The Top 250 Movies of 1988

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The Top 250 Movies of 1988
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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28 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan R -
143 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki G -
207 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata NR -
262 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson R -
354 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton PG -
386 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis PG -
435 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo R -
455 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore PG -
458 They Live 1988 John Carpenter R -
486 Big 1988 Penny Marshall PG -
553 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest R -
673 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann R -
680 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris NR -
685 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
786 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton R -
877 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton R -
897 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese R -
1008 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg R -
1092 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker R -
1154 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz PG -
1171 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker PG13 -
1247 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1289 Coming to America 1988 John Landis R -
1429 Scrooged 1988 Richard Donner PG13 -
1596 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles PG -
1618 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears R -
1633 Willow 1988 Ron Howard PG -
1671 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 Terry Gilliam PG -
1811 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman R -
1966 Young Guns 1988 Christopher Cain R -
2295 Bloodsport 1988 Newt Arnold R -
2296 A Short Film About Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski NR -
2337 Running on Empty 1988 Sidney Lumet PG13 -
2426 The Blob 1988 Chuck Russell R -
2570 A Short Film About Love 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski NR -
2578 The Accused 1988 Jonathan Kaplan R -
2603 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer NR -
2623 Frantic 1988 Roman Polanski R -
2631 Hellbound: Hellraiser II 1988 Tony Randel R -
2710 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols R -
2720 Police Story 2 1988 Jackie Chan PG13 -
2738 The Big Blue 1988 Luc Besson R -
2761 Miracle Mile 1988 Steve De Jarnatt R -
2837 The Great Outdoors 1988 Howard Deutch PG -
2876 Child's Play 1988 Tom Holland R -
2878 Talk Radio 1988 Oliver Stone R -
3055 Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988 Stephen Chiodo PG13 -
3061 The Land Before Time 1988 Don Bluth G -
3153 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies PG13 -
3158 Phantasm II 1988 Don Coscarelli R -
3190 Stand and Deliver 1988 Ramón Menéndez PG -
3293 Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
3351 Another Woman 1988 Woody Allen PG -
3367 Colors 1988 Dennis Hopper R -
3392 Brain Damage 1988 Frank Henenlotter R -
3400 The Dead Pool 1988 Buddy Van Horn R -
3417 Hairspray 1988 John Waters PG -
3424 The Accidental Tourist 1988 Lawrence Kasdan PG -
3484 Dragons Forever 1988 Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen NR -
3491 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! 1988 Keenen Ivory Wayans R -
3538 Pumpkinhead 1988 Stan Winston R -
3595 Alien Nation 1988 Graham Baker NR -
3694 Without a Clue 1988 Thom Eberhardt PG -
3701 Night of the Demons 1988 Kevin Tenney R -
3766 Gorillas in the Mist 1988 Michael Apted PG13 -
3823 Vampire's Kiss 1988 Robert Bierman R -
3943 Waxwork 1988 Anthony Hickox R -
3969 Maniac Cop 1988 William Lustig R -
3978 The Lair of the White Worm 1988 Ken Russell R -
4114 A Cry in the Dark 1988 Fred Schepisi PG13 -
4294 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master 1988 Renny Harlin R -
4296 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 1988 Dwight H. Little R -
4353 Married to the Mob 1988 Jonathan Demme R -
4379 Imagine: John Lennon - The Definitive Film Portrait 1988 Andrew Solt R -
4401 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica R -
4489 Return of the Living Dead Part II 1988 Ken Wiederhorn R -
4494 As Tears Go By 1988 Wong Kar-Wai NR -
