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Movies Released in 1988

Mr Vampire Saga 4

Mr Vampire Saga 4

📅 Release: December 22, 1988
📖 Synopsis: A Taoist priest protests against the idea of a Buddhist priest being his neighbour. They often argue with each other until a vampire is at large and threatens the villagers' safety.
Rain Man

Rain Man

📅 Release: December 12, 1988
📖 Synopsis: When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. M...
Twins

Twins

📅 Release: December 9, 1988
📖 Synopsis: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south...
Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

📅 Release: December 8, 1988
📖 Synopsis: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner,...
The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!

📅 Release: December 2, 1988
📖 Synopsis: When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time

📅 Release: November 18, 1988
📖 Synopsis: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obst...
Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

📅 Release: November 17, 1988
📖 Synopsis: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
They Live

They Live

📅 Release: November 4, 1988
📖 Synopsis: A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Sa Bang-ji

Sa Bang-ji

📅 Release: October 29, 1988
📖 Synopsis: Sa Bangji was an intersex person who according to historical records lived during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Taken in by a kindly benefactor, Sa Bangji lives in a monastery that is one day visited by a young widow, Lee So-sa, who is in mourning following the deat...
Moonwalker

Moonwalker

📅 Release: October 29, 1988
📖 Synopsis: This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.
Midnight Matinee

Midnight Matinee

📅 Release: October 12, 1988
📖 Synopsis: Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum

📅 Release: October 10, 1988
📖 Synopsis: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject...
School On Fire

School On Fire

📅 Release: August 20, 1988
📖 Synopsis: A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart, Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escal...
Guinea Pig: Mermaid In The Manhole

Guinea Pig: Mermaid In The Manhole

📅 Release: July 25, 1988
📖 Synopsis: An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies....
Die Hard

Die Hard

📅 Release: July 15, 1988
📖 Synopsis: High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got....
Coming To America

Coming To America

📅 Release: June 29, 1988
📖 Synopsis: An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

📅 Release: June 22, 1988
📖 Synopsis: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect....
Akira

Akira

📅 Release: June 10, 1988
🎭 Genre: Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
🎬 Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Taro Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Tessyo Genda, Koichi Kitamura, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Takeshi Kusao
📖 Synopsis:

Set in a future city environment called New Manhattan, the sci-fi epic follows the leader of a bike gang who must save his best friend, who has been experimented on by the government causing him to develop dangerous and destructive psychokinetic powers.

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Rambo III

Rambo III

📅 Release: May 24, 1988
📖 Synopsis: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured....
Willow

Willow

📅 Release: May 20, 1988
📖 Synopsis: The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil....