11. Midnight Run
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Brest
Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano
Plot: Jack Walsh (De Niro) works as a bounty hunter for a living. He gets an offer to catch 'the duke' and bring him back to L.A. But Jack Walsh isn't the only one who's chasing him. Soon FBI,Police and even the Mob are included. And Jack Walsh has to do whatever he can to beat them.
12. A Fish Called Wanda
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Charles Crichton
Actors: Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Maria Aitken, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson
Plot: A London barrister may hold the only key to the location of a fortune in diamonds after the thieves betray each other.
13. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver
Plot: When a woman's lover leaver her, she decides to track him down to find out why. His family has no idea and her girlfriend is too busy being worried about the police coming after her for her boyfriend's crimes. Seeking advice, they find a female lawyer - who just so happens to be the ex-lover's new flame - and then things get really complicated.
14. The Accused
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Leo Rossi, Bernie Coulson, Ann Hearn, Carmen Argenziano
Plot: A young woman is raped, and no one seems to care.
15. The Last Temptation of Christ
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Irvin Kershner, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot: The fictional story of Jesus until his death - dealing with his human temptations.
16. Powaqqatsi
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Pope John Paul II, Dan Rather, Cheryl Tiegs
Plot: As countries adapt western influences, the effects it has on them is transformative and Godfrey Reggio brings us his vision of this modernization.
17. Vanishing, The ( Spoorloos )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché, Tania Latarjet
Plot: After his girlfriend disappears from a road-side gas station, a man will stop at nothing to learn what became of her.
18. The Beast, The aka Beast of War
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, Kabir Bedi
Plot: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet 'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.
19. The Land Before Time
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Judith Barsi, Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Helen Shaver, Burke Byrnes, Will Ryan
Plot: Four young dinosaurs lose their parents and are forced to roam earth together as they struggle for survival.
20. Dangerous Liaisons
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman
Plot: Set in 1760s France, a group of wealthy, bored aristocrats play a deadly game of seduction and betrayal.
