8.4Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

NR
8.4
1988Drama124 minPlay
8.4Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

PG-13
8.4
1988Animation89 minPlay
8.0My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

NR
8.0
1988Animation86 minPlay
7.9Akira

Akira

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

NR
7.9
1988Action124 minPlay
TV8.1The Storyteller

The Storyteller

The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

NR
8.1
1988Action25 minPlay
TV8.1Choujuu Sentai Liveman

Choujuu Sentai Liveman

"Friends, why did you do that?" Yuusuke, Jou, Megumi, Kenji, Gou and Rui are students at Academia but three decide to turn bad and join forces with the evil army Volt. When the defectors return, their three friends are forced to combat them as Choujuu Sentai Liveman. With the help of an android ally named Colon, and a few others along the way, the Liveman must save the world and their friends.

NRtv asahi
8.1
1988Action25 minPlay
7.8A Short Film About Love

A Short Film About Love

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

NR
7.8
1988Drama87 minPlay
7.7Die Hard

Die Hard

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

R
7.7
1988Action131 minPlay
7.7Rain Man

Rain Man

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

R
7.7
1988Drama134 minPlay
7.7Time of the Gypsies

Time of the Gypsies

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

NR
7.7
1988Comedy142 minPlay
7.6Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

R
7.6
1988Crime128 minPlay
TV8.0Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

TV-PGBBC Two
8.0
1988Comedy30 minPlay
TV7.9Count Duckula

Count Duckula

Count Duckula is a vegetarian vampire duck, coming into the world as an accident. Unlike his family and ancestors, he has no bloodlust, as when he was reincarnated, blood was omitted and replaced with ketchup.

NRITV1
7.9
1988Animation22 minPlay
7.6A Short Film About Killing

A Short Film About Killing

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

NR
7.6
1988Crime85 minPlay
7.5Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

PG
7.5
1988Drama103 minPlay
7.5Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

PG
7.5
1988Animation104 minPlay
7.5Running on Empty

Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.

PG-13
7.5
1988Drama116 minPlay
7.4The Big Blue

The Big Blue

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more ...

PG-13
7.4
1988Adventure168 minPlay
7.4Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls.

G
7.4
1988Adventure92 minPlay
7.3Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

NR
7.3
1988Comedy88 minPlay
7.3Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice

After an untimely death, a newly dead New England couple seek help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

PG
7.3
1988Comedy92 minPlay
TV7.5A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

The world's favorite chicken-hearted canine, as a puppy? That's right! And the old gang is back with him. Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Freddy are all here as gangly kids — goofing off, solving kid-size mysteries, and having run-ins with ghouls, ghosts, and goblins.

TV-GABC
7.5
1988Animation23 minPlay
7.3Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

G
7.3
1988Animation91 minPlay
TV7.5The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

An American animated children's television series inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

TV-YABC
7.5
1988Animation23 minPlay