Top Movies of 1988


The top movies of 1988 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

41. Oliver & Company

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: George Scribner
Actors: Joseph Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan, Dom DeLuise, Robert Loggia
Plot: An orphan kitten befriends a group of stray dogs.

42. Bagdad Café ( Out of Rosenheim )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Percy Adlon
Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg

43. Working Girl

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt
Plot: Secretary Tess McGill has struggled to be taken seriously and given the opportunity to move up in the financial world. Realizing that no one is going to give her a leg up, she decides to create the opportunity herself while her condescending, self-centered boss, Katherine, is out of the office with a broken leg. Moving into Katherine's office, home and wardrobe, Tess puts together a deal. Can she close the deal and make herself a place in the financial world before Katherine catches on and blows her cover?

44. Salaam Bombay!

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mira Nair
Actors: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar

45. Scrooged

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bob Goldthwait, Carol Kane
Plot: A truly heartless TV executive is taken on a tour of Christmas past, present and future in this satiric take on A Christmas Carol.

46. Pelle the Conqueror ( Pelle erobreren )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bille August
Actors: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume, Axel Strøbye

47. Dominick and Eugene

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert M. Young
Actors: Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine, Todd Graff, Bill Cobbs

48. Gorillas in the Mist

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson, Constantin Alexandrov
Plot: A film version of the life of Dian Fossey and her study and protection of endangered mountain gorillas.

49. The Last of England

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: 'Spring' Rupert Audley, Gay Gaynor, Matthew Hawkins, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Gerrard McArthur
Plot: Derek Jarman's unique dark meditation on the state of London under Margaret Thatcher.

50. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Actors: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Lemmy

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