# film

plot: The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round the world race.
title: The Chipmunk Adventure
released: 1987-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:39:14.313000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
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Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of diamond smugglers. The winners will collect a prize of $100,000. Kids and adults will enjoy this film made with musical numbers by the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.


title: The Curse
released: 1987-09-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:09:58.250000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Nathan Crane is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. ...

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Nathan Crane is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Crane's family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Crane farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Crane family and the members of the community.


title: Cry Freedom
released: 1987-11-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:20:07.767000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend the black activist Steve Biko.

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Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.


title: StageFright: Aquarius
released: 1987-07-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 18:06:08.140000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.

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A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the murder, and who will get out alive?


title: Babette's Feast
released: 1988-03-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:46:10.160000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
In a remote 19th Danish century village two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one ...

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In a remote 19th Danish century village two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each case and they spent their lives caring for him. Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in French refugee, Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters for their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them and their friends on the 100th anniversary of their father's birth. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for everyone.


title: Business as Usual
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 00:06:50.847000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts ...

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After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.


title: Epidemic
released: 1987-09-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:11:41.890000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vèrsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist ...

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A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vèrsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist they do not notice, that a real epidemic is developing around them.


title: Dragons Forever
released: 1988-02-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:02:03.517000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Three successful Hong Kong lawyers are hired by a chemical company of questionable ethics and must eventually make a difficult decision when their employer's motives become clear.

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Jackie Chan stars as a hot-shot lawyer hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, Jackie is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.


plot: Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
title: Flowers in the Attic
released: 1987-11-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:06:58.623000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by the grandmother, and their mother, who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritance she plans to win back from her dying father, to the point of murder...


title: Broadcast News
released: 1987-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:47:00.740000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.

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Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.


title: Cherry 2000
released: 1988-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:56:57.360000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife,...

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In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of The Zone, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!


title: Creepshow 2
released: 1987-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:57:17.397000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.

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"Creepshow 2" is divided into three stories, conducted by a leading segment where a boy that loves the horror comic book Creepshow buys seeds of carnivorous plant and is bullied by four teenagers. Meanwhile the Creep tells the tales of Creepshow: (1) "Old Chief Wood'nhead" - The elders Ray (George Kennedy) and Martha Spruce (Dorothy Lamour) have lived their whole life and raised their family with their small store in an Arizona town. Now the town is economically decadent and Ray gives credit to his costumers including the Indians of Ben Whitemoon's tribe. When Ray is repairing the wooden statue of an old chief in the front door, Ben (Frank Salsedo) arrives and asks him to keep the jewels of his tribe as a guarantee for their debts. However, Ben's nephew Sam (Holt McCallany) unexpectedly arrives with two other punks to steal Ray, and he kills the elders. They expect to travel to Hollywood, but the Old Chief Wood'nhead will not let them go. (2) "The Raft" - The teenagers Deke (Paul Satterfield) and Randy (Daniel Beer) travel with Laverne (Jeremy Green) and Rachel (Page Hannah) to a lake expecting to smoke weed, swim and get laid. They swim to a raft that is floating in the middle of the lake, but they discover a carnivorous blob in the lake that is hungry. (3) "The Hitchhiker" - In Maine, the unfaithful Annie Lansing (Lois Chiles) stays too long having sex with her escort and is late to meet her husband in the airport. She drives her Mercedes Bens in a hurry and loses control on the road. Annie runs over a hitchhiker, but she does not help the man and hit-and-run, questioning whether she can live with the situation. She discovers that the hitchhiker will not leave her.


title: Family Viewing
released: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:34:07.713000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is ...

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Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.


title: Au Revoir Les Enfants
released: 1987-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:08:31.193000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

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In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Franèois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school.


title: The Believers
released: 1987-06-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:25:59.797000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A New York psychiatrist finds that a voodoo cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.

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After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it's been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son.


title: Beverly Hills Cop II
released: 1987-05-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:39:57.777000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

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A series of strange robberies brings Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to help his two fellow cops solve the case. All the familiar faces of the first film are back...


title: Blind Date
released: 1987-03-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:33:27.513000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new ...

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Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?


title: Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
released: 1987-10-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-22 00:47:22.750000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
This documentary covers the concert at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, to celebrate Chuck Berry's sixtieth birthday, and also discusses his life and career.

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St. Louis, 1986. For Chuck Berry's 60th, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself, and long-time Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician, and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springstein, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, and others. There's even a rarity for Berry, a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.


title: Ernest Goes to Camp
released: 1987-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:27:46.540000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A group of juvenile criminals is sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee. The clumsy Ernest has to care for them, although he doesn't even know how to take care of himself. The other children at ...

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A group of juvenile criminals is sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee. The clumsy Ernest has to care for them, although he doesn't even know how to take care of himself. The other children at the camp show enmity against them, but the group knows very well how to defend themselves. They do also help the Indian owner of the camp when a brutal mining corporation wants to tear down the camp to mine a rare mineral.


title: From the Hip
released: 1987-02-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:28:34.227000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must re-examine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now ...

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Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must re-examine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is apparently guilty of murder.


title: Big Shots
released: 1987-10-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:18:45.927000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down...

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Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down South adventure involving gangsters, the police, and a search for Scam's father.


title: The Belly of an Architect
released: 1987-09-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:11:32.397000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullèe, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed ...

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An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullèe, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and finally his own life.


title: Drowning by Numbers
released: 1991-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:05.127000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having ...

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Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.


plot: Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident - can he survive ?
title: Benji the Hunted
released: 1987-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:32:36.400000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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In this children film Benji the Hunted, the show dog Benji is lost at sea and winds up in the wilderness of Oregon to fend for himself. Benji's one and only plan is to get back into his master's arms as soon as possible, until he finds four orphaned cougar kittens whose mother was shot by a hunter. Now his ultimate task is to get the four orphaned kittens into the care of another mother cougar with her single child while avoiding the threatening animals of the wild.


title: Can't Buy Me Love
released: 1987-08-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:31:48.907000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.

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Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected.


title: Fatal Attraction
released: 1987-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:13:17.417000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

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Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?


title: The Family
released: 1987-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:41:34.007000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 24 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally ...

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Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally explores his relationships with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a young man.


title: Aria
released: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:13:33.743000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (...

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Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.


title: Dolls
released: 1987-05-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:44:05.370000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.

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A group of travelers spend the night in the mansion of an elderly couple who are dollmakers. However, one of the travelers' children discovers that the dolls the couple makes are actually humans that the couple has miniaturized and turned into tools for their evil plans.


plot: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
title: Empire of the Sun
released: 1987-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:09:04.647000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 9 nominations.
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Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.


title: Anna
released: 1987-11-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:30:38.520000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

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Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now successfully making commercials in New York. After the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Anna was imprisoned and eventually exiled. Anna takes in the young girl Krystyna, who has just arrived from Czechoslovakia, and speaks no English. Anna and Daniel help Krystyna learn English and start a promising acting career. However, the only job Anna can find is as an understudy.


title: China Girl
released: 1987-09-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:29:36.180000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

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A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.


title: Baby Boom
released: 1987-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:26:05.337000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

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J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. At first she doesn't accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. J.C. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. Her boyfriend doesn't like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. J.C. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. She leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. The baby is too attached to her now and won't let her go. Later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. Now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in Vermont to get out of the New York life. When she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. She gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. Her baby loves it and she decides to sell it. Pretty soon everyone wants some of the baby apple sauce. J.C. hits it big and falls in love with a local veterinarian. Was this fate or destiny?


title: The Barbarians
released: 1987-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:12:11.887000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Two twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe and captured them when they were small children.

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Two twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe and captured them when they were small children.


title: Born in East L.A.
released: 1987-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:21:52.527000000
year: 1987
text: 4 wins.
plot:
When a native-born American citizen of Mexican descent is mistakenly deported to Mexico, he has to risk everything to get back home.

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Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an undocumented immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home.


title: The Fourth Protocol
released: 1987-08-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:22:43.560000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
John Preston is a British agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the 'special relationship' between the two countries.

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KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component. Preston now suspects that someone is bringing in parts for an atomic bomb, his superior doesn't want to let Preston be proven right so he doesn't authorize further action and suspends Preston. But a man who works with intelligence approaches Preston saying he might be right because a sleeper transmitter went active twice once probably to alert Moscow that he is in place and the second sent after the man's death probably to inform that the component he was delivering wasn't received. So the man offers to let Preston find the man who is bringing in the bomb. And back in the USSR, Petrofsky's boss is so disgruntled that Petrofsky and so much of his department's resources are being taken by the Chairman for his op, that he calls his old friend, the Vice-Chairman of the KGB, to find out what's going on because he believes that the Chairman wouldn't be able to do any of these things without his friend's input. But his friend is just as incredulous as he is. So he tries to find out what the Chairman is up to.


title: Barfly
released: 1987-10-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:35:46.900000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
plot:
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some clothes throwing and two visits from the paramedics Henry and Wanda manage to patch up their relationship. Then Henry gets a visit from a literary agent who has decided to publish one of his stories that he sent in because he "liked the name of the mag". He follows the agent home to her place in order to receive his payment and with the help of a little whiskey sleeps with her. When he leaves to go back to the bar and back to Wanda the agent is heartbroken, she sees something special in Henry and has fallen in love with him. She follows him to his usual bar and gets into a cat fight with Wanda that Wanda wins. In celebration of new found love, happiness and money Henry buys a round for everyone at the bar and toasts them "to my friends!"


title: Date with an Angel
released: 1987-11-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:38:03.837000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing ...

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Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing someone else and gets upset and tells her father. Now he has to figure out how to; cure the angel, tell Patty what happened, keep his friends from taking the angel to the papers, and keep Patty's father from killing him. It's no wonder he has a headache.


title: Five Corners
released: 1988-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:34:25.617000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

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A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.


title: Best Seller
released: 1987-09-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 01:34:31.853000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right,...

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Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.


title: Evil Dead II
released: 1987-03-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:05:38
year: 1987
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

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A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.


title: The Brave Little Toaster
released: 1987-06-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:40:22.793000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A toaster, a blanket, a lamp, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in their cabin in the woods.

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A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, è la "The Incredible Journey", seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.


title: Bad Taste
released: 1989-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:23:06.307000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.

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Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers. Now, Derek must save the day and the world with his chainsaw before the meat eaters strikes the whole planet. Will Derek kill all the aliens?


title: The Dead
released: 1987-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 01:38:08.097000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

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John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors, James Joyce; a love letter to the land of his ancestors and the country where his children grew up; and the chance to work with his screenwriter son Tony and his actress daughter Anjelica. The film is delicate and unhurried, detailing an early January dinner at the house of two spinster musician sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-century Ireland, attended by friends and family. Among the visiting attendees are the sisters' nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The evening's reminiscences bring up melancholy memories for Gretta concerning her first, long-lost love when she was a girl in rural Galway. Her recounting of this tragic love to Gabriel brings him to an epiphany: he learns the difference between mere existence and living. The all-Irish cast and careful period detail give the piece richness and gravity, and Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston are unforgettable as the Conroys.


title: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
released: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:27:40.627000000
year: 1987
text: Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. ...

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Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.


title: Dirty Dancing
released: 1987-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:32:32.930000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle.

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In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts.


title: Fatal Beauty
released: 1987-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:33:30.890000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics police officer with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of "Fatal Beauty"...

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Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics police officer with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of "Fatal Beauty" begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike Marshak works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is "clean". Mike becomes Rita's constant companion as the drug hijackers (who are nearly psychotic and very well armed) are hunted, while more and more bodies continue to turn up.


title: The Hidden
released: 1987-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:32:55.500000000
year: 1987
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in LA, pursued by a human cop and an alien cop inhabiting a human body.

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An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in LA, committing dozens of murders and robberies. In pursuit of the extraterrestrial criminal is another alien disguised as an FBI agent, and the local officer investigating the rash of violence. As they close in on the vicious intruder, the city faces a brutal threat like no other it has ever encountered.


title: Julia and Julia
released: 1988-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:11:07.330000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably ...

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Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds, where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other she is married to Paolo. In the latter time-line, Paolo is alive and well with their five year old son, and Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel. The frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Julia crazy, as she begins having difficulty in telling them apart, and as she learns which world she is currently living in.


title: Hollywood Shuffle
released: 1987-03-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:24:43.400000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.

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Bobby Taylor wants to be a respected actor. From Sam Spade to Shakespeare to superheros, he can do it all. He just has to convince Hollywood that gangstas, slaves and "Eddie Murphy-types" aren't the sum of his talents.


title: Jimi Plays Monterey
released: 1987-10-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:10:54.787000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jimi Hendrix's landmark concert in Monterey County Fairgrounds in California in which he plays signature songs like "Purp;e Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "Wild Thing."

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Jimi Hendrix's landmark concert in Monterey County Fairgrounds in California in which he plays signature songs like "Purp;e Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "Wild Thing."


plot: A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.
title: Leonard Part 6
released: 1987-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:23:58.490000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 4 nominations.
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The CIA asks for ex-spy Leonard's help in stopping an evil force that is brainwashing small animals into killing people. Leonard, however, has his own problems to deal with: winning back his ex-wife.


title: The Living Daylights
released: 1987-07-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:29:13.507000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

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James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.


title: Ironweed
released: 1988-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:40:26.963000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.

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Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.


title: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
released: 1987-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:39:30.213000000
year: 1987
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
Dogdger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.

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Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.


title: The Glass Menagerie
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:03:49.960000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

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A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.


title: Huang jia shi jie
released: 1985-11-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:00:31.697000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an ...

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Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an important microfilm in his passport, which the thieves pass onto a forger friend Panadol (Tsui Hark). Inspector Ng (Michelle Yeoh) is assigned to the case, along with Inspector Morris (Cynthia Rothrock) from Scotland Yard. The investigation leads the cops to the bumbling crooks and soon they are on Triad leader Tin's (James Tien) tail, he will stop at nothing to get the incriminating film back and with his hitman and bodyguard (Dick Wei) at his side, he proves too much for the inspectors to catch using legal means, in frustration they give up their badges and go after Tin alone.


title: Good morning Babilonia
released: 1987-05-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:24:31.413000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in ...

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After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W.Griffith and marry beautiful actresses, but tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...


plot: After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires.
title: The Lost Boys
released: 1987-07-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:11:23.790000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
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A mother and her two sons move to a small coast town in California. The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The younger boy makes friends with two other boys who claim to be vampire hunters while the older boy is drawn into the gang of bikers by a beautiful girl. The older boy starts sleeping days and staying out all night while the younger boy starts getting into trouble because of his friends' obsession.


title: The Gate
released: 1987-05-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:37.960000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle ...

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Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that literally begins to take over the Earth.


title: Hellraiser
released: 1987-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:56:25.140000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; demons are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.

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Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.


title: Light of Day
released: 1987-02-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:47:13.103000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the ...

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The siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son, Benji. Their pious mother reproaches them for their way of life, especially when they quit their jobs and go on tour, taking Benji with them. However, when their mother is dying of terminal cancer, they return home and resolve their problems with her.


title: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
released: 1989-02-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:29:38.510000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
She falls in love with a broken down former NYC hotel doorman, who tells Judith vaguely that he was in the hotel business.

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A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.


title: The Good Father
released: 1987-02-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:25:01.123000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian ...

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Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that Feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.


title: A Hungarian Fairy Tale
released: 1988-12-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-28 00:33:10.670000000
year: 1987
text: 4 wins.
plot:
Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had ...

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Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.


title: Hitting Home
released: 1988-09-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2014-05-09 02:49:15.530000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private ...

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Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.


title: House of Games
released: 1987-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:26:40.483000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

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A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.


title: Lethal Weapon
released: 1987-03-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:45:07.350000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A veteran cop, Murtaugh, is partnered with a young suicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common; hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

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Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.


title: Forest of Bliss
released: 1986-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-25 00:37:10.613000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.

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A look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.


title: Harry and the Hendersons
released: 1987-06-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:34:50.990000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 7 nominations.
plot:
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "...

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Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this..). As you guessed, "it" isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man, who has made it his goal in life, to catch a "bigfoot".


title: Gaby: A True Story
released: 1988-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-26 00:39:23.413000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

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The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.


title: Me and Him
released: 1988-09-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-25 00:38:29.790000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

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A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.


plot: A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned up doctor and his laid back son.
title: Like Father Like Son
released: 1987-10-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:37.200000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins.
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Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.


title: Housekeeping
released: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:02.643000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite...

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In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations.


title: Ground Zero
released: 1987-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 00:07:42.160000000
year: 1987
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for...

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A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.


title: Good Morning, Vietnam
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 02:15:56.897000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam.


title: House II: The Second Story
released: 1987-08-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:38:34.790000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.

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The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.


title: Alpine Fire
released: 1986-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:46:34.037000000
year: 1985
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him...

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A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.


title: Graveyard Shift
released: 1987-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-04 00:24:48.507000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A vampire who works as a taxi driver meets and romances a young woman whom he turns into a fellow vamp, which prompts her jealous and estranged husband to try to kill both of them.

