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Plain Clothes

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Harry Shearer, Max Perlich, Seymour Cassel, Loren Dean, Robert Stack, Reginald VelJohnson, Peter Dobson

Directors: Martha Coolidge

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: Hi Def

Trying to get his brother out of jail, Nick has to bump his way out again from high school, find the murderer, keep his job as a policeman and run away from crazy little girls.

 

Jack the Ripper

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Starring: Michael Caine, Desmond Askew, Ray McAnally, Ken Bones, Harry Andrews, Jane Seymour, Trevor Baxter

Directors: David Wickes

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

During the latter half of 1888 a notorious serial killer nicknamed Jack The Ripper terrorises the East End of London by murdering prostitutes in a terribly violent way. Public outrage follows. Inspector Frederick Abberline is assigned to the case but finds that it is not just a simple murder enquiry. Based on a real life event, this film claims to have had access to top secret Home Office files and believe that their ending is the correct solution to the age old mystery.

 

Child's Play

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama

Starring: Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, Neil Giuntoli, Dinah Manoff, Alan Wilder, Catherine Hicks, Alex Vincent

Directors: Tom Holland

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Young Andy Barclay sees a commercial for a 'Good Guy' doll on TV, and asks his mother for one for his birthday. At work, Andy's mom and her friend discover a peddler selling one for a low price, and she buys it. What she doesn't know is that the particular doll contains the spirit of Charles Lee Ray, aka 'The Lakeshore Strangler', who died at the hands of police the night before and had transferred his spirit to the doll by voodoo. That night, Andy's babysitter is pushed from their 5th-floor window to her death, and only young Andy knows that 'Chucky' - the doll - is responsible for that a death and a series of murders that follow. Worse than...

 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family

Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Ridings, Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern

Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

It is 1940's Los Angeles. In a world were Humans and Cartoons co-exist. A famous toon known as Roger Rabbit has life easy, until he discovers that his wife, Jessica Rabbit is having fun with the head of Maroon Cartoons, then things take a turn for the worse for Roger as he is know accused of murdering Mr. Maroon. Roger turns to a down and out detective named Eddie Valiant, who has a vendetta for toons. He helps Roger (against his own will), escape from an uncompromising Judge Doom, and even try to clear Roger's name, in order to do this, he must travel all over L.A. and even into Toontown.

 

Willow

Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Rick Overton, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Val Kilmer, Kevin Pollak, Tony Cox, Billy Barty

Directors: Ron Howard

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

 

I... Dreaming

Genres: Short

Starring: Bearthm Brakhage, Neowyn Brakhage, Rarc Brakhage

Directors: Stan Brakhage

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def

Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow as we watch a solitary man in shadows in an unadorned house: he stretches out, he picks his feet, he walks across a room, he rocks in a chair. Occasionally he watches two young children at play; the film sometimes speeds up. Handwritten words, like "dark void" and "waiting longing," cross the screen. Film and phrases often come in short bursts. Outdoor it looks gray and cold.

 

Braddock: Missing in Action III

Genres: Action

Starring: Keith David, Floyd Levine, Aki Aleong, Chuck Norris, Yehuda Efroni, Rick Prieto, Roland Harrah III

Directors: Aaron Norris

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def

When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.

 

Dangerous Liaisons

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: Peter Capaldi, Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mildred Natwick

Directors: Stephen Frears

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Set in France around 1760, the Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One of the Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lovers, Gercourt, is betrothed to a young, virtuous, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her wedding day, thus humiliating Gercourt. Meanwhile, Valmont has a conquest of his own in mind: Madame de Tourvel, a beautiful, married, and God fearing woman. The Marquise doesn't think that Valmont can seduce Mme de Tourvel. She tells him that if he can provide written proof of a sexual encounter with Mme de Tourvel, she will offer him a reward: one last nigh...

 

Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf

Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Family

Starring: Casey Kasem, Don Messick

Directors: Ray Patterson

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and his girlfriend to help him win the contest.

 

Rambo III

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Kurtwood Smith, Sasson Gabai, Marcus Gilbert, Randy Raney, Marc de Jonge

Directors: Peter MacDonald

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def

John Rambo, unwilling to accompany old friend Colonel Trautman behind Soviet lines in Afghanistan, ends up going there on an unofficial rescue mission after Trautman is captured. Bullets and bombs fly in all directions as the indestructible Rambo quickly works his way through a large camp of Soviet soldiers.

 

Maniac Cop

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Robert Z'Dar, Tom Atkins, Richard Roundtree, Lou Bonacki, William Smith, Sheree North

Directors: William Lustig

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.

 

Messenger of Death

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Tom Everett, Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett, Charles Dierkop

Directors: J. Lee Thompson

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.

 

Comic Book Confidential

Genres: History, Documentary

Starring: Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe

Directors: Ron Mann

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1988

In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of W...

 

Alone in the Neon Jungle

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama

Starring: Jude Ciccolella, Jon Tenney, Jon Polito, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Morton, Danny Aiello, Suzanne Pleshette

Directors: Georg Stanford Brown

Country: USA

Year: 1988

When the Chief of Police transfers tough police captain Janet Hamilton to "The Sewer," a crime-infested inner-city precinct, she suspects that many of her own men have been thriving in this lawless wasteland-though she has no idea how deep the corruption goes. Compelled to investigate after a sergeant is mysteriously murdered, Janet discovers that some of Pittsburgh finest are caught up in one of the most explosive and shocking scandals the City of Pittsburgh has ever seen.

 

Dallas - Season Thirteen

Genres: Drama

Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman

Directors: David Jacobs

Country: USA

Year: 1988

After finally losing Ewing Oil to Cliff Barnes, control of Southfork to Bobby, and being abandoned by his wife and children, a drunk and despondent J.R. begins walking around the ranch alone with a loaded gun wishing he had never been born. A gunshot is later fired in J.R.'s bedroom as Bobby returns to Southfork, and he rushes up to J.R.'s room and gasps, saying "Oh, my God!" as the series ends. (See below for more information.)

 

The Golden Girls - Season Four

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur

Directors: Susan Harris

Country: USA

Year: 1988

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. Produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and Harris served as the series' original executive producers.

 

The Wonder Years - Season One

Genres: Comedy, Family, Drama

Starring: Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria

Directors: Carol Black, Neal Marlens

Country: USA

Year: 1988

The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.

 

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Joe Grifasi, George Kennedy, Susan Beaubian, Raye Birk, Tiny Ron, Priscilla Presley

Directors: David Zucker

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A re-run of many of the gags from the original TV series 'Police Squad'. An Airplane type spoof, this time with the an incompetent lieutenant (Drebin) who always 'gets his man'. Visual gags come thick and fast, and it's impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot.. Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player.

 

Mississippi Burning

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, R. Lee Ermey, Brad Dourif, Frankie Faison

Directors: Alan Parker

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star in this well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller. Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration, tells the story of two FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who come in to try to solve the crime. Hackman is a former small-town Mississippi sheriff himself, while Dafoe is a by-the-numbers young hotshot. Yes, there is some tension between the two. The movie has an interesting fatalism, as all the FBI's best efforts incite more and more violence, which becomes disturbing--the film's m...

 

Not of This Earth

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Starring: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Michael Delano, Lenny Juliano, Kelli Maroney, Ava Cadell, Rebecca Perle

Directors: Jim Wynorski

Country: USA

Year: 1988

A science fiction vampire movie. The Vampire is an emissary from an embattled world near destruction who teleports to Earth to see if they can live here. He finds that our blood is nourishing and that at least one source of it is a steady stream of transfusions. He hypnotizes a Dr. to provide them and has his blond nurse move in to administer them.