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The Best Movies of 1987 - Original Release   (112 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1987, # 53 Overall Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DBS
# 2 for 1987, # 298 Overall The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DBOPS
# 3 for 1987, # 319 Overall Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany DB
# 4 for 1987, # 388 Overall The Dead 1987 Huston, John UK DO
# 5 for 1987, # 575 Overall Hope and Glory 1987 Boorman, John UK D
# 6 for 1987, # 576 Overall Broadcast News 1987 Brooks, James L. USA DB
# 7 for 1987, # 585 Overall Yeelen 1987 Cissé, Souleymane Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany Y
# 8 for 1987, # 608 Overall Moonstruck 1987 Jewison, Norman USA DBO
# 9 for 1987, # 659 Overall Pelle the Conqueror 1987 August, Bille Denmark / Sweden D
# 10 for 1987, # 671 Overall Withnail & I 1987 Robinson, Bruce UK DBOP
# 11 for 1987, # 672 Overall Red Sorghum 1987 Zhang, Yimou China Y
# 12 for 1987, # 725 Overall Empire of the Sun 1987 Spielberg, Steven USA DOPS
# 13 for 1987, # 737 Overall The Untouchables 1987 De Palma, Brian USA DBOS
# 14 for 1987, # 744 Overall Fatal Attraction 1987 Lyne, Adrian USA DBOPS
# 15 for 1987, # 747 Overall The Princess Bride 1987 Reiner, Rob USA DBO
# 16 for 1987, # 756 Overall House of Games 1987 Mamet, David USA DO
# 17 for 1987, # 763 Overall Babette's Feast 1987 Axel, Gabriel Denmark DOP
# 18 for 1987, # 914 Overall Dark Eyes 1987 Mikhalkov, Nikita Italy YS
# 19 for 1987, # 1005 Overall Full Metal Jacket 1987 Kubrick, Stanley USA DBO
# 20 for 1987, # 1040 Overall Raising Arizona 1987 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA DBO
# 21 for 1987, # 1309 Overall Robocop 1987 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBOP
# 22 for 1987, # 1351 Overall Repentance 1987 Abuladze, Tengiz Soviet Union Y
# 23 for 1987, # 1393 Overall Housekeeping 1987 Forsyth, Bill USA YO
# 24 for 1987, # 1476 Overall Wall Street 1987 Stone, Oliver USA DOP
# 25 for 1987, # 1514 Overall Barfly 1987 Schroeder, Barbet USA YOP
# 26 for 1987, # 1561 Overall Matewan 1987 Sayles, John USA DS
# 27 for 1987, # 1575 Overall Radio Days 1987 Allen, Woody USA Y
# 28 for 1987, # 1612 Overall Bagdad Cafe 1987 Adlon, Percy West Germany / USA DS
# 29 for 1987, # 1631 Overall A Taxing Woman 1987 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 30 for 1987, # 1735 Overall Lethal Weapon 1987 Donner, Richard USA DBOP
# 31 for 1987, # 1749 Overall Comrades 1987 Douglas, Bill UK
# 32 for 1987, # 1839 Overall The Whales of August 1987 Anderson, Lindsay USA YOP
# 33 for 1987, # 1903 Overall Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Levinson, Barry USA DBS
# 34 for 1987, # 1977 Overall No Way Out 1987 Donaldson, Roger USA DOP
# 35 for 1987, # 2010 Overall The Short and Curlies 1987 Leigh, Mike UK
# 36 for 1987, # 2021 Overall Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
# 37 for 1987, # 2037 Overall Cry Freedom 1987 Attenborough, Richard UK YO
# 38 for 1987, # 2117 Overall Chinese Ghost Story 1987 Ching, Siu-Tung Hong Kong
# 38 for 1987, # 2117 Overall Jackie Chan's Project A2 1987 Chan, Jackie Hong Kong D
# 39 for 1987, # 2125 Overall Dirty Dancing 1987 Ardolino, Emile USA DBO
# 40 for 1987, # 2133 Overall Predator 1987 McTiernan, John USA DBOPS
# 41 for 1987, # 2143 Overall Nayakan 1987 Ratnam, Mani India
# 42 for 1987, # 2149 Overall Law of Desire 1987 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
# 43 for 1987, # 2153 Overall Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987 Hughes, John USA DOP
# 44 for 1987, # 2173 Overall Evil Dead II 1987 Raimi, Sam USA DBS
# 45 for 1987, # 2233 Overall Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1987 Haynes, Todd USA
# 46 for 1987, # 2238 Overall The Big Easy 1987 McBride, Jim USA YOP
# 47 for 1987, # 2245 Overall Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 1987 Hackford, Taylor USA S
# 47 for 1987, # 2245 Overall 84 Charing Cross Road 1987 Jones, David Hugh UK / USA DO
# 48 for 1987, # 2249 Overall Shy People 1987 Konchalovsky, Andrei USA Y
# 49 for 1987, # 2256 Overall Prick Up Your Ears 1987 Frears, Stephen UK Y
# 50 for 1987, # 2272 Overall Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987 Couturié, Bill USA Y
# 51 for 1987, # 2317 Overall Wedding in Galilee 1987 Khleifi, Michel Israel / France / Belgium Y
# 52 for 1987, # 2318 Overall Family Viewing 1987 Egoyan, Atom Canada D
# 53 for 1987, # 2324 Overall The Glass Menagerie 1987 Newman, Paul USA V
# 53 for 1987, # 2324 Overall Orphans 1987 Pakula, Alan J. USA
# 54 for 1987, # 2325 Overall Near Dark 1987 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DOPS
# 54 for 1987, # 2325 Overall The Year My Voice Broke  New at Films101! 1987 Duigan, John Australia D
# 55 for 1987, # 2364 Overall Under Satan's Sun 1987 Pialat, Maurice France Y
# 56 for 1987, # 2372 Overall Where Is the Friend's Home? 1987 Kiarostami, Abbas Iran Y
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall Camp de Thiaroye 1987 Sembene, Ousmane / Sow, Thierno Faty Algeria / Senegal / Tunisia
