1988 Science Fiction Movies

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Akira(1988)

2h 4min | Animation, Science Fiction, Action

4.0/5 (with 2,142 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

They Live(1988)

| 1h 34min | Science Fiction, Action

3.7/5 (with 1,265 votes)

Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Raymond St. Jacques, George Buck Flower, Sy Richardson, ...

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The Blob(1988)

| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 353 votes)

In Arborville, California, three high school students discover a strange, gelatinous substance that melts the flesh of any living creatures in its path and wreaks havoc across town.

Directed by Chuck Russell - With Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, ...

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space(1988)

PG-13

| 1h 28min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 381 votes)

Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.

Directed by Stephen Chiodo - With Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, John Vernon, Christopher Titus, ...

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Dead Heat(1988)

| 1h 26min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Comedy

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.

Directed by Mark Goldblatt - With Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Robert Picardo, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price, ...

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My Stepmother Is an Alien(1988)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 220 votes)

Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.

With Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green, ...

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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.

With Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Scott Grimes, Barry Corbin, Cynthia Garris, Eddie Deezen, ...

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Short Circuit 2(1988)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science Fiction, Drama

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.

Directed by Kenneth Johnson - With Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Robert LaSardo, ...

Cherry 2000(1987)

PG-13

| 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.0/5 (with 100 votes)

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.

Directed by Steve De Jarnatt - With Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Tim Thomerson, Pamela Gidley, Laurence Fishburne, Brion James, ...

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Alien Nation(1988)

| 1h 31min | Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 125 votes)

A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

Directed by Graham Baker - With James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Brian Thompson, Jeff Kober, Leslie Bevis, ...

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Return of the Living Dead Part II(1988)

| 1h 29min | Horror, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 311 votes)

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.

Directed by Ken Wiederhorn - With James Karen, Thom Mathews, Dana Ashbrook, Marsha Dietlein, Phil Bruns, Michael Kenworthy, ...

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Brain Damage(1988)

| 1h 26min | Horror, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 136 votes)

Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts.

Directed by Frank Henenlotter - With Rick Hearst, Kevin Van Hentenryck

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Heart of a Dog(1988)

2h 16min | Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.8/5 (with 66 votes)

Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. A couple of weeks later, the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?".

Directed by Vladimir Bortko - With Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov

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Cocoon: The Return(1988)

| 1h 56min | Comedy, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 469 votes)

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 they be tempted to remain on Earth?

Directed by Daniel Petrie - With Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, ...

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The Lair of the White Worm(1988)

| 1h 33min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

2.9/5 (with 94 votes)

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

Directed by Ken Russell - With Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi, Paul Brooke, Gina McKee, ...

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Phantasm II(1988)

| 1h 37min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 136 votes)

Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

Directed by Don Coscarelli - With Angus Scrimm, James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Paula Irvine, Sam Phillips, A. Michael Baldwin, ...

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Zombie Flesh Eaters 2(1988)

1h 35min | Horror, Action, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 67 votes)

When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus and bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.

Directed by Lucio Fulci, Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso - With Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni, Mike Monty, Deborah Bergamini, ...

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Watchers(1988)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 33 votes)

A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.

Directed by Jon Hess - With Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Lala Sloatman, Don S. Davis, Blu Mankuma, ...

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School(1988)

1h 32min | Adventure, Animation, Mystery, Kids & Family, TV Movie, Comedy, Fantasy

3.7/5 (with 135 votes)

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls.

Directed by Charles August Nichols, Ray Patterson

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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis(1988)

2h 15min | Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

Directed by Akio Jissōji - With Shintarō Katsu, Kyūsaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Junichi Ishida, Kōji Takahashi, Kō Nishimura, ...

Earth Girls Are Easy(1988)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 156 votes)

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

Directed by Julien Temple - With Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Michael McKean, ...

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Hell Comes to Frogtown(1988)

| 1h 28min | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 75 votes)

'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.

Directed by Donald G. Jackson - With Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith, Rory Calhoun

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Pulse(1988)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 35 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

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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf(1988)

1h 31min | Animation, Kids & Family, TV Movie, Mystery, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 159 votes)

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

Directed by Ray Patterson

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Mac and Me(1988)

| 1h 35min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure

2.2/5 (with 104 votes)

A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.

Directed by Stewart Raffill - With Christine Ebersole, Squire Fridell, Nikki Cox, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Danny Cooksey, ...

Slugs(1988)

| 1h 29min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 65 votes)

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.

Directed by Juan Piquer Simón - With Daniel Johns, Frank Braña, Santiago Álvarez

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The Brain(1988)

| 1h 34min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...

Directed by Edward Hunt - With Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza

Nightfall(1988)

PG-13

| 1h 23min | Science Fiction

2.2/5 (with 7 votes)

The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with three suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very Nightfall. Panic erupts as the suns slowly disappear one by one. Science struggles against superstition as the people race to comprehend the approaching Nightfall... the end of the world as they know it. Based on Isaac Asimov's classic story "Nightfall" voted "The Greatest Science-Fiction Story of All Time.".

Directed by Paul Mayersberg - With Alexis Kanner, Sarah Douglas, David Birney, Andra Millian

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Space Mutiny(1988)

1h 33min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Science Fiction

1.4/5 (with 37 votes)

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

Directed by David Winters - With Cameron Mitchell, John Phillip Law, Lisa Alexander, Reb Brown, James Ryan

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Cellar Dweller(1988)

| 1h 17min | Fantasy, Horror

2.4/5 (with 38 votes)

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.

Directed by John Carl Buechler - With Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood, Vince Edwards, Jeffrey Combs, ...

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1988 Science Fiction Movies

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Akira(1988)

They Live(1988)

The Blob(1988)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space(1988)

Dead Heat(1988)

My Stepmother Is an Alien(1988)

Critters 2(1988)

Short Circuit 2(1988)

Cherry 2000(1987)

Alien Nation(1988)

Return of the Living Dead Part II(1988)

Brain Damage(1988)

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Heart of a Dog(1988)

Cocoon: The Return(1988)

The Lair of the White Worm(1988)

Phantasm II(1988)

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2(1988)

Watchers(1988)

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School(1988)

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis(1988)

Earth Girls Are Easy(1988)

Hell Comes to Frogtown(1988)

Pulse(1988)

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf(1988)

Mac and Me(1988)

Slugs(1988)

The Brain(1988)

Nightfall(1988)

Space Mutiny(1988)

Cellar Dweller(1988)

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