Best Comedy movies of 1988

Actors : Necati Bilgiç, Sener Sen, Müjde Ar, Ugur Yücel,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

This is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together. Sener is the son of a simple family in the village and he is in love with the village headman's daughter Mujde. Kaya...

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 : Anthony Michael Hall, Uma Thurman, Paul Gleason, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Bud S. Smith,

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent ...

Actors : Turo Pajala, Matti Pellonpää, Susanna Haavisto, Eetu Hilkamo,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Actors : River Phoenix, Ione Skye, Meredith Salenger, Ann Magnuson,
Directors : William Richert,

A charming womanizer has to find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love, or else go to his father's chosen business school.

Actors : Trini Alvarado, Liam Neeson, Justine Bateman, Scott Coffey,
Directors : Joan Freeman,

A group of teenagers have a band, Mystery, with Jennie as the lead singer. They go to a bar at the coast and play during the summer. Jennie falls in love with the owner of the bar, Martin. ...

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Jennifer Connelly, Lance Edwards, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Michael attempts to...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : Tor Isedal, Birgitte Söndergaard, Jon Skolmen, Lasse Åberg,
Directors : Lasse Åberg,

The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive to an island in the archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich people, their...

Actors : Damon Martin, Royal Dano, J. Downing, Phil Fondacaro,
Directors : Albert Band,

The Ghoulies wreak havoc at an amusement park, disposing of those who mistake them for mere fairground attractions.

Actors : Valérie Lalande, Benoît Magimel, Tara Römer, Jérôme Floch,
Directors : Étienne Chatiliez,

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (...

Actors : David Keith, Angela Goethals, Charlie Schlatter, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.

Actors : Traci Lords, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Evelyn Hamann, Katharina Brauren, Vicco von Bülow, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Vicco von Bülow,

Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the...

Actors : Stefano Antonucci, Paolo Baroni, Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a ...

Actors : Nickolas Grace, Stratford Johns, Glenda Jackson, Douglas Hodge,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Set in France Oscar Wilde (so it appears) visits a local theatre and is surprised by their retelling of his own work ""Salome'" the story line then digresses in to a VERY twisted portrayal ...

Actors : Lorie Griffin, Betsy Russell, Lucinda Dickey, Leif Garrett,
Directors : John Quinn,

A group of cheerleaders become the targets of an unknown killer at a remote summer camp.

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Poornam Vishwanathan, Mohanlal, Renjini,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

A woman hires a stranger to pose as her husband because she doesn't want her ailing father to know that her fiance broke their engagement.