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About Last Night (1986 film)
About Last Night... is a 1986 Tri-Star romantic comedy-drama, Edward Zwick's directorial debut, adapted from David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, and Elizabeth Perkins; it grossed $38.6 million and was remade in 2014.
Always (1989 film)
Always is a 1989 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Steven Spielberg, in which a dead pilot returns as a spirit to guide a younger one.
Arthur (1981 film)
Arthur is a 1981 American romantic comedy directed by Steve Gordon, starring Dudley Moore as a drunken millionaire torn between an arranged marriage and Liza Minnelli's Queens waitress.
Baby Boom (film)
Baby Boom (1987) is an American comedy directed by Charles Shyer, written with Nancy Meyers, starring Diane Keaton as executive J.C. Wiatt, who inherits a baby, loses her job, and builds a Vermont baby-food business; grossed $25.4M.
Beaches (1988 film)
Beaches is a 1988 Garry Marshall comedy-drama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney, adapted from Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel, a Touchstone release whose "Wind Beneath My Wings" won a Grammy.
Best Friends
Best Friends is a 1982 American romantic comedy directed by Norman Jewison, starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn as a Hollywood writing team whose marriage strains their relationship.
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols and written by Neil Simon from his Broadway play, starring Matthew Broderick as a Brooklyn recruit in 1945 Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose is Woody Allen's 1984 black-and-white comedy about a hapless New York talent agent, starring Allen, Mia Farrow, and Nick Apollo Forte, told in flashback at the Carnegie Deli and nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
Bull Durham
Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film directed by Ron Shelton, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins, set around the minor league Durham Bulls.
Cheerful Wind (风儿踢踏踩)
Cheerful Wind (風兒踢踏踩, aka Play While You Play) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1981/1982 Taiwanese romantic comedy, starring Feng Fei-fei and Kenny Bee in a love triangle on Penghu, restored in 2018.
Cocktail (1988 film)
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Tom Cruise as a bartender who becomes a star in New York and Jamaica.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is Ed Graczyk's 1976 play about a James Dean fan club reunion in McCarthy, Texas, which Robert Altman directed on Broadway in 1982 and filmed the same year with Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates.
Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy (1984) is a British comedy written, directed, and produced by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson as Glasgow DJ Alan 'Dicky' Bird, who mediates a turf war between rival ice cream vendors Mr Bunny and Mr McCool; music by Mark Knopfler, cinematography by Chris Menges.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors is Woody Allen's 1989 Orion Pictures comedy-drama, 104 minutes, PG-13, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Alan Alda, intertwining an unpunished murder with a failed romance; three Oscar nominations.
Crossing Delancey
Crossing Delancey (1988) is Joan Micklin Silver's romantic comedy, from Susan Sandler's play, starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, and Reizl Bozyk, about a matchmaker, a pickle seller, and the Jewish Lower East Side.
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她)
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她, Lovable You) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1980 Taiwanese directorial debut, a 90-minute romantic comedy starring Fong Fei-fei and Kenny Bee, a Taipei box-office hit with early long-take style.
Dark Habits
Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1983 Spanish black comedy, his third feature, about singer Yolanda Bell hiding in a Madrid convent of vice-ridden nuns; produced by Tesauro, shown at Venice 1983.
Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan: 1985 Orion Pictures comedy directed by Susan Seidelman, written by Leora Barish, starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in her first major film role; $5 million budget, $27 million gross, mistaken-identity plot in downtown New York.
Diner (1982 film)
Diner (1982) is Barry Levinson's directorial debut, an MGM comedy-drama about six young men in 1959 Baltimore gathering at a Fell's Point diner before Eddie's wedding; Oscar-nominated screenplay, starring Guttenberg, Rourke, Bacon, and Barkin.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino's romance starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, written by Eleanor Bergstein; a $6 million Vestron film that grossed $214.6 million worldwide, topped 1988 video rentals, and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee's 1989 film about racial tensions exploding on one Brooklyn block on the hottest day of the year, starring Danny Aiello as Sal; it grossed $37 million, earned two Oscar nominations, and joined the National Film Registry in 1999.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 Touchstone comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, a remake of Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, and Richard Dreyfuss; Disney's first R-rated film.
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 Bruce Beresford film adapted by Alfred Uhry from his Pulitzer-winning play, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman; it won four Oscars including Best Picture.
Dust in the Wind (1986 film)
Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵), 1986 Taiwanese drama by Hou Hsiao-hsien, written by Wu Nien-jen and Chu Tien-wen; childhood sweethearts leave a declining mining town for Taipei; based on Wu's first love.
Educating Rita (film)
Educating Rita (1983) is a British comedy-drama directed by Lewis Gilbert, adapted by Willy Russell from his 1980 play, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters as an Open University professor and hairdresser student; BAFTA Best Film winner with three Oscar nominations.
Fandango (1985 film)
Fandango (1985) is Kevin Reynolds's road comedy-drama, from his student film Proof, starring Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson as 1971 Texas graduates on a final trip before the Vietnam draft; a Warner Bros. release that grossed only $86,134.
Gross Anatomy (film)
Gross Anatomy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Thom Eberhardt and released by Touchstone Pictures, starring Matthew Modine as a first-year medical student in the demanding dissection course.
Gung Ho (film)
Gung Ho is a 1986 American comedy directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton as an autoworker who brings a Japanese company to reopen his town's factory.
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama written and directed by Woody Allen, following Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest as sisters in Manhattan.
Heartburn (film)
Heartburn is a 1986 American comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols and written by Nora Ephron from her best-selling autobiographical novel, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.