Category:1988, Top Films

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Ranking

My Picks

-- #3. Grave of the Fireflies -- #4. Cinema Paradiso -- #6. Beetlejuice -- #9. The Last Temptation of Christ -- #18. Rain Man <Best Picture & Director> -- #23. A Fish Called Wanda -- #39. Chocolat -- #44. Coming to America -- #46. Running on Empty

Limbo

-- #50+. Hotel Terminus (Ophuls) <Best Doc>

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1988

-- #3. Grave of the Fireflies -- #4. Cinema Paradiso -- #6. Beetlejuice -- #9. The Last Temptation of Christ -- #18. Rain Man -- #23. A Fish Called Wanda -- #39. Chocolat -- #44. Coming to America -- #46. Running on Empty

-- #1. My Neighbor Totoro -- #2. Die Hard -- #5. Akira -- #7. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? -- #8. Dead Ringers -- #10. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- #24. Landscape in the Mist -- #30. Big -- #37. The Land before Time

CriticsTop10, Best Films

-- #1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- #2. Rain Man -- #3. Bull Durham -- #4. Big -- #5. A Fish Called Wanda -- #6. Dangerous Liaisons -- #7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- #8. Wings of Desire -- #9. A World Apart -- #10. Mississippi Burning

-- #11. The Thin Blue Line -- #12. A Cry in the Dark -- #13. Tucker: A Man and His Dreams -- #14. Dead Ringers -- #15. Working Girl -- #16. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- #17. The Last Temptation of Christ -- #18. Babette's Feast -- #19. Au Revoir les Enfants -- #20. Bird -- #21. The Accidental Tourist -- #22. Running on Empty -- #23. Married to the Mob -- #24. Pelle the Conqueror -- #25. Eight Men Out -- #26. Hairspray (1988) -- #27. Stand and Deliver -- #28. Die Hard -- #29. Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie -- #30. The Accused

Oscar, Best Films

-- Rain Man -- The Accidental Tourist -- Dangerous Liaisons -- Mississippi Burning -- Working Girl -- A Fish Called Wanda -- The Last Temptation of Christ

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- Rain Man -- Working Girl -- Bird -- Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren) (Denmark) -- Gorillas in the Mist -- Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) -- Mississippi Burning -- Running on Empty

Top Grossing Films

-- Rain Man -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Coming to America -- Crocodile Dundee II -- Twins -- Rambo III -- A Fish Called Wanda -- Cocktail -- Big -- Die Hard

National Board of Review

-- Mississippi Burning -- Dangerous Liaisons -- The Accused -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- The Last Temptation of Christ -- Tucker: The Man and His Dream -- Big -- Running on Empty -- Gorillas in the Mist -- Midnight Run

National Film Registry

-- Die Hard -- Hairspray -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Stand and Deliver -- Drums of Winter <doc> -- Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser <doc> -- The Thin Blue Line <doc> -- Tin Toy Animated <short>

NYT, Best Films

-- A Taxing Woman's Return -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Biloxi Blues -- Beetlejuice -- Stormy Monday -- The Thin Blue Line -- Drowning by Numbers -- Salaam Bombay! -- The Last Temptation of Christ -- Hôtel Terminus -- Bull Durham -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Die Hard -- Married to the Mob -- High Hopes -- Eight Men Out -- Story of Women -- Dead Ringers -- Heathers -- Little Vera -- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! -- Dangerous Liaisons -- Rain Man -- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -- Working Girl

TSPDT, Best Films

-- Dekalog -- My Neighbour Totoro -- The Thin Blue Line -- Cinema Paradiso -- Distant Voices, Still Lives -- Landscape in the Mist -- Dead Ringers -- Die Hard -- Grave of the Fireflies -- Akira -- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- The Last Temptation of Christ -- Hôtel Terminus -- They Live -- A Tale of the Wind

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Cinema Paradiso -- Grave of the Fireflies -- The Last Temptation of Christ -- Rain Man -- A Fish Called Wanda -- My Neighbour Totoro -- Die Hard -- Akira -- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- A Short Film About Killing -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Midnight Run -- A Short Film About Love -- The Vanishing -- Time of the Gypsies

Film101, Best Films

-- Cinema Paradiso -- Rain Man -- Salaam Bombay! -- A Fish Called Wanda -- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Dangerous Liaisons -- Die Hard -- Bull Durham -- Landscape in the Mist -- The Thin Blue Line -- The Vanishing

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Cinema Paradiso (Italy) -- Running on Empty -- Salaam Bombay! (India)

-- Begynnelsen på en historie (Norway) -- Big -- Burning Secret (UK) -- Captain Johnno (Australia) -- Cavka (Yugoslavia) -- Child's Play -- Cienie / The Road Home (Poland) -- Clara's Heart -- Clownhouse -- Cohen and Tate -- Da -- Don Bosco (Italy) -- En Sabana Grande siempre es de día (Venezuela) -- Frantsuz / The Frenchman (Soviet Union) -- Go Toward the Light -- Guldregn / Gold Rain (Denmark) -- Hard Road (UK) -- Home at Last -- Jeder träumt von einem Pferd (East Germany) -- Jonny kommt (East Germany) -- Just Ask For Diamond / Diamond's Edge (UK) -- Kai aus der Kiste (East Germany) -- The Kid Brother / Kenny -- Kolka (Soviet Union) -- Lady in White -- The Lair of the White Worm (UK) -- Mac and Me -- Maja in vesoljcek (Yugoslavia) -- Moudrá sova (Czechoslovakia) -- The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (New Zealand) -- Necessary Parties -- A Night at the Magic Castle -- On Our Own -- The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (Canada) -- Pan Kleks w kosmosie / Mr. Blot in Space Czechoslovakia (Poland) -- Paperhouse (UK) -- Les portes tournantes (Canada) -- Pulse -- The River Pirates / Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood -- Rocket Gibraltar -- Rødtotterne og Tyrannos / The Redtops Meet Tyrannos (Denmark) -- Sebastian and the Sparrow (Australia) -- Shadow on the Earth (UK) -- Spy Trap / Zits -- Tabataba (Madagascar) -- Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (Canada) -- Topio stin omichli / Landscape in the Mist (Greece) -- Touch the Sun: Devil's Hill (Australia) -- Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey (Australia) -- Touch the Sun: Top Enders (Australia) -- Two of Us (UK) -- Uma Pedra no Bolso / Tall Stories (Portugal) -- El verano de la señora Forbes / The Summer of Miss Forbes (Mexico) -- Vice Versa -- La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille / Life is a Long Quiet River (France) -- Volya vselennoy / The Will of the Universe (Soviet Union) -- A Waltz Through the Hills (Australia) -- The Wizard of Loneliness