1987 English-language films

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator, a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.

1987 film by Stanley Kubrick

1987 film by John Glen

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1987 film directed by Oliver Stone

1987 film directed by Richard Donner

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

1987 film by Wim Wenders

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe

The Running Man is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser from a screenplay by Steven E. de Souza. It is loosely based on the 1982 novel The Running Man by Stephen King. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura, the film is set in a dystopic and totalitarian future United States, where a state-controlled broadcaster airs a deadly game show in which convicted criminals, known as "runners", must survive pursuit by themed gladiatorial assassins called "stalkers". The story follows Captain Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger), a framed police officer forced to compete on the show, who becomes an unlikely symbol of resistance against a corrupt government and its manipulative media machine.

1987 film directed by Adrian Lyne

1987 film by Sam Raimi

1987 film by the Coen Brothers

1987 film by Wes Craven, Chuck Russell

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker in his directorial debut. Based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, the film's plot concerns a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. It stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Doug Bradley as the leader of the Cenobites.

1987 American animated film

1987 film directed by Tony Scott

1987 film by Alan Parker

Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It stars Cher as a widowed Italian American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's hot-tempered, estranged younger brother, played by Nicolas Cage. The supporting cast includes Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, and Danny Aiello.

1987 film by George Miller

1987 film by Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner

1987 film directed by Gary Goddard

1987 film directed by Sidney J. Furie

1987 film directed by John Hughes

1987 film directed by Joseph Sargent

1987 film directed by Danny DeVito

1987 film directed by Roger Donaldson

1987 film by Woody Allen

1987 film by Jim Drake

1987 film by James Ivory

1987 film by Blake Edwards

1987 film by James L. Brooks

1987 film by Menahem Golan

1987 film by John Carpenter

1987 film directed by Percy Adlon

1987 film by John Boorman

Innerspace, stylized as InnerSPACE, is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell, inspired by the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo, and Kevin McCarthy.

1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy

1987 film by John Badham

1987 film by Barbet Schroeder

1987 film by Herbert Ross

1987 film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov

1987 film by Héctor Babenco

1987 film by Garry Marshall

1987 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

1987 film by Woody Allen

1987 film directed by James Foley

1987 film by Fred Schepisi

1987 film by William Dear

1987 film by Peter Jackson

1987 comedy film directed by Tom Mankiewicz

1987 film directed by Michael Gornick

1987 film by J. Lee Thompson

1987 American war film directed by John Irvin

1987 film by Lindsay Anderson

1987 film directed by Chris Columbus

1987 film by Fred Dekker