Best Romance movies of 1988 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Trey Wilson, Tim Robbins, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Swoosie Kurtz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.

Actors : John Amos, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Landis,

An extremely pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.

Actors : Captain Haggerty, Alec Baldwin, Paul Lazar, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Robert Towne,

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.

Actors : Geena Davis, Amy Wright, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

Actors : Lena Olin, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

Actors : Reizl Bozyk, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, Jonathan Winters, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the country of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.....

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.