Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Danny Huston,

Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Rob Lowe, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the ...

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Poornam Vishwanathan, Renjini, Mohanlal,
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.

Actors : Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Chuck Norris, Jack O'Halloran,
Directors : William Tannen,

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the ...

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.

Actors : Richard Brooks, Jude Ciccolella, Sam Elliott, Peter Weller,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.

Actors : Margaret Anne MacLeod, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Kyle McCulloch,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Tim Roth, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Actors : Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Olivier Parnière,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeff Daniels, Don Johnson,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high ...

Actors : Fred Ward, Bonnie Bedelia, Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Ron Nyswaner,

There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his ...

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Gene Hackman, Elias Koteas, Teri Garr,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In Texas, Floyd is the owner of a decadent bar nearby the coast. He misses his wife Dorothy, who disappeared one year ago, and does not pay attention to the business, giving credit to ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, Jean-Claude Adelin,
Directors : Claire Denis,

A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, ...

Actors : Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Thomas Quinn, Debra Feuer, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Seresin,

A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planing a big score.

Actors : Jason Campbell, Brian Dennehy, Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Gary Sinise,

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Ivan Krystev, Max Freeman, Anya Pencheva,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is...

Actors : Richard D. Sharp, Elvis Payne, Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Actors : Tom Burlinson, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Sigrid Thornton,
Directors : Geoff Burrowes,

Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.

Actors : William Hickey, Barnard Hughes, Karl Hayden, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Matt Clark,

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.