Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1988

18 Again! – Paul Flaherty

36 Fillette – Catherine Breillat

The Abyss – Andre Delvaux

Above The Law – Andrew Davis

Action Jackson – Graig R. Baxley

Alice – Jan Svankmajer

La Amiga – Jeanine Meerapfel

American Gothic – John Hough

American Roulette – Maurice Hatton

Amsterdamned – Dick Maas

Appointment with Death – Michael Winner

Ariel – Aki Kaurismaki

Bad Dreams – Andre Fleming

Bat*21 – Peter Markle

The Beast – Kevin Reynolds

Bellman and True – Richard Loncraine

Bear Ye One Another’s Burden – Lothar Warneke

Betrayed – Costa-Gavras

Black Eagle – Eric Karson

Blind Justice (Hold My Hand I’m Dying) – Terence Ryan

Blookdsport – Newt Arnold

Bulletproof – Steve Carver

Burning Secret – Andrew Birkin

Buster – David Green

Call Me – Sollace Mitchell

Camille Claudel – Bruno Nuytten

Candy Mountain – Robert Frank / Rudy Wurlitzer

Celia – Ann Turner

Chicken and Duck Talk – Clifton Ko

Chilsu and Mansu – Park Kwang-su

The Chocalate War – Keith Gordon

A Chorus of Disapproval – Michael Winner

Colors – Dennis Hopper

Consuming Passions – Giles Foster

Cop – James B. Harris

The Courier – Frank Deasy / Joe Lee

Da – Matt Clark

Damnation – Bela Tarr

Dancing in the Dust – Henri Duparc

The Dawning – Robert Knights

Dead Heat – Mark Goldblatt

Dead Solid Perfect – Bubby Roth

The Ceceivers – Nicholas Meyer

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years – Penelope Spheeris

The Decalogue – Krysztof Kieslowski

Distant Thunder – Rick Rosenthal

Distant Voices, Still Lives – Terence Davis

Dominick and Eugene – Robert M. Young

Dragons Forever – Sammo Hung

Dream Demon – Harley Cokliss

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark – James Signorelli

Ernest Saves Christmas – John R. Cherry III

Everybody’s All-American – Taylor Hackford

Far North – Sam Shepard

Feds – Daniel Goldenberg

The First Kangaroos – Frank Cvitanovich

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood – John Carl Beuchler

The Fruit Machine – Philip Saville

Full Moon in Blue Water – Peter Masterson

Fun Down There – Roger Stigliano

The Gamble – Carlo Vanzina

Ghosts… of the Civil Dead – John Hillcoat

Georgia – Ben Lewin

Gotham – Lloyd Fonvielle

Grave of Fireflies

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers – Dwight H. Little

A Handfull of Dust – Charles Sturridge

Hanna’s War – Menaham Golan

Hanussen – Istvan Szabo

Hatya – Kitri Kumar

Hawks – Robert Ellis Miller

Heartbreak Hotel – Chris Columbus

Heart of Midnight – Matthew Chapman

Hellbound: Hellraiser II – Tony Randel

Hero and the Terror – Willima Tannen

High Season – Clare Peploe

Hunted Sumer – Ivan Passer

Illegally Yours – Peter Bogdanovich

Iron Eagle II – Sidney J. Furie

It Couldn’t Happen Here – Jack Bond

It’s Happening Tomorrow –Daniele Luchetto

Johnny B Good – Bud Smith

Jack’s Back – Rowdy Herrington

Kansas – David Stevens

The Kiss – Pen Denshaam

The Land Before Time – Don Bluth

Landscape in the Mist – Theo Angelopoulos

Lady in White – Frank LaLoggia

La Legganda del Santo Bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker) – Ermanno Olmi

Last Rites – Donald P. Bellisario

Light Years (Gandahar) Rene Laloux

The Little Devil – Roberto Benigni

Little Dorrit – Christine Edzard

Little Vera – Vasili Pichul

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn – Jack Clayton

Mac and Me – Stewart Raffilli

Madame Sousatzka – John Schlesinger

Miles From Home – Gary Sinise

Mio in the Land of Fareway – Vladimi Grammatikov

The Moderns – Alan Rudolph

Moonwalker – Jerry Kramer

Moscow Elergy – Alexander Sokurov

Moving – Alan Metter

The Music Teacher – Gerard Corbiau

My Neighbor Totoro – Hayao Miyazaki

Necromancer – Dusty Nelson

Never on Tuesday – Adam Rifkin

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking – Ken Annakin

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master – Renny Harlin

Off Limits – Christopher Crowe

Painted Faces – Alex Law

Paperhouse – Bernard Rose

Paris by Night – David hara

Pass the Ammo – David Beaird

Patty Hearst – Paul Schrader

Permanent Record – Marisa Silver

Plain Clothses – Martha Coolidge

Platoon Leader – Aaron Norris

Police Academy 5: Assignmnet Miami Beach – Alan Myerson

Poltergeist III = Gary Sherman

The Prince of Pennsylvania – Ron Nyswaner

Prison – Renny Harlin

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak – Mansoor Khan

Rambo III – Peter MacDonald

Rampage – William Friedkin

Rented Lips – Robert Downey, Sr.

The Rescue – Ferdinand Fairfax

Return to Snowy River – Geoff Burrowes

Rikky and Pete – Nadia Tass

Rouge – Stanley Kwan

Run for Your Life – Terence Young

Salaam Bombay – Mira Nair

Salome’s Last Dance – Ken Russle

Sathya – Suresh Krishna

Screwball Hotel – Rafal Zielinski

The Secret of the Sahara – Alberto Negrin

Shadows in the Sotrm – Terrell Tannen

Shakedown – James Glickenhaus

Shoot to Kill – Roger Spottiswoode

Short Circuit 2 – Kenneth Johnson

A Short Film about Love – Krzysztof Kieslowski

Some Girls –Michael Hoffman

Soursweet – Mike Newell

Space Mutiny – David Winters

Spike of Bensonhurst – Paul Morrissey

Split Decisions – David Drury

Stars and Bars – Pat O’Connor

Stealing Heavem – Clive Donner

Stormy Monday – Mike Figgis

Sweet Hearts Dance – Robert Greenwalk

Story of Women – Claude Chabrol

Strike Commando 2 – Bruno Mattie

Sur – Fernado E. Solanas

Sweet Lies – Nathalie Delon

Taffin – Francis Megahy

Tales from the Gimli Hospital – Guy maddin

Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission – Ferdiando Baldi

Testimoney – Tony Palmer

Things Change – David Mamet

A Time of Destiny – Gregory Nava

Time of the Gypsies – Emir Kusturica

To Kill a Priest – Agnieszka Holland

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller – Michael Rubbo

Tougher then Leather – Rick Rubin

Track 29 – Nicolas Roeg

Traxx – Jerome Gary

Traveling North – Carl Schultz

Urusei Yatsura – Mamoru Oshii

Vchera – Ian Andonov

Veronico Cruz – Miguel Pareira

War Party – Franc Roddam

Watchers – Jon Hess

Waxwork – Anthony Hickox

A World Apart – Chris Menges

World Gone Wild – Lee H. Katzin

Young Einstein – Yahoo Serious