Films set in 1988

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

1988 film directed by Barry Levinson

2014 film directed by James Gunn

2001 film directed by Richard Kelly

2003 film directed by Park Chan-wook

2008 film by Stephen Daldry

It is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King, as well as the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. Starring Jaeden Lieberher and Bill Skarsgård, the film was produced by New Line Cinema, KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures, and Vertigo Entertainment. Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the film tells the story of The Losers' Club, a group of seven outcast children who are terrorized by the eponymous being which emerges from the sewer in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård), and face their own personal demons as the monster torments them.

1994 film by Neil Jordan

When Harry Met Sally… is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron. Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby, it follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago and share a drive to New York City through twelve years of chance encounters in New York, and addresses the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"

2015 film directed by Danny Boyle

1988 film directed by Ivan Reitman

2016 film directed by Garth Davis

1981 film by John Carpenter

2011 film directed by Dennis Dugan

1988 film by Tom Holland

1992 film by David Lynch

1995 American crime film

1989 film by Phil Alden Robinson

2005 film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk

Foxcatcher is a 2014 American biographical sports thriller film, produced and directed by Bennett Miller. Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, the film stars Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Its plot is loosely based on multimillionaire Du Pont family heir and wrestling enthusiast John du Pont's 1986 recruitment of Olympic gold medalist brothers Mark and Dave Schultz, to help coach American wrestlers, and du Pont's murder of Dave in 1996.

1992 film by Penny Marshall

1988 film by Renny Harlin

1993 film directed by Jon Turteltaub

2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

2011 film directed by Lone Scherfig

1988 film directed by Dwight H. Little

1988 US film by Andrew Davis

1989 film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

1998 film by Carl Franklin

1989 film directed by Stephen Herek

2011 film by Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

2012 film by Ben Lewin

2012 film directed by Pablo Larraín

2013 film by Don Mancini

1988 film by Chuck Russell

2016 film directed by Stephen Gaghan

2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane,

2023 film directed by Jon S. Baird

1989 film by Michael Haneke

2007 film by James Gray

2024 film directed by RaMell Ross

2001 film directed by Jamie Blanks

2005 film by Stephen Kay

2014 film by Tate Taylor

2004 film by Peter Berg

1988 film by Wes Craven

2012 film by Ken Kwapis

2011 film directed by Michael Dowse

1995 film by John Boorman

1988 film directed by Jim Abrahams

2014 film by Gregg Araki

1988 film by Stan Winston

2015 film by Gregory Plotkin

1994 film by Don Coscarelli

2002 film directed by Morgan J. Freeman

1988 film directed by Garry Marshall

1980 film by Kinji Fukasaku

1999 film by Ulu Grosbard

2016 film by Sarik Andreasyan