Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Lindsay Crouse, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Atkins,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping his past may not be as easy as he had hoped...or is it all a dream?

Actors : Kelvin Wong, Elaine Jin, Siu-Fung Wong, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Ngai Choi Lam,

Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to ...

Actors : Jane Seymour, Fernando Rey, Peter Weller, Manuel de Blas,
Directors : Antonio Drove,

A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Nassar, Kushboo, Prabhu,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Actors : Jason Mizell, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Daniel Simmons,
Directors : Rick Rubin,

Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. stars in this cross between a blaxploitation film and a spaghetti western. They must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who ...

Actors : Ana María González, Leopoldo Aban, Guillermo Delgado, Juan José Camero,
Directors : Miguel Pereira,

A rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán , a small Andean village . Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his ...

Actors : Michael Bradford, Everett McGill, Roger Kendall, Robert Case,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote ...

Actors : Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette, Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Directors : Léa Pool,

A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.

Actors : Colin Friels, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Bob Ellis,

A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure...

Actors : Julianne Phillips, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Tiny Ron,
Directors : Beau Bridges,

A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Burt Lancaster, Daniel Olbrychski, Ben Cross,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Based on a play by Pope John Paul II about couples who have reached either the hight or a crisis in their relationships. Their stories are connected by the local jeweler's shop.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, James Ryan, Arabella Holzbog,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The quest for spiritual fulfilment be a Japanese businessman who comes to Africa following the trail of his samurai ancestor. Despite the title this is not a martial arts film.

Actors : Cengiz Sezici, Osman Cavci, Hülya Avsar, Hüseyin Kutman,
Directors : Ibrahim Tatlises,

Actors : Roshni, Raj Kiran, Kimi Katkar, Govinda,
Directors : K. Ravi Shankar,

Chided by his family for being the absolute miser, wealthy industrialist Dhaniram (Kader Khan) loves his money as a mother loves a child. This does not auger well with his two sons, Ajay ...

Actors : John Hurt, Hugh Grant, Shabana Azmi, Supriya Pathak,
Directors : Nicolas Klotz,

Hugh Grant stars as a British engineer who becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of ...

Actors : Anatoliy Romashin, Galina Polskikh, Viktor Uralskiy, Sergey Shakurov,
Directors : Leonid Kvinikhidze,

Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to ...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Jane Horrocks, Pete Postlethwaite, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Jim O'Brien,

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Actors : Etienne Chicot, Martin Lamotte, André Dussollier, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Élisabeth Rappeneau,

Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station.She got a raw deal when she was a child.

Actors : Sophie Ward, C. Thomas Howell, John Rhys-Davies, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Actors : Gregory Fortescue, Paul Silverman, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon,
Directors : Nathan J. White,

The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they ...