Drama Movies of 1988
Dangerous Liaisons
Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Good Mother
Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother living is Boston with her 6-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). She supports herself and her daughter by working part time in a lab and teaching piano. Her ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Another Woman
Grad-school administrative head Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is in the midst of writing a book. The walls are thin in ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Tequila Sunrise
For his first directorial project in six years, ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Presidio
San Francisco detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) is assigned to investigate the murder of a female MP at the 212-year-old Presidio army base in this crime drama. Jay must interview Lieutenant ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Stealing Home
The storytelling device of the flashback gets an intense workout in this tragic coming of age drama. Mark Harmon stars as washed-up baseball player Billy Wyatt, who is shocked ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Beaches
Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Made for television from the Dylan Thomas classic, the film concerns a traditional Christmas in Wales around the turn of ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Handful of Dust
Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Last Temptation of Christ
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Eight Men Out
Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Secret Obsession
Long ago, in what seems like another lifetime to him, Paul (Ben Gazzara) had an illegitimate son by a local North African woman. For many years now he has lived in French Algeria with his wife Betty (Julie ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Camille Claudel
The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are portrayed in this passionate biographical drama, featuring an acclaimed performance by ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Colors
Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD's gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Rain Man
Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Bright Lights, Big City
Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Clean and Sober
The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Everybody's All-American
Everybody's All American covers 25 years in the life of college football hero Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid). When he marries campus sweetheart Babs Rogers (Jessica Lange) and is picked up by the ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Go Toward the Light
Based on the autobiographical book by Chris Oyler, the made-for-TV Go Toward the Light is a sometimes ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Cocktail
Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Miami Vice: Season 05
The fifth and final season of the ultrahip crime series Miami Vice opens with a 2-parter resolving the incredible cliffhanger from ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Split Decisions
This family drama centers on an Irish brood in which the father and his two sons work as prizefighters. Both the boys ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Talk Radio
Monologist Eric Bogosian's one-man theatre piece Talk Radio, co-written by Bogosian and ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Two Moon Junction
Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Midnight Cop
In this complicated police film, a police detective, who still grieves for the child he accidentally shot during ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Fresh Horses
Fresh Horses features Molly Ringwald as Jewel, a Kentucky shanty gal. Jewel finds herself romantically involved with wealthy ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Bird
Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Dead Ringers
Two twin brothers, both renowned gynecologists, descend into madness after becoming romantically involved ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Dominick and Eugene
Dominick Luciano (Thomas Hulce) is the moderately retarded twin brother of highly intelligent young intern Eugene (Ray Liotta). Anxious to become a successful doctor, Eugene finds he must devote most of ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
End of the Line
Two Southern railroad workers drive a train engine to Chicago to protest the closing of the station in Clifford, Arkansas. Will Haney ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Promised Land
Three friends face the disappointments of adulthood in this drama. Growing up in Ashville, ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Running on Empty
In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have eluded the FBI for 16 years after bombing a napalm laboratory as a ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A World Apart
Cinematographer Chris Menges' first directorial effort, A World ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Little Nikita
Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) is a San Diego teen who discovers his father Richard (Richard Jenkins) and mother Elizabeth Grant) are KGB agents. When he applies to the ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Stand and Deliver
Edward James Olmos portrays the real-life Jaime Escalante, a no-nonsense mathematic teacher in a tough East LA high school. Handed a classroom full of "losers" and "unteachables," Escalante is ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Souvenir
Based on the novel The Pork Butcher by David Hughes, this melodrama was directed by literary adaptation specialist Geoffrey Reeve, producer of The Shooting Party (1984), Half Moon Street (1986), and The Whistle Blower (1987). ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Tears in the Rain
The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Cry in the Dark
A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
The teen drama A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon is directed by William Richert, who adapted the screenplay from his own semi-autobiographical ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Party Line
In this slasher film, the exuberant young participants upon a party-line, a fad during the '80s in which young people ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Evil in Clear River
Randy Quaid plays the mayor of a small town in Alberta. Quaid also ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Boost
James Woods and Sean Young were still "an item" when they costarred in The Boost. The stars play an investment broker and his girlfriend, who begin snorting ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Judgment in Berlin
In 1978, an East German waiter used a toy gun to hijack a Polish airliner heading for East Berlin and forced the pilot to land at an American Air Force base in West Germany. The best-selling book about the ensuing trial of the ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Necessary Parties
Teenaged Chris Mills (Mark Paul Gosselaar) is aware ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Necessity
Loni Anderson, James Naughton, and John Heard star in this tense tale of a woman whose life is changed forever after discovering that her husband is a dangerous drug ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Accused
Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Distant Thunder
Discharged from Vietnam, John Lithgow and his army buddies ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Story of Women
The women in this story are the customers of amateur ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Liberace: Behind the Music
This was the "unofficial" Liberace biopic, as ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Kansas
A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders
The first of several 1980s TV movies based on official FBI files, In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders premiered on ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Permanent Record
High school student Alan Boyce has it all: looks, charm, popularity, excellent grades, a promising future. So why does Boyce ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Deceivers
This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by actual events, follows William Savage (Pierce Brosnan), a British ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Pelle the Conqueror
Long but rewarding, the Danish-Swedish Pelle the Conqueror is based on the early passages of Martin Andersen Nexoe's four-volume novel. Pelle (Pelle Hvengaard) is the son of a 19th-century Swedish farmer (Max Von Sydow). Seeking escape from ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Taffin
This melodrama is set in Ireland and follows bill collector and ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Stacy Keach as Hemingway
