Best movies of 1988 on amazon prime

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.



The Presidio(1988)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A San Francisco civilian police detective is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer while dating his daughter.



School Daze(1988)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.



Killer Klowns from Outer Space(1988)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.



Elvira: Mistress of the Dark(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.



Big Top Pee-wee(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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.



High Spirits(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.



Vibes(1988)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Psychics hired to find lost temple...



The Couch Trip(1988)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. His tactless radio show is a hit, and he becomes very popular. ...



Some Girls(1988)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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...



Journey to the Center of the Earth(1988)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, wind up in the lost city of Atlantis.



Kansas(1988)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.



It Takes Two(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Texas, the naive Travis Rogers quits his job to marry his beloved Stephanie "Stephi" Lawrence and work with his father-in-law. However he decides to buy a car with his US$ 5,000.00 ...



Vijay(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Vijay is a story about people that are bound by relationships of love and friendship and how they become foes and take up weapons against each other.



The Undertaker(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.



Terror Squad(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, and take over a nuclear power plant. A counter-terrorist expert must stop them before they blow it up.