Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Revathy, M.S. Thrippunithara, Philomina, Ambika,
Directors : Kamal,

Lakshmi is kidnapped at a young age and grows up with a group of exiles. She befriends an orphan boy who calls her "Kakkothi" through fate, who holds connections to her past.

Actors : Mária Varga, Gyula Szabó, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Actors : Ana María Giunta, Víctor Laplace, Manuel Callau, Emilia Mazer,
Directors : Carlos Lemos,

An anthropologist accidentally arrives on an island inhabited by two opposing tribes, blond and brown women.

Actors : Charine Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Pat Ha, Bo-Bo Fung,
Directors : David Lam,

A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Rakhee Gulzar, Shekhar Kapur, Madhavi,
Directors : Shashilal K. Nair,

Two partners namely, Murlidhar and Narang, betray their third partner and take over his business. Ramnath works as a watchman in this organization, and he sees illegal business taking place...

Actors : Sergey Tezov, Sergei Sozinov, Yuriy Nazarov, Aleksandr Rakhlenko,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup... See full synopsis »

Actors : Pirawan Prasopsart, Nai Suksakul, Krailad Kriangkrai, Chintara Sukapatana,
Directors : Ruj Ronapop,

Romance between Imperial Japanese solider, Kobori and Thai woman, Angsumalin during the period of World War II.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Edowan Bersmea, Geoffrey Ziebart, Gary Carter,

Gordon the ninja learns from his master that the ancient sword he carries has a great power locked within it. Should the leaders of the five ninja clans be killed, this power would grow to ...

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Jasmina Avramovic, Enver Petrovci, Lazar Ristovski,
Directors : Dragan Marinkovic,

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders...

Actors : Jeff Christensen, Tom Butler, Margaret Langrick, Andrea Martin,

Two women attending a Women's Seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown ...

Actors : Pamela Prati, Gabriele Gori, Loredana Romito, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Mario Bianchi,

After a car incident, in which he lost his wife, a musician remains paralytic. He retire in a lonely villa together with a bisexual, a lesbian and a vicious kid.

Actors : Anat Atzmon, Slava Chaplin, Gili Ben-Ozilio, Amnon Berenson,
Directors : Yoel Sharon,

Two shell-shocked veterans struggle to overcome their pain.

Actors : Zhongchao Zhang, Shangxian Liu, Zhiqun Xu, Yan Liu,
Directors : Miaomiao Liu,

The son of a boxer who was killed accidentally trains with the man who killed his father.

Actors : Attila Epres, Ari Bery, Mariann Szilágyi, Dénes Ujlaky,
Directors : György Dobray,

Actors : Trudy Labij, Manouk van der Meulen, Tom Hulce, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Piotr Andrejew,

The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Anil Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

Jatin Chatterjee lives a poor lifestyle in India circa the British rule. He is amongst the thousands who are actively agitating for the British to quit India. One day while on the run from ...

Actors : Júlia Britton, Eunice Muñoz, Ruy Furtado, Henrique Viana,
Directors : João Botelho,

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Actors : Yueqiao Han, Jun Ma,

The Dragon Pearl Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Joint Company is established in Longjiazhuang Village to help the people get out of poverty.

Actors : Janet-Laine Green, Zachary Ansley, Valerie Pearson, Ron White,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

As long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are ...

Actors : Jose Coronado, Pepe Soriano, Ana Álvarez, Álvaro de Luna,
Directors : Antonio Mercero,

A farmer discovers a Celtiberian treasure in a town in Castilla. Archaeology professor Jerónimo Otero, is sent to quantify the find and continue the excavations, along with four students. ...