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Clara’s Heart (1988)
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who’s hired to be a housekeeper….
Punchline (1988)
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who’s always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the…
Alien Nation (1988)
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years…
Bloodstone (1988)
When a newlywed American couple goes to India on their honeymoon, little do they realize that they are about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. A huge ruby…
Disney’s Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988)
It’s the happiest time of the year! And the season of Santa, reindeer and gift-wrapped surprises will be even jollier with this joyful volume of Disney’s Sing-Along Songs: Very Merry…
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next (1988)
This special is hosted by Patrick Stewart and traced the history of Star Trek from its inception with “The Cage” through to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and the…
The People Across the Lake (1988)
In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The…
Platoon Leader (1988)
West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara’s tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the…
Heathers (1988)
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the “in crowd” of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by…
Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother – who was a big fan of Elvis Presley – gets in a wreck. He and…
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals — amongst them, her sinister…
The Girl in a Swing (1988)
A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite…
Primal Scream (1988)
In the future, a private detective tries to stop a large corporation from mining an element whose side effects include igniting human flesh and destroying internal body parts.
Memories of Me (1988)
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the “king of the…
Scarecrows (1988)
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the…
Twister’s Revenge! (1988)
Three bumbling criminals have been trying to get their hands on the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own.
It’s the Girl in the Red Truck Charlie Brown (1988)
Spike waves to a young woman driving a red pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day; it is the highlight of his day. In this combined animated…
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters (1988)
In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the…
Kansas (1988)
A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds…
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
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…
Dangerous Curves (1988)
A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime – deliver a Porsche for a client and join the company of your dreams in return. When the car gets…
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Spellbinder (1988)
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and…
Patty Hearst (1988)
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970’s. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of…
Cellar Dweller (1988)
In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist’s creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist’s colony.
Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
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…
Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
War Party (1988)
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren’t supposed to fight back….
Let’s Get Lost (1988)
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker,…
Dracula’s Widow (1988)
Dracula’s wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.
The Beast of War (1988)
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
Rage to Kill (1988)
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup…
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will…
Grotesque (1988)
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family’s vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues…
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator’s right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer…
Some Girls (1988)
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but…
Running on Empty (1988)
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…
Bloody Wednesday (1988)
Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines…
Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
A man’s family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don’t exactly connect. However, he connects with…
Freeway (1988)
A deeply disturbed man goes on a murderous nighttime rampage across Los Angeles.