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall The Deadman 1987 Ahwesh, Peggy / Sanborn, Keith USA
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall From the Pole to the Equator 1987 Gianikian, Yervant / Lucchi, Angela Ricci West Germany / Italy
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall Ishtar 1987 May, Elaine USA V
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall King Lear 1987 Godard, Jean-Luc Bahamas / USA Y
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall La Chouette aveugle 1987 Ruiz, Raoul Switzerland / France
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall The Peddler 1987 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Iran Y
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall The Silent Majority 1987 Saeed-Vafa, Mehrnaz unknown
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987 Mailer, Norman USA Y
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall Walker 1987 Cox, Alex USA / Mexico / Spain Y
# 57 for 1987, # 2378 Overall A Western 1987 Dunphy, Laurie USA
# 58 for 1987, # 2381 Overall City on Fire 1987 Lam, Ringo Hong Kong D
# 59 for 1987, # 2387 Overall Course Completed 1987 Garci, José Luis Spain
# 59 for 1987, # 2387 Overall The Family 1987 Scola, Ettore Italy / France Y
# 60 for 1987, # 2391 Overall Gaby: A True Story 1987 Mandoki, Luis USA / Mexico YS
# 60 for 1987, # 2391 Overall Le Grand Chemin 1987 Hubert, Jean-Loup France Y
# 61 for 1987, # 2394 Overall Less Than Zero 1987 Kanievska, Marek USA DS
# 61 for 1987, # 2394 Overall Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh 1987 Cox, Paul Australia D
# 62 for 1987, # 2400 Overall Baby Boom 1987 Shyer, Charles USA YOP
# 62 for 1987, # 2400 Overall La Bamba 1987 Valdez, Luis USA YO
# 62 for 1987, # 2400 Overall Nuts 1987 Ritt, Martin USA Y
# 63 for 1987, # 2406 Overall Beirut: The Last Home Movie 1987 Fox, Jennifer USA
# 63 for 1987, # 2406 Overall Heat and Sunlight 1987 Nilsson, Rob USA Y
# 63 for 1987, # 2406 Overall The Trouble with Dick 1987 Walkow, Gary USA Y
# 63 for 1987, # 2406 Overall Waiting for the Moon 1987 Godmilow, Jill UK / France / USA / West Germany D
# 64 for 1987, # 2409 Overall El Bosque animado 1987 Cuerda, José Luis Spain
# 65 for 1987, # 2410 Overall Shinran: Path to Purity 1987 Mikuni, Rentaro Japan
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Angel Heart 1987 Parker, Alan USA / Canada / UK DBOPS
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Back to the Beach 1987 Hobbs, Lyndall USA DOP
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall The Big Town 1987 Bolt, Ben / Becker, Harold USA D
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall The Fourth Protocol 1987 Mackenzie, John UK O
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall I've Heard the Mermaids Singing 1987 Rozema, Patricia Canada D
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Light of Day 1987 Schrader, Paul USA
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Making Mr. Right 1987 Seidelman, Susan USA D
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Personal Services 1987 Jones, Terry UK
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Roxanne 1987 Schepisi, Fred USA DBO
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 Frears, Stephen UK
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall September 1987 Allen, Woody USA D
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Travelling North 1987 Schultz, Carl Australia
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall Wish You Were Here 1987 Leland, David UK
# 66 for 1987, # 2411 Overall The Witches of Eastwick 1987 Miller, George USA DOPS
# 67 for 1987, # 2414 Overall Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland 1987 Armatage, Kay Canada
# 67 for 1987, # 2414 Overall Michael Caine - Acting in Film 1987 Croft, David G. UK D
# 67 for 1987, # 2414 Overall Night Zoo 1987 Lauzon, Jean-Claude Canada V
# 67 for 1987, # 2414 Overall Your Face 1987 Plympton, Bill USA D
# 68 for 1987, # 2432 Overall The Living Daylights 1987 Glen, John UK / USA DS
# 69 for 1987, # 2436 Overall Blind Chance 1987 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland Y
# 69 for 1987, # 2436 Overall The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 Hara, Kazuo Japan
# 69 for 1987, # 2436 Overall A Long Goodbye 1987 Muratova, Kira Soviet Union
# 71 for 1987, # 2438 Overall Boyfriends and Girlfriends 1987 Rohmer, Eric France D
NR Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 Scott, Tony USA DOPS
NR Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 Furie, Sidney J. UK DBOP
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V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
B   Blu-ray Disc
O   On Demand Video Download
P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
 
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