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A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂)
A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂) is a 1987 Hong Kong supernatural romance directed by Ching Siu-tung, produced by Tsui Hark for Cinema City, starring Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong, adapted from Pu Songling's Nie Xiaoqian, with sequels in 1990 and 1991 and a 1997 animated film.
Akira (アキラ)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 cyberpunk anime film, adapted from his manga, set in Neo-Tokyo 2019; a record ¥1 billion budget, 160,000 hand-painted frames, and the film that globalized anime.
Alien from L.A.
Alien from L.A. is a 1988 Cannon Films sci-fi comedy directed by Albert Pyun, starring Kathy Ireland in her debut as Wanda Saknussemm, who finds a subterranean Atlantis while searching for her missing archaeologist father.
Alien Nation (film)
Alien Nation (1988 film), also known by working titles Outer Heat and Future Tense, is a Twentieth Century Fox sci-fi buddy-cop movie directed by Graham Baker, starring James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, and Terence Stamp as Newcomer-settled Los Angeles detectives.
Batteries Not Included
Batteries Not Included is a 1987 American comic science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins, in which tiny alien spaceships help New York apartment tenants resist a developer.
Big (film)
Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks as a 13-year-old boy transformed into an adult after wishing on a Zoltar machine.
Cherry 2000
Cherry 2000 (1987) is Steve De Jarnatt's feature debut, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews, about a man seeking a replacement body for his malfunctioning android wife.
Cocoon: The Return
Cocoon: The Return (Cocoon II: The Return), 1988 Daniel Petrie sequel to Cocoon; Antareans and elderly retirees return to Florida to recover cocoons; $17.5M budget, $7.7M opening week, 31% Tomatometer.
Dream a Little Dream (film)
Dream a Little Dream (film) is a 1989 American fantasy comedy directed by Marc Rocco. It features Jason Robards and Corey Feldman when a dream experiment swaps their consciousness.
El Bosque Animado
El Bosque Animado is a 1987 Spanish fantasy comedy directed by José Luis Cuerda, written by Rafael Azcona, and starring Alfredo Landa and Fernando Rey.
Eliminators
Eliminators (1986 film), also known simply as Eliminators, is a Peter Manoogian science fiction action film from Charles Band's Empire Pictures about the cyborg Mandroid, released 31 January 1986.
Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator is Disney's 1986 sci-fi family film directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Joey Cramer as a boy who vanishes in 1978 and returns eight years later unaged after a faster-than-light trip aboard the alien ship Trimaxion with robot Max, voiced by Paul Reubens.
Innerspace
Innerspace (1987) is a Joe Dante sci-fi comedy, also known as El chip prodigioso, in which miniaturized pilot Dennis Quaid is injected into hypochondriac Martin Short; it won the 1988 Oscar for Best Visual Effects but underperformed at the box office.
Invaders from Mars (1986 film)
Invaders from Mars (1986) is Tobe Hooper's Cannon Films remake of the 1953 alien-invasion classic, written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, starring Karen Black and Hunter Carson, grossing $4.8 million on a $12 million budget.
Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!)
Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!) is a 1986 Mosfilm satirical sci-fi comedy by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze, in which two Muscovites are teleported to the desert planet Pluke, with 15.7 million Soviet viewers and a cult chatlanian vocabulary including "Ku" and pepelats.
Labyrinth (1986 film)
Labyrinth (1986) is a Jim Henson-directed fantasy film, executive produced by George Lucas, starring David Bowie as Jareth and Jennifer Connelly as Sarah; a TriStar box-office failure that became a cult classic.
Leviathan (1989 film)
Leviathan (1989 film), also known as an undersea Alien, is a George P. Cosmatos horror film written by David Peoples and Jeb Stuart, about deep-sea miners who uncover a sunken Soviet ship and a mutating genetic experiment.
Mac and Me
Mac and Me is a 1988 American sci-fi comedy directed by Stewart Raffill, an E.T.-style story of a stranded alien and a wheelchair-using boy, infamous for heavy McDonald's and Coca-Cola product placement, a $6 million gross, and two Razzie Awards.
Making Mr. Right
Making Mr. Right is a 1987 Orion Pictures sci-fi romantic comedy directed by Susan Seidelman, starring John Malkovich as scientist Jeff Peters and his android Ulysses, with Ann Magnuson as PR expert Frankie Stone; released 10 April 1987, 98 minutes, PG-13.
Man Facing Southeast
Man Facing Southeast (Hombre mirando al sudeste) is Eliseo Subiela's 1986 Argentine science fiction drama about Rantes, a psychiatric patient claiming to be an extraterrestrial; Oscar entry, nine Cóndor de Plata awards, Kino Lorber 2016 release.
Millennium (1989 film)
Millennium is a 1989 science fiction film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd, adapted by John Varley from his short story Air Raid and 1983 novel, about time travelers rescuing doomed airline passengers.
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ)
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) is Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 Studio Ghibli animated film about sisters Satsuki and Mei befriending the forest spirit Totoro, released with Grave of the Fireflies and later adopted as Ghibli's logo.
My Stepmother Is an Alien
My Stepmother Is an Alien is a 1988 American science fiction romantic comedy directed by Richard Benjamin, in which Kim Basinger's alien seduces widowed astrophysicist Dan Aykroyd.
Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 American fantasy comedy-drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage, about a divorcing woman who wakes up in 1960 after fainting at her 25th reunion; three Oscar nominations.
Project X (1987 film)
Project X is a 1987 Jonathan Kaplan comedy-drama starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt, about Air Force radiation experiments on sign-language chimpanzees including Virgil, based on real Brooks AFB research.
RoboCop
RoboCop (1987) is Paul Verhoeven's Orion Pictures sci-fi satire starring Peter Weller as cyborg police officer Alex Murphy in privatized, crime-ridden Detroit; it spawned sequels, a 2014 remake, TV series, games, and a Detroit statue.
Robot Jox
Robot Jox is a 1990 American science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Joe Haldeman and starring Gary Graham, about nations settling disputes through giant-robot duels.
Rouge (胭脂扣) (1987 film)
Rouge (胭脂扣) is Stanley Kwan's 1987 Hong Kong romantic fantasy drama adapted from Lilian Lee's novella, starring Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung. A 1930s courtesan's ghost returns to 1980s Hong Kong; it won Best Picture at the 1989 Hong Kong Film Awards.
Short Circuit (1986 film)
Short Circuit (1986) is a John Badham sci-fi comedy, also known by its tagline "Number 5 is alive," in which a military robot gains sentience after a lightning strike; it grossed about $40 million and spawned Short Circuit 2 (1988).
Short Circuit 2
Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 American science fiction comedy directed by Kenneth Johnson. The sentient robot Johnny Five helps his creator build a toy business in New York City.