i
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office's Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action and Thriller
- Rating:
i
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
i
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Fantasy and Family
- Rating:
i
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Fantasy
- Rating:
i
When 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 13-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.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama, Comedy and Fantasy
- Rating:
i
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Crime
- Rating:
i
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action
- Rating:
i
An innocent-looking doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who refuses to die.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror
- Rating:
i
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Fantasy, Comedy and Drama
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA and Ireland
- Genre: Family, Animation and Adventure
- Rating:
i
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama and Romance
- Rating:
i
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Sci-Fi and Horror
- Rating:
i
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Family and Drama
- Rating:
i
Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Crime and Drama
- Rating:
i
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama and Romance
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Hong Kong
- Genre: Thriller, Action and Crime
- Rating:
i
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror, Crime, Action and Mystery
- Rating:
i
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller and Crime
- Rating:
i
This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Fantasy and Music
- Rating:
i
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi and Comedy
- Rating:
i
The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Kids, Animation and Comedy
- Rating:
i
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his mission and his loyalty.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA, South Africa and Namibia
- Genre: Action, War and Adventure
- Rating:
i
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Hong Kong
- Genre: War, Horror and History
- Rating:
i
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi and Horror
- Rating:
i
Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Fantasy, TV Movie, Family and Adventure
- Rating:
i
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: Australia
- Genre: Drama and Soap
- Rating:
i
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action, Thriller and Drama
- Rating:
i
An American animated children's television series inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Animation, Family, Comedy and Kids
- Rating:
i
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Drama and Crime
- Rating:
i
The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Mystery
- Rating:
i
48 Hours is a CBS news magazine that investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including 20 Emmys and three Peabody Awards.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Mystery, Crime and Drama
- Rating:
i
Inspector Srivastav is framed by a wily and cunning gangster, J.K., and unable to prove his innocence, hangs himself, leaving behind his wife, and son, Vijay. Years later, Vijay has grown up and has joined the police force as an Inspector. Unlike his dad, he is corrupt and does accept bribes to turn a nelson's eye to crime. The City Police are assigned the task of apprehending a customed man called "Shahenshah", who operates at night and targets, tries and kills gangsters in a "Judge and Executioner "style. No one knows the real identity of Shahenshah, as he is feared by the police department, and respected by the poor and middle-class.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: India
- Genre: Action
- Rating:
i
Deathstalker’s back—and this time he’s facing off against Troxartes, an evil wizard with a zombie army and two magical jewels that hold the key to the lost city of Erendor. Teaming up with Princess Carissa, Deathstalker must protect the third gem, storm a heavily guarded fortress, and ride a bolt of lightning straight into battle.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA and Mexico
- Genre: Adventure, Action and Fantasy
- Rating:
i
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Talk
- Rating:
i
American Experience is TV's most-watched history series and brings to life incredible characters and compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, 4 duPont-Columbia Awards, and 18 George Foster Peabody Awards.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Documentary
- Rating:
i
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA, Ireland and United Kingdom
- Genre: Thriller and Action
- Rating:
i
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama and Family
- Rating:
i
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Thriller and Horror
- Rating:
i
Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USSR
- Genre: Drama and Romance
- Rating:
i
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons. In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats. Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery
- Rating:
i
Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behind and realize big dreams, but their idealistic plans collide with life's harsh realities.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama and Romance
- Rating:
i
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Thriller and Horror
- Rating:
i
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Horror, Mystery and Thriller
- Rating:
i
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Documentary
- Rating:
i
A deeply disturbed man goes on a murderous nighttime rampage across Los Angeles.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Thriller, Horror and Crime
- Rating:
i
Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror and Thriller
- Rating:
i
Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
Movie
- Year: 1988
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Mystery, TV Movie, Thriller and Horror
- Rating:
i
POV (a cinema term for "point of view" ) is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues.
TV Series
- Year: 1988
- Country: USA
- Genre: Documentary
- Rating:
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