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The Best Movies of 1988 - Original Release   (104 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1988, # 214 Overall Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
# 2 for 1988, # 292 Overall Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Frears, Stephen USA / UK VBOP
# 3 for 1988, # 322 Overall Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
# 4 for 1988, # 553 Overall Bull Durham 1988 Shelton, Ron USA DB
# 5 for 1988, # 567 Overall Landscape in the Mist 1988 Angelopoulos, Theo France / Greece / Italy D
# 6 for 1988, # 570 Overall Die Hard 1988 McTiernan, John USA DBO
# 7 for 1988, # 590 Overall Rain Man 1988 Levinson, Barry USA DBOPS
# 8 for 1988, # 596 Overall The Thin Blue Line 1988 Morris, Errol USA DO
# 9 for 1988, # 604 Overall The Vanishing 1988 Sluizer, George Netherlands / France Y
# 10 for 1988, # 651 Overall Salaam Bombay! 1988 Nair, Mira UK / India / France Y
# 11 for 1988, # 709 Overall A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Crichton, Charles / Cleese, John USA / UK DBO
# 12 for 1988, # 828 Overall Akira 1988 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan DBS
# 13 for 1988, # 916 Overall The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Kaufman, Philip USA DOP
# 14 for 1988, # 984 Overall Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Takahata, Isao Japan D
# 15 for 1988, # 1001 Overall My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan / USA D
# 16 for 1988, # 1021 Overall The Accidental Tourist 1988 Kasdan, Lawrence USA YOPS
# 17 for 1988, # 1053 Overall Story of Women 1988 Chabrol, Claude France Y
# 18 for 1988, # 1067 Overall High Hopes 1988 Leigh, Mike UK D
# 19 for 1988, # 1094 Overall Dead Ringers 1988 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YOS
# 20 for 1988, # 1105 Overall Big 1988 Marshall, Penny USA DB
# 21 for 1988, # 1169 Overall A Short Film About Killing 1988 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland Y
# 22 for 1988, # 1175 Overall The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
# 23 for 1988, # 1192 Overall Working Girl 1988 Nichols, Mike USA DO
# 24 for 1988, # 1203 Overall Running on Empty 1988 Lumet, Sidney USA YOP
# 25 for 1988, # 1257 Overall Alice 1988 Svankmajer, Jan Czechoslovakia / Switzerland / UK / West Germany D
# 26 for 1988, # 1262 Overall The Naked Gun 1988 Zucker, David USA DOP
# 27 for 1988, # 1318 Overall Distant Voices Still Lives 1988 Davies, Terence UK YOP
# 28 for 1988, # 1332 Overall Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA D
# 29 for 1988, # 1341 Overall Drowning by Numbers 1988 Greenaway, Peter UK / Netherlands Y
# 30 for 1988, # 1347 Overall Midnight Run 1988 Brest, Martin USA DOS
# 31 for 1988, # 1365 Overall Eight Men Out 1988 Sayles, John USA DOP
# 32 for 1988, # 1409 Overall Mississippi Burning 1988 Parker, Alan USA Y
# 33 for 1988, # 1570 Overall Damnation 1988 Tarr, Béla Hungary D
# 34 for 1988, # 1675 Overall Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DOP
# 35 for 1988, # 1680 Overall The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey 1988 Ward, Vincent Australia / New Zealand S
# 36 for 1988, # 1690 Overall A Cry in the Dark 1988 Schepisi, Fred Australia / USA YOP
# 37 for 1988, # 1811 Overall Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1988 Tsukamoto, Shinya Japan DO
# 38 for 1988, # 1818 Overall Hanussen 1988 Szabó, István Hungary / West Germany / Austria Y
# 39 for 1988, # 1837 Overall The Moderns 1988 Rudolph, Alan USA D
# 40 for 1988, # 1838 Overall Chocolat 1988 Denis, Claire France / West Germany / Cameroon Y
# 41 for 1988, # 1846 Overall Camille Claudel 1988 Nuytten, Bruno France Y
# 42 for 1988, # 1887 Overall A World Apart 1988 Menges, Chris UK / Zimbabwe YS
# 43 for 1988, # 1897 Overall Bird 1988 Eastwood, Clint USA DOP
# 44 for 1988, # 1902 Overall Ariel 1988 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland D
# 45 for 1988, # 1903 Overall Little Dorrit 1988 Edzard, Christine UK V
# 46 for 1988, # 1921 Overall Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Oz, Frank USA Y
# 47 for 1988, # 1955 Overall Time of the Gypsies 1988 Kusturica, Emir UK / Italy / Yugoslavia Y
# 48 for 1988, # 1972 Overall The Accused 1988 Kaplan, Jonathan USA / Canada DO
# 49 for 1988, # 1983 Overall Stand and Deliver 1988 Menéndez, Ramón USA DOPS
# 50 for 1988, # 1985 Overall Legend of the Holy Drinker 1988 Olmi, Ermanno Italy / France Y
# 51 for 1988, # 2031 Overall Another Woman 1988 Allen, Woody USA D
# 52 for 1988, # 2084 Overall Hairspray 1988 Waters, John USA YOP
# 52 for 1988, # 2084 Overall Stormy Monday 1988 Figgis, Mike UK / USA D
# 53 for 1988, # 2105 Overall The Little Thief 1988 Miller, Claude France Y
# 54 for 1988, # 2194 Overall Monkey Shines 1988 Romero, George A. USA DOPS
# 55 for 1988, # 2195 Overall The Firm 1988 Clarke, Alan UK D
# 56 for 1988, # 2244 Overall La Lectrice 1988 Deville, Michel France Y
# 57 for 1988, # 2245 Overall Dragons Forever 1988 Hung Kam-Bo, Sammo / Yuen, Corey Hong Kong
# 57 for 1988, # 2245 Overall A Handful of dust 1988 Sturridge, Charles UK DS
# 57 for 1988, # 2245 Overall The Milagro Beanfield War 1988 Redford, Robert USA DO
# 57 for 1988, # 2245 Overall Voices of Sarafina! 