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1988 Directorial Debut Movies

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Rambo III(1988)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
3.1/5 (with 1,367 votes)

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Akira(1988)

4.0/5 (with 1,769 votes)

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.

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Mystic Pizza(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 207 votes)

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

License to Drive(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 152 votes)

Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to lift his family's prize luxury car for the occasion. Unfortunately, Mercedes sneaks some booze along and passes out drunk, and a confused Les makes the bad decision of enlisting his rebellious friend, Dean, to help.

Crocodile Dundee II(1988)

PG
| 1h 50min | Adventure, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 473 votes)

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Two Moon Junction(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 73 votes)

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

Bull Durham(1988)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 239 votes)

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.

Pumpkinhead(1988)

R
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 186 votes)

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

As Tears Go By(1988)

3.5/5 (with 123 votes)

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Braddock: Missing in Action III(1988)

R
| 1h 41min | Action, War
2.9/5 (with 102 votes)

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.

Short Circuit 2(1988)

3.0/5 (with 244 votes)

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Critters 2(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 171 votes)

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.

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Stand and Deliver(1988)

PG
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 143 votes)

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.

Action Jackson(1988)

R
| 1h 36min | Action, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 94 votes)

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka(1988)

R
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 75 votes)

Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.

Dead Heat(1988)

3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.

Waxwork(1988)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 115 votes)

Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.

Salaam Bombay!(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 40 votes)

The daily lives of street children living in slums and back alleys in Bombay.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Nana Patekar, Shafiq Syed

D.O.A.(1988)

R
| 1h 36min | Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 79 votes)

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.

Chocolat(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

Born to Defence(1986)

2h | Action, War
3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.

Directed by Jet Li - With Jet Li, Song Jia, Dion Lam, Dean Harrington

Life Is a Long Quiet River(1988)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 182 votes)

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.

Distant Voices, Still Lives(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 24min | Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

Directed by Terence Davies - With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, ...

Bad Dreams(1988)

R
| 1h 26min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.

18 Again!(1988)

PG
| 1h 40min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 33 votes)

18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.

The Man From Snowy River II(1988)

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.

Jack's Back(1988)

2.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.

Pulse(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 25 votes)

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.

Directed by Paul Golding - With Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence

Final Justice(1988)

1h 35min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A cop relies on a young car thief to take down four gangsters, who plan to rob a rich merchant for a large amount of money.

Directed by Parkman Raphael Wong - With Danny Lee

1969(1988)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father, Cliff, and Ralph deals with his desperately sexual mother, Ev. When tragic news arrives from overseas, the entire town, inspired by Ralph and Scott's antiwar efforts, reevaluates its attitude toward the war.

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