4581 Bird 1988 Clint Eastwood R -
4585 Twins 1988 Ivan Reitman PG -
4644 Drowning by Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway R -
4752 The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988 Wes Craven R -
4753 Funny Farm 1988 George Roy Hill PG -
4765 Lady in White 1988 Frank LaLoggia PG13 -
4795 Oliver and Company 1988 George Scribner NR -
4823 Shoot to Kill 1988 Roger Spottiswoode R -
4852 Biloxi Blues 1988 Mike Nichols NR -
4906 Cocktail 1988 Roger Donaldson R -
4930 Powaqqatsi 1988 Godfrey Reggio G -
4935 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart R -
5120 Red Heat 1988 Walter Hill R -
5178 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood 1988 John Carl Buechler R -
5246 U2: Rattle and Hum 1988 Phil Joanou PG13 -
5311 Beaches 1988 Garry Marshall NR -
5521 Mystic Pizza 1988 Donald Petrie R -
5536 Tequila Sunrise 1988 Robert Towne R -
5541 Monkey Shines 1988 George A. Romero R -
5546 Paperhouse 1988 Bernard Rose PG13 -
5619 Clean and Sober 1988 Glenn Gordon Caron R -
5667 Blackadder's Christmas Carol 1988 Richard Boden NR -
5800 The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years 1988 Penelope Spheeris R -
5913 Elvira, Mistress of the Dark 1988 James Signorelli PG13 -
5915 Above the Law 1988 Andrew Davis R -
6050 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos NR -
6185 The Bear 1988 Jean-Jacques Annaud PG -
6223 The Presidio 1988 Peter Hyams R -
6284 License to Drive 1988 Greg Beeman PG13 -
6295 Punchline 1988 David Seltzer R -
6376 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers 1988 Michael A. Simpson R -
6409 Rambo III 1988 Peter MacDonald R -
6493 Damnation 1988 Béla Tarr NR -
6560 Bat 21 1988 Peter Markle NR -
6611 Things Change 1988 David Mamet PG -
6651 She's Having a Baby 1988 John Hughes PG13 -
6679 High Hopes 1988 Mike Leigh PG -
6745 The Seventh Sign 1988 Carl Schultz R -
6832 School Daze 1988 Spike Lee R -
6841 Ariel 1988 Aki Kaurismäki NR -
6927 Bright Lights, Big City 1988 James Bridges R -
7008 Chocolat 1988 Claire Denis PG13 -
7138 The Milagro Beanfield War 1988 Robert Redford R -
7296 Pin 1988 Sandor Stern R -
7380 Crocodile Dundee II 1988 John Cornell PG -
7400 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1988 Todd Haynes NR -
7489 Short Circuit 2 1988 Kenneth Johnson PG -
7589 Bad Dreams 1988 Andrew Fleming R -
7652 Big Business 1988 Jim Abrahams NR -
7677 Camille Claudel 1988 Bruno Nuytten R -
7990 Salaam Bombay! 1988 Mira Nair NR -
7992 Crossing Delancey 1988 Joan Micklin Silver PG -
8021 Cop 1988 James B. Harris R -
8234 Fright Night Part 2 1988 Tommy Lee Wallace R -
8275 Daffy Duck's Quackbusters 1988 Greg Ford G -
8324 On the Silver Globe 1988 Andrzej Zulawski NR -
8331 Appleseed 1988 Kazuyoshi Katayama NR -
8342 Critters 2: The Main Course 1988 Mick Garris PG13 -
8356 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe 1988 Marilyn Fox NR -
8492 Stealing Home 1988 Steven Kampmann PG13 -
8682 Dead Heat 1988 Mark Goldblatt R -
8698 Little Nikita 1988 Richard Benjamin PG -
8849 Dominick and Eugene 1988 Robert M. Young PG13 -
9192 Hell Comes to Frogtown 1988 Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer R -
9235 Patty Hearst 1988 Paul Schrader R -
9437 Big Top Pee-Wee 1988 Randal Kleiser PG -
9710 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 1988 Yoshiyuki Tomino NR -
9884 Moonwalker 1988 Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers NR -
9939 Everybody's All-American 1988 Taylor Hackford R -
10015 D.O.A. 1988 Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton R -
10055 The Bourne Identity 1988 Roger Young NR -
10110 Big Time 1988 Chris Blum PG -
10182 Return of the Killer Tomatoes! 1988 John De Bello PG -
10240 The Couch Trip 1988 Michael Ritchie R -
10246 The Firm 1988 Alan Clarke NR -
10260 The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey 1988 Vincent Ward PG -
10276 Tapeheads 1988 Bill Fishman R -
10339 The Beast of War 1988 Kevin Reynolds R -
10386 High Spirits 1988 Neil Jordan PG13 -
10478 Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure 1988 Daisuke Nishio NR -
10604 Cocoon: The Return 1988 Daniel Petrie PG -
10685 My Stepmother Is an Alien 1988 Richard Benjamin PG13 -
10718 Amsterdamned 1988 Dick Maas NR -
10737 Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers 1988 Fred Olen Ray R -
10794 Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 1988 David DeCoteau R -
10836 Story of Women 1988 Claude Chabrol NR -
10899 Apartment Zero 1988 Martin Donovan R -