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Night brings out the hungerin people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. When a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.


title: Hiding Out
released: 1987-11-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:43:57.947000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. They hide him because of death threats. He gets caught in a gun battle and ...

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A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. They hide him because of death threats. He gets caught in a gun battle and has to flee. He ends up hiding out as a student in a high school. He has to adjust to how things have changed as a teenager. The bad guys find him and he has fight it out in the high school gym.


title: Innerspace
released: 1987-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:19:07.937000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations.
plot:
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

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Tuck Pendleton is a cocky pilot, who is taking part in a miniaturization experiment. When some bad guys break into the lab to steal the technology, one of the scientists takes a syringe which contains the miniaturized Tuck and vessel. Now in the vessel is part of the material needed to restore him. But the other part which is the lab is stolen. The scientist's shot but before dying he injects Tuck into Jack Putter, a hypochondriac, who feels that something is wrong with him all the time. When Tuck links himself to Jack's systems, he discovers that something happened. So they go back to the lab, and discover what happened. Now they are told that unless they retrieve the material that was stolen they won't be able to restore Tuck before his oxygen is depleted. Now the government rep decides that the only thing that matters that as long as they have the other half of the material, it is useless to the thieves. So Tuck eggs Jack to go out and find the thieves. They enlist the aid of Tuck's old girlfriend, Lydia, who is a reporter. And it's fortunate for them that she has a lead that pans out.


title: La Bamba
released: 1987-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:08:48.703000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.

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This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.


plot: The story of the final Emperor of China.
title: The Last Emperor
released: 1988-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:47:06.060000000
year: 1987
text: Won 9 Oscars. Another 45 wins & 13 nominations.
fullplot:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.


plot: A film makers sexual disorientation jepordizes his latest project.
title: Law of Desire
released: 1987-03-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:43:05.003000000
year: 1987
text: 10 wins & 3 nominations.
fullplot:
Pablo and Tina have complicated sexual lives. Pablo writes and directs plays and films; he's gay and deeply in love with Juan, a young man who won't reply to Pablo's affection or letters. Pablo's sibling Tina is a transsexual, angry at men, raising Ada, and trying to make it as an actress. Pablo takes up with Antonio, a youth who becomes jealous of Pablo's love for Juan. Antonio seeks out Juan, and violence leads to Pablo's grief and a temporary loss of memory. When memory returns, he learns that Antonio has taken up with Tina. In horror, he hurries to Tina's rescue and must face Antonio and his desire.


title: Hope and Glory
released: 1987-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:47:40.120000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more...

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A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school.


title: Full Metal Jacket
released: 1987-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:40:35.607000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

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A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.


title: Jaws: The Revenge
released: 1987-07-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:26:43.180000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 7 nominations.
plot:
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

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Ellen Brody still lives in the island resort town of Amity, and her sons Sean and Michael don't work at Sea World anymore, and some time ago, Ellen's husband Martin Brody died of a heart attack that happened because he was afraid of sharks. Sean is now a deputy in Amity. One night, during the Christmas season, Sean is called to untangle a log from a buoy, and when Sean goes to the buoy, he's killed by a great white shark. After hearing about this, Michael, who is studying to be a marine biologist, visits Amity with his wife Carla and his 5-year-old daughter Thea. Wanting to get away from Amity and spend Christmas with Michael, Carla, and Thea, Ellen goes with them to their house in the Bahamas on an airplane whose pilot is Hoagie Newcombe, and Hoagie starts falling for Ellen. Michael's friend Jake, who is also studying to be a marine biologist, lives next door to Michael. Sometime later, while Michael and Jake are out at sea, their boat is attacked by the shark that killed Sean. Michael and Jake try to tag the shark so they can keep track of it. Sometime later, while Thea and some of her friends are on a banana boat, a yellow boat shaped like a banana, the shark attacks the banana boat and kills a woman, leaving Thea in shock, but it looks like Thea will be okay. Carla is mad at Michael for not telling her that the shark is in the waters of the Bahamas. Michael and Jake didn't mention the shark, because they didn't want to upset Ellen and mess up her visit. Ellen believes that the shark is after her family and that it was trying to kill Thea instead of the woman it killed, so Ellen takes Michael's boat out to sea on a single-minded mission to find the shark and kill it while Michael, Hoagie, and Jake try to find Ellen because they're afraid the shark will kill Ellen before Ellen can kill the shark.


title: Gardens of Stone
released: 1987-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:38:44.500000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

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In the late 60s, during the Vietnam War, the idealistic soldier Jackie Willow arrives at Fort Meyer expecting to go to the Academy and then to the Vietnam War. Jackie is the son of a veteran sergeant and soon he becomes the protègè of the former friends of his father, Sergeant Clell Hazard and Sergeant Major 'Goody' Nelson. Jackie is promoted and gets married with his childhood friend Rachel Feld, to recommend Jackie to the Academy. He is promoted to lieutenant and asks to go to the Vietnam, returning to the Arlington National Cemetery.


title: Prom Night II
released: 1987-11-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 01:12:14.837000000
year: 1987
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Thirty years after her accidental death at the 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen, Mary Lou Maloney, returns and she is out for revenge.

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When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principal of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.


title: Wings of Desire
released: 1988-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:37:28.017000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 21 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

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Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. Among those they are currently observing are: the cast and crew of a movie - a detective story set in WWII Nazi Germany - which include a sensitive and perceptive Peter Falk; an elderly man named Homer looking for eternal peace; and the troupe of a financially failing circus, which has closed early for the season because of those financial problems. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realization that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely because he has fallen in love with Marion, the trapeze artist with the circus. If he does decide to become a human, there is no guarantee that as a human that he will be able to locate Marion or that she will return his affection. His angels, however, may be looking out for him.


title: Ishtar
released: 1987-05-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:41:09.250000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

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Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.


title: Opera
released: 1991-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:05:53.820000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

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A young opera singer (Betty) gets her big chance when the previous star of a production of Verdi's Macbeth is run over by a car. Convinced the opera is bad luck she accepts, and becomes the target (in Argento's unmistakable style) of a psychopath - a man she has been dreaming of since childhood.


plot: Two cops have to observe a woman. One of them falls in love with her.
title: Stakeout
released: 1987-08-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:03:28.553000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins.
fullplot:
The film opens with a daring escape of a convict imprisoned for killing an FBI agent, then moves on to two Seattle detectives chasing a suspect who gets away, destroying a forklift in the process, these two detectives are reassigned to a stakeout, watching the girlfriend of the escaped federal prisoner. One falls in love with her, the escaped convict eventually catches up to her, with them actually, and in the midst of their getaway, the escaped convict learns that his woman's man is a cop, but the two detectives kill him, saving the day.


title: Outrageous Fortune
released: 1987-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:37:58.323000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to ...

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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.


title: A Prayer for the Dying
released: 1987-09-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:45:00.960000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave ...

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Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. The IRA wants him back (he knows too much) and the local crime boss, Meehan, will only help him if he performs one last hit, on a rival crime boss. When Fallon does perform the hit, he is seen by a catholic priest. He refuses to kill an innocent again and must find a way to escape the police without killing the priest who can identify him.


title: Shy People
released: 1988-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:17:46.193000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.

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New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to her own code. Her family consists of three grown sons - Mark, Tommy and mentally slow Pauly - and Mark's pregnant wife, Candy. What started out as a one afternoon interview ends up being a multi-day stop for Diana and Grace to stay with Ruth and her family in their backwater shack with no electricity. Diana eventually learns of another Sullivan son, Mike, who has broken away from Ruth's grip. Ultimately, the clash of cultures, fueled by Grace's boredom coupled with her cousins' curiosity, leads to tragedy on multiple levels, but not only with a better understanding of the other on both sides, but also an understanding of the family dysfunction that exists on both sides.


plot: A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
title: Street Smart
released: 1987-03-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 11:37:40.553000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher, in danger of losing his job, promises to write a factual hard-hitting story of prostitution. But when he tries to get information from the subjects, he is ignored. So he ends up faking a well received story of a pimp, describing his life and crimes. But police think the story is of a real life pimp who is wanted for murder and start pressuring him to reveal the identity of subject in his story, and all he knows. The pimp the police suspect, also thinks the story is about himself, and wants to know what Jonathan knows, and who told him.


title: Weeds
released: 1987-10-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:17:53.547000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

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Lee Umstetter is a lifer at San Quentin prison and a multiple suicide attempter. Eventually, another prisoner suggests reading to find something better to do with his time. Lee takes that advice and finds himself inspired from what he reads to write a play about life in prison. He has auditions and assembles a cast from his fellow inmates. The play proves popular and it catches the attention of a female reporter who writes about it, creating publicity that allows for a parole for him. Once out, he later reassembles his cast when they come out to do the play professionally. However, they learn that the demands of the life outside are difficult to cope with for the newly released and their play needs to be changed in major ways while they struggle to make it succeed.


title: Masters of the Universe
released: 1987-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:48:06.577000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A prince turned warrior named He-Man battles against the dark lord Skeletor on the planet Eternia. He-Man and his comrades arrive on Earth and discover two teenage lovers to find the magical Cosmic Key.

fullplot:
The planet Eternia is in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Greyskull, which he has won after seizing Greyskull and the surrounding city using the Cosmic Key developed by the Thenorian locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is Skeletor's prisoner and he begins draining her powers as he waits for Eternia's moon to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like powers upon him. Once on Earth, He-Man and company team up with two teenagers as they attempt to find the key and return home. However, the dark lord Skeletor and his vile minions are soon hot on their trail as they bring He-Man back alive.


title: Mannequin
released: 1987-02-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:23:19.063000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

fullplot:
Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, he falls in love with it. It is the first thing he has made that makes him feel like a real artist. The mannequin ends up in the window of a big department store. When he saves the life of an old lady who happens to be the owner of that store, he is rewarded by getting a job at the store as stock boy. Later the mannequin comes to life as Emmy, who was an ancient Egyptian living in the year 2514BC. The two redesign the window display to make it most eye catching in town. The store competitors are not happy and will do anything to stop them!


title: Near Dark
released: 1987-10-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:40:23.420000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter.

fullplot:
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.


plot: A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
title: Summer Camp Nightmare
released: 1987-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:03:47.923000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
At Camp North Pines for Boys, the campers, led by the charismatic Franklin Reilly, stage a revolt against the strict owner, Mr. Warren, and lock him and the rest of the counselors up and take over the camp for themselves. But the revolt soon spirals out of control as the boys also lead a takeover of the nearby girls camp as well. Then, Mr. Warren is accidentally killed trying to escape. Friction soon happens between the two boys and girls camps, which only one camper, a certain Donald Poultry, tries to get the word out and unseat Franklin as the leader.


title: American Gothic
released: 1988-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-19 00:38:18.527000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
On a lonely island in the Pacific Northwest, a group of travelers find themselves targeted by a crazed, homicidal family.

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When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.


title: Amsterdamned
released: 1988-11-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:24:54.853000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't ...

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A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.


title: Maurice
released: 1987-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:17:03.860000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

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Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.


plot: A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
title: Someone to Watch Over Me
released: 1987-10-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:26:37.373000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
In Queens, Mike Keegan is celebrating with his wife Ellie, his son Tommy and friends his recent promotion to detective in a precinct in Manhattan. Meanwhile, in a fancy club, the socialite Claire Gregory witnesses the murder of the owner of the place by the powerful mobster Joey Venza. Mike is assigned to protect her in the night shift in her apartment in Manhattan. When Venza threatens Claire, the contact of Mike with Claire gets closer and conflicts him, dividing between the love for his family and the heat passion for Claire and the fascination for her world.


title: Million Dollar Mystery
released: 1987-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 01:01:41.720000000
year: 1987
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A disparate group of travelers is eating in an isolated restaurant when a man drops dead of a heart attack. Before he dies, they discover that he is wanted for stealing several million ...

fullplot:
A disparate group of travelers is eating in an isolated restaurant when a man drops dead of a heart attack. Before he dies, they discover that he is wanted for stealing several million dollars, and he tells them that he has hidden a million dollars in each of four different locations, and gives them clues as to where the locations are. They all then take off and try to get to the hidden treasure before any of the others do.


title: Spaceballs
released: 1987-06-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:47:13.323000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.

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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.


title: Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
released: 1987-04-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:47:17.607000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.

fullplot:
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.


title: RoboCop
released: 1987-07-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 01:03:07.703000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

fullplot:
Detroit - in the future - is crime-ridden and run by a massive company. The company has developed a huge crime-fighting robot, which unfortunately develops a rather dangerous glitch. The company sees a way to get back in favor with the public when policeman Alex Murphy is killed by a street gang. Murphy's body is reconstructed within a steel shell and called RoboCop. RoboCop is very successful against criminals and becomes a target of supervillian Boddicker.


title: Beaches
released: 1989-01-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:15:36.200000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

fullplot:
When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.


title: Big Top Pee-wee
released: 1988-07-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:46:57.077000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Pee-Wee is now a successful small-town farmer, engaged to schoolteacher Winnie. A traveling circus arrives and Pee-Wee and his talking pet pig Vance agree to help them win over the bitter townsfolk. He also falls for trapeze artist Gina.

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In the sequel to "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", Pee-Wee Herman has had enough with the fame and constant media attention he received after the events of the first movie, so he's now a simple farmer living quietly in a small town. But after a big storm blows their way, a circus ends up at Pee Wee's farm. So he lets the circus stay at his farm for a while. The circus decides to put on a show with one lovable star, Pee-Wee! Also, a love triangle develops between Pee-Wee, his nice fiancèe Winnie, who's the local schoolteacher, and mysterious loner Gina, the circus' attractive trapeze artist. The outcome of this subplot is somewhat unexpected.


title: Wall Street
released: 1987-12-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:03:01.150000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

fullplot:
Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.


title: A Better Tomorrow II
released: 1987-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:59:56.650000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

fullplot:
Restaurant owner Ken Gor, twin brother of Mark Gor, teams up with police detective Kit and his struggling ex-con brother Ho to avenge his old friend's daughter's death by a Triad gang.


title: Another Woman
released: 1988-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:46:26.290000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.

fullplot:
Having recently turned fifty, Marion feels that she has led a so far blessed life. The well-respected Dean of Philosophy at a women's college, she is currently on sabbatical to write her latest book. Although her first husband Sam died tragically fourteen years ago from a mixture of alcohol and pills, she has recently remarried to Ken, who, married at the time, pursued her, while Ken's writer friend, Larry, also professed his love for her. She has a good relationship with her step-daughter Laura, seemingly better than Laura has with either Ken or Laura's own volatile mother, Kathy. Between her and her brother Paul, Marion always had the attention of their academic father. And she and Ken have a wide circle of friends with who they regularly and willingly socialize. But a series of incidents with these people in her life makes Marion wonder about the decisions that she's made, most specifically whether her cerebral and judgmental nature has been alienating to those around her. One of these incidents is the surprise reunion she has with her best childhood friend, an actress named Claire. But arguably the most illuminating incidents involve encounters with Hope, a despondent patient of her workspace neighbor psychiatrist, whose therapy sessions Marion can hear through the building's ventilation system. The questions become if Marion will fully be able to comprehend the extent to which these decisions have negatively affected her life and relationships, and if so if she can make the necessary changes at this stage in her life path to be more fulfilled.


title: Made in Heaven
released: 1987-11-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:18:59.853000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.

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In 1952 while driving to California to start his life anew, twenty-something Mike Shea accidentally dies while doing a heroic act. Despite floundering in his life - he was having troubles holding a steady job and his supposed girlfriend was about to marry someone else - he was not ready to leave the living. In heaven, he learns that despite it being a fantastical other world existence, he still has human emotions, such as romantic love, which he feels for a "new" soul he meets named Annie Packert (i.e. she has never been among the living on Earth), who in turn loves him. He also learns that one's next life is somewhat predetermined by their stay in heaven. So when Annie is sent to Earth for her first go around as a human, Mike pleads with the man in charge at heaven, Emmett Humbird, to locate him in his next human life at least in the same country so that he can find Annie. Emmett reluctantly agrees, but only gives Mike thirty years in his next life to find her. Those next lives of Annie and Mike are as Allison Chandler and Elmo Barnett respectively. Each carries a bit of their experience with each other in heaven to their new subconscious human being, Ally's manifesting itself in an imaginary childhood friend named Mike, whereas Elmo grows up to be a drifter but one not sure for what he is looking. With Elmo receiving a little help from both Emmett and some people from his past life, will the match made in heaven find its way to Earth before the thirty year deadline?


plot: A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.
title: The Principal
released: 1987-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:41:52.787000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
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Rick Latimer is a teacher who gets a job as the principal of a school with a very bad reputation. In fact, his transfer there is a kind of punishment because he beat his wife's boyfriend. So, Rick finds himself in a school where drugs, knives and guns are very usual things...


title: Raising Arizona
released: 1987-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:56:00.953000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.

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Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.


title: The South
released: 1988-03-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 01:05:51.503000000
year: 1988
text: 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets ...

