Best award winning movies with directorial genius from 1988

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with directorial genius from 1988! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with directorial genius from 1988, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Rain Man (1988)

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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1988-12-12 | Drama

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

Rating

rating icon 7.762
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    smug
  2. Ranked #65 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #85 for
    narcissist

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2 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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1988-03-25 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

Rating

rating icon 7.418
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #21 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #52 for
    self-parodic cast
  3. Ranked #74 for
    goofball

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3 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

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1988-06-21 | Fantasy / Animation

Cast

Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd

Rating

rating icon 7.523
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    like Fantastic Mr. Fox
  2. Ranked #49 for
    hardboiled style
  3. Ranked #61 for
    femme fatale

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4 Dead Ringers (1988)

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

Info

1988-09-23 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold

Rating

rating icon 7.112
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    downward spiral
  2. Ranked #79 for
    wallflower
  3. Ranked #128 for
    socially awkward

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5 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Info

1988-12-07 | Fantasy / Adventure

Cast

John Neville, Eric Idle

Rating

rating icon 6.944
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    iconoclast
  2. Ranked #120 for
    escapist fantasy
  3. Ranked #127 for
    imaginary fairy tale

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6 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

Info

1988-07-15 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese

Rating

rating icon 7.207
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #67 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #73 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #77 for
    most quotable

Trailer

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7 Camille Claudel (1988)

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Info

1988-12-07 | Drama / History

Cast

Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu

Rating

rating icon 6.811
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    like Titanic
  2. Ranked #126 for
    diorama
  3. Ranked #183 for
    immensely talented

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8 Cinema Paradiso (1988)

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Info

1988-11-17 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Rating

rating icon 8.453
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #51 for
    father figure
  2. Ranked #75 for
    mawkish
  3. Ranked #115 for
    remarkable

Trailer

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9 Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Info

1988-12-21 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Glenn Close, John Malkovich

Rating

rating icon 7.214
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #31 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #51 for
    Period Drama

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10 Bird (1988)

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Info

1988-06-01 | Drama / Music

Cast

Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora

Rating

rating icon 6.826
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    sensitive musical score
  2. Ranked #41 for
    ad lib
  3. Ranked #60 for
    boppy

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