Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies

19881 h 29 min
Overview

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

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Director Isao Takahata
Runtime 1 h 29 min
Release Date 16 April 1988
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Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Masterpiece

Big Top Pee-wee

Big Top Pee-wee

Hero. Lover. Legend.

19881 h 26 min
Overview

Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.

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Director Randal Kleiser
Runtime 1 h 26 min
Release Date 22 July 1988
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Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Not bad
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The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Don't bury me... I'm not dead!

19881 h 38 min
Overview

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

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Director Wes Craven
Runtime 1 h 38 min
Release Date 5 February 1988
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Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Very good

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Horror has returned to Haddonfield.

19881 h 28 min
Overview

The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer's path.

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Director Dwight H. Little
Runtime 1 h 28 min
Release Date 21 October 1988
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Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Very good

Coming to America

Coming to America

The four funniest men in America are Eddie Murphy.

19881 h 57 min
Overview

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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Director John Landis
Runtime 1 h 57 min
Release Date 29 June 1988
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Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Very good

Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy

Valerie's about to discover how far a girl has to go to find Mr. Right.

19881 h 40 min
Overview

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.

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Director Julien Temple
Runtime 1 h 40 min
Release Date 8 September 1988
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Movie Media VoD
Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Very good
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Die Hard

Die Hard

Forty Stories. Twelve Terrorists. One Cop.

19882 h 11 min
Overview

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

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Director John McTiernan
Runtime 2 h 11 min
Release Date 15 July 1988
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Movie Media Cinema
Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Excellent

My Neighbor Totoro, となりのトトロ

My Neighbor Totoro

19881 h 26 min
Overview

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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Director Hayao Miyazaki
Runtime 1 h 26 min
Release Date 16 April 1988
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Movie Media VoD
Movie Status Available
Movie Rating Masterpiece