau Director

Daniel Gadouas as François

Patricia Nolin as Hélène

Maryse Gagne as Michelle

Mark Hellman as (voice)

In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1988

English

6.8

♡ 8

78%

1940s

Action

based on play or musical

Robert Altman Director

Matt Malloy as Legal Assistant

Daniel Jenkins as Lt.

Peter Gallagher as Lt. Com. John Challee

Brian Haley as Party Guest

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Sweet Hearts Dance

1988

English

5.7

♡ 3

44%

Robert Greenwald Director

Elizabeth Perkins as Adie Nims

Bernie Sanders as Bernie

Al Cerullo as Helicopter Pilot

Susan Sarandon as Sandra Boon

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.

Ghosthouse

1988

English

4.8

♡ 11

24%

Umberto Lenzi Director

Hernest Mc. Kimnoro as Cemetary Custodian

Ralph Morse as Coroner

Lara Wendel as Martha

Greg Rhodes as Paul Rogers

A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past.

Short Circuit 2

1988

English

5.8

♡ 30

43%

Kenneth Johnson Director

Fisher Stevens as Ben Jahveri

Eve Crawford as Federal Judge

Richard Comar as Mr. Slater

Cynthia Gibb as Sandy Banatoni

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Mystic Pizza

1988

English

6.4

♡ 14

78%

Donald Petrie Director

Suzanne Shepherd as Aunt Tweedy

Vincent D'Onofrio as Bill

Julia Roberts as Daisy

Matt Damon as Steamer

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

Taffin

1988

English

5.6

♡ 8

42%

Francis Megahy Director

Jeremy Child as Martin

Dermot Morgan as Micky Guest

Dearbhla Molloy as Mrs. Martin

Pierce Brosnan as Taffin

When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.

Se lo scopre Gargiulo

1988

Italian

6.0

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Crime

Elvio Porta Director

Antonino Iuorio as Barista

Gianfranco Barra as Ispettore sanitario

Franco Pistoni as Scarrafone

Giuliana de Sio as Teresa Capece

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

Howl of the Devil

1988

Spanish

5.4

♡ 6

Paul Naschy Director

Pascual Marco as

Tamara Greys as

Roberta Kuhn as

Caroline Munro as Carmen

Hector Doriani is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin brother, Alex Doriani, once a famous star of horror movies. Alex’s young son, Adrian, now lives with Hector in an isolated mansion in the countryside. To keep alive the memory of his father, the boy imagines himself visited by the spirit of the dead man, incarnated in a series of classic horror characters from the past. Eric, Alex’s former butler, now also works for Hector. His main role is to locate and bring to the mansion a series of women who are paid large sums of money by Hector to take part in various sadistic sex games. To complicate matters even further, the games always seem to end with the women getting slaughtered in various gruesome ways by a black gloved, masked killer. Also on hand is horror diva Caroline Munro, as Hector’s housekeeper and cook, who is being pursued by a local priest with whom she once had a much-regretted affair.

Beaches

1988

English

7.0

♡ 12

42%

Garry Marshall Director

John Heard as John Pierce

Hector Elizondo as Judge

Lainie Kazan as Leona Bloom

Marc Shaiman as Pianist

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Far North

1988

English

4.9

♡ 2

13%

Sam Shepard Director

Ann Wedgeworth as Amy

Charles Durning as Bertrum

Patricia Arquette as Jilly

Jessica Lange as Kate

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

Return to Snowy River

1988

English

6.6

♡ 9

83%

Geoff Burrowes Director

Brian Dennehy as Harrison

Bryan Marshall as Hawker

Tony Barry as Jacko

Sigrid Thornton as Jessica

After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.

Heart of a Dog

1988

Russian

8.5

♡ 9

94%

Action

animal transformation

russian revolution (1917)

Sci-Fi

wonder

Vladimir Bortko Director

Vladimir Menshov as Part-bit

Vladimir Tolokonnikov as Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov

Roman Kartsev as Schwonder

Anzhelika Nevolina as Vasnetsova

"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.

Carry on Hotel

1988

Cn

5.4

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Jeffrey Lau Director

Jacky Cheung as Buddy Cheung

Richard Ng as Donald Ng

Yasuaki Kurata as Tomohara

Eric Tsang as Tour Guide

Mr. Lau is a seedy detective who sets up cameras to record an illicit affair. Things go awry however when a hideously glam rock band checks into Lau’s room, and gets a free show via his hook-up. Meanwhile, silly thief Donald Ng uses ninjitsu to fool the locals while a womanizing tour guide gets stalked by not one, but two pretty women. And Buddy Cheung is a lowly mechanic at the hotel who lusts after gorgeous executive Sunflower. But his tomboy co-worker Boy George secretly pines for him.

Dogra Magra

1988

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Toshio Matsumoto Director

Daisuke Iijima as

Leo Morimoto as

Yôji Matsuda as Kure Ichiro

Kyôko Enami as Yayako

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

Betrayed

1988

English

♡ 15

36%

Costa-Gavras Director

Robert Minkoff as Bit

Stephen E. Miller as Buster

Robert Swan as Dean

Richard Libertini as Sam Kraus

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

The House on Carroll Street

1988

English

6.2

♡ 8

71%

29%

Action

Thriller

Peter Yates Director

Sherman Howard as Boria

Robert Stanton as Dionysus

John Carpenter as Gateman

Gregory Jbara as Office Boy

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.

Alien from L.A.

1988

English

3.3

♡ 8

22%

parent child relationship

Sci-Fi

sexploitation

south africa

Albert Pyun Director

Thom Mathews as Charmin'

William R. Moses as Guten 'Gus' Edway

Deep Roy as Mambino

Don Michael Paul as Robbie

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.