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Nuts (1987 film)
Nuts (1987) is a Martin Ritt courtroom drama starring Barbra Streisand as Claudia Draper, a call girl fighting a competency ruling, based on Tom Topor's play; Richard Dreyfuss co-stars, Warner Bros. released it November 20, 1987, grossing $30,950,002 domestically.
Old Well (老井)
Old Well (老井) is a 1987 Chinese drama directed by Wu Tianming from Zheng Yi's novel, starring cinematographer Zhang Yimou as well-digger Sun Wangquan; it won the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix and 1988 Golden Rooster best picture.
Over the Top (1987 film)
Over the Top (1987) is a Cannon Films sports drama directed by Menahem Golan, starring Sylvester Stallone as trucker Lincoln Hawk in a Las Vegas arm-wrestling tournament; it grossed $16 million against a reported $25 million budget.
Powaqqatsi
Powaqqatsi (1988) is Godfrey Reggio's wordless documentary, second in the Qatsi trilogy, with a Philip Glass score, filmed in twelve countries on Third World labor and transformation.
Prison on Fire (监狱风云)
Prison on Fire (監獄風雲, Gaam yuk fung wan) is a 1987 Hong Kong prison action drama directed by Ringo Lam, written by Nam Yin, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Roy Cheung; released 13 November 1987 by Cinema City, it won Lam the Asia-Pacific Best Director award and spawned a 1991 sequel.
Promised Land (1987 film)
Promised Land (1987) is an American drama directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Jason Gedrick, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, and Tracy Pollan; a Sundance-developed, Robert Redford-executive-produced film released January 1988 about small-town friends and a fatal robbery.
Rad (film)
Rad (1986) is a Hal Needham BMX racing drama starring Bill Allen as Cru Jones, competing in Helltrack for $100,000 and a Corvette; a box-office failure that became a BMX cult classic.
Running on Empty (1988 film)
Running on Empty is a 1988 American drama directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Naomi Foner, starring Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, and Judd Hirsch as a fugitive antiwar family; Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated film released September 9, 1988.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) is a Stephen Frears comedy-drama written by Hanif Kureishi, starring Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, and Ayub Khan-Din, a Thatcher-era London satire and follow-up to My Beautiful Laundrette.
Scandal (1989 film)
Scandal (1989), Michael Caton-Jones's drama about the 1963 Profumo affair, starring John Hurt as Stephen Ward, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Christine Keeler, and Ian McKellen as Profumo; Miramax's first in-house production, initially rated X in the US.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) is Steven Soderbergh's debut drama, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo; made for $1.2 million, it won the 1989 Palme d'Or and Sundance Audience Award and kickstarted the 1990s American indie boom.
Square Dance (film)
Square Dance is a 1987 American drama directed by Daniel Petrie from his novel by Alan Hines, starring Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Winona Ryder, and Rob Lowe.
Starry Is the Night
Starry Is the Night (今夜星光燦爛, Gam ye sing gwong chan lan) is a 1988 Hong Kong drama-romance directed by Ann Hui, starring Brigitte Lin, George Lam, and David Wu; the first Hong Kong film to unambiguously depict the 1967 riots, produced by Shaw Brothers and Tomson Films.
Story of Women
Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) is Claude Chabrol's 1988 French drama starring Isabelle Huppert as an abortionist in Vichy France, based on Francis Szpiner's book about Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined in 1943; Huppert won the 1988 Venice Volpi Cup.
The Accidental Tourist (film)
The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American comedy-drama directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring William Hurt and Geena Davis, who won an Academy Award for the film.
The Accused (1988 film)
The Accused is a 1988 Paramount legal drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jodie Foster as rape survivor Sarah Tobias and Kelly McGillis as her attorney, loosely based on the 1983 Cheryl Araujo New Bedford case; Foster won the 1989 Best Actress Oscar.
The Big Blue
The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) is Luc Besson's 1988 French film about free divers Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, inspired by Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca. It opened Cannes 1988, sold 9.2 million tickets in France, and won two Césars.
The Big Parade (大阅兵) (1986 film)
The Big Parade (大阅兵, Da yue bing) is Chen Kaige's 1986 Fifth Generation drama about PLA soldiers training eight months for the 1984 35th anniversary National Day parade, shot by Zhang Yimou, censored, and awarded at Montreal.
The Color of Money
The Color of Money (1986) is Martin Scorsese's sequel to The Hustler, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson mentoring Tom Cruise's Vincent Lauria; Newman won the Best Actor Oscar.
The Cyclist
The Cyclist (Bicycleran) is a 1989 Iranian drama directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, starring Moharram Zeinalzadeh as an Afghan refugee who pedals non-stop for a week.
The Dead (1987 film)
The Dead (1987) is John Huston's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's short story from Dubliners, written by Tony Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann as Gretta and Gabriel Conroy at a 1904 Epiphany dinner in Dublin.
The Family (1987 film)
The Family (La famiglia) is Ettore Scola's 1987 Italian-French drama starring Vittorio Gassman, covering 80 years of a Roman family from 1906 to 1986 within one apartment; it competed at Cannes 1987 and won five David di Donatello awards.
The Horse Thief (盗马贼)
The Horse Thief (盗马贼, Dao ma zei) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 1986 Fifth Generation drama from Xi'an Film Studio: a 1923-set Tibetan-language story of herder Norbu, banished for theft, whose faith collapses; restored in 4K and shown at Cannes Classics 2019.
The Last of England
The Last of England (1987) is Derek Jarman's experimental collage film, made from Super 8, home movies and found footage, starring Tilda Swinton; an angry lament for Thatcher-era Britain, titled after Ford Madox Brown's 1855 painting and accompanied by Jarman's book Kicking the Pricks.
The Lunatics
The Lunatics (癲佬正傳, The Story of Maniacs) is Derek Yee's 1986 Hong Kong drama debut for D & B Films about a social worker and mentally ill street people; Paul Chun won Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film and Golden Horse Awards.
The Man with Three Coffins (나그네는 길에서도 쉬지 않는다)
The Man with Three Coffins (나그네는 길에서도 쉬지 않는다) is Lee Jang-ho's 1987 Korean road movie based on Lee Je-ha's Yi Sang Award novella; a widower carries his wife's ashes, meets Lee Bo-hee's triple role, and won Tokyo critics' and Berlin Caligari prizes.
The Mission (1986 film)
The Mission is a 1986 Roland Joffé film, scripted by Robert Bolt, about Jesuits defending a Guaraní mission after the 1750 Treaty of Madrid; it won the 1986 Palme d'Or and seven Oscar nominations.
The Mosquito Coast (film)
The Mosquito Coast (1986) is Peter Weir's adventure drama adapted by Paul Schrader from Paul Theroux's 1981 novel, starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix as a family seeking utopia in Central America; released November 26, 1986 by Warner Bros.
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice (Offret) is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1986 final film, a Swedish-French parable in which Alexander offers everything to God to avert nuclear war; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and the 1988 BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Seventh Continent
The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent) is Michael Haneke's 1989 Austrian debut feature, first of the glaciation trilogy, depicting a Linz family's routine life ending in planned collective suicide, based on a true story.