Mannequin
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Starring: Kim Cattrall, James Spader, Estelle Getty, Phyllis Newman, Meshach Taylor, G.W. Bailey, Andrew McCarthy
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Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, he falls in love with it. It is the first thing he has made that makes him feel like a real artist. The mannequin ends up in the window of a big department store. When he saves the life of an old lady who happens to be the owner of that store, he is rewarded by getting a job at the store as stock boy. Later the mannequin comes to life as Emmy, who was an ancient Egyptian living in the year 2514BC. The two redesign the window display to make it most eye catching in town. The store competitors are not hap...
Some Kind of Wonderful
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Howard Deutch
Starring: Lea Thompson, Scott Coffey, Elias Koteas, Eric Stoltz, Lee Garlington, Maddie Corman, Carmine Caridi
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A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.
Blind Date
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Bruce Willis, Phil Hartman, Kim Basinger, Sab Shimono, William Daniels, George Coe, Graham Stark
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Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?
The Gate
Genres: Horror
Year: 1987
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Tibor Takács
Starring: Deborah Grover, Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Jennifer Irwin, Scot Denton
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Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
The Witches of Eastwick
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Fantasy
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: George Miller
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Carel Struycken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Cher
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Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England women left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches ?
Outrageous Fortune
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Anthony Heald, Christopher McDonald, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, George Carlin, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, J.W. Smith
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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.
Beverly Hills Cop II
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Paul Guilfoyle, Dean Stockwell, Eddie Murphy, Ronny Cox, Paul Reiser, Gilbert R. Hill
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Detroit cop Axel Foley is watching the news on TV when the reporter tells a story that Axel's friend, Beverly Hills police Captain Andrew Bogomil, has been shot by a tall woman. Axel heads out to Beverly Hills to visit Bogomil in the hospital, and this is where Axel is reunited with Bogomil's daughter Jan Bogomil. Axel is also reunited with Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart. Billy and Taggart decide to let Axel help them find the woman who tried to kill Bogomil, even though abusive police chief Harold Lutz has been deliberately trying to find a reason to fire Billy and Taggart. Axel, Billy, and Taggart soon discover that the ...
Born in East L.A.
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Cheech Marin
Starring: Paul Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Geoffrey Rivas, Eddie Barth, Cheech Marin, Lupe Ontiveros, Tito Larriva
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Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home.
Masters of the Universe
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Gary Goddard
Starring: Courteney Cox, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Christina Pickles, Pons Maar, Dolph Lundgren, Billy Barty
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The once-beautiful planet Eternia lies devastated, a victim of the demonic Skeletor and his vile minions. Momentarily vanquished, Eternian hero He-Man and his forces of good escape to a land of strange creatures and customs: Earth, the next battlefront in the quest to become Masters of the Universe. Who awaits the beckon of Skeletor's cadaverous finger? Evil-Lyn (Meg Foster), the Air Centurions and the ghastly foursome of Beastman, Saurod, Blade and Karg. And assisting He-Man? Teela,Man-at-Arms, puckish Gwildor (Billy Barty). And two small-town America kids who stumble across the lost Cosmic Key -- and share an adventure beyond their wildest ...
At Bertram's Hotel
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Director: Mary McMurray
Starring: George Baker, Joan Hickson, Philip Bretherton, Neville Phillips, Caroline Blakiston, Helena Michell, James Cossins
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While on a fortnight's holiday at Bertram's Hotel in London, where Miss Marple stayed as a young girl, she is faced with several puzzles. She meets an old acquaintance, Canon Pennyfather, who is also staying at the hotel but who vanishes after a planned trip to Lucerne. She also overhears Lady Sedgwick threaten the hotel doorman, whom she had obviously known at some point in her past. She also realizes that a young woman at the hotel is actually Lady Sedgwick's daughter, who she abandoned as a child. Miss Marple knows that all of the goings on, including the murder of a hotel employee, are intricately connected and works with Chief Inspector ...
Dirty Dancing
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Jerry Orbach, Wayne Knight, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, Jennifer Grey, Paula Trueman, Jack Weston
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In the 1960s, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner (Johnny is not the father). She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the d...
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Jim Drake
Starring: Michael Winslow, Scott Thomson, Sharon Stone, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Kazurinsky, Derek McGrath, Bubba Smith
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Commandant Eric Lassard decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). Carey Mahoney and his friends Moses Hightower, Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, Laverne Hooks, and Debbie Callahan are in charge of training the civilians. The civilians include Tommy "House" Conklin, Lois Feldman, Kyle, and Arnie. Captain Thaddeus Harris wants to take over Lassard's job, and that's why Harris is determined to see the COP program fail. But it's Harris and his right hand man Proctor who mess up by...
Cry Freedom
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, John Matshikiza, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.
Hellraiser
Genres: Horror
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Director: Clive Barker
Starring: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, Andrew Robinson, Frank Baker, Michael Cassidy
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Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
Teen Wolf Too
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Christopher Leitch
Starring: Jason Bateman, James Hampton, Mark Holton, Kathleen Freeman, Paul Sand, Kim Darby, John Astin
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Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
The Last Emperor
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Year: 1987
Country: UK, Italy, France, China
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Victor Wong, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ric Young, Dennis Dun, John Lone
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959.
Scrooged
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Carol Kane, Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, David Johansen, Robert Mitchum
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael Siegel, Peter Licassi, Royal Dano
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When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends.
Beetle Juice
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, Winona Ryder, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Annie McEnroe
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Adam and Barbara are a normal couple, who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate the house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family are moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but ends up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in more in mind than the just helping.
Akira
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Year: 1988
Country: Japan
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.