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Predator (film)
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.
Full Metal Jacket
1987 film by Stanley Kubrick
The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Living Daylights
1987 film by John Glen
RoboCop
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
The Untouchables
1987 film directed by Brian De Palma
Empire of the Sun
1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Wall Street
1987 film directed by Oliver Stone
Lethal Weapon
1987 film directed by Richard Donner
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 film by Barry Levinson
Dirty Dancing
1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino
Spaceballs
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 Princess Bride (film)
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.
Wings of Desire
1987 film by Wim Wenders
Fatal Attraction
1987 film directed by Adrian Lyne
The Running Man (1987 film)
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.
Raising Arizona
1987 film by the Coen Brothers
Hellraiser
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.
Evil Dead II
1987 film by Sam Raimi
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 film by Wes Craven, Chuck Russell
Babette's Feast
1987 film by Gabriel Axel
Angel Heart
1987 film by Alan Parker
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 film directed by Tony Scott
The Brave Little Toaster
1987 American animated film
Moonstruck
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.
Au revoir les enfants
1987 autobiographical film directed by Louis Malle
The Witches of Eastwick
1987 film by George Miller
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 film directed by Sidney J. Furie
The Lost Boys
1987 film by Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner
Masters of the Universe
1987 film directed by Gary Goddard
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 film directed by John Hughes
Pelle the Conqueror
1987 film directed by Bille August
Jaws: The Revenge
1987 film directed by Joseph Sargent
Throw Momma from the Train
1987 film directed by Danny DeVito
Radio Days
1987 film by Woody Allen
No Way Out
1987 film directed by Roger Donaldson
Maurice
1987 film by James Ivory
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
1987 film by Jim Drake
Cry Freedom
1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough
Broadcast News
1987 film by James L. Brooks
Where is the Friend's Home?
1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami
Blind Date
1987 film by Blake Edwards
Prince of Darkness
1987 film by John Carpenter
Over the Top
1987 film by Menahem Golan
Innerspace
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.
Bagdad Café
1987 film directed by Percy Adlon
Hope and Glory
1987 film by John Boorman
Three Men and a Baby
1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy
Blind Chance
1981 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Stakeout
1987 film by John Badham
Barfly
1987 film by Barbet Schroeder
The Secret of My Success
1987 film by Herbert Ross
Repentance
1984 film by Tengiz Abuladze
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov
Law of Desire
1987 film by Pedro Almodóvar
Ironweed
1987 film by Héctor Babenco
Overboard
1987 film by Garry Marshall
Under the Sun of Satan
1987 film directed by Maurice Pialat
Roxanne
1987 film by Fred Schepisi
Harry and the Hendersons
1987 film by William Dear