Best Survival movies of 1988

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

Actors : RCB, William Smith, Julius LeFlore, Roddy Piper,

After a nuclear war, the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Tami Erin,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...

Actors : Terence Kelly, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay, Sarah Torgov,
Directors : John Hough,

On a lonely island in the Pacific Northwest, a group of travelers find themselves targeted by a crazed, homicidal family.

Actors : Richard D. Sharp, Elvis Payne, Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Actors : Reine Brynolfsson, Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sune Mangs, Egill Ólafsson,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other ...

Actors : Michael Ensign, David Muir, Cathy Cahn, Stacey Travis,
Directors : Richard Clark,

Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.

Actors : Florin Zamfirescu, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Daneliuc,

Iacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive.

Actors : Mohamed Henedi, Mahmoud El Gendy, Abla Kamel, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Khairy Beshara,

A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her ...

Actors : Walter Abbot, Franklin Anson, Lou Ferrigno, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Jim Goldman,

In the post-nuclear wastes of Earth two civilizations fight for survival. The Tyrogs, in the City of Doom, and the Drones, who live underground, free from radiation. The nuclear war is over but the fight for survival has just begun.

Actors : Rob Howard, Polly Croke, Nique Needles, Daniel Lillford,
Directors : Ray Boseley,

When a nuclear war hits Melbourne, Australia, we find that there's more than one way to survive in the fallout - why sit around wasting what air's left when there's time now to get loose and dance?

Actors : Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath, Nitish Bharadwaj,
Directors : Nabendu Ghosh,

The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes the Buddhist town of Sariput, leaving just four survivors - two monks and two children - in the upper floor of a monastery.

Actors : Janine Denison, Brümilda van Rensburg, Darren Dalton, Ian Roberts,
Directors : Mark Roper,

Sy Winter, a young idealistic American, becomes stranded high in the mountain woods. Attracted by the beautiful Tanya, he is trapped into working for her violent husband and his decrepit ...

Actors : Joseph Marina, Steve Oliver, Vincent Barbi, Michael Christian,
Directors : John Carr,

A group of young survivalist students are clustered among the rocks of a wilderness area, listening to the cautionary teachings of their instructor. On a trail just below them, a black ...

Actors : Rajiv Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor,
Directors : Harish Shah,

Treasure hidden in an abandoned Shiva temple attracts both good and evil characters to it, but can they retrieve the priceless gold and jewels before the earthquake (Zalzala) hits?

Actors : Moses Gunn, Art Hindle, Hoyt Axton, Karen Black,
Directors : Don Cato,

A small-town Southern family may have survived World War II, but will they survive a family reunion?