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| 1 |  | Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) |  3.3081 50 reviews | R | Crime, Comedy |
$5.69
| Con artist Wanda must seduce the lawyer of her gangster boyfriend to find the diamonds they and ...more about Fish Called Wanda starring John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis |
| 2 |  | Bull Durham (1988) | 3.2608 75 reviews | R | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Sports |
$4.25
| A washed-up minor league catcher is traded to the 'Durham Bulls' to help train the team's wild ...more about Bull Durham starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon |
| 3 |  | Die Hard (1988) |  3.1888 89 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Christmas, Crime |
$7.63
| Terrorists take a employee Christmas party hostage and plan to steal $600 million dollars from the ...more about Die Hard starring Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia |
| 4 |  | Rain Man (1988) | 3.1323 71 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Comedy |
$4.86
| When Charlie Babbitt's father dies, he leaves a large fortune to Raymond, an Autistic brother he ...more about Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise |
| 5 |  | Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) | 3.1120 115 reviews | PG | Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy, Family, Animation, Noir |
$12.34
| Roger Rabbit is framed for the murder of a popular nightclub owner. To clear his name he enlists ...more about Who Framed Roger Rabbit starring Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd |
| 6 |  | Dead Next Door, The (1988) | 3.0809 31 reviews | NA | Horror |
$6.02
| The undead run rampant when a crazy scientist creates a zombie virus and begins infecting the ...more about Dead Next Door starring Pete Ferry and Bogdan Pecic |
| 7 |  | Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The (1988) | 3.0689 46 reviews | NA | Action, Crime, Romance, Comedy |
$3.88
| A re-run of many of the gags from the original TV series 'Police Squad'. An Airplane type spoof, ...more about Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! starring Priscilla Presley and Tom Dugan |
| 8 |  | Thin Blue Line, The (1988) | 3.0689 29 reviews | Not Rated | Documentary |
$8.26
| A documentary which argues that Randall Harris was wrongly convicted of the murder of Dallas police ...more about Thin Blue Line starring Randall Adams and David Harris |
| 9 |  | Hairspray (1988) | 3.0580 38 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy, Music |
$9.14
| 'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny ...more about Hairspray starring Sonny Bono and Ruth Brown |
| 10 |  | Big (1988) | 3.0459 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$9.99
| A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to ...more about Big starring Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins |
| 11 |  | Midnight Run (1988) | 3.0269 38 reviews | R | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Comedy |
$7.15
| Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, ...more about Midnight Run starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin |
| 12 |  | Beetlejuice (1988) | 3.0246 62 reviews | PG | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy |
$2.87
| A recently dead couple refuses to allow a new family to move into their house. To scare them off ...more about Beetlejuice starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis |
| 13 |  | Dead Ringers (1988) | 3.0198 54 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$13.57
| The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, ...more about Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons and Barbara Gordon |
| 14 |  | Akira (1988) | 3.0098 76 reviews | R | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Animation, Foreign |
$14.99
| Tetsuo is taken prisoner by the government in a futuristic Tokyo where corruption, poverty and ...more about Akira starring Mitsuo Iwata and Nozomu Sasaki |
| 15 |  | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | 3.0036 36 reviews | R | Drama, Romance |
$9.00
| Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte ...more about Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich |
| 16 |  | Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) | 3.0018 89 reviews | R | Drama, History, Biography |
$26.99
| A what if story of Jesus of Nazareth, if he would have taken the devils final temptation, was not ...more about Last Temptation of Christ starring Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel |
| 17 |  | Land Before Time, The (1988) | 2.9964 18 reviews | G | Adventure, Drama, Family, Animation |
$12.95
| An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land ...more about Land Before Time starring Gabriel Damon and Candace Hutson |
| 18 |  | They Live (1988) | 2.9904 91 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$8.89
| Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, ...more about They Live starring Roddy Piper and Keith David |
| 19 |  | Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988) | 2.9760 39 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$14.85
| Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with ...more about Unbearable Lightness of Being starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche |
| 20 |  | Willow (1988) | 2.9716 72 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy |
$7.50
| Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they ...more about Willow starring Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley |
| 21 |  | Accidental Tourist, The (1988) | 2.9488 42 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance |
$8.35
| After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. ...more about Accidental Tourist starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner |
| 22 |  | Coming to America (1988) | 2.9344 26 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$9.99
| It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. ...more about Coming to America starring Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones |
| 23 |  | Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1988) | 2.9316 52 reviews | NA | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy |
$22.94
| The fantastic tale of a 17th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their ...more about Adventures of Baron Munchausen starring Eric Idle and Sarah Polley |
| 24 |  | Working Girl (1988) | 2.9225 36 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$3.41
| Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in ...more about Working Girl starring Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver |
| 25 |  | Night of the Demons (1988) | 2.9218 26 reviews | NA | Horror |
$6.06
| On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull ...more about Night of the Demons starring Alvin Alexis and Allison Barron |
| 26 |  | Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) | 2.9147 41 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$6.99
| When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the ...more about Killer Klowns from Outer Space starring Grant Cramer and Suzanne Snyder |
| 27 |  | Talk Radio (1988) | 2.9116 18 reviews | NA | Drama |
$5.79
| An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he ...more about Talk Radio starring Eric Bogosian and Ellen Greene |
| 28 |  | Young Guns (1988) | 2.8989 34 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Western |
$4.00
| A group of young ranch hands take the law into their own hands when their employer, who is like a ...more about Young Guns starring Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland |
| 29 |  | Child's Play (1988) | 2.8860 52 reviews | NA |
$9.00
| When serial killer Charles Lee Ray is mortally wounded in a police shoot-out, he uses a voodoo ...more about Child's Play starring Catherine Hicks and Alex Vincent | |
| 30 |  | Blob, The (1988) | 2.8834 66 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$7.10
| Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everyone in ...more about Blob starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith |
| 31 |  | Brain Damage (1988) | 2.8760 40 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy |
$14.92
| A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain. ...more about Brain Damage starring Rick Hearst and Jennifer Lowry |
| 32 |  | Mystic Pizza (1988) | 2.8751 33 reviews | R | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$9.99
| Sisters Kat and Daisy work along with Jojo at the pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut. Kat, ...more about Mystic Pizza starring Annabeth Gish and Julia Roberts |
| 33 |  | Stand and Deliver (1988) | 2.8735 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$4.49
| Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that ...more about Stand and Deliver starring Edward James Olmos and Estelle Harris |
| 34 |  | Cry in the Dark, A (1988) | 2.8718 25 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Crime |
$3.99
| Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: during a camping trip to Ayer's Rock in outback ...more about Cry in the Dark starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill |
| 35 |  | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) | 2.8522 43 reviews | NA | Crime, Comedy |
$5.69
| Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt ...more about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Aïna Walle and Michael Caine |
| 36 |  | Imagine: John Lennon (1988) | 2.8511 19 reviews | NA | Biography, Documentary, Music |
$12.71
| This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by ...more about Imagine: John Lennon |
| 37 |  | Oliver & Company (1988) | 2.8422 38 reviews | G | Adventure, Musical, Comedy, Family, Animation, Disney |
$16.99
| Inspired by Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist". A homeless kitten named Oliver, roams the streets of ...more about Oliver & Company starring Joseph Lawrence and Billy Joel |
| 38 |  | Mississippi Burning (1988) | 2.8334 30 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$6.45
| Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the ...more about Mississippi Burning starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe |
| 39 |  | Eight Men Out (1988) | 2.8205 34 reviews | NA | Drama, History, Sports |
$6.99
| The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is ...more about Eight Men Out starring Jace Alexander and John Cusack |
| 40 |  | Beaches (1988) | 2.8183 37 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Comedy |
$7.02
| When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday ...more about Beaches starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey |
| 41 |  | Frantic (1988) | 2.8179 26 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$1.96
| A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. ...more about Frantic starring Harrison Ford and Betty Buckley |
| 42 |  | Phantasm II (1988) | 2.8140 36 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in ...more about Phantasm II starring James LeGros and Reggie Bannister |
| 43 |  | Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) | 2.7649 27 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy |
$5.99
| Camp Rolling Hills will never be the same. Not with their newest camp counselor Angela Johnson ...more about Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers starring Pamela Springsteen and Renée Estevez |
| 44 |  | Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) | 2.7605 31 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy |
$5.99
| In this first sequel to The Return of the Living Dead, a group of kids discover one of the drums ...more about Return of the Living Dead Part II starring Michael Kenworthy and Thor Van Lingen |
| 45 |  | Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) | 2.7575 32 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Musical, Comedy |
$4.29
| Trio of fuzzy (and funny) aliens crash land in Valerie's pool-- putting a decided damper on her ...more about Earth Girls Are Easy starring Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum |
| 46 |  | School Daze (1988) | 2.7565 30 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Comedy |
$6.10
| In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students ...more about School Daze starring Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito |
| 47 |  | Bird (1988) | 2.7538 29 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Music |
$6.59
| Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable ...more about Bird starring Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora |
| 48 |  | Accused, The (1988) | 2.7530 29 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$5.68
| Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the ...more about Accused starring Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster |
| 49 |  | Things Change (1988) | 2.7518 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$19.35
| Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid ...more about Things Change starring Don Ameche and Robert Prosky |
| 50 |  | Drowning by Numbers (1988) | 2.7502 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the ...more about Drowning by Numbers starring Joan Plowright and Juliet Stevenson |
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