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Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
- This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
John Pilger's Return Ticket (South Africa: Apartheid Did Not Die; Frontline: In Search Of Truth In Wartime; Vietnam: The Last Battle) (1988-1995)
- Dir. Alan Lowery, David Munro
Feat. John Pilger
- John Pilger revisits the remnants of war, stained politics, and social injustice in this fifth volume of his hard–hitting documentary…
Johnny Be Good (1988)
- Dir. Bud Smith
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jnr., Uma Thurman