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After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past - most of which are only imaginary - and remembers the events of his arrest and imprisonment.


title: Throw Momma from the Train
released: 1987-12-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:56:34.537000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A bitter ex-husband. A put upon momma's boy. Both want their respective spouse and mother dead, but who will pull it off?

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Larry Donner is an author and writing professor who tutors people that want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his ex-wife Margaret has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students, offers Larry to kill Margaret, and in return Owen, wants Larry to kill his horrible mother. Larry thinks it's a joke, until he learns Owen killed his ex-wife. And Larry has now become the prime suspect.


title: The Year My Voice Broke
released: 1987-10-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:39:14.213000000
year: 1987
text: 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby ...

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During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.


title: The Beast of War
released: 1988-09-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:57:16.163000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
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 ...

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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.


title: The Boost
released: 1988-12-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:12:16.760000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to ...

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Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".


title: Over the Top
released: 1987-02-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:24:08.390000000
year: 1987
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with ...

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Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind 10 years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son does not think too highly of him until he enters the World Arm Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas. His hope is to receive the grand prize of $100,000 and an expensive current custom semi-truck and thus start his own trucking company.


title: The Accused
released: 1988-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:30:58.647000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

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Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men responsible should be brought to justice.


title: Predator
released: 1987-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:10:52.380000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

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A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered in to assist CIA man, George Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.


title: Slam Dance
released: 1987-10-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:37:26.447000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

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A cartoonist who had an affair with a girl who is murdered gets himself embroiled in a high-level cover-up of a sex scandal involving his lover. By using his artistic talent to try and reconstruct the scandal, he attracts attention to himself by the people involved, and becomes a target himself.


title: Stand and Deliver
released: 1988-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:24:47.457000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.

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Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods help gang members and no-hopers pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus.


title: Three Bewildered People in the Night
released: 1990-11-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:54:34.017000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.

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David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.


title: Apartment Zero
released: 1989-09-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 12:00:46.197000000
year: 1988
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane ...

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Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane mother's room due to poor ticket sales at his revival movie theater. Jack Carney, the new roommate, appears normal enough at first but it soon becomes apparent that he is hiding something. As their friendship develops, Adrian suppresses his suspicions that Jack may be the government mercenary turned serial killer who has been terrorizing the city. The other eccentric residents of the building begin to worry as Adrian shows increasing signs that his mother's insanity may be hereditary. The shocking climax of this twisted tale of deceit, perversion and murder reveals the darker side of the human psyche.


plot: A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused.
title: My Demon Lover
released: 1988-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 02:17:47.947000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
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Denny has yet again been left by her thug boyfriend Chip. It seems as if she is doomed to be stuck with awful guys, this time she has to choose between nerdy Charles and the strange Kaz, who turns into a monster when sexually aroused.


title: The Quick and the Dead
released: 1987-02-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 01:10:59.917000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.

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Duncan and Susanna McKaskel are a young married couple travelling to the West with their son, hoping to start a new life. Along the way, they stop in a small town where they meet a gang of bandits led by Doc Shabitt. After Duncan unintentionally angers the gang, he and Susanna flee the town, but Shabitt leads his men in pursuit of revenge. A mysterious stranger by the name of Con Vallian soon begins helping the family as they try to find a new home and protects them from Shabitt's gang.


title: Roxanne
released: 1987-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:02:30.560000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

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A modernization of Edmond Rostands "Cyrano De Bergerac". C.D. Bales is a fire chief who just happens to have an enormous nose. He hires a new firefighter, Chris, who is handsome and knows his hoses, but is useless when it comes to women. Roxanne is an astronomer who has just arrived in town. She catches the eye of Chris, and he asks C.D. to help him woo her. Little does Chris know that C.D. is mad about Roxanne, but hasn't found the right way to tell her - yet.


title: Withnail & I
released: 1987-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:37:17.350000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to ...

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London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...


title: Big Business
released: 1988-06-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:55:00.280000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family ...

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In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.


plot: While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.
title: The Princess Bride
released: 1987-10-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:41:34.337000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations.
fullplot:
A kindly grandfather sits down with his ill grandson and reads him a story. The story is one that has been passed down from father to son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup, engaged to the odious Prince Humperdinck, is kidnapped and held against her will in order to start a war, It is up to Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) to save her. On the way he meets a thief and his hired helpers, an accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant, both of whom become Westley's companions in his quest.


title: Rowing with the Wind
released: 1989-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:05:11.377000000
year: 1988
text: 10 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley during various voyages through ...

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The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley during various voyages through different European countries in that period. Although Frankenstein is just an invention strange things happen to the people Mary does not like.


title: Some Kind of Wonderful
released: 1987-02-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:47:13.937000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old...

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A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.


title: The Stepfather
released: 1987-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:03:59.117000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

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A family-values man named Jerry Blake marries widows and divorcèes with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine, who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie, and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.


title: Street Trash
released: 1987-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:42:30.470000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
When a liquor store owner finds a case of "Viper" in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks causes its ...

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When a liquor store owner finds a case of "Viper" in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks causes its consumers to melt, very messily. Two homeless lads find themselves up against the effects of the toxic brew, as well as going head to head with "Bronson" a Vietnam vet with sociopathic tendencies, and the owner of the junkyard they live in.


title: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
released: 1987-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:57:25.203000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.

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Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash in an explosive screen extranvaganza that sees Superman save the Statue of Liberty, repulse a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuild the demolished Great Wall of China and perform many more spetactular feats.


title: Swimming to Cambodia
released: 1987-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 00:37:21.510000000
year: 1987
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Spalding Gray tells about his participation in the film, "The Killing Fields" & the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.


title: Action Jackson
released: 1988-02-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:24:08.470000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

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Jericho "Action" Jackson is a Detroit police sergeant who was demoted from lieutenant for almost tearing the arm off of sexually violent sociopath Sean Dellaplane, whose father is Peter Dellaplane, a major car manufacturer. But Dellaplane himself is violent as well. Dellaplane kills his wife Patrice by shooting her. And then he plants her body in Jackson's apartment, framing Jackson. Dellaplane won't miss Patrice very much, because he has a drug-addicted mistress named Sydney Ash. He keeps Sydney hooked with a free supply of heroin. Jackson suspects Dellaplane of masterminding a murder spree against local officials from the auto workers' union. Dellaplane's mission is to gain a political power base and choose the next president of the United States. Because of what happened to Dellaplane's son Sean, Dellaplane has taken a particular dislike to Jackson. Jackson gets Sydney's help in going after Dellaplane.


title: Ariel
released: 1990-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:01:53.447000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream ...

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The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...


title: The Monster Squad
released: 1987-08-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:43:23.820000000
year: 1987
text: 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his army of monsters.

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Dracula is alive. In fact, he plans to rule the world and that is why he seeks the help of other legendary monsters. However, a bunch of kids regarded by their peers as losers uncover the devious plan and prepare for a counter strike.


title: On the Silver Globe
released: 1989-02-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:43.770000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own ...

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A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat running from a broken heart, arrives and finds colonizer's descendants enslaved by birdmonstern called Cherns. Society is divided into a numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah. The newcomer is considered a suitable candidate and for some time he lives as a god. In the end he is crucified by his people.


title: Nuts
released: 1987-12-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:07:45.287000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

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A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.


title: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
released: 1987-11-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 05:38:25.170000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.

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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman and all-around blabbermouth who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....


title: Radio Days
released: 1987-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:50:49.280000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

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Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.


plot: A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
title: The Running Man
released: 1987-11-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:42:03.553000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
fullplot:
Set in a totalitarian society. Ben Richards is a cop who was blamed for a massacre which wasn't his fault. He would be sent to prison and breaks out with some other inmates. He tries to escape but the woman whom he dragged into his plan turns him over to the authorities. Damon Killian, who is the host of THE RUNNING MAN a game show wherein convicted felons are given the chance to run to freedom but have to elude the stalkers; men who hunt them down and kill them in gruesome manners. When he learns that Richards has been caught, he wants him to be the show's next contestant. After being brought to Killian, Richards turns him down, Killian then reveals to Richards that his two friends who were in prison with him and who broke out with him have been caught, so unless Richards does the show they will. But on the night of the show, Richards is set to go but Killian also reveals that Richards' two friends are going with him. Richards tells Killian that he will be back. But first !


title: The Secret of My Succe$s
released: 1987-04-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:42:39.580000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.

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Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York. On his first work day in New York, he is fired in a hostile take-over and learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his distant uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room. Then Brantley meets Christy Wills, who happens to be one of the top executives. Brantley sees how poorly the company is being run and decides to create a position under the name Carlton Whitfield, to influence and improve the company's operations. Soon things get unexpectedly out of hand, not in the least because of his aunt, his girl and leading a double life.


plot: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.
title: 3 Men and a Baby
released: 1987-11-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:06:47.873000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist Michael, and actor Jack are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which Jack doesn't know about - left outside their door. The two are left to look after the baby, and realise how difficult this can be. How would this baby change the life style of these confirmed bachelors?


title: Alien Nation
released: 1988-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:28:38.067000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

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A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine but are victims of a new type of discrimination. When the first Newcomer police officer, Sam Francisco is assigned his new partner, he is given Matthew Sykes , a mildly racist veteran, the animosity between them soon gives way to respect as they investigate the Newcomer underworld, and especially Newcomer leader William Harcourt.


plot: The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.
title: Bird
released: 1988-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 01:02:20.490000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.


title: Matewan
released: 1988-06-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:15.317000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

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Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. UMWA organizer and dual-card Wobbly Joe Kenehan determines to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. While Kenehan and his story are fictional, the setting and the dramatic climax are historical; Sid Hatfield, Cabell C. Testerman, C. E. Lively and the Felts brothers were real-life participants, and 'Few Clothes' is based on a character active several years previously.


title: Repentance
released: 1987-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:54:48.533000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the ...

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The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman, who is accused of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest because he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends...


title: Positive I.D.
released: 1986-11-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:36:53.660000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A plain suburban housewife, the past victim of a brutal assault, is still having trouble coping with the incident a year later. After seeing a story on the evening news, however, she ...

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A plain suburban housewife, the past victim of a brutal assault, is still having trouble coping with the incident a year later. After seeing a story on the evening news, however, she mysteriously begins to assemble an alternate identity, unknown to her family or friends.


title: The Witches of Eastwick
released: 1987-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:04:34.037000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.

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All three previously married but now single, best friends sculptress Alex Medford, cellist Jane Spofford and writer Sukie Ridgemont are feeling emotionally and sexually repressed, in large part due to the traditional mores overriding their small New England coastal town of Eastwick. After their latest conversation lamenting about the lack of suitable men in Eastwick and describing the qualities they are looking for in a man, mysterious Daryl Van Horne and his equally mysterious butler Fidel arrive in town. Despite being vulgar, crude, brazen and not particularly handsome, Daryl manages to be able to tap into the innermost emotions of the three friends, and as such manages to seduce each. In turn, the three women blossom emotionally and sexually. After an incident involving one of the town's leading citizens, the ultra conservative Felicia Alden, the three women begin to understand how and why Daryl is able to mesmerize them so fully. The three decide to experiment with some powers learned indirectly from Daryl so that they can hopefully regain control of their own lives.


title: The Witching of Ben Wagner
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 00:51:36.943000000
year: 1990
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Ben Wagner and his family are moving to a new town. On the shores of Lake Ontario, he meets Regina. Strange things start to happen whenever Regina is around. Ben wonders if the rumors are true: could she come from a family of witches?

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[Contains spoilers] "George Wagner (Sam Bottoms) moves his wife and family, including son Ben (Justin Gocke), to a new town, where he begins a real estate job for Angelo Romano (Craig Clyde). Ben, a high school freshman, doesn't seem to get along with his busy, somewhat distant father. He finds consolation with a mysterious young girl, Regina (Bettina Rae), and her Grammy (Sylvia Sidney), who are both thought by the townspeople to be witches. Ben soon believes himself bewitched by Regina, a secret he shares with his sister, Liz (Jamie Ballard), and he becomes more confident, making the school's basketball team and earning better grades, while still searching for his father's approval. Ben's snotty teenage sister, Susan (Elizabeth Shumway), who's trying to stay friends with the stuck-up rich girl Ashley Addison (Amy Allred), blackmails Liz into learning about Regina, causing a near-fatal accident when Liz follows Ben to the lake and tumbles into a stream. She is saved by Ben, and as the family unites at the hospital, Susan confesses tearfully her abysmal behavior. Meanwhile, Romano's efforts to develop high-rise condos on the land near the lake are spearheaded by George. Grammy puts a curse on him, causing him bad luck. Finally learning from his son, who is upset at his father's plans for the lake, George scares the potential investors away from the deal with a false geology report. Romano fires George, who is promptly offered a job by Ashley's father (Scott McMillan). Grammy and the Wagners celebrate the good news, while Regina tells Ben that neither she nor Grammy are witches. They're just "different," and Ben's improved behavior has come from within himself."


title: Big
released: 1988-06-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:57:48.333000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body.

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A young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 12-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world?


title: A Month in the Country
released: 1988-02-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:28:58.057000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach...

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Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach tells WWI veteran Tom Birken who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?


title: Nadine
released: 1987-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:17.990000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.

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Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken. Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost) ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar. Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers.


title: Overboard
released: 1987-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:30:28.397000000
year: 1987
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A cruel but beautiful heiress screws over a hired carpenter, who later is the first one to find her when she gets amnesia. Looking for a little revenge he convinces her that she's his wife.

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Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don't see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him... he tells her she's his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids.


title: Tough Guys Don't Dance
released: 1987-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:40:44.697000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 10 nominations.
plot:
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond woman's severed head in ...

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Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond woman's severed head in his marijuana stash, and the new Provincetown police chief, Captain Luther Regency, shacked up with his former girlfriend Madeleine. As his father Dougy helps him try to unravel the mystery, he is dogged by the psychotic Capt. Regency, who has it in for Tim as a car-crash that he was involved in with Madeline has left her unable to have children. Flashing-back to the past, Tim remembers the time when he encouraged Madeline to swing with a Li'l Abnerish couple from down South, the fundamentalist preacher Big Stoop and his Daisy Mae-ish wife, Patty Lareine, whose ad Tim had come across in 'Screw' magazine. It's on the trip back that the car crash occurs, since Madeline is incensed that Tim has so enjoyed Patty Lareine's charms. Except for his father Dougy, who is dying of cancer, Tim suspects everyone, including his ex-wife Patty Lareine, multi-millionaire prep-school pal Wardley Meeks III, - and himself - of murder. Patty Lareine had left Big Stoop, married Wardley, left him in a messy divorce which netted her a rich cash settlement, and in turn married Tim, whom she fancied. Patty Lareine disappears, and Tim goes on his fatal bender that has left his memory in shards after receiving a letter from Madeline informing him that her husband is having an affair with his wife. Tim remembers his assignation in the local tavern's parking lot with the blond porn star Jessica Pond, while her effete husband Lonnie Pangborn watched from the sidelines, distraught. It was Jessica's head in the Hefty bag with his grass, but soon, another head turns up in his marijuana stash, that of Patty Lareine. We eventually learn that she and her ex- Wardley, a bisexual skewed towards the gay side, had been involved in a massive marijuana deal, a deal that also involved Jessica Pond and Lonnie Pangborn, who are also missing. Will Tim be able to get to the bottom of the mystery and save himself from another stretch in stir? As his father Dougy reminds him, "Tough guys don't dance," and Tim has been doing everything but the Charlston in his attempt to keep ahead of the forces closing in on him. Will he unravel the case and reclaim his lost manhood? And what does an old witch trial and the unspeakably lumpen sleazoids down at the garage at the outskirts of town have to do with all this?


title: The Untouchables
released: 1987-06-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:05:03.670000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.


title: Above the Law
released: 1986-11-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:38:08.693000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are ...

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Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. but Cindy Si is soon on his case and it all spirals into a situation only a few will survive.


title: Braddock: Missing in Action III
released: 1988-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:28:26.627000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Colonel James Braddock has a Vietnamese wife who was supposed to leave Vietnam with him when they evacuate. But she loses her papers and wasn't allowed in the embassy. Braddock went looking...

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Colonel James Braddock has a Vietnamese wife who was supposed to leave Vietnam with him when they evacuate. But she loses her papers and wasn't allowed in the embassy. Braddock went looking for her and her friend took the bracelet Braddock gave his wife and was in an explosion. When Braddock finds the body with bracelet, he assumes it's his wife so he leaves Vietnam. 12 years later a Reverend in Vietnam who was visiting the States approaches Braddock telling him that his wife is alive and that he has a son. Braddock doesn't believe him at first but when a man at the CIA asks him to meet with him, Braddock realizes it's true. So he tries to get them out. So he contacts a friend in Thailand to get what he needs. As they are about to leave, the CIA tries to stop him but Braddock gets away, gets his equipment and heads to Vietnam. When he arrives he goes to the orphanage for Amerasian children, where the Reverend works. He takes him to them and is surprised to see them and his son resents him cause he thinks he abandoned them. They try to leave but a Vietnamese Colonel takes them, he kills his wife and subjects Braddock to torture. Braddock escapes with his son, whom he says to go to the orphanage. The Colonel goes there and takes the Reverend and the children to a prison. Braddock then tries to rescue them.


title: Prince of Darkness
released: 1987-10-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:18:31.937000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

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A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Satan himself, and they also discover that he will release HIS father - an all-powerful Anti-God! The liquid later comes to life itself, turning some of the students into zombies as the Devil comes forward to release his father. Will these students be able to stop him?


title: Prick Up Your Ears
released: 1987-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:34:28.517000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...

