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Allo 'Allo! - Season Seven
Genres: Comedy
Starring: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd
Directors: Gorden Kaye, Francesca Gonshaw, Vicki Michelle, Kirsten Cooke, Rose Hill
Country: UK
Year: 1988
Set during World War II, 'Allo 'Allo! tells the story of René Artois, a French café owner in the village of Nouvion (the town square was based on a courtyard at Lynford Hall, Norfolk where the pilot episode was shot). Germans have occupied the village and stolen all of its valuable artefacts. These include the first cuckoo clock ever made and a painting of The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp (known to those who have seen it as The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies). The local commandant has decided to keep them for himself after the war and forces René to hide the painting in his café. Hitler also wants the painting, and sends Herr Otto Fli...
Hero and the Terror
Genres: Action, Crime
Starring: Jeffrey Kramer, Jack O'Halloran, Billy Drago, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto, Murphy Dunne, Peter Miller
Directors: William Tannen
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
Robowar
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Reb Brown, John P. Dulaney, Luciano Pigozzi, Romano Puppo, Catherine Hickland, Mel Davidson, Max Laurel
Directors: Bruno Mattei
Country: Italy
Year: 1988
A clone/mix of PREDATOR and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an internatioanl cast, exotic locale and good electronic music.
Time of the Gypsies
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Starring: Branko Djuric, Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Sinolicka Trpkova, Zabit Memedov
Directors: Emir Kusturica
Country: UK, Italy, Yugoslavia
Year: 1988
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.
The Courier
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen, Patrick Bergin, Mark Flanagan, Dave Duffy, Caroline Rothwell, Stuart Dunne
Directors: Frank Deasy, Joe Lee
Country: UK, Ireland
Year: 1988
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
Let's Get Lost
Genres: Documentary, Music
Starring: Lisa Marie, Paul Baker, Jack Sheldon, Chris Isaak, Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker
Directors: Bruce Weber
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.
Murder, She Wrote - Season Five
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Angela Lansbury
Directors: Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter S. Fischer
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Mystery writer finds herself investigating murders that occur around her.
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Starring: Ron Lea, Linda Smith, Paul Popowich, Lucas Evans, Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley, Andrew Whitehead
Directors: Michael Rubbo
Country: Canada
Year: 1988
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
Betrayed
Genres: Action, Thriller, Romance
Starring: John Heard, Tom Berenger, Ted Levine, Jeffrey DeMunn, John Mahoney, Debra Winger, David Clennon
Directors: Costa-Gavras
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 1988
In Chicago, the host of a controversial radio talk show Sam Kraus is assassinated in the garage of his building by the terrorist group Z.O.G. - "Zionist Occupied Government. FBI agent Catherine Phillips is assigned to work undercover in a rural area to investigate the prime suspect Gary Simmons using the identity of Katie Weaver. Katie meets the family man and widower Gary, his mother, his son and his daughter, and she believes he is innocent and they fall in love with each other. Gary trusts Katie, proposes to her and discloses the truth about his bigot friends and himself. Katie faces a this dilemma and asks her superior Mike Carnes to take...
Critters 2: The Main Course
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Lin Shaye, Barry Corbin, Tom Hodges, Sam Anderson, Herta Ware, Frank Birney, Scott Grimes
Directors: Mick Garris
Country: USA
Year: 1988
A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
Coming to America
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Paul Bates, Eddie Murphy, Frankie Faison, Vanessa Bell Calloway, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Calvin Lockhart
Directors: John Landis
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.
Grievous Bodily Harm
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Colin Friels, Richard Carter, Shane Briant, John Waters, Kim Gyngell, Garry Waddell, Bruno Lawrence
Directors: Mark Joffe
Country: Australia
Year: 1988
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
The Everlasting Secret Family
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Goddard, John Meillon, Dennis Miller, Heather Mitchell, Beth Child, Mark Lee, Bogdan Koca
Directors: Michael Thornhill
Country: Australia
Year: 1988
Based on the life of a prominent Australian Politician, Everlasting Secret Family is a provoking film of morality to be rich in sexual nuance and dramatic conflict. The Senator (Arthur Dignam) and his peers meets as an exclusive "Family" who secretly recruit young boys from select schools and use them for the decadent purpose of realizing erotic desire. One youth in particular (Mark Lee) attracts the Senator's attention and is let deeper into a world of private distinctions of behavior and thought. When the Senator takes a wife, the young men's temporal reality concludes that without his youth he shall lose his position as the Senator's favor...
MacGyver - Season Four
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring: Richard Dean Anderson, Alan Fudge, Frances Bergen, Kenneth Danziger, Anthony De Fonte
Directors: Lee David Zlotof
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.
They Live
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Meg Foster, Keith David, Peter Jason, George 'Buck' Flower, Norman Alden, Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Barnes
Directors: John Carpenter
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.
Funny Farm
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Mike Starr, William Duell, Glenn Plummer, Alice Drummond, Dakin Matthews, Chevy Chase, Jack Gilpin
Directors: George Roy Hill
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other...
Vibes
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Michael Lerner, Peter Falk, Julian Sands, Ramon Bieri, Cyndi Lauper, Googy Gress
Directors: Ken Kwapis
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum play two psychics hired by Peter Falk to find his long lost son in a foreign country. When they get there they discover he's really hired them to help find a hidden temple in the mountains where all the psychic energy in the world comes from.
Uninvited
Genres: Horror
Starring: Shari Shattuck, Austin Stoker, Clu Gulager, George Kennedy, Cecile Callan, Clare Carey, Toni Hudson
Directors: Greydon Clark
Country: USA
Year: 1988
A bunch of young people are invited to a Caribbean cruise on a gangster's yacht, to distract the attention of the authorities. Unfortunately, a mutant cat which escaped from a test laboratory also gets on board, and kills most of the passengers.
The Great Outdoors
Genres: Comedy
Starring: John Candy, Annette Bening, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Prosky, Nancy Lenehan, John Bloom, Stephanie Faracy
Directors: Howard Deutch
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Big-hearted Chicago family man Chet has brought his family to a lakeside resort area, and although his wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is, Chet has high hopes for the vacation. However, his optimism is sabotaged when his obnoxious brother-in-law Roman drops in unexpectedly, along with his snooty, strange family. Chet and his family try to stay open-minded, but they find it difficult to relax and enjoy themselves because of the constant annoyance of Roman's presence.
All Creatures Great and Small - Season Seven
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater, Mary Hignett
Directors: Peter Grimwade
Country: UK
Year: 1988
The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in 1940's Yorkshire.