Best most potent award winning movies from 1988
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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
7.763
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
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7.201
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.
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- 1988-12-08 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe
Rating
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7.7
4 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.
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- 1988-11-17 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin
Rating
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8.45
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5 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.
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- 1988-09-23 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold
Rating
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7.122
6 The Bear (1988)
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
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- 1988-10-21 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace
Rating
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7.045
7 The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
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- 1988-08-28 | Crime / Documentary
Cast
- Randall Adams, David Harris
Rating
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7.678
8 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
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- 1988-05-28 | Drama
Cast
- Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel
Rating
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7.244
9 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
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7.525
10 Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
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- 1988-08-12 | Drama
Cast
- Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen
Rating
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6.718