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Ernest Hemingway (Stacy Keach) begins his family and career in Europe, survives combat and marriages, struggles with a ragingly out ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Apartment Zero
A withdrawn Beunos Aries movie buff develops an unusually charged relationship with his new roommate in this off-beat psychological thriller. Reclusive and demanding, ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Murder One
This crime drama is based on the true story of Billy Isaacs who with his brothers killed a family of six. The story unfolds from Billy's perspective and follows their exploits after they escape from a Maryland ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Chocolate War
The independently produced Chocolate War marked actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut. Adapted from the popular novel by Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese), it functions as a political ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Cold Summer of 1953
A group of escaped criminals hides out in the remote wooded ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
21 Jump Street: Season 02
Season two of 21 Jump Street finds a team of youthful LAPD officers ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Gang of Four
No film critic of 1989 could write an assessment of the French-made Gang of Four (originally La Bande des Quatre) without using the phrase "Pirandellian" at one point or another. The story revolves around ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Little Vera
The title character of the Russian Little Vera is a headstrong teenage girl, played by Natalya Negoda. ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Dakota
Dakota (Lou Diamond Phillips) is a troubled teen on the run. He takes ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Break of Dawn
This bio-film profiles the life of Pedro Gonzalez, the first Mexican radio show host. Gonzalez, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1928, became a ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Chocolat
Set in French Colonial Africa, Chocolat is told from the viewpoint of 8-year-old Cecile Ducasse. With no other frame of reference, the innocent Ducasse accepts the subjugation of the black natives by the white ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Karhozat
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began his career making social realist domestic dramas, similar to the work of John Cassavettes. The feature before Damnation, Almanac of Fall, showed Tarr moving toward a more ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Christmas Wife
Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower decides to hire himself a spouse to spend the vacation with him in his lovely mountain retreat and finds true ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
God Bless the Child
A young mother and her daughter end up on the streets in this grim made-for-television movie. Mare Winningham stars as Theresa Johnson, a young mother whose life falls apart when ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Home at Last
In this moving drama set near the turn-of-the-century, a New York orphan is placed aboard the notorious orphan train (part of a government program ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Jacob Have I Loved
Adapted from a popular young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved is set during World War II and is concerned with two fraternal twin sisters: Louise (played by Bridget Fonda), plain but robust, and Caroline ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Landscape in the Mist
Produced, directed and written in his traditionally episodic fashion by Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, the internationally produced Landscape in the Mist concentrates on a pair of ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Macho Dancer
Paul is a rural Filipino who travels to Manila after his gay American GI lover leaves the Philippines. He takes a job as a dancer but quickly becomes a male prostitute in order to survive. The seamy, squalid barrio is overseen by the ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Maricela
Carlina Cruz stars as Maricela in this 60-minute TV drama. A 13-year-old illegal Salvadorian immigrant, Maricela moves in with her mother, a live-in ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Onassis
Part One of this four-hour TV movie adaptation of Peter Evans' biography suggested that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis spent every waking hour commiserating in bed with lovers of all sexes. Part Two of ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Pigeon Feathers
This video, inspired by a John Updike story, tells of a young man's ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Salaam Bombay!
Shot on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay is the gritty tale of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered by Nair), a boy kicked out of his home, and ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Salsa
Disco-gone-Latin, that's what's happening in Salsa, where a grease monkey who's sick and tired of knuckle-busting lives for his nights on the dance floor where he gyrates to the salsa beat. Not ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Thrilled to Death
When they unknowingly become involved in another couple's scheme involving drugs and murder, an innocent married couple have ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
El Fiscal De Hierro
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Diario Intimo de una Cabaretera
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Whisper Kill
In this made-for-TV thriller, Liz Barlett (Loni Anderson) is a ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Fortunes of War
Originally produced for the BBC, the seven-part Fortunes of War was adapted from Olivia Manning's "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy". Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, who in 1987 were husband and wife, star ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Short Film About Love
In this ironic Polish seriocomedy, Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko), a young shy postal worker, worships Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska) from afar -- literally, peering at her through spyglasses. She shatters his illusions about pure, ideal love by ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Clandestinos
Those who are familiar with the details of the Cuban Revolution which put Fidel Castro into power may find this film particularly ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Little Girl Lost
When a couple tries to adopt a child, they run into red tape because the foster child asserts that her natural father molested her. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
On Our Own
In this children's movie, four plucky siblings do not want to be sent to separate foster homes so they escape from the juvenile authorities and embark on a quest for an ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
A Place By the Sea
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life in this Mediterranean melodrama. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Parinda
Two brothers take different paths in life, which leads both of them into danger in this drama from India. Kishan (Jackie ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Troubles
Ireland's long history of political turmoil is put under the spotlight in director Chris Morahan's film Trouble, which centers ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Cherry Blossoms
Hong Kong director Eddie Fong was frustrated with the final cut of this intelligent but troubled film which began life as a Shaw Brothers production in 1985 but found its way to Golden ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Crying Freeman [Anime OVA Series]
Originally a manga created by industry icons Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Jilly Cooper's Riders
Based on the novel by best-selling British author Jilly Cooper, this drama looks at the highly competitive world of equestrian show-jumping. Jake Lovell (Michael Praed), a gypsy half-breed born into poverty, has ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Crying Freeman: 1: Portrait of a Killer
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Fiela's Child
When a white child is taken from the black parents who lovingly raised him and placed in the care of the white family ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
Moon, Star and Sun
A quartet of women become cabaret hostesses in hopes of building a better ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
The Life of Jackie Robinson
The Jackie Robinson Story stars the baseball player as himself, and tells his remarkable life story. The film begins with his poverty-ridden childhood, but also touches ... [ Drama movie - 1988 ]