1988 Noble, Nigel USA
# 58 for 1988, # 2254 Overall Gorillas in the Mist 1988 Apted, Michael USA YS
# 59 for 1988, # 2270 Overall Beetlejuice 1988 Burton, Tim USA DBOPS
# 59 for 1988, # 2270 Overall Biloxi Blues 1988 Nichols, Mike USA YO
# 59 for 1988, # 2270 Overall Little Vera 1988 Pichul, Vasili Soviet Union Y
# 59 for 1988, # 2270 Overall Married to the Mob 1988 Demme, Jonathan USA D
# 59 for 1988, # 2270 Overall A Taxing Woman's Return 1988 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 60 for 1988, # 2324 Overall Frantic 1988 Polanski, Roman USA / France DBOP
# 60 for 1988, # 2324 Overall Lady in White 1988 LaLoggia, Frank USA D
# 61 for 1988, # 2325 Overall The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years 1988 Spheeris, Penelope USA VS
# 62 for 1988, # 2363 Overall Drums of Winter 1988 Elder, Sarah / Kamerling, Leonard USA
# 62 for 1988, # 2363 Overall Tin Toy 1988 Lasseter, John USA D
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 Gilliam, Terry UK / West Germany DBO
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Candy Mountain 1988 Wurlitzer, Rudy / Frank, Robert Switzerland / Canada / France Y
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Essai d'ouverture 1988 Moullet, Luc France
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Golub 1988 Blumenthal, Jerry / Quinn, Gordon USA
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Puissance de la parole 1988 Godard, Jean-Luc France
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Rembrandt Laughing 1988 Jost, Jon USA
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Talking to Strangers 1988 Tregenza, Rob USA
# 63 for 1988, # 2378 Overall Trois places pour le 26 1988 Demy, Jacques France
# 64 for 1988, # 2381 Overall Switching Channels 1988 Kotcheff, Ted USA VO
# 65 for 1988, # 2387 Overall The Music Teacher 1988 Corbiau, Gérard Belgium / France Y
# 66 for 1988, # 2394 Overall Madame Sousatzka 1988 Schlesinger, John UK VO
# 66 for 1988, # 2394 Overall Paperhouse 1988 Rose, Bernard UK
# 66 for 1988, # 2394 Overall Permanent Record 1988 Silver, Marisa USA D
# 66 for 1988, # 2394 Overall Talk Radio 1988 Stone, Oliver USA DOPS
# 67 for 1988, # 2400 Overall My Uncle's Legacy 1988 Papic, Krsto Yugoslavia
# 68 for 1988, # 2410 Overall Thou Shall Not Kill 1988 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland Y
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall The Boost 1988 Becker, Harold USA DOP
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Bright Lights, Big City 1988 Bridges, James USA / Japan D
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Clean and Sober 1988 Caron, Glenn Gordon USA DO
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall The Dead Pool 1988 Van Horn, Buddy USA DBO
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Funny Farm 1988 Hill, George Roy USA D
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Memories of Me 1988 Winkler, Henry USA D
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Mystic Pizza 1988 Petrie, Donald USA DB
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall School Daze 1988 Lee, Spike USA DOS
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Thelonious Monk:
Straight, No Chaser		 1988 Zwerin, Charlotte USA DS
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall 36 Fillette 1988 Breillat, Catherine France D
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall A Time of Destiny 1988 Nava, Gregory USA
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Bogart, Paul USA D
# 69 for 1988, # 2411 Overall Vice Versa 1988 Gilbert, Brian USA DO
# 70 for 1988, # 2414 Overall The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick 1988 Goldstein, Allan A. Canada V
# 71 for 1988, # 2426 Overall A Short Film About Love 1988 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland D
# 72 for 1988, # 2436 Overall The Days of Eclipse 1988 Sokurov, Aleksandr Soviet Union
 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
D   DVD
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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