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This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while the two begin a relationship, it's fairly obvious that it's not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell, not as charming or attractive as Orton, doesn't fare so well in those environs. While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "Loot" become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. But Orton's success takes him farther from Halliwell, whose response ended both his life and the life of the up-and-coming playwright.


title: Tanner '88
released: 1988-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:08:11.110000000
year: 1988è
text: Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A behind-the-scenes look at a former Michigan U.S. representative's campaign as he vies for his party's Presidential nomination.

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A behind-the-scenes look at a former Michigan U.S. representative's campaign as he vies for his party's Presidential nomination.


title: The Accidental Tourist
released: 1989-01-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:11:20.420000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

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After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a strange outgoing woman, who seems to bring him back down to earth. After starting a relationship with the outgoing woman, Macon's wife seems to think that their marriage is still worth a try. Macon is then forced to deal many decisions


plot: Arthur loses all his money, and his wife wants a baby.
title: Arthur 2: On the Rocks
released: 1988-07-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:46:12.557000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
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In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune. Will the former millionaire playboy be able to survive as a broke, unemployable alcoholic? To add to Arthur's problems, wife Linda's biological clock is ticking louder than ever, and she's pressuring him to start taking responsibility for himself.


title: Beetlejuice
released: 1988-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:21:14.930000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

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Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate the house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but ends up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in mind than just helping.


title: The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
released: 1988-07-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:34:11.220000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...

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After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and Annika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a river in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to a children's home. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.


title: Project X
released: 1987-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:02:46.870000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there...

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A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.


title: A Chinese Ghost Story
released: 1987-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:50:10.773000000
year: 1987
text: 7 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night ...

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Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence (or 'yang element')...


title: Who's That Girl
released: 1987-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:36:20.963000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

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Four years unjustly jailed haven't dampened the spirits or determination of Nikki Finn. Th spunky parolee sets out to clear her name - and sets the Big Apple spinning in deliriously funny ways.


title: Bat*21
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:10.230000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

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Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route based on golf courses he has played. Along the way however, he has to face enemy forces and the death of some of his fellow soldiers.


plot: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
title: The Blob
released: 1988-08-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:37:39.017000000
year: 1988
text: 6 nominations.
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Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously.


title: Mio in the Land of Faraway
released: 1988-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 01:04:21.490000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win.
plot:
A fantasy about the lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king. In that country he sets out on a quest, ...

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A fantasy about the lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king. In that country he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.


title: Moonstruck
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:46:47.670000000
year: 1987
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she agreed to marry (the best friend of her late husband who died seven years previously).

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Loretta Castorini, a Brooklyn bookkeeper in her late 30s whose husband died several years earlier in a bus accident, decides it's time to get married again. So she accepts the proposal of a nice, middle-aged fellow named Johnny Cammareri. Loretta is convinced her first marriage was cursed because she and her husband had gotten married at City Hall; this time, she's determined to do things right, even as she admits to her mother, Rose, that she's not really in love with Johnny. (To which Rose replies: "Good. When you love them, they drive you crazy, 'cause they know they can." Rose speaks from rueful experience; she suspects, with good reason, that her husband, Cosmo, is cheating on her.) Loretta is convinced that marrying Johnny is the safe and sure thing to do - until she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, who tends the ovens in a neighborhood bakery. Loretta discovers that in startling contrast to the pleasant, mild-mannered Johnny, Ronny is moody and passionate; what follow are complications worthy of a comic opera.


title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
released: 1987-02-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:23:00.947000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.

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Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all.


plot: Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community.
title: Slugs: The Movie
released: 1988-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:21.443000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.


title: Wish You Were Here
released: 1987-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:19:54.483000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age....

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In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.


title: 1969
released: 1988-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:16:39.633000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of wide public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their...

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Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of wide public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war. Scott's attitude alienates him from his father and he and Ralph leave town to enjoy their 'freedom'. Various events lead them back to town where they learn of the death of the brother. This event proves to be the catalyst needed to bridge the gap between father and son and enlightens them both to the true cost of war.


title: Akira
released: 2001-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:35:36.890000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.


title: Baxter
released: 1989-01-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:18:05.833000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

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Her daughter Florence gives Mrs. Deville bull-terrier Baxter as a surprise present. Although she's afraid of him, she doesn't want to give him away because she feels lonely. But Baxter has his own ideas - he longs to be dominated, to be challenged - and so he isn't content with his boring life with the old lady. To get rid of her, he causes an accident. It works, and he's given to the neighbors, a young couple. He's happy... for a while. When they get a baby, he again takes action.


title: The Big Blue
released: 1988-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:05:53.007000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was ...

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Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...


title: Iron Eagle II
released: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 09:44:41.173000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy ...

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Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission. As they begin their assault, Chappy finds that a nuclear strike has been ordered should they fail, which will catch his forces on the ground next to ground zero.


title: Police Story 2
released: 1988-08-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 08:37:46.610000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Despite his success at apprehending criminals, Kevin Chan's unorthodox approach to his work as a police officer sees him demoted to the traffic branch. Despite this, the man he put behind bars is now out of prison, and has vowed to make his life a misery. While this crime boss his harassing Kevin and his girlfriend, the police are contemplating reinstating Kevin to help them fight a group of bombers attempting to extort $10 million from building owners.


title: The Lair of the White Worm
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:28:31.897000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion,...

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Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion, far earlier than expected. At a party in the village, Angus meets Lord James D'Ampton, who has just inherited his family's land right next to Temple House. Angus learns of the D'Ampton Worm, a huge dragon-snake that an earlier D'Ampton killed by cutting it in half. (There's a pretty catchy rock-folk song that tells the D'Ampton Worm legend.) As people begin disappearing and acting strangely over the next few days, the skull is stolen from Angus's room, and the watch of a missing person is found in a cavern that was the legendary home of the D'Ampton worm. Angus and James discover that there was an ancient cult that worshiped the worm as a god, and they theorize that the creature somehow survived its destruction, but it was trapped inside the cavern. The remainder of the movie shows Angus, James, and Mary Trent attempting to stop Lady Marsh from freeing the creature....


plot: A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
title: Alice
released: 1990-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:02:22.690000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the complex (the White Rabbit) to the incredibly simple (the Caterpillar, consisting of a sock, a couple of glass eyes and a pair of false teeth). The original story is followed reasonably faithfully, though those familiar with this director's other films won't be the least bit surprised by the numerous digressions into Svankmajer territory, living slabs of meat and all. As the opening narration says, it's a film made for children... perhaps?


title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
released: 1988-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:14:52.367000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may know the way to defeat him for good.

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Following up the previous Nightmare film, the dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills all three of the surviving Elm Street kids. However, Kristen (who has the ability to draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice before her demise. Afterwords, Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power she now wields to pull a new group of teenage children into his foul domain.


title: Cinema Paradiso
released: 1990-02-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:56:12.350000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 22 nominations.
plot:
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.

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A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He returns home to his Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years and is reminded of his first love, Elena, who disappeared from his life before he left for Rome.


title: The Bourne Identity
released: 1988-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:19:38.160000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A 1988 television adaptation of Robert Ludlum's thriller. An injured, unconscious man (Richard Chamberlain) washes ashore in a small French town. As he recovers, it becomes quite clear, someone is trying to kill him. Jaclyn Smith co-stars.

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An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are attempts to kill him, he is well known in first class hotels across Europe, and worst of all, there are strange similarities between his memories and reported actions of the notorious terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.


plot: Two cops are brought back to life to chase down supernatural criminals.
title: Dead Heat
released: 1988-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:09:57.477000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
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Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are cops that are chasing crooks that are dead serious about crime. Or should I say they are chasing dead crooks perpetrating serious crimes? Seems some nutcase has learned how to bring back the dead and is sending them on crime sprees. Now these indestructable goons are in the way of officers Mortis and Bigelow. To even things up, when Mortis is killed (in the line of duty, of course) he gets a jump start from the Resurrection machine and takes the fight to the zombie bad guys.


title: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
released: 1988-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:02:36.353000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.

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Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a "loser leaves" bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end.


title: A Fish Called Wanda
released: 1988-08-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:21:19.487000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

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In London, George Thomason, his seductive American girlfriend Wanda Gershwitz, and their associate Ken Pile are planning their latest crime, a diamond heist that should net them è13 million. They plan on leaving the country with the goods after the heist. On Wanda's recommendation, they enlist the help of her brother, Otto, a weapons expert, for this heist. In reality, Otto is not Wanda's brother, but her latest lover, a dimwit who gets off on his own body odor, who believes he's an intellectual because he reads Nietzsche, and who does not tolerate being called stupid by anyone. Wanda has one weakness in men which is how Otto was able to get her to be his lover: speaking Italian in seduction. Wanda and Otto plan to double cross George by having him arrested for the heist, while they abscond with the jewels. Wanda further plans to triple cross Otto by eliminating him from the picture after she has the jewels. They are able to get George arrested with him not knowing who tipped the police off, in the process George being implicated by an elderly eyewitness named Eileen Coady. With George in jail, Wanda and Otto discover that he in turn has protected his investment by moving the jewels from their agreed to hiding location, he not telling anyone except Ken some hint of where they are. Ken, an animal lover with an extreme stuttering problem, is given a task by George: kill Mrs. Coady before she is able to testify against him, as she is the crown's primary witness. Meanwhile, Wanda has a plan of her own to reach her end goal: seduce George's defense lawyer, Archie Leach, in finding out any and all of George's secrets concerning the heist, including the location of the jewels. Archie may be easy prey for Wanda's seduction as Archie's wife is a self-absorbed woman who pays Archie little attention. Otto may throw a wrench into Wanda's plans if he finds out what she's doing only feeling that she being solely his lover trumps all else.


title: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
released: 1988-05-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 11:38:29.027000000
year: 1988
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a teenager with psychic powers.

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Lying dormant at the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees is released from his watery grave by a telekinetic girl. And so the killing begins again. Can she use her powers to stop Jason, or is he back for good?


title: Hanussen
released: 1989-03-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:25:20.740000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...


title: The Moderns
released: 1988-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:40:57.883000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafès and pestering gallery...

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Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafès and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.


plot: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.
title: Mystic Pizza
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 03:42:39.057000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
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Sisters Kat and Daisy work along with Jojo at the pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut. Kat, shortly off to Yale, finds herself drawn to a local architect she is babysitting for, while her more tearaway sister starts dating a guy from the money side of the tracks. Jojo leaves her man at the altar; she loves him but shies away from commitment. Meanwhile the fame of the pizza continues to spread; it seems to contain something almost ..... mystic.


title: Bright Lights, Big City
released: 1988-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 10:54:07.927000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.


title: Coming to America
released: 1988-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:03:54.397000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.

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It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.


plot: After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.
title: For Keeps?
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 00:47:31.103000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
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Darcy, editor at her high school paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's Catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to have an abortion or give up for adoption respectively. However Darcy's and Stan's love is so intense, they could imagine to have a baby, but this would mean to give up their college careers.


title: La lectrice
released: 1989-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:10:34.327000000
year: 1988
text: 4 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

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A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."


title: Buster
released: 1988-11-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:15:07.423000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins.
plot:
This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.


title: A Cry in the Dark
released: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:37:23.430000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

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Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claimed that she witnessed a dingo stealing her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body was never found. Police noted some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she was charged with murder. The case attracted a lot of attention, turning an investigation into a media circus, with the public divided in their opinions.


title: Gorillas in the Mist
released: 1988-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:53:57.667000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

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Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story about Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes.


title: Johnny Be Good
released: 1988-03-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:16:59.300000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent ...

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It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?


title: A Short Film About Love
released: 1989-04-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:52:26.273000000
year: 1988
text: 8 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.

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19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...


title: Bull Durham
released: 1988-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:41:41.250000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

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Crash is an aging minor league ball player, brought up from another team to mature a young pitcher with maturity problems. Both of them become involved with Ann, a baseball groupie with her own perspective on the game.


title: Die Hard
released: 1988-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:24:08.970000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

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NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas party, a group of bank robbers led by Hans Gruber take control of the building and hold everyone hostage, with the exception of John, while they plan to perform a lucrative heist. Unable to escape and with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own hands.


title: Distant Voices, Still Lives
released: 1989-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:22:52.863000000
year: 1988
text: 10 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...

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The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion - Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In 'Still Lives', set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, but not all happily. For Eileen, relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub. With his skillfully composed frames and evocative use of music in place of dialogue, Davies creates a lovely, affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.


title: Eight Men Out
released: 1988-09-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 11:50:25.177000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.


title: High Spirits
released: 1988-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:07:33.030000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The ...

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When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American tourists arrive - along with some real ghosts. Among the tourists are married couple Jack and Sharon. Sharon's father holds the mortgage on Castle Plunkett, so she's hoping to debunk the ghosts. Jack, on the other hand, after meeting pretty ghost Mary, is very eager to believe. Can there be love between a human and ghost? Jack and Mary are going to try and find out.


title: Hot to Trot
released: 1988-08-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:32:12.350000000
year: 1988
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at ...

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Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.


plot: A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
title: License to Drive
released: 1988-07-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:09:02.673000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Les doesn't have a driving license yet, but to impress his gorgeous date Mercedes he borrows his grandpa's Cadillac for a night out... and has to witness the poor car going through more and more intense maltreatments.


title: Little Dorrit
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:29:08.177000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy Dorrit ...

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Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy Dorrit and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. Pursuing their cause Arthur comes across a successful business opportunity and also gains a number of new acquaintances, while his and Amy's paths continue to cross. A reversal of fortune lays him low, but to fully understand how, this story must now be seen through Little Dorrit's eyes.


title: Monkey Shines
released: 1988-07-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:17:54.370000000
year: 1988
text: 7 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.

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When Allan becomes a quadriplegic he loses all hope for living until he meets Ella - a monkey trained to fetch and carry for him around the house, obeying him in all things. But Ella is part of another experiment, and when she starts responding to Allan's underlying rage and frustration she has the ability to carry our her master's darkest wishes.


title: The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
released: 1988-12-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:20:20.380000000
year: 1988
text: 21 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.

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A young boy in 14th century Cumbria (north of England) keeps getting visions he cannot explain. His village has so far been spared from the black death, but the villagers fear its imminent arrival. With the boy as their guide, a group set out to dig a hole to the other side of the world, so as to fulfil the visions and save the village. At the 'other side' is 20th century New Zealand !.. N.B. Flips from B+W to colour frequently.


title: Cocoon: The Return
released: 1988-11-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:30:53.563000000
year: 1988
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
The old age pensioners that left at the end of the first film come back to earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no-one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on earth?

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Art, Ben and Joe are back! So are their wives and good friend Bernie in their first adventure since their last! Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who's still hangin' on. Art, Ben and Joe had forgotten what it was like on earth and immediately begin to feel their weaknesses, except for Art's wife who's pregnant! Meanwhile in the ocean, a biologist company snatched a cocoon out of the ocean and are doing research on it...


title: Jack's Back
released: 1988-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:41.020000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders.

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A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.


plot: An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
title: The Bear
released: 1989-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:03:23.490000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations.
fullplot:
The director of _Quest for Fire_ creates yet another film in nature with almost no human dialogue in this picturesque story of an orphaned bear cub who is adopted by an adult male bear and must avoid hunters. Bart the Bear stars in this anthropomorphic fantasy.


title: Colors
released: 1988-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:10:26.907000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.

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A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.


title: The House on Carroll Street
released: 1988-03-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:14:11.970000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to ...

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Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty.


title: A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:14:32.853000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A charming womaniser has to find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love or go to a business school, recommended by his father.

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A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.


plot: A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
title: Bagdad Cafe
released: 1988-04-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:16:29.797000000
year: 1987
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Cafè) is a look into the minds and lives of some people most of us have met but few of us know much about. This movie exemplifies how one person in the right place can affect a community of lives. The Adlons seem to express the view that all change and "magic" comes from hard work and mutual acceptance. A well-crafted view of the lives of tourists everywhere and the difficulties they can face. A Whimsical and lovingly Photographed look at the vast wasteland that is too often ignored by much of humanity.


title: Call Me
released: 1989-06-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:49:51.927000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A journalist (Anna) receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses ...

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A journalist (Anna) receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.


title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
released: 1988-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-20 00:34:48.420000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

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


title: Dead Ringers
released: 1988-09-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:21:31.983000000
year: 1988
text: 23 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

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The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?


title: Dominick and Eugene
released: 1988-10-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:37:02.287000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ...

