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1969 (film)
1969 (film) is a 1988 American drama directed by Ernest Thompson, starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, and Winona Ryder; two friends come of age during the Vietnam War era.
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu) is a 1988 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, depicting a drifter sentenced to execution after murdering a taxi driver in Warsaw.
All About Ah-Long (阿郎的故事)
All About Ah-Long (阿郎的故事, also 又见阿郎) is a 1989 Hong Kong melodrama directed by Johnnie To for Cinema City, starring Chow Yun-fat as a racer raising his son alone; it won him the 1990 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
All the Right Moves (film)
All the Right Moves is a 1983 American sports drama starring Tom Cruise as a high school football player seeking a scholarship to leave a dying Pennsylvania steel town.
Alpine Fire
Alpine Fire (Höhenfeuer) is a 1985 Swiss drama by Fredi M. Murer about an isolated Alpine farm family and an incestuous relationship between a deaf brother and his sister; it won the 1985 Locarno Golden Leopard.
Amadeus (film)
Amadeus (1984), Miloš Forman's adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play, dramatizes a fictional Mozart-Salieri rivalry; it won eight Oscars including Best Picture and exists in 158-minute theatrical and 2002 Director's Cut versions.
An Autumn's Tale (秋天的童话)
An Autumn's Tale (秋天的童话, Chau tin dik tung wa) is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic drama by Mabel Cheung, starring Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung in New York; second of her Migration Trilogy and Best Picture winner.
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 Taylor Hackford romantic drama starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., about a Navy officer candidate's training and romance; it won two Academy Awards and grossed about $130 million.
Anne Devlin
Anne Devlin (1984) is Pat Murphy's Irish historical drama about Robert Emmet's housekeeper, based on her prison journals; first all-Irish feature, 121 minutes, starring Bríd Brennan, restored in 2020.
Another Country
Another Country: 1984 British drama by Marek Kanievska, adapted by Julian Mitchell from his 1981 play, starring Rupert Everett as Guy Bennett, a Guy Burgess-based schoolboy, and Colin Firth as Tommy Judd.
Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place is Michael Radford's 1983 British debut feature, a Film on Four adaptation of Jessie Kesson's novel in which a Scottish farmer's wife (Phyllis Logan) has an affair with an Italian POW (Giovanni Mauriello); distinct from the 1958 Sean Connery film of the same title.
At Middle Age (人到中年)
At Middle Age (人到中年, Ren dao zhong nian) is a 1982 Changchun Film Studio drama directed by Wang Qimin and Sun Yu from Chen Rong's novella, starring Pan Hong as overworked ophthalmologist Lu Wenting; it won the 1983 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Best Picture awards.
Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) is Gabriel Axel's 1987 Danish film adapted from Karen Blixen's 1950 story, about a Parisian chef who cooks a lavish dinner for pious sisters in Jutland; it won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the first for Denmark.
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂)
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂) is a 1989 Taiwanese drama directed by Wang Toon, second of his Modern Taiwan Trilogy, about two soldiers retreating to Taiwan in 1949 under fake identities, White Terror persecution, and a family of no blood relation; Chang Shih won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor.
Begin the Beguine
Begin the Beguine (Volver a empezar) is José Luis Garci's 1982 Spanish drama about a Nobel laureate returning to Gijón after 40 years of exile; in 1983 it became the first Spanish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Beyond the Limit
Beyond the Limit, released outside the US as The Honorary Consul, is John Mackenzie's 1983 British thriller adapting Graham Greene's novel, starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, and Bob Hoskins in a Paraguay-Argentina kidnapping drama.
Birdy (film)
Birdy (1984) is Alan Parker's drama based on William Wharton's novel, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage as Vietnam veterans; it won the 1985 Cannes Jury's Special Grand Prix.
Boat People (望郷 ボートピープル)
Boat People is a 1982 Hong Kong political drama directed by Ann Hui, starring George Lam as a photojournalist who uncovers hardship in postwar Vietnam.
Bright Lights, Big City (film)
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges and starring Michael J. Fox, adapted by Jay McInerney from his 1984 novel.
Brubaker
Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford as a reform-minded warden who infiltrates an Arkansas prison as an inmate.
Business as Usual
Business as Usual is a 1987 British social realist drama directed by Lezli-An Barrett, starring Glenda Jackson, based on the 1983 Audrey White sexual harassment case; it won the 1988 Créteil Grand Prix.
Cal
Cal (1984) is a Pat O'Connor drama adapted by Bernard MacLaverty from his novel, starring John Lynch as a guilt-ridden young IRA member and Helen Mirren, who won Best Actress at Cannes 1984; re-released remastered in 2025.
Castaway (1986 film)
Castaway (1986) is a Nicolas Roeg drama starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe, adapted from Lucy Irvine's memoir of a year on Tuin Island in the Torres Strait; distinct from the 2000 Tom Hanks film Cast Away.
Children of a Lesser God (film)
Children of a Lesser God (1986), Randa Haines's Paramount drama adapted from Mark Medoff's Broadway play, stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as a hearing teacher and a deaf woman; Matlin's Oscar made her the first Deaf Academy Award winner.
Chilsu and Mansu (칠수와 만수)
Chilsu and Mansu (칠수와 만수) is Park Kwang-su's 1988 debut feature, a Korean New Wave landmark about two billboard painters in Seoul whose rooftop outburst is mistaken for a suicide attempt or protest, starring Ahn Sung-ki, Park Joong-hoon, and Bae Jong-ok.
Coming Out (1989 film)
Coming Out (1989), Heiner Carow's DEFA drama, the first and only East German feature film on homosexuality, premiered the night the Berlin Wall fell and won the 1990 Silver Bear and Teddy Award.
Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom (1987) is Richard Attenborough's biographical drama about Steve Biko and Donald Woods, starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline; three Oscar nominations, banned in South Africa in 1988.
Damnation (1988 film)
Damnation (Kárhozat) is a 1987–1988 black-and-white Hungarian drama by Béla Tarr, co-written with László Krasznahorkai, about Karrer's doomed affair with a Titanik bar singer; it began Tarr's long-take Black Series style.
Dance with a Stranger
Dance with a Stranger (1985) is a Mike Newell British drama, written by Shelagh Delaney, about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, starring Miranda Richardson in her debut, Rupert Everett, and Ian Holm; it won a Cannes youth award.
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Stephen Frears film adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play and Laclos's 1782 novel, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer; won 3 of 7 Oscars including Adapted Screenplay.