Best award winning movies with good art directing from 1988

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with good art directing from 1988! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with good art directing 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 7.76
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    smug
  2. Ranked #65 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #83 for
    narcissist

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2 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.

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1988-12-21 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Glenn Close, John Malkovich

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #30 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #51 for
    Period Drama

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3 Mississippi Burning (1988)

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Info

1988-12-08 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.671
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #96 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #157 for
    realistic portrayal
  3. Ranked #160 for
    teaching tool

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4 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.

Info

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

Trailer

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5 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.

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1988-07-15 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese

Rating

rating icon 7.206
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #67 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #72 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #77 for
    most quotable

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6 Working Girl (1988)

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.

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1988-12-20 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    drama queen
  2. Ranked #76 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #98 for
    prissy

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7 Big (1988)

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

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1988-06-03 | Fantasy / Drama

Cast

Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins

Rating

rating icon 7.156
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    carny ride
  2. Ranked #70 for
    young adulthood
  3. Ranked #133 for
    freak show

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8 Evil Angels (1988)

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

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1988-11-03 | Drama

Cast

Meryl Streep, Sam Neill

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #78 for
    innocent man
  2. Ranked #107 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #121 for
    Courtroom Drama

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9 Stand and Deliver (1988)

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.

Info

1988-03-11 | Drama

Cast

Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips

Rating

rating icon 7.619
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #71 for
    wayward
  2. Ranked #174 for
    underdog
  3. Ranked #185 for
    capturing the zeitgeist

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10 Running on Empty (1988)

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.

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1988-09-09 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Christine Lahti, River Phoenix

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #21 for
    tremendously talented
  2. Ranked #40 for
    equally talented cast
  3. Ranked #86 for
    foster father

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