Movies 1988 Page 49

Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A...

Last short film directed by Yvan Lagrange. A human-looking alien, arriving from a water planet, discovers Paris, humans, society and its rules, love.

Death is a taboo subject but not in this stylised documentary about those who "make a living out of dead bodies".

As a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and...

Famous for combining extremely simple line drawings with biting humour she lays bare the frustrations encountered by ordinary women in their daily...

A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.

The protagonist of the film is Tomasz Machciński, a man with a hundred faces, or rather with one face, but one that is both a material and a work of...

A young Palestinian in exile explores his connection to a land he wasn’t born in, influenced by his father’s language and his grandmother’s...

Na-young becomes a prostitute when her heart is broken and then she is sexually violated by Jung-han, a street thug.

Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course...

The film begins in a compound, the home of three families, Bhaskar (Rajendra Prasad) a bus conductor, Narasimham (Satyanarayana) a typist, and Dharma...

Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve...

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach...

A group of college students take a Halloween hayride in the countryside and convince the driver to take them to a secluded area for a night of...

A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.

A young couple must care for a baby, and despite the many obstacles they face, they manage to carry on with their lives through the power of love.

Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.

A peasant makes all the women in his village pregnant.

The tale of four friends who are members of a high school swimming team, and the threat to those bonds when two of them experiment with cocaine.

A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.

Crowded House perform some of their classic songs from their first album along with their latest album release. Their performance of "Sister Madly"...

Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.

In front of audience estimated to be 500,000, The Boss performs a historic show

This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl...

A young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.

For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian...

Lawyer Lilian Reynolds would like to become a judge, an ambition which obliges her to work hard during a complex trial-at least,that is, until she...

A short performance to camera by solo performer/dramatist Neil Bartlett. Pedagogue explores in comic style the possible implications of Clause 28....

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

Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion...

In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a...

Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the...

This 58-minute documentary presented on MTV as part of a Special Weekend, follows Michael Jackson on the Bad Tour (1987–1988) across Europe, Asia,...

Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the...

Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the...

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified...