Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : Juhi Chawla, Aamir Khan, Goga Kapoor, Dalip Tahil,
Directors : Mansoor Khan,

A young man and young woman fall in love against their feuding fathers' wishes in this version of 'Romeo and Juliet' set in contemporary India.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Melanie Griffith, Sean Bean,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, David Hoflin, Dale Reeves,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

Actors : Robert Levine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ...

Actors : Mark Harmon, Jonathan Silverman, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown,

Mark Harmon is a washed-up baseball player who is called back home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/ first love who had committed suicide. As he searches for what to do with ...

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Molly Ringwald, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Ernest Thompson,

Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : James Bridges,

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Actors : Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Alex Man, Jacky Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Actors : Doran Clark, Shô Kosugi, Bruce French, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Directors : Eric Karson,

One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircraft, an F-111 Aardvark with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly ...

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Keith Carradine, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafés and pestering gallery...

Actors : Robert Prosky, Don Ameche, J.J. Johnston, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : David Mamet,

Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.

Actors : Dorian Healy, Denzel Washington, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish,
Directors : Martin Stellman,

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Ontkean, Neil Patrick Harris, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and ...

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Actors : Stratos Tzortzoglou, Michalis Zeke, Eva Kotamanidou, Tania Palaiologou,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries ...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Scarfe, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

General Chappy Sinclair assembles a joint U.S.- Soviet strike team to take out a rogue middle eastern nuclear base.