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The Surrogate Woman (씨받이)
The Surrogate Woman (씨받이, Ssibaji) is a 1986 South Korean period drama directed by Im Kwon-taek, about a Joseon noble family hiring a peasant woman to bear its heir.
The Terrorizers (恐怖分子)
The Terrorizers (恐怖份子) is Edward Yang's 1986 Taiwanese drama, his third feature, in which a prank phone call entangles strangers in Taipei. It won the 23rd Golden Horse Best Feature Film and the 1987 Locarno Silver Leopard.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, and Lena Olin in 1968 Prague, produced by Saul Zaentz, shot by Sven Nykvist, and restored in 4K by the Academy Film Archive.
The Whales of August
The Whales of August (1987) is a Lindsay Anderson drama adapted from David Berry's play, starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly widowed sisters in Maine, with Vincent Price and Ann Sothern; Gish's and Sothern's final film.
Ticket (티켓)
Ticket (티켓, Tiket) is a 1986 South Korean drama by Im Kwon-taek about women in a Seokcho 'ticket dabang'; Kim Ji-mee's first film as producer for Jimee Films, censored at release, later restored by KOFA.
Track 29
Track 29 is a 1988 psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg from a Dennis Potter screenplay adapted from his BBC play Schmoedipus, starring Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, and Christopher Lloyd for Handmade Films; a box-office failure about an imaginary son.
Wall Street (1987 film)
Wall Street (1987) is Oliver Stone's drama starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, released 11 December 1987; Douglas won the Best Actor Oscar, and "greed is good" became its famous mantra.
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل)
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل, Urs al-Jalil) is Michel Khleifi's 1987 debut feature, the first Palestinian feature film made in Palestine, about a mukhtar's wedding held past Israeli curfew; it won the 1987 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize.
White Mischief
White Mischief is a 1987 Michael Radford British crime drama, also known by its source book title by James Fox, about the unsolved 1941 Happy Valley murder of the Earl of Erroll in Kenya, starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, and Joss Ackland.
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?) is Bae Yong-kyun's 1989 Korean Buddhist art film about three monks in a mountain temple; it won the 1989 Locarno Golden Leopard, the first Korean win there.
Wild Orchid (film)
Wild Orchid is a 1990 American erotic drama directed by Zalman King, starring Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, and Carré Otis in Rio de Janeiro; initially rated X, cut to R, a critical and commercial disappointment.
Working Girls
Working Girls is Lizzie Borden's 1986 American independent drama about a day in the life of sex workers, led by Louise Smith as photographer Molly, in a Manhattan brothel. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won a Sundance Special Jury Recognition, restored by Criterion in 2021.
Youngblood (1986 film)
Youngblood is a 1986 American sports drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Rob Lowe as a farm boy who joins a Canadian junior hockey team to reach the NHL.