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Grave of the Fireflies
Genres: Drama, War, Animation
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
Directors: Isao Takahata
Country: Japan
Year: 1988
Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's destiny who was a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.
Cop
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Wynne, Raymond J. Barry, Annie McEnroe, James Woods, Charles Durning, Charles Haid
Directors: James B. Harris
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Lloyd Hopkins, a hard-boiled American police detective is on the trail of a mass murderer who is victimizing women in Los Angeles. The pursuit leads him through a world that has become his own natural habitat - a nasty world of crime, drugs, prostitution and male hustlers where "innocence kills" and continued exposure corrupts. Paradoxically, it's also a world of love, secret admirers, romantic feminist poets and modern chivalry. And for the viewer, it's the background for an exciting, suspense movie.
Muppet Babies - Season Five
Genres: Family, Animation
Starring: Russi Taylor, Greg Berg, Laurie O'Brien
Directors: Jim Henson
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Although the program was a cartoon, live-action film sequences were added in unusual moments. When the babies opened a door, box or book, they were often confronted with anything from a speeding train to a space ship. Foreign landscapes in their imagination were usually photos or bits of stock footage which the babies would walk across, interacting indirectly with the films actors. Though much of the live-action came from stock footage and old black-and-white horror/monster films, more recent films such as Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Indiana Jones were also played and parodied.
Twice Dead
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: Christopher Burgard, Travis McKenna, Sam Melville, Tom Bresnahan, Brooke Bundy, Charlie Spradling, Todd Bridges
Directors: Bert L. Dragin
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground for a local street gang. But the gang is not all the Cates children have to worry about as Tyler's ghost makes it known he is not pleased with their intrusion.
Empire State
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Starring: Ray McAnally, Jamie Foreman, Jimmy Flint, Emily Bolton, Martin Landau, Lorcan Cranitch, Cathryn Harrison
Directors: Ron Peck
Country: UK
Year: 1988
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Empire State is an amazing film,as the trailer saya it's a 'night on theedge'...it certainly is.The film is set in London's Docklands and is one ofthe best 1980's club movies around.It's a real shame the film didn't get abig release...We follow the lives of very different characters arond onenight at the 'Empire State' club.Don't be put off by the fact that the filmhas a (sort of)gay theme,there's nothing too kinky.I think that it is bestwatched in summer,because the settings are just right,the stylish directionis great and the songs are perfect.Watch this movie and see what you'vemissed in the way of a great crime/drama/thriller film...
Emmanuelle 6
Genres: Drama
Starring: Natalie Uher, Jean-René Gossart, Thomas Obermuller, Gustavo Rodríguez, François Guerrar, Luis Carlos Mendes, Tamira
Directors: Bruno Zincone
Country: France
Year: 1988
Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a powerful drug lord. Now they must escape from a land of darkness.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Deborah Norton
Directors: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Country: UK
Year: 1988
The programme was a sketch show. As in The Two Ronnies, elaborate wordplay and innuendo were staples of its material. It frequently broke the fourth wall; characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. In addition, the show was punctuated with non-sequitur vox pops in a similar style to those of Monty Python's Flying Circus, often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments and singing comical numbers.
War Party
Genres: Action, Drama
Starring: Jerry Hardin, M. Emmet Walsh, R.D. Call, Rodney A. Grant, Guy Boyd, Tantoo Cardinal, Kevyn Major Howard
Directors: Franc Roddam
Country: USA
Year: 1988
A group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Unfortunately racial hostilities and a real gun lead to some all too real casualties, and three young Blackfeet men are caught in the middle. The film follows their flight for freedom in the face of an angry community which has mistakenly blamed them for the violence.
Remote Control
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Will Nye, Christopher Wynne, Jennifer Tilly, Dick Warlock, Deborah Goodrich, Kevin Dillon, Bert Remsen
Directors: Jeff Lieberman
Country: USA
Year: 1988
A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friends race to stop the aliens before the tapes can be distributed world-wide.
Soursweet
Genres: Drama
Starring: Craig Fairbrass, Jim Carter, Soon-Tek Oh, Jodi Long, Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, William Chow
Directors: Mike Newell
Country: UK
Year: 1988
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.
DuckTales - Volume Two
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Starring: Russi Taylor, Alan Young, Terence McGovern
Directors: Carl Barks, Jymn Magon
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The show features the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his great-nephews. The nephews, who were originally living with their uncle Donald, are left in Scrooge's care when the former joins the Navy.
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Noel Appleby, Charles Walker, Paul Livingston, Chris Haywood, Marshall Napier, Desmond Kelly, Sarah Peirse
Directors: Vincent Ward
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Year: 1988
A young boy in 14th century Cumbria (north of England) keeps getting visions he cannot explain. His village has so far been spared from the black death, but the villagers fear its imminent arrival. With the boy as their guide, a group set out to dig a hole to the other side of the world, so as to fulfil the visions and save the village. At the 'other side' is 20th century New Zealand !.. N.B. Flips from B+W to colour frequently.
Rain Man
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kim Robillard, Ralph Seymour, Michael D. Roberts, Beth Grant, Bonnie Hunt, Dustin Hoffman
Directors: Barry Levinson
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "some...
Married with Children - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sag
Directors: Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The first season of the series was videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. From season three to season eight, the show was taped at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood and the remaining three seasons were taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. The series was produced by Embassy Communications on its first season and the remaining seasons by ELP Communications under the studio Columbia Pictures Television (and eventually Columbia TriStar Television).
High Hopes
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Judith Scott, David Bamber, Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Philip Jackson, Jason Watkins
Directors: Mike Leigh
Country: UK
Year: 1988
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
Genres: Drama
Starring: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Dan Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold
Directors: Richard Linklater
Country: USA
Year: 1988
FleshEater
Genres: Horror
Starring: S. William Hinzman, John Mowod, Leslie Ann Wick, Kevin Kindlin, Charis Kirkpatrik Acuff, James J. Rutan, Lisa Smith
Directors: S. William Hinzman
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Genres: Horror
Starring: Bill Pullman, Paul Guilfoyle, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Michael Gough, Brent Jennings, Badja Djola
Directors: Wes Craven
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Dennis Allan is an scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recipient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug's effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead. Could this be the origin of the "zombie" legend? Alan embarks on a surprising and often surreal investigation of the turbulent social chaos that is Haiti during the revolution which ousted hated dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Often a pawn in a greater game, Alan must decide what is science, what is superstition, and what is the unknown in a anarchistic society where police corruption and witch-doctory are commonplace.
Only Fools and Horses - Season Eight
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Roger Lloyd-Pack, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Directors: John Sullivan
Country: UK
Year: 1988
As the series progressed, the scope of the plots expanded, leading to the larger regular cast, with writer John Sullivan unafraid to mix comedy with drama. Many early episodes were largely self-contained, with few plot-lines mentioned again, but the show developed a story arc and an ongoing episodic dimension. The character of Grandad was killed off following the death of Lennard Pearce, and his brother Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) emerged to restore the three generations line-up. After years of fruitless searching, both Del and Rodney found long-term love, in the form of Raquel (Tessa Peake-Jones) and Cassandra (Gwyneth Strong) respectiv...
Big
Genres: Comedy, Family, Romance
Starring: John Heard, Tom Hanks, David Moscow, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Lovitz, Jared Rushton
Directors: Penny Marshall
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown ups including getting a job, and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world?