11148 Return to Snowy River 1988 Geoff Burrowes PG -
11180 Action Jackson 1988 Craig R. Baxley R -
11292 Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Marcel Ophüls NR -
11300 George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? 1988 Bruce Gowers NR -
11315 Poltergeist III 1988 Gary Sherman PG13 -
11323 Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School 1988 Charles A. Nichols G -
11351 Two Moon Junction 1988 Zalman King R -
11359 Shakedown 1988 James Glickenhaus R -
11481 Sunset 1988 Blake Edwards R -
11592 Vice Versa 1988 Brian Gilbert PG -
11603 The Chocolate War 1988 Keith Gordon R -
11923 Tanner '88 1988 Robert Altman NR -
11966 Moving 1988 Alan Metter R -
11975 The Moderns 1988 Alan Rudolph R -
11994 Moon Over Parador 1988 Paul Mazursky PG13 -
12081 Evil Dead Trap 1988 Toshiharu Ikeda NR -
12112 Red Scorpion 1988 Joseph Zito R -
12139 Slugs: The Movie 1988 Juan Piquer Simón R -
12169 Ernest Saves Christmas 1988 John R. Cherry III PG -
12375 Jack the Ripper 1988 David Wickes NR -
12471 Tin Toy 1988 John Lasseter NR -
12662 The Cat Came Back 1988 Cordell Barker NR -
12973 Feds 1988 Daniel Goldberg PG13 -
13189 The Incredible Hulk Returns 1988 Nicholas Corea NR -
13286 Braddock: Missing in Action III 1988 Aaron Norris R -
13323 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1988 Brian Mills NR -
13448 Zombi 3 1988 Lucio Fulci R -
13515 Gandahar 1988 René Laloux NR -
13563 Betrayed 1988 Costa-Gavras NR -
13736 Lady Terminator 1988 H. Tjut Djalil R -
13959 Cane Toads: An Unnatural History 1988 Mark Lewis NR -
14054 Iron Eagle II 1988 Sidney J. Furie PG -
14062 Demon City Shinjuku 1988 Yoshiaki Kawajiri PG13 -
14176 The Good Mother 1988 Leonard Nimoy R -
14419 Johnny Be Good 1988 Bud S. Smith PG13 -
14454 Stormy Monday 1988 Mike Figgis R -
14461 Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole 1988 Hideshi Hino NR -
14579 The Cowboy and the Frenchman 1988 David Lynch NR -
14787 Rouge 1988 Stanley Kwan NR -
14851 Cheerleader Camp 1988 John Quinn R -
15130 1969 1988 Ernest Thompson R -
15247 Masquerade 1988 Bob Swaim R -
15279 Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf 1988 Ray Patterson G -
15439 Salome's Last Dance 1988 Ken Russell R -
15631 Comic Book Confidential 1988 Ron Mann NR -
15705 American Gothic 1988 John Hough R -
15850 Caddyshack II 1988 Allan Arkush PG -
15890 The Horse Thief 1988 Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan NR -
15911 Inherit the Wind 1988 David Greene NR -
15983 Scarecrows 1988 William Wesley R -
16130 For Keeps 1988 John G. Avildsen PG13 -
16164 Appointment with Death 1988 Michael Winner PG -
16236 Pulse 1988 Paul Golding PG13 -
16275 Buster 1988 David Green R -
16322 Hero and the Terror 1988 William Tannen R -
16552 Off Limits 1988 Christopher Crowe R -
16596 The Unnamable 1988 Jean-Paul Ouellette R -
16636 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait 1988 Brad Shellady NR -
16742 The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking 1988 Ken Annakin G -
16823 Not of This Earth 1988 Jim Wynorski R -
16901 Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser 1988 Charlotte Zwerin PG13 -
16938 A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 1988 William Richert R -
16939 War and Remembrance 1988 Dan Curtis NR -
17188 The Dirk Diggler Story 1988 Paul Thomas Anderson NR -
17208 Some Girls 1988 Michael Hoffman R -
17246 The Unholy 1988 Camilo Vila R -
17266 Ghoulies II 1988 Albert Band PG13 -
17555 The Night Before 1988 Thom Eberhardt PG13 -
17563 The Wizard of Speed and Time 1988 Mike Jittlov PG -
17581 A World Apart 1988 Chris Menges PG -
17617 The Boost 1988 Harold Becker R -
17656 Heartbreak Hotel 1988 Chris Columbus PG13 -
17740 Vibes 1988 Ken Kwapis PG -
17741 Jane B. for Agnes V. 1988 Agnès Varda NR -
17772 Deadbeat at Dawn 1988 Jim Van Bebber R -
17848 The Last of England 1988 Derek Jarman NR -
17985 Spellbinder 1988 Janet Greek R -
18186 The Visitors 1988 Jack Ersgard R -
18334 Clara's Heart 1988 Robert Mulligan PG13 -
18448 18 Again! 1988 Paul Flaherty PG -
18487 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead 1988 John Hillcoat R -
18488 Medea 1988 Lars von Trier NR -
18528 Black Roses 1988 John Fasano R -
18813 The Kiss 1988 Pen Densham R -
18945 Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak 1988 Mansoor Khan NR -
19307 Camp de Thiaroye 1988 Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow NR -

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