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Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must decide between his devotion to his brother, or his need to go away to complete his training. Things are also not helped by Dominick's co-worker, or Eugene's budding romance.


title: Heart of Midnight
released: 1989-03-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:10:53.137000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

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Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special relationship with her uncle as she battles her memories and her surroundings in her new home.


title: Caddyshack II
released: 1988-07-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:40:45.437000000
year: 1988
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.

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Kate Hartounian is a young girl with a snotty rich friend who wants Kate and her father, Jack, to become members at a high-class golf club. Everything is going fine until the current members meet Jack. His application to join is rejected. In retaliation, Jack buys the rights to the club and turns it into an amusement park-type golf club. In order to settle things once and for all, the two sides face off in a golf match.


title: Chocolat
released: 1989-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 01:05:12.423000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, ...

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A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.


title: Full Moon in Blue Water
released: 1988-11-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 09:47:12.503000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is ...

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Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.


title: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:30:04.470000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?

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It's October 30, 1988 and Michael Myers has been in a coma since his pursuit of Laurie Strode, 10 years ago, was finally stopped (events of H1 and H2). However when he is transfered from Richmond Mental Institute to Smith's Grove he awakes when he hears that he has a niece in Haddonfield and after killing the transfer crew he escapes. In Haddonfield, the niece, Jamie, has been adopted by the Carruthers family but keeps having nightmares about Michael (but she doesn't know who he is). On Halloween night, Jamie goes out trick and treating, little knowing that her murdering Uncle is following her and her step-sister Rachel. Rushing to her aid is Dr. Loomis and with the help of Sheriff Meeker starts to search the town for Michael and to find Jamie to protect her. But can anything stop Michael this time?


title: High Hopes
released: 1989-02-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:31:46.037000000
year: 1988
text: 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and ...

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Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.


title: Lady in White
released: 1988-04-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:45:16.197000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

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Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.


title: The Milagro Beanfield War
released: 1988-03-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:02:24.263000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...

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In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly before the lucrative development is cancelled, a small war threatens to erupt.


title: Comic Book Confidential
released: 1989-04-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:38:54.863000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

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In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernèndez for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.


plot: A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
title: Crossing Delancey
released: 1988-09-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:12.833000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
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Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.


title: Incident at Raven's Gate
released: 1990-01-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:18:35.130000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking ...

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Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been "normal" suddenly going insane.


title: Everybody's All-American
released: 1988-11-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:43.477000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

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Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.


title: Camille Claudel
released: 1989-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:31:18.180000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt ...

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Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow...


title: A Short Film About Killing
released: 1988-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:23:09.693000000
year: 1988
text: 8 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, ...

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The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, calculated, flawlessly performed execution (both killings shown in the most graphic detail imaginable), while the murderer's idealistic young defence lawyer ends up as an unwilling accessory to the judicial murder of his client.


title: The Last Temptation of Christ
released: 1988-09-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:16:22.373000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

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The carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for Him. But as His mission nears fulfillment, He must face the greatest temptation; the normal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel of the same name.


title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
released: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 02:55:23.957000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police...

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A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing manner.


title: Child's Play
released: 1988-11-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:12:01.537000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

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When Charles Lee Ray needs to get quick escape from cop Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders. Once the adults accept Andy's story as truth, it's too late.


title: Clownhouse
released: 1990-04-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:59:17.240000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.

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Just before Halloween, three kid brothers who are alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.


title: Dance 'Til Dawn
released: 1988-10-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:13:31.710000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular ...

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It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to. The adults also have there problems to contend with: Nancy and Larry must find out a way to patch up their marriage or get a divorce; Jack spends the night tracking down his son Dan to find out why he didn't go to the prom; and overprotective Ed and Ruth keep tabs on their daughter Angela throughout the night.


plot: A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York.
title: Oliver & Company
released: 1988-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:42:03.380000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
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Inspired by Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist". A homeless kitten named Oliver, roams the streets of New York, where he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.


title: Clara's Heart
released: 1988-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:46:23.517000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and ...

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David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.


title: Destroyer
released: 1988-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:07:56.087000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of ...

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A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...


title: Hairspray
released: 1988-02-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:33:52.627000000
year: 1988
text: 7 nominations.
plot:
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

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'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.


title: The Land Before Time
released: 1988-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:27:50.080000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.

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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 obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.


title: Mississippi Burning
released: 1989-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:01:14.953000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 18 wins & 22 nominations.
plot:
Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

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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 former Sheriff partner.


title: Moonwalker
released: 1988-10-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:11:14.333000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big (Joe Pesci).

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A movie that starts out with the "Man in the Mirror" music video, it then changes to a montage of video clips of Michael's career. Next comes a parody of his Bad video by children, and then Michael is chased by fans in a fantasy sequence. 2 more videos are shown, and then a movie in which Michael plays a hero with magical powers. In it he is chased by drug dealer Mr. Big and saves three children. Videos included in the movie are "Smooth Criminal" and "Come Together".


title: Burning Secret
released: 1988-12-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:53:25.473000000
year: 1988
text: 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old ...

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This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying "see-- no feeling." Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.


title: Cobra Verde
released: 1987-12-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:19:33.160000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins.
plot:
The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner ...

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The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness.


title: Clean and Sober
released: 1988-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:43:57.687000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehab to escape trouble with the law, and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.

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Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. One morning, he wakes up to find a dead woman in his bed (someone he had been partying with the night before) from a cocaine overdose. He also just happens to receive a phone call from his employers telling him a huge sum of money is missing from one of his accounts. Panicking, Daryl decides to check into a drug rehab to hide from the law, where he meets tough cookie Morgan Freeman. A recovering addict himself, he now works as a drug counselor, and knows all the tricks Daryl tries to pull. Soon Daryl discovers he just might be in the right place, after all.


title: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
released: 1988-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:58:31.563000000
year: 1988
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
When her great aunt dies, famous horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight New England town Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch's cookbook and a punk rock poodle....

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When her great aunt dies, famous horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight New England town Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch's cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen's ample assets, all hell busts out and breaks loose. Can the Madonna of the Macabre find love with a studly cinema owner, avoid her creepy great uncle, titillate the town's teens and become a Las Vegas dance sensation all without being burned alive at the stake?


title: Gandahar
released: 1988-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:31:30.233000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.

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Gandahar is a utopian world of rare beauty and tranquility, the result of extensive mutation and genetic experimentation. But the perfect peace is shattered when a mysterious evil force invades this idyllic serenity, turning people into stone with petrifying rays. The Council of Women hold court and decide to send Sylvain, son of Queen Ambisextra, on a mission to destroy the enemy. Together with the beautiful and adventurous Arielle, the enemy that Sylvain eventually discovers very far from his home is the ultimate failure of Gandaharian scientific experimentation. It is a giant brain known as the Metamorphis, which has created an indestructible army of metal men to destroy Gandahar. Sylvain must battle the Metamorphis, but not until 1000 years in the future.


title: Looking for Langston
released: 1989-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-27 00:39:19.933000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with ...

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A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.


title: Madame Sousatzka
released: 1988-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:36:40.003000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

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Bengali Sushila Sen and her son, Manek, relocate from India to London after Sushila's relationship with her husband fails. Sushila struggles with everyday living. A child piano prodigy, Manek's schoolteacher refers him to a piano teacher, Irina Sousatzka, a Russian immigrant renowned for her teaching skills. Irina forms a strong bond with Manek, not only teaching him piano but also valuable life lessons. Disagreements arise, as Manek does not want anyone to run his life for him, but nevertheless the training progresses. Sushila, a baker and seller of Indian cuisine, loses an important client after her hair is found in one of her baked goods. To help his mother, Manek feels pressure to use his piano skills to earn some money. This is against Irina's wishes, however, as she is trying to protect Manek from her own negative experiences as a young concert pianist. She believes no student should perform until they are ready. But Manek, encouraged by a pushy music agent, decides to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, ready or not.


title: Married to the Mob
released: 1988-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:31:32.800000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife seeking to start her life over after her husband's murder and who is also pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.

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Angela deMarco is unhappily married to high Mafia member Frank deMarco. When Frank is killed, Angela takes the opportunity to break free of the Mafia world entirely and start a new life. But Frank's boss, Tony Russo, begins to court the unresponsive Angela. The FBI begins surveillance on her, thinking her to be his new mistress. FBI agent Mike Downey goes undercover as Angela's neighbor, but soon finds himself attracted to Angela himself.


title: My Stepmother Is an Alien
released: 1988-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:35:06.120000000
year: 1988
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady. Her mission is to make contact with a rather nerdy young scientist, who's quite ...

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An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady. Her mission is to make contact with a rather nerdy young scientist, who's quite overwhelmed by her attentions, and isn't aware of the connection between her arrival and his work.


title: Pascali's Island
released: 1988-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-19 00:50:18.057000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.

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1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.


plot: A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
title: Cocktail
released: 1988-07-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:39:04.247000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
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After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian and Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney, a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together?


title: Dream Demon
released: 1988-10-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-03 00:30:05.957000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.

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A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.


title: Heartbreak Hotel
released: 1988-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:13:52.523000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.

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Johnny, a 17 year old boy, succeeds in kidnapping Elvis Presley and thus convinces him to meet her mother who is a fan of his and has to stand difficult times at that moment.


title: Grave of the Fireflies
released: 1988-04-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:27.347000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins.
plot:
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

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Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father's destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.


plot: Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
title: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
released: 1988-05-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:00:29.240000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
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When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends.


title: The Kiss
released: 1988-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 02:55:27.690000000
year: 1988
text: 6 nominations.
plot:
When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...

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When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a kiss. Now all grown up, Felice is a jet setting model, while Hillary is happily married to husband Jack with a daughter, Amy. One day, Felice calls Hillary and tells her she needs to pass her bloodline onto another relative. When Hillary is killed after the call, Felice slowly makes her way into the family so she can attempt at pass the bloodline onto Amy.


title: Mac and Me
released: 1988-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:46:22.680000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC ?) trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a young boy in a wheel chair.

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A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC ?) trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a young boy in a wheel chair.


title: Masquerade
released: 1988-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:22:00.920000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the ...

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A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning a blind eye to incriminating evidence.


title: Critters 2
released: 1988-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 01:06:36.287000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the next neighboring town.

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A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.


plot: Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal.
title: Dangerous Liaisons
released: 1989-02-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:28:59.243000000
year: 1988
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 18 nominations.
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In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his success. His reward for doing so will be to spend the night with Merteuil. He has little difficulty seducing Cecile but what he really wants is to seduce Madame de Tourvel. When Merteuil learns that he has actually fallen in love with her, she refuses to let him claim his reward for seducing Cecile. Death soon follows.


plot: The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.
title: A Handful of Dust
released: 1988-06-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:51:45.750000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations.
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We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his enormous estate with their young son. Tony's not much for parties, and Brenda joins London society, on the arm of a penniless man, John Beaver, a hanger-on at Tony's club. John is encouraged by his entrepreneurial mother, who sees a quid in Tony and Brenda. Brenda and John become lovers, Brenda spends more and more time in London, and Tony's without a clue. Then, bringing things to a head are tragedy, law suits, greed, and what should be a few-months' expedition to Brazil. We are each of us merely a handful of dust.


plot: Celebrity confessions about their first sexual experiences.
title: Heavy Petting
released: 1989-09-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-04-29 00:25:29.870000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
HEAVY PETTING is a hilarious and salacious exploration of the sexual mores of the 50's as seen through the eyes of a generation that lived through the Sexual Revolution. Creative baby boomers-- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- candidly recall their sexual coming-f-age tales in intimate interviews. Joyously campy and refreshingly carefree, HEAVY PETTING blends humorous, unbelievable footage of unhelpful sex-ed films with classic snippets of THE WILD ONE and Elvis' hip gyrations, not to mention Bernhard talking about playing "doctor", always observant Ginsberg on a disastrous encounter with a girl, and Byrne on the childhood myths of masturbation. Eternal mysteries such as the female orgasm, the universal appeal of Marilyn Monroe, and the rituals of high school are laid bare by this lovable group of characters.


title: Hellbound: Hellraiser II
released: 1988-12-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 00:36:40.623000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

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Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.


title: Little Vera
released: 1989-04-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-28 00:26:58.830000000
year: 1988
text: 7 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment ...

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A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong.


plot: An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.
title: Midnight Run
released: 1988-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:36:59.477000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.


title: The Prince of Pennsylvania
released: 1988-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:36:13.290000000
year: 1988
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his ...

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There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.


title: Split Decisions
released: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:01:05.897000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.

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When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.


title: Stormy Monday
released: 1988-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:01:10.660000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by an club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.

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Brendan takes a job as janitor for Finney, who runs a jazz nightclub in the Northern English city of Newcastle. But Finney is being pressured to sell his club, and Brendan soon provides non-janitorial services to Finney. Soon his rival's American boss Cosmo comes to town, while Brendan begins to fall in love with Kate, an escort working for Cosmo.


title: Things Change
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:36:41.837000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid to take the rap for a murder. Jerry, a two-bit gangster on probation, is given a chance ...

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Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid to take the rap for a murder. Jerry, a two-bit gangster on probation, is given a chance for redemption by guarding Gino for the weekend. But instead of sitting around a dingy hotel room, Jerry decides to give Gino a weekend to remember, taking him to Lake Tahoe. Jerry's bragging to his friends of his important charge, as well as Gino's dignified, quiet demeanor, soon result in much complication for them both.


title: Twister
released: 1989-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:32:23.200000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV ...

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An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancèe, and the black maid. Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.


title: A World Apart
released: 1988-06-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:32:48.820000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 13 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...

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A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?


title: Best of the Best
released: 1989-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:21:23.727000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?

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Team USA gets rid of personal ghosts while fighting Team Korea in Taekwondo championship. "Adversity overcome" formula with excellent fighting scenes.


title: Born on the Fourth of July
released: 1990-01-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:19:53.313000000
year: 1989
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 18 nominations.
plot:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.


title: Breaking In
released: 1989-10-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:16:50.337000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

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Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.


title: Cat Chaser
released: 1989-10-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:43:50.593000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

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An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the general off. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard.


title: Chances Are
released: 1989-03-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:17:35.063000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex ...

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Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.


title: Cold Feet
released: 1989-05-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:50:41.160000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
A psycho-killer with mommy issues, a charming crooked cowboy and their girl steel some jewels. The cowboy decides not to share and goes on the run with the loot. A crazy chase across the country between former partners in crime begins.

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A psycho-killer with mommy issues, a charming crooked cowboy and their girl steel some jewels. The cowboy decides not to share and goes on the run with the loot. A crazy chase across the country between former partners in crime begins.


title: Communion
released: 1989-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:22:54.127000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

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Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.


title: Glory
released: 1990-02-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:29:09.053000000
year: 1989
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

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Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.


title: Lean on Me
released: 1989-03-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:27:04.180000000
year: 1989
text: 4 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve.

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An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.


title: Rampage
released: 1992-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:29:36.407000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.

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Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.


title: Two Moon Junction
released: 1988-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 01:01:30.080000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A young Southern dèbutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

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April has just graduated from an exclusive Southern college. She's just returned home to her family mansion to prepare for her semi-arranged marriage to "the right man", a man approved by April's father, a Senator. During a trip to the local fair, April meets Perry, the kind of man she always wanted but never knew. Her parents are aghast, as Perry is exactly the kind of man they don't want her associating with. April must reconcile the expectations of her family and her fiancèe with the passion she feels for Perry.


title: Watchers
released: 1988-12-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:39:54.787000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by ...

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Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.


title: Young Einstein
released: 1989-08-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 01:08:51.413000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his ...

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Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beautiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.


title: Babar: The Movie
released: 1989-07-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:10:09.010000000
year: 1989
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.

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In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.


title: Blaze
released: 1989-12-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:30:32.260000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

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This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain control of the state?


title: For All Mankind
released: 1989-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:18:23.650000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins.
plot:
This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, ...

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This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts' own words from interviews and from the mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and and beauty of the astronauts' experiences--experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time "for all mankind."


plot: A boy discovers an incredible and gruesome world of monsters under his bed.
title: Little Monsters
released: 1989-08-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:47:24.640000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
A child meets the monster that lives under his bed. He even becomes one of his best friends. Soon the child discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.


title: Scarecrows
released: 1991-03-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:52:59.030000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Five people heist the Camp Pendleton payroll, kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot ...

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Five people heist the Camp Pendleton payroll, kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. Two of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.


title: Spike of Bensonhurst
released: 1988-11-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:46.343000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob...

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Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.


title: The Telephone
released: 1988-01-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:26:45.390000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

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A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.


title: My Neighbor Totoro
released: 1988-04-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:25:16.470000000
year: 1988
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby.

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Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.


title: Working Girl
released: 1988-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:27:07.797000000
year: 1988
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job.

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Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss.


title: Around the World in 80 Days
released: 1989-04-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:30:01.260000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just 80 days.

