Best movies of 1988 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma,
Directors : Mira Nair,

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ...

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 : Chloe Webb, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Bette Midler, John Heard, Spalding Gray,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Actors : Estelle Harris, Virginia Paris, Mark Phelan, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Ramón Menéndez,

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.

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 : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

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 : 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 : Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

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 : Twiggy, Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdhry,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

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 : 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.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...