Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Tim Blaney, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : Kenneth Johnson,

Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.

Actors : Peter Friedman, Michael Biehn, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : John Agar, Mare Winningham, Lou Hancock, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Steve De Jarnatt,

A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Robert Redford,

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...

Actors : Sally Field, John Goodman, Tom Hanks, Mark Rydell,
Directors : David Seltzer,

Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. He and several others work regularly at the Gas Station, a New York comedy club. The ...

Actors : Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Sigourney Weaver, John Omirah Miluwi, Julie Harris,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...

Actors : Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie,
Directors : Terence Davies,

The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...

Actors : Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher, Chevy Chase,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be overrun with a gauntlet of crazy inhabitants.

Actors : Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Colin Firth, Liz Smith,
Directors : Martin Donovan,

Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane ...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Juliet Stevenson, Bernard Hill,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having ...

Actors : Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Actors : Piotr Machalica, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.

Actors : Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Miroslaw Baka,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, ...

Actors : Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Timothy Hutton, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan, Kathy Baker,
Directors : Glenn Gordon Caron,

A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehab to escape trouble with the law, and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bruno Nuytten,

Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt ...

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.