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Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler (a man hoping for a quite life) on a tour of the world. However, just before the time he leaves, the Bank of England is robbed and a Detective believes that Fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him.


plot: A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for dare-devil firefighting and his girl.
title: Always
released: 1989-12-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:29:04.307000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together.


title: Dead Poets Society
released: 1989-06-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:12:21.930000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 18 nominations.
plot:
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to discover their love for poetry and seize the day.

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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.


title: God of Gamblers
released: 1989-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:23:27.227000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.

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Do San (the God of gamblers) is a legendary gambler helped by his supernatural abilities. He undertakes to help a friend pay a debt by beating his friend's advisory at the card table. Despite being assigned a bodyguard Do San has a freak accident which leaves him with partial memory loss and at a mental stage of a child. The small time hustler Knife, his side-kick and his girl friend, being responsible for the accident takes care of the retarded Do San. After some time they discover that he has not lost all of his powers and takes him on a round at the local gambling halls. After being chased by both Knife's loan-shark and enemies closer to the home of Do San, a final showdown at the card tables may take place.


plot: A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
title: For Queen & Country
released: 1989-05-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:25:34.707000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins.
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Reuben, having been discharged from the British military, returns to London after a tour of duty in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, where he was decorated as a war Hero. However, given his vocation to his country, he finds interviews for jobs surprisingly difficult to arrange, even though they were sorted out by his careers officers in the army. Within time, he realises his illustrious army record holds no sway in everyday life.


title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
released: 1989-05-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:04:57.350000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.

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Indiana Jones, famed adventurer and archaeologist acquires a diary that holds clues and a map with no names to find the mysterious Holy Grail- which was sent from his father, Dr. Henry Jones, in Italy. Upon hearing from a private collector, Walter Donavan, that the mission for the Holy Grail went astray with the disappearance of his father, Indiana Jones and museum curator Marcus Brody venture to Italy in search of Indy's father. However, upon retrieving Dr. Henry Jones in Nazi territory, the rescue mission turns into a race to find the Holy Grail before the Nazis do- who plan to use it for complete world domination for their super-race. With the diary as a vital key and the map with no names as a guide, Indiana Jones once again finds himself in another death defying adventure of pure excitement.


title: Knick Knack
released: 2003-07-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:06:22.813000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
A snow globe snowman wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a hot party, but the glass dome that surrounds him gets in his way, despite all his efforts.

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A snow globe snowman wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a hot party, but the glass dome that surrounds him gets in his way, despite all his efforts.


plot: The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.
title: Running on Empty
released: 1988-09-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:03:17.110000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.


title: Stars and Bars
released: 1988-03-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:06:36.453000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.

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A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.


title: Track 29
released: 1988-07-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 01:00:43.460000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a ...

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A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set.


title: Batman
released: 1989-06-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:24:06.343000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 21 nominations.
plot:
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

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Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot...so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious "bat-man". And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory...who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham's underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime...the Joker. Gotham's only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this?


title: Cheetah
released: 1989-08-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:25:09.757000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. ...

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An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.


title: Do the Right Thing
released: 1989-07-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:56:37.667000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

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This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone.


title: 84C MoPic
released: 1989-04-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-01 04:15:59.883000000
year: 1989
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is being told in the form of a documentary; a camera team follows an Army unit in pursuit of 'Charlie'. ...

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Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is being told in the form of a documentary; a camera team follows an Army unit in pursuit of 'Charlie'. Filmed in Southern California. The movie's producing company itself is called '84 Charlie MoPic'.


title: The Killer
released: 1990-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:22:06.547000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.

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A violent Hong Kong action film, this is the story of an assassin, Jeffrey Chow (aka Mickey Mouse) who takes one last job so he can retire and care for his girlfriend Jenny. When his employers betray him, he reluctantly joins forces with Inspector Lee (aka Dumbo), the cop who is pursuing him. Together, the new friends face the final confrontation of the gangsters out to kill them.


title: Return to Snowy River
released: 1988-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:03:42.767000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.

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Young Jim Craig returns to the Australian high country, after being away herding the horses he caught and sold, in order to provide a stake for his future. He finds things quite different than when he left: his girlfriend, Jessica Harrison, is being pursued by a rich suitor, Jessica's father wants him out of her life, and the residents of the high country are being driven out by the wealthier low country ranchers. Jim definitely has his work cut out for him.


plot: A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
title: Scrooged
released: 1988-11-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:28:47.993000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
fullplot:
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.


title: Twins
released: 1988-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:26:13.460000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins.
plot:
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is a short small-time crook.

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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 Seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate lowlife and is about to be killed by loan sharks when Julius discovers that he has a brother and begins looking for him.


title: Walker
released: 1987-12-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:36:20.383000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

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William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country.


title: Cohen and Tate
released: 1989-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:22:18.137000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly ...

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A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.


title: Dead Calm
released: 1989-04-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:20:43.350000000
year: 1989
text: 5 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A mass-murderer kidnaps and seduces a young woman after leaving her husband to die on the vessel whose crew he's just slaughtered.

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An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.


title: Harlem Nights
released: 1989-11-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:45:47.023000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized ...

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"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!


title: Phantasm II
released: 1988-07-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:42:12.657000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.

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Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in his past were just in his imagination. But once he's free, he contacts Redge and they team up to hunt down and eliminate the "Tall Man", who plunders the graveyards and abducts the sleeping with help of his terrible gnomes. A beautiful strange girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams. He assumes she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can do her any harm?


title: Poltergeist III
released: 1988-06-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:57:24.447000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.

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Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him?


title: Pumpkinhead
released: 1989-01-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:08:10.120000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.

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A group of city kids go into the country to relax. While there, one of them is involved in a biking accident that takes the life of the son of the local storekeeper. In a fit of rage, the storekeeper has a witch unleash an unstoppable demon called "Pumpkinhead" to kill the group. When he realizes he's gone too far, the storekeeper attempts to save the kids, but is continually afflicted by visions of peoples' deaths through the eyes of the monster.


title: Rambo III
released: 1988-05-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:31:23.520000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and it's up to Rambo to rescue him.

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John Rambo's former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman's request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.


title: Salsa
released: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:30:15.760000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy ...

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Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages his best friend, courteous gentleman Ken, to date his sister Margarita so he gets a free hand with her flirtatious classmate Lola. The reigning salsa queen Luna's interest in Ruco as dance-partner threatens his on-off relationship with Vicki. More jealous trouble follows when Ken and Margarita fall in true love.


title: Short Circuit 2
released: 1988-07-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:17:39.400000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.

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When Number Five is sent from Newton and Stephanie's ranch to the big city to help Ben with his electronics business, he finds that his robotic talents are wanted by city low-life who want to turn Number Five into profits.


title: A Soldier's Tale
released: 1989-07-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-03-28 01:31:50.673000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

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A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.


title: Tequila Sunrise
released: 1988-12-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:07:01.470000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very ...

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Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger.


title: The 'Burbs
released: 1989-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:34:06.330000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.

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This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...


title: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
released: 1989-03-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:05:50.217000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

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The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.


title: The Abyss
released: 1989-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:55:36.020000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

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An American nuclear submarine encounters an alien species, which coincidentally causes massive electrical and hydraulic malfunctions, causing the sub to crash into an underwater cliff and sink. The navy asks the workers of a nearby underwater oil rig who are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of the crash. As the crew embark on their mission, they encounter a number of difficulties and discover that they may not be alone. There is something else down there.


title: The Fabulous Baker Boys
released: 1989-10-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:44:34.860000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play schmaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to ...

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Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play schmaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond, a former 'escort' who needs some refinement, but the act begins to take off again. While the act is now successful, both Frank and Jack have problems with their life on the road. Susie becomes the agent that makes them re-evaluate where they are going, and how honest they have been with each other.


title: The Fly II
released: 1989-02-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:25:26.057000000
year: 1989
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
The almost human son of "The Fly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wish to continue his father's experiments.

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Seth Brundle was a renowned scientist whose warped experiments with teleportation transformed him into a man/fly hybrid called BrundleFly. A few months after the BrundleFly insect met its demise by his lover's, Veronica, shotgun, she dies while giving birth to their son, Martin. Seth's corrupt employer, Bartok, adopts Martin, only so Martin can solve the new problems that the still-functioning TelePods present and to use him as a science project because of the dormant insect genes. Martin is now fully grown, even though he is five, and the fly genes begin to awaken and make him just like dear, dead dad. With the help of his girlfriend, Beth, they go to wherever they can find a possible cure before Bartok finds them and brings them back, but not before Martin finishes his transformation into MartinFly, the deadliest of the BrundleFly species.


plot: The life and career of the wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star, Jerry Lee Lewis.
title: Great Balls of Fire!
released: 1989-06-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:33:46.103000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.


title: Hider in the House
released: 1991-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:31:02.383000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

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A deranged man, Tom Sykes, hides out in the attic while an unsuspecting couple (Rogers & McKean) and their family carry on their life in the house below. Once Tom stops just hiding out and becomes involved with the family and, in particular, the wife, the problems begin. An original USA made for cable movie.


title: Rent-a-Cop
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:04:55.287000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug ...

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When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of staging the aborted bust. Ex-ballplayer turned drug dealer Roger is in tight with corrupt vice cops and their superiors And the fireworks start popping.


title: Return of the Living Dead II
released: 1988-01-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:36:27.750000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm.

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In this first sequel to The Return of the Living Dead, a group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxen gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.


title: The Thin Blue Line
released: 1988-08-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:07:03.313000000
year: 1988
text: 11 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

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Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas, Texas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas and was picked up by a 16-year-old runaway (David Harris). Later that night, they drank some beer, smoked some marijuana, and went to the movies. Then, their stories diverged. Adams claimed that he left for his motel, where he was staying with his brother, and went to sleep. Harris, however, said that they were stopped by police late that night, and Adams suddenly shot the officer approaching their car. The film shows the audience the evidence gathered by the police, who were under extreme pressure to clear the case. It strongly makes a point that the circumstantial evidence was very flimsy. In fact, it becomes apparent that Harris was a much more likely suspect and was in the middle of a crime spree, eventually ending up on Death Row himself for the later commission of other crimes. Morris implies that the DA's and the judge's desire for the death penalty in this case (for which Harris would have been ineligible because of his youth) made Adams a scapegoat on whom to pin this heinous crime.


title: Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
released: 1988-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:00:51.750000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around ...

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When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.


title: Vice Versa
released: 1988-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:07:16.547000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
During an argument, a divorced executive and his 11 year old son casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers the father's mind to the body of the son and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.

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On returning from a buying trip abroad for the department store in which he works, Marshall finds he is in possession of a strange ornamental skull. Marshall is divorced and is looking after his son Charlie for a few days. The skull has special powers, and when Marshall and Charlie simultaneously wish they were each others age, father and son exchange bodies. Now Charlie has to go to work, and Marshall to school. Charlie also has to deal with Marshall's girlfriend. If that weren't enough a pair of smugglers are in pursuit of the skull.


plot: A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
title: Willow
released: 1988-05-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:03:35.200000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 9 nominations.
fullplot:
A baby girl is discovered in a river by Ranon and Mims, the children of Willow Ufgood, a dwarf farmer and magician and the baby girl is taken into the care of Willow's family. But when a terrifying dog-like creature attacks Willow's village, whilst tracking down the baby. Willow consults the village council and the wizard The High Aldwin. The High Aldwin gives Willow a task and Willow leaves the village and embarks on the task to give the baby girl to a responsible person. But Willow soon learns the baby is Elora Danan, the baby girl destined to bring about the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Joined by his allies: swordsman Madmartigan, sorceress Fin Raziel and the Brownies Franjean and Rool, Willow takes it upon himself to protect Elora from Queen Bavmorda, who intends to kill Elora and prevent Elora from fulfilling her destiny. And Willow and his allies are pursued by Queen Bavmorda's daughter Sorsha and the evil commander of Queen Bavmorda's army General Kael, whom are searching for Elora and bring her back to Queen Bavmorda's castle, where Queen Bavmorda bids to kill Elora in a ritual and prevent the prophecy of her downfall.


title: All Dogs Go to Heaven
released: 1989-11-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:07:06.750000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals.

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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.


title: The Adventures of Milo and Otis
released: 1989-08-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:50:36.103000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.

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The story of two animals and their adventures. Milo, the cat, and Otis, the dog, are two animals who grew up together on the same farm. One day, the two are separated and begin a journey to find each other. The adventurous, and often perilous quest finds the two animals traveling across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands searching for one another.


plot: A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
title: Drugstore Cowboy
released: 1989-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:07:24.040000000
year: 1989
text: 13 wins & 5 nominations.
fullplot:
A group of drug users in the 1970's help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. Matt Dillon's character is very superstitious and eventually his luck runs out.


title: Earth Girls Are Easy
released: 1989-05-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:52:51.290000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A spaceship with three furry aliens lands in a California girl's swimming pool, so she makes friends with them.

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Trio of fuzzy (and funny) aliens crash land in Valerie's pool-- putting a decided damper on her future wedding plans to cheating Dr. Ted Gallagher. Action interrupted by musical numbers--an MTV musical comedy.


title: Field of Dreams
released: 1989-05-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:52:15.387000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago White Sox come.

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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.


plot: After rising from his volcanic grave, Godzilla is threatened by a mutated rosebush.
title: Godzilla vs. Biollante
released: 1989-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:30:55.423000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins.
fullplot:
A scientist combines the cells of a rose with those of Godzilla to create a biological creature more horrifying than any seen before. The two do battle after a destructive tour of Japan by Godzilla. A newly released version includes many new fight scenes that were cut out of the theatrical version.


title: Heathers
released: 1989-03-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:10:22.863000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics; killing the popular kids.

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A regular girl, Veronica, tries to survive the social jungle of high school by sticking with the three most popular girls at school who are all called Heather. As she meets a sociopath named JD, her life spirals into a continuous cycle of hate, unintentional murder and indifference, as she exacts revenge on her enemies, also known as her best friends.


title: The Horror Show
released: 1989-04-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:32:13.727000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of ...

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Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.


title: Lethal Weapon 2
released: 1989-07-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:03:33.477000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
plot:
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

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Riggs and Murtaugh are trying to take down some drug dealers but the they turn out to be not run of the mill drug dealers; they have automatic weapons and helicopters. Eventually they grab one of their vehicles and find a million dollars worth of gold coins or Krudderands in the trunk. Later Murtaugh is threatened by the men they're pursuing. That's when the Captain reassigns them to protect a man named Leo Getz who is suppose to testify in a big case. When they get to where Leo is, someone tries to kill him and that's when they learn he laundered half a billion dollars worth of drug money. He then takes them to a place he once went to and that's when the people there start shooting at them. Later when they come back with back up they learn that the men work for the South African consulate and have diplomatic immunity. They deduce that they are the ones they were looking for, but because of they have diplomatic immunity they can't do anything.


plot: A documentary of Irish rock group U2's Fall 1987 tour of North America.
title: U2: Rattle and Hum
released: 1988-11-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 01:06:42.580000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band, U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album, The Joshua Tree, the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity in indulge in some special musical activities like playing with BB King and performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking" with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band's biggest hits on tour is featured while Bono speaks his mind on the problems of his homeland.


title: Patty Hearst
released: 1988-09-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-31 00:37:50.143000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces...

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The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.


title: Tucker: The Man and His Dream
released: 1988-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:27:57.687000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

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Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.


plot: A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective - Dr Watson.
title: Without a Clue
released: 1988-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:48:08.313000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.


title: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
released: 1989-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:01:28.750000000
year: 1989
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.

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In the small town of San Dimas, a few miles away from Los Angeles, there are two nearly brain dead teenage boys going by the names of Bill S, Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan, they have a dream together of starting their own rock and roll band called the "Wyld Stallyns". Unfortunately, they are still in high school and on the verge of failing out of their school as well, and if they do not pass their upcoming history report, they will be separated as a result of Ted's father sending him to military school. But, what Bill and Ted do not know is that they must stay together to save the future. So, a man from the future named Rufus came to help them pass their report. So, both Bill and Ted decided to gather up historical figures which they need for their report. They are hoping that this will help them pass their report so they can stay together.


title: Eversmile, New Jersey
released: 1990-03-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:13:20.903000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, ...

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Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.


title: The Icicle Thief
released: 1990-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-28 00:45:09.540000000
year: 1989
text: 6 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A movie resembling Bicycle Thieves (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.

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The director Maurizio Nichetti is invited by a TV studio to introduce a screening of his best-known film, the neo-realist classic 'Ladri di saponette'. But Nichetti is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish colour commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to be mixed up -a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumer heaven. So Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out


title: Punchline
released: 1988-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 00:10:54.440000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. He and several others work regularly at the Gas Station, a New York comedy club. The ...

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Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. He and several others work regularly at the Gas Station, a New York comedy club. The wages are lousy and everybody hopes for the big break. Lilah Krytsick is housewife with an ambition to be a stand-up comedian, however she doesnt seem to have the talent. Steven takes her under his wings and teaches her the art of comedy and humour. But when a TV station arranges a comedy evening at the club, Steve sees his opportunity for fame and stardom. Their friendship seems quickly forgotten and now it's every man and woman for him- or herself!


plot: Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
title: Sunset
released: 1988-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:17:50.087000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Whilst making a silent film about the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, veteran actor 'Tom Mix' (Bruce Willis) discovers that the real Earp ('James Garner') is on the film set as a technical advisor. The two become friends, but when a murder takes place, the two become partners and set about tracking down the killer.


title: Talk Radio
released: 1989-01-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:09:18.767000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

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An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions.


title: Time of the Gypsies
released: 1990-02-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:05:42.210000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

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In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.


title: Fat Man and Little Boy
released: 1989-10-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:04:26.733000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

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In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. General Leslie Groves was in overall command of it. This film reenacts the project with an emphasis on their relationship.


title: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
released: 1989-07-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:09:08.227000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask.

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The graduating class of the local high school is going on a luxury cruise with Jason Voorhees as a stowaway. The heroine Rennie Wickham believes she was almost drowned by Jason as a child. Jason eventually sinks the boat and kills many of the students on it, but many of them escape to Manhattan. A long battle with Jason ensues until Jason is washed away in the New York sewers by a midnight flooding of toxic waste.


title: Her Alibi
released: 1989-02-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:38:46.530000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

fullplot:
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.


title: Casualties of War
released: 1989-08-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:21:18.693000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

fullplot:
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.


title: Immediate Family
released: 1989-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:01:12.983000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that...

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Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things don't go quite to plan however..


title: The Karate Kid, Part III
released: 1989-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 12:01:03.620000000
year: 1989
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietman War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.


title: Kill Me Again
released: 1989-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:07:08.417000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.

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Fay Forrester, an attractive young lady wants to escape from her violent and jealous boyfriend Vince. So she hires Jack Andrews, a second class private investigator to arrange her death. She wants to restart her life with a new identity and the money she robbed together with Vince. Because of Jack's financial problems he joins Fay after her fake death. Unfortunately Vince finds out that Fay's still alive. The hunt for Jack, Fay and the money begins...


title: Torch Song Trilogy
released: 1988-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:36:44.917000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...

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Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment--and endurance--in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.


title: World Gone Wild
released: 1988-04-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 01:09:10.910000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. The isolated Lost Wells outpost survived the holocaust and the inhabitants guard the source of their ...

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In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. The isolated Lost Wells outpost survived the holocaust and the inhabitants guard the source of their existence. Now an evil cult of renegades want control of their valuable water supply. And the villagers are no match for such brute military force. Only one man can help the stricken community - a mercenary living in a distant cannibal city. But even he, and his strange henchmen, may not be able to survive in the world gone wild.


title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
released: 1990-04-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:29:26.963000000
year: 1989
text: 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.

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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.


title: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
released: 1989-06-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:46:15.733000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 10 nominations.
plot:
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

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Wayne Szalinski is your average "nutty scientist", working on a top secret machine that shrinks objects. When it unexpectedly starts working, he's so amazed he forgets to tell his family to be careful. And when they wander into his lab...


title: Johnny Handsome
released: 1989-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:47:15.797000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

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Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and Mikey are double-crossed by Sunny and Rafe---Mikey is killed and Johnny sent to prison. While in prison, Johnny is invited to a rehabilitation program, where Dr. Steven Fischer rebuilds Johnny's face and helps Johnny get paroled. Johnny starts working in a shipyard, where he meets Donna McCarty and starts a romance. Lt. A.Z. Drones is a skeptical detective who follows the rehabilitation of Johnny. Johnny's new life is consumed by the desire of payback.


title: Promised Land
released: 1988-01-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:49:19.930000000
year: 1987
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film ...

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This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival, it portrays the other half of the American dream, as Hancock and his cheerleader girlfriend Mary wander to a middle-class mediocrity out itself out of reach for Danny and his psychotic wife Bev.


plot: The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
title: Prison
released: 1987-12-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:19:58.260000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.


title: Troma's War
released: 1989-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:23:11.703000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! Troma's War ...

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A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! Troma's War creates new kinds of heroes. A used car salesman, a handsome environmentalist, an obese junk-food gourmand, a seventy-year-old housewife, some sensational young women, a year old jingoistic baby and more sensational women all become deadly soldiers...


plot: A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
title: Waxwork
released: 1988-06-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:26:21.017000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
A waxwork museum comes to town, and a mysterious man invites some teens to come to a special showing at midnight. Once inside, while viewing different exhibits, the scenes come alive and the viewer is sucked into the story being portrayed.


plot: Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
title: Black Rain
released: 1989-09-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:21:31.417000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.


title: Crimes and Misdemeanors
released: 1989-10-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:47:25.280000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 17 nominations.
plot:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

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Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair. When he intercepts a letter Dolores has written to his wife Miriam, he is frantic. He confesses all to his shady brother Jack who assures him that he has friends who can take care of her. Meanwhile, filmmaker Cliff Stern is having his own problems. He's been working on a documentary film for some time but has yet to complete it. He and his wife Wendy have long ago stopped loving one another and are clearly on their way to divorce. He falls in love with Halley Reed who works with a producer, Lester. Cliff soon finds himself making a documentary about Lester and hates every minute of it.


title: Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
released: 1989-08-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:35:40.353000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey - none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident.

fullplot:
In the early 1960s, Eddie and the Cruisers was the hottest rock band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke up the band. Only Eddie Wilson is not dead. He works as a construction worker in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.


title: The Gods Must Be Crazy II
released: 1990-04-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:16:06.130000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a ...

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Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.


title: Homer and Eddie
released: 1989-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:30:07.417000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

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A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.


title: I, Madman
released: 1989-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:32:56.090000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses, ...

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Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses, ears, and hair and puts them on his face to please a girl he likes. Only Virginia discovers that the book is nonfiction, and every time she picks up the book to read it, she sees him. The insane doctor from the book has escaped the book into our reality.


title: Rain Man
released: 1988-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:44:44.303000000
year: 1988
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

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Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Quantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.


title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
released: 1988-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:02:32.563000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.

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In 1985, after a successful research in Amazonas, Dr. Dennis Alan from Harvard is invited by the president of a Boston pharmaceutics industry, Andrew Cassedy, to travel to Haiti to investigate the case of a man named Christophe that died in 1978 and has apparently returned to life. Andrew wants samples of the voodoo drug that was used in Christophe to be tested with the intention of producing a powerful anesthetic. Dr. Alan travels to meet Dr. Marielle Duchamp that is treating Christophe and arrives in Haiti in a period of revolution. Soon Alan is threatened by the chief of the feared Tonton Macuse Dargent Peytraud, who is a torturer and powerful witch. Alan learns that death is not the end in the beginning of his journey to hell.


title: The Vanishing
released: 1988-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:06:11.040000000
year: 1988
text: 9 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

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Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorne, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine.


plot: A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
title: Switching Channels
released: 1988-03-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:18.207000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
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Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon.


title: They Live
released: 1988-11-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:47:56.923000000
year: 1988
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

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Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.


title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
released: 1988-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:26:06.120000000
year: 1988
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 21 nominations.
plot:
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

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'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. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and animated characters, and lots of references to classic animation.


title: Coming Out
released: 1989-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:06:49.147000000
year: 1989
text: 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident...

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Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly falls in love with a young man. Transformed by this love he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.report


title: Criminal Law
released: 1989-04-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-03 00:56:30.350000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Oldman plays a lawyer who defends a killer, but, soon after he wins he finds out that the killer is guilty.

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A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.


title: Dad
released: 1989-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:55:11.233000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...

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A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man's wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.


title: Driving Miss Daisy
released: 1990-01-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:23:55.300000000
year: 1989
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.


title: Fright Night Part 2
released: 1989-05-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:12:11.243000000
year: 1988
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent from the original Fright Night must face more vampires out for revenge.

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Three years after killing the vampire in the original, Charlie has started to believe it was all his imagination and starts to forget that vampires truly exist - until four strangers lead by Regina, a noted actress, arrives at Peter Vincent's house and starts to have an unhealthy interest in Charlie, Peter and Charlie's new girlfriend Alex. It becomes clear that Regina is Jerry's (the vampire in the original film) sister and she is determined to get revenge on the friends and plans to turn Charlie into a vampire - so that he can face his punishment for all eternity.


title: Jesus of Montreal
released: 1990-05-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:14:12.533000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 18 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.

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A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.


title: Last Exit to Brooklyn
released: 1990-05-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 01:14:18.290000000
year: 1989
text: 6 wins.
plot:
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is ...

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Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.


title: Leviathan
released: 1989-03-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:45:19.740000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win.
plot:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to ...

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Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.


title: The Seventh Sign
released: 1988-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:48:07.373000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse--as outlined in the Book of Revelation--seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci, the Vatican Emissary ...

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Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse--as outlined in the Book of Revelation--seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci, the Vatican Emissary assigned to investigate, dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn, a young American woman, has reason to fear they're real--and that the unfolding events may spell disaster for her unborn child.


title: Young Guns
released: 1988-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:37:21.570000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

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1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach them reading and to civilize them. However he's a thorn in the side of the rich rancher Murphy, as he's a competitor in selling cattle. One day he's shot by Murphy's men. Judge Wilson can't do anything, since Sheriff Brady is one of Murphy's men. But attorney Alex persuades him to constitute Tunstall's young friends to Deputies and give them warrants of arrest for the murderers. Instead of arresting them, William Bonney just shoots them down. Soon the 5 guys become famous and William gets the name "Billie the Kid" - but they're also chased by dozens of Murphy's men and the army. The people however honor him as fighter for justice.


title: Back to the Future Part II
released: 1989-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 10:39:00.767000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip.

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Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty's job in the future is to pose as his own son to prevent him from being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the present.


title: Cameron's Closet
released: 1989-01-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:13:03.420000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young ...

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A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul.


title: The Challengers
released: 1991-02-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 01:04:34.003000000
year: 1991
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
After her father dies and she moves to a new town, Mackie wants to join a certain gang/band. But they've got this boys-only rule. So Mackie comes up with an audacious plan...only it begins ...

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After her father dies and she moves to a new town, Mackie wants to join a certain gang/band. But they've got this boys-only rule. So Mackie comes up with an audacious plan...only it begins to backfire.


title: A Dry White Season
released: 1989-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:19:11.677000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

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Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.


title: Enemies: A Love Story
released: 1989-12-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:33:58.177000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

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Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.


title: Henry V
released: 1989-11-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:23:16.937000000
year: 1989
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

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King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way, the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.


title: The Little Mermaid
released: 1989-11-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:05:15.050000000
year: 1989
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.

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Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught in arguments with her father over those "barbaric fish-eaters". She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father.


title: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
released: 1988-03-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:07:14.723000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. ...

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The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to place himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchanges his bag with another one...


title: The Rescue
released: 1988-08-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:23:42.647000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A team of Navy S.E.A.L.s are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the wrong hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their ...

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A team of Navy S.E.A.L.s are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the wrong hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their base. The U.S. government will not mount a rescue mission to free the soldiers, so their adolescent children take over. The kids find a way to venture into the foreign country and then must overcome many obstacles.


title: Tetsuo, the Iron Man
released: 1989-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:11:23.563000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a...

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A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.


title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
released: 1988-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:04.513000000
year: 1988
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

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Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.


title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
released: 1989-11-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:30:12.930000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather...

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This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Right", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.


title: Ghostbusters II
released: 1989-06-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:12:01.120000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient sorcerer attempting to possess Dana's baby and be born anew. Can the Ghostbusters quell the negative emotions feeding the otherworldly threat and stop the world from being slimed?


plot: The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
title: Black Rain
released: 1989-09-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:11:10.430000000
year: 1989
text: 26 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.


title: Paperhouse
released: 1989-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:12:27.370000000
year: 1988
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

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Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.


title: Shag
released: 1989-07-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:55:18.200000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.

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Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.


plot: A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.
title: Turner & Hooch
released: 1989-07-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:45:50.173000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The closest thing to a witness in the case is Amos Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott Turner has to take care of if it's going to avoid being "put to sleep".


title: When Harry Met Sally...
released: 1989-07-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:06.270000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

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Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"


title: The Bonfire of the Vanities
released: 1990-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:43:37.993000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

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Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.


plot: A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
title: Edward Scissorhands
released: 1990-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:19:01.540000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 11 nominations.
fullplot:
In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.


title: The Freshman
released: 1990-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:30:41.290000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an...

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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.


title: Graffiti Bridge
released: 1990-11-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:29:22.627000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
Graffiti Bridge is the unofficial sequel to Purple Rain. In this movie, The Kid and Morris Day are still competitors and each runs a club of his own. They make a bet about who writes the ...

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Graffiti Bridge is the unofficial sequel to Purple Rain. In this movie, The Kid and Morris Day are still competitors and each runs a club of his own. They make a bet about who writes the best song and the Kid's club is on the line. But the Kid has become a brooding character who writes letters to his dead father and ponders spirituality. Under the Graffiti Bridge in the park, he meets Aura, an angel-like poet with whom he falls in love. Once again, Morris tries to steal his girl, and in the end, she dies in a tragic accident. But not in vain, she has given the Kid his edge back, and Morris gives in and lets him keep the club after hearing the moving ballad the Kid composed.


title: Heat Wave
released: 1990-08-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:19:10.270000000
year: 1990
text: Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
The events that led to the 1965's racial riots in Watts, Los Angeles, are covered by a black messenger-turned-reporter at the L.A. Times, as he was one of the first correspondents to arrive...

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The events that led to the 1965's racial riots in Watts, Los Angeles, are covered by a black messenger-turned-reporter at the L.A. Times, as he was one of the first correspondents to arrive at the scene. The movie also follows the troubled times he, his family and friends went through in one of the most tense and sad moments in American history.


plot: Based on the true life serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas.
title: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
released: 1990-09-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:07:54.003000000
year: 1986
text: 10 wins & 7 nominations.
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Loosely based on serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, the film follows Henry and his roommate Otis who Henry introduces to murdering randomly selected people. The killing spree depicted in the film starts after Otis' sister Becky comes to stay with them. The people they kill are strangers and in one particularly gruesome attack, kill all three members of a family during a home invasion. Henry lacks compassion in everything he does and isn't the kind to leave behind witnesses - of any kind.


title: Longtime Companion
released: 1990-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:16:19.373000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
The emergence and devastation of the A.I.D.S. epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.

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Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.


title: Close-Up
released: 1991-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:35:05.453000000
year: 1990
text: 2 wins.
plot:
Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Hossain Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Tehran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The actual ...

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Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Hossain Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Tehran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The actual people involved in the incident re-enact the actual events, followed by the footage from the actual trial that took place.


title: Predator 2
released: 1990-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 08:48:22.510000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Amidst a territorial gang war, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran L.A.P.D. officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.

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LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's Colombian drug gang is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD. BUt after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together.


title: Presumed Innocent
released: 1990-07-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:11:35.753000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When the female deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is murdered, he is chosen to lead the investigation. However, when he digs too deeply, he finds himself framed for the murder.

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After his former girlfriend is killed and he becomes the prime suspect, D.A. Rusty Sabich goes on a search to find the real killer and finds out he/she may be closer to him than he thinks.


title: Pretty Woman
released: 1990-03-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:11:30.340000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

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Edward is a rich, ruthless businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. He travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and decides to hire a prostitute. They take a liking to each other and he offers her money if she'll stay with him for an entire week while he makes the "rich and famous" scene (since it doesn't do for a man of his stature to be alone at society parties and polo matches). Romantic comedy (and complications) ensue.


plot: When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
title: The Nasty Girl
released: 1991-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:26:16.557000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 4 nominations.
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Sonya is a German high school student who decides to write an essay about her town's history during the Third Reich and its resistance to it. To her dismay, and more so the town's, she uncovers instead definite collaboration during the period. As she digs deeper, she must struggle against the town's vocal and violent opposition to her search for the truth.


title: Solar Crisis
released: 1990-07-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:45:31.657000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO ...

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A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperaturs rise, granddaddy Admiral Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.


title: To Sleep with Anger
released: 1990-10-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:03:25.457000000
year: 1990
text: 10 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit ...

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Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon, who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry's charming, down-home manner hides a malicious penchant for stirring up trouble, and he exerts a strange and powerful eff...


title: Wild at Heart
released: 1990-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:43:52.077000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

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Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together... until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.


title: The Addams Family
released: 1991-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:41:12.833000000
year: 1991
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.

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The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?


title: The Adjuster
released: 1992-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:38:44.963000000
year: 1991
text: 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for ...

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A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet Bubba, who wants to make a movie in their house.


title: The Lovers on the Bridge
released: 1999-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 08:37:47.610000000
year: 1991
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

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Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind. The film portrays the harsh existence of the homeless as Alex, Michele and Hans, an older vagrant survive on the streets with their wits. As they both slowly get their lives back together, Michele becomes increasingly dependent on Alex as her vision deteriorates further. Fearing that Michele will leave him if she receives a new medical treatment Alex attempts to keep Michele practically a prisoner. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop to the story in a series of stunning visuals which dominate the film.


title: The Borrower
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 00:06:05.143000000
year: 1991
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.

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Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.


plot: An amnesiac and a private eye find they might have a past life connection.
title: Dead Again
released: 1991-08-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:11:34.013000000
year: 1991
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
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Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mystery woman whom he calls Grace. She is suffering from amnesia and has no memories of her own. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about these nightmares, Church seeks the help of Madson who is an antiques dealer with the gift of hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions will soon begin to reveal some surprises.


title: Diary of a Hitman
released: 1991-11-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:17:53.590000000
year: 1991
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waver. The longer he takes to do the job, the more difficult it becomes.

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Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waver. The longer he takes to do the job, the more difficult it becomes.


title: Shocker
released: 1989-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:11:08.287000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

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A murderous TV repairman, Horace Pinker is killing people in a small town left, right and center. He eventually finds the home of Lt. Parker, who is investigating his crimes, and savagely murders Parker's wife, son and daughter. His other son, Jonathan has a strange connection to Pinker through his dreams, and he directs his father to Pinker's business, where a small group of officers enter. Pinker escapes in a horrific spree, killing four officers and then targeting Jonathan's girlfriend, Alison. Another dream leads Jonathan and his dad to a residence where they catch Pinker in in the act of kidnapping. Pinker is arrested after a fight with Jonathan and sentenced to die in the electric chair. When executed, Pinker - who supposedly had given his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to come back as an energy source - takes over people's bodies and continues committing murders, until Jonathan devises a plan to bring Pinker into the real world, and then cut off his power source...


title: The Seventh Continent
released: 1993-04-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:41:27.727000000
year: 1989
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

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A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.


title: Air America
released: 1990-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:07:36.500000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young pilot finds himself recruited into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift organization operating in Vietnam War Era Laos.

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Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.


title: By Dawn's Early Light
released: 1990-05-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:59:47.427000000
year: 1990
text: Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
The crew of a nuclear bomber attack the Soviet Union while the President of the United States tries desperately to regain control of his military after his helicopter crashes during a ...

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The crew of a nuclear bomber attack the Soviet Union while the President of the United States tries desperately to regain control of his military after his helicopter crashes during a limited nuclear exchange in this film with a scenario similar to Fail Safe (1964) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Originally a made for cable movie, it concentrates on the relationship between a veteran pilot and his female co-pilot and the president's attempt to wrest control away from a war-mongering successor.


title: Green Card
released: 1991-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:58:23.443000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

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George Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and the easiest way is to marry an American. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker who is a keen horticulturist and just found the perfect flat with its own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only. A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with life together, they start to fall in love.


title: Pump Up the Volume
released: 1990-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:55:24.227000000
year: 1990
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.

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Mark is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high school principal. When one of Harry's listeners commits suicide and Harry- inspired chaos breaks out at the school, the authorities are called in to put a stop to Harry's broadcasts.


title: Tremors
released: 1990-01-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 00:00:11.767000000
year: 1990
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

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A small town gradually becomes aware of a strange creature which picks off people one by one. But what is this creature, and where is it? At the same time, a seismologist is working in the area, she detects _tremors_. The creature lives underground, and can 'pop up' without warning. Trapped in their town, the town-folk have no escape.


title: Wild Orchid
released: 1990-04-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:20.133000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.

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Emily, a raw recruit to a law firm is sent to Brazil with Claudia to help finalise a real estate deal. Emily is innocent and vulnerable, and when she's left in Rio with Wheeler, a milionaire with an unusual outlook on life, Emily is shocked and intrigued by the sex antics to which she is exposed.


title: The Witches
released: 1990-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 03:52:17.920000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.


title: Days of Being Wild
released: 1990-12-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:46:16.930000000
year: 1990
text: 8 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she ...

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Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.


title: Defending Your Life
released: 1991-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:17:24.937000000
year: 1991
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.

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Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat.


title: Enchanted April
released: 1992-04-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:13:25.633000000
year: 1991
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a ...

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This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment.


title: Flirting
released: 1992-11-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:30:02.523000000
year: 1991
text: 5 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Against a backdrop of bullying and sadistic teachers Danny strikes up an affair with an African girl, ...

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Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Against a backdrop of bullying and sadistic teachers Danny strikes up an affair with an African girl, Thandiwe, studying at a nearby girl's school. Their affair blossoms while everyone tries to stop it. Nicole Kidman also appears as a sexually repressed senior at Thandiwe's school.


title: Puppetmaster
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:30:36.680000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a...

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Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches.


title: Scandal
released: 1989-04-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:01:23.907000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her ...

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An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963.


title: Some Girls
released: 1988-09-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:09.927000000
year: 1988
text: 1 win.
plot:
Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Meanwhile, her ...

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Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Meanwhile, her family is exceedingly strange: her father is a writer who spends most of his time wandering the house nude. Her grandmother mistakes Michael for her dead husband. Her two sisters express interest in him. Granny escapes the hospital and heads back to her home in the woods, and the family chases after her, and Michael is kept reeling.


title: Steel Magnolias
released: 1989-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:30:51.967000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the ...

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Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the picture opens, we find Drum Eatenton shooting birds in the trees of his back yard in preparation for his daughter's wedding reception that afternoon. Shortly thereafter, M'Lynn and Shelby (Drum's wife and daughter) depart for Truvy's to get their hair done for the wedding. "Just the sweetest thing," Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy's customers as her new "glamour technician." While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, later in the picture, "If you can't find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me." Filled with humor and heartbreak, these "Steel Magnolias" make us laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfolds.


title: Too Beautiful for You
released: 1990-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:57:57.547000000
year: 1989
text: 6 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon ...

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A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept


title: Book of Love
released: 1991-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:39:14.797000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A friend delivers John Twiller greetings from a long gone high school girlfriend. This makes him open his school's yearbook - his "Book of Love" - and remember the old times, way back in ...

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A friend delivers John Twiller greetings from a long gone high school girlfriend. This makes him open his school's yearbook - his "Book of Love" - and remember the old times, way back in 1956, when he was in his last year of high school and his family just moved to the town. He hung out with geeky Paul Kayne and tried to get the attention of Lily, who unfortunately was together with bully Angelo.


title: Crash and Burn
released: 1990-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:01:16.567000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

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Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".


title: Fear
released: 1990-07-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:13:59.740000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ...

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Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her.


title: Horseplayer
released: 1990-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:21:26.450000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Bud is a strange loner who works in a liquor store by day and is addicted to betting on the horses at night. He lives in a low-rent building in an even lower-rent section of town, and one ...

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Bud is a strange loner who works in a liquor store by day and is addicted to betting on the horses at night. He lives in a low-rent building in an even lower-rent section of town, and one day a couple, who appear to be brother and sister, move into Bud's building. Soon the sister begins to try to seduce Bud, but not for the reasons one would expect, as she and her "brother" aren't what they appear to be--but neither is Bud.


title: Ju Dou
released: 1991-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-20 01:23:00.730000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...

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A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.


title: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
released: 1991-01-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:36:34.650000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge ...

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It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and the complications are derived from that they have a more modern view of life.


plot: A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
title: Music Box
released: 1990-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:56:13.573000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo has done well for himself since arriving in the USA nearly 50 years ago. He is particularly proud of his daughter, Ann, a successful lawyer. Following the release of some secret WWII records by the Russians, Mike finds himself accused of being a notorious war criminal. He's convinced it's a communist plot to discredit him and insists that Ann defend him in court.


title: Problem Child
released: 1990-07-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:31:30.467000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

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A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.


plot: A corrupt businesswoman seeks to discredit Robocop in favor of her own model of cyborg.
title: RoboCop 2
released: 1990-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:01:50.053000000
year: 1990
text: 3 nominations.
fullplot:
After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.


plot: A runaway circus dog befriends a young boy who has trouble fitting in with his friends.
title: Bingo
released: 1991-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:43:15.593000000
year: 1991
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
When Bingo, a runaway circus dog who leaves the big top, saves the life of Chuckie, a young boy who is having trouble fitting in with his pals. The two quickly become best friends-skateboarding, playing pinball, and doing math homework together. But Chuckie's parents discover the stowaway pooch, and make no bones about the fact that Bingo will not accompany them on thier cross-country move. What follows next is a heart warming 1000 mile adventure of puppy love and loyalty as Bingo and Chuckie encounter nutty charcters and hilarious situations in thier quest to be reunited. Dog catchers, kidnappers, hospitalsmand even prison cant keep the two misfits apart!


title: The Butcher's Wife
released: 1991-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 00:27:37.617000000
year: 1991
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. She has a big ...

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A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. She has a big impact on everyone she meets by anticipating their questions and actions and advising them on their love life. Her interference then brings her into contact with the real man of her dreams.


title: Cape Fear
released: 1991-11-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:29:09.070000000
year: 1991
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.


title: Once Upon a Crime...
released: 1992-03-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 01:20:37.053000000
year: 1992
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, ...

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Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, they panic and become fugitives. Other victims of misfortune also become suspects, as the plot twists and luck and judgment desert everyone.


plot: With his oldest daughter's wedding approaching, a father finds himself reluctant to let go.
title: Father of the Bride
released: 1991-12-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:21:03.483000000
year: 1991
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.


title: Moon 44
released: 1990-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:21:20.667000000
year: 1990
text: 2 wins.
plot:
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger ...

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Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.


title: The Rainbow
released: 1989-05-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:09:15.493000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.

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Ken Russell's loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.


title: Romero
released: 1989-08-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:56:01.480000000
year: 1989
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

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In El Salvador, the new bishop speaks out against the death squads and the terror campaign the government is using in an attempt to crush the guerilla war that is being waged against them. This is seen as disloyality and the number of priests attacked goes up and even churches are shut down by the government. Based on a true story, Romero was assassinated in March, 1980.


title: She's Out of Control
released: 1989-04-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:33:58.740000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
When an average-looking teenage girl gets a makeover, it's enough to turn make her father become overprotective of her.

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Doug Simpson lives alone with his two daughters Katie and Bonnie. Katie has just turned 15 and when Doug is out of town on a business trip she gets herself a treatment at a beauty parlor. She removes her braces and her thick glasses. Without those, she is a beautiful young woman and the boys line up outside the front door to date her. But Doug won't accept that his *girl* is seeing *men*...


title: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
released: 1989-09-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:41:10.570000000
year: 1989
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.

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Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.


title: Bride of Re-Animator
released: 1990-07-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:47:48.877000000
year: 1989
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

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In Peru, Dr. Herbert West and Dr. Dan Cain are medical volunteers in a civil war with the assistant Francesca Danelli and they are researching how to create human life from dead tissue using wounded soldiers as guinea pigs. They return to Miskatonic Hospital and Dan treats a terminal patient, Gloria, and gets close to her. When the snoopy Lt. Leslie Chapham investigates the Miskatonic Massacre, he learns that body parts are missing in the morgue, and Herbert and Dan become his prime suspects. But Herbert kills the lieutenant and revives him with the serum. Meanwhile, Dr. Graves finds the head of Dr. Carl Hill and the green substance that the deceased doctor stole from Herbert, and uses the serum to resurrect Dr. Hill's head. When Gloria dies, Herbert and Dan use her head, with Meg's heart and parts of other women to create the perfect woman. But Lt. Chapham teams up with Dr. Hill to seek revenge against the crazy scientists.


title: Come See the Paradise
released: 1991-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:43:20.127000000
year: 1990
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in ...

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Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again. But together they escape to Seattle. When the war breaks out, the authorities decide that the Japanese immigrants must live in camps like war prisoners.


plot: A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
title: Darkman
released: 1990-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:20:02.930000000
year: 1990
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
Peyton Westlake is a scientist who has discovered a way to produce synthetic skin. This could revolutionise skin grafting, except for one minor glitch; the synthetic skin degrades after 100 minutes of exposure to light. When gangsters attack Peyton, he is horrifically burnt, and assumed dead. In his quest for revenge, Peyton, aka the Darkman, is able to take on the appearance of anyone (using the synthetic skin,) but he only has 100 minutes per disguise.


title: Dick Tracy
released: 1990-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:29:44.110000000
year: 1990
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 29 nominations.
plot:
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

fullplot:
All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney.


title: Ghosts Can't Do It
released: 1990-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:28:33.587000000
year: 1989
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

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Scott and Kate are married and very much in love with each other. Scott is more than 60 years old, while Kate is at least thirty years younger. When Scott dies, his soul cannot get peace and he becomes a ghost only Kate can see and speak with. Scott wants to return to life, and him and Kate hatch a plan to let a young man drown so that Scott can take over his body. Also, Kate must handle Scott's company's business deal that involves Donald Trump as well as the mob.


title: My Father's Glory
released: 1991-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:33:12.037000000
year: 1990
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their ...

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A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence.


title: The Handmaid's Tale
released: 1990-03-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:29:11.430000000
year: 1990
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

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Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned. After ruthless group training by Aunt Lydia in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander. Kate is attracted to Nick, the Commander's chauffeur. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime.


title: Henry & June
released: 1990-10-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:58:43.430000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
plot:
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...


title: The Hairdresser's Husband
released: 1990-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:22.117000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 7 nominations.
plot:
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by ...

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Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde - also voluptuous and also a hairdresser - with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives.


title: Memphis Belle
released: 1990-10-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:02:13.577000000
year: 1990
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
It's May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle - a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic ...

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It's May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle - a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain, Dennis Dearborn - will soon start their twenty-fifth mission, having completed their previous twenty-four successfully with nary an incident, while fewer and fewer other planes are coming back from their missions at all. If they complete their next mission successfully, they will be the first Army Air Corps B-17 Crew to complete their tour of duty. Visiting communications officer Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer wants to publicize and highly tout their accomplishment, even before it happens, as a long term good news campaign at a time when there is little good news to report. Derringer's plan is against the wishes of the base commander, Col. Craig Harriman, who would prefer to treat the ten as any of his other hard working men. The previous success of the Memphis Belle is despite the disparate natures of the ten men, whose personalities and backgrounds could not be more different. Each of the ten has a differing view of Derringer's publicity campaign as well as to the probable success or failure of what will be their last mission regardless, a dangerous one into enemy territory over the skies of Bremen, Germany.


title: Men Don't Leave
released: 1990-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:53:44.877000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all ...

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A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all that comes with the city life.


title: Mountains of the Moon
released: 1990-02-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:39:24.547000000
year: 1990
text: 1 win.
plot:
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the...

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The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.


title: The Rescuers Down Under
released: 1990-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:29:05.883000000
year: 1990
text: 5 wins.
plot:
The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.

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Cody, a boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after that bird which is of a highly endangered species and therefore an extremely profitable quarry. In a panic, a mouse Cody freed from one of McLeach's traps sends a desperate call for help to the Rescue Aid Society in New York City who assigns their top agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, to the task. With transportation provided by the goofy albatross, Wilbur, the agents arrive in Australia and link up with the RAS' local field operative, Jake the Kangaroo Rat. Together, the trio must race against time to find Cody, stop McLeach, and save Marahute.


title: A Shock to the System
released: 1990-03-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:11:14.240000000
year: 1990
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to 'level' the playing ...

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When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to 'level' the playing field, both professionally and personally. Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.


title: Stella
released: 1990-02-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:42:15.430000000
year: 1990
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny......

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Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny...ending in an selfless, unforgettable sacrifice.


title: Beauty and the Beast
released: 1991-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:28:51.737000000
year: 1991
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 20 nominations.
plot:
Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead, unaware her captor to be an enchanted prince.

fullplot:
Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced "affections" of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet.


title: Curly Sue
released: 1991-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 01:01:18.593000000
year: 1991
text: 1 win.
plot:
A homeless man and his young companion who survive by conning people meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.

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Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiance, insist on putting the two up for the night. As they get to know each other, Bill becomes convinced that this is where Curly Sue belongs - in a home, cared for by someone that can give her the advantages that his homeless, nomadic existence lacks. He plans to leave the young girl in the care of Grey and take off.... but Curly Sue has other ideas!


title: The Fisher King
released: 1991-09-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:01:17.810000000
year: 1991
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 20 nominations.
plot:
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

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After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves.


title: Old Gringo
released: 1989-10-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:51:56.650000000
year: 1989
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ...

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When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish.


plot: A young boy living in 1950s suburbia begins to wonder where his parents get their meat from...
title: Parents
released: 1989-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:07.817000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.


title: Rosalie Goes Shopping
released: 1990-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:44:43.883000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one...

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Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.


plot: The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
title: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
released: 1989-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:25:15.580000000
year: 1989
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
A divorcèe, whose house is being fumigated, temporarily moves in with a friend, whose husband has recently passed away. Meanwhile two of the workmen make a bet that they can bed the women and the games are on. Mixed into the mess of filthy rich individuals are the divorcèe's ex, her script-writer brother, his new African-American wife, the friend's precocious daughter, and the ghost of her husband. The film offers a satire on the social, racial, and hedonistic lifestyles of the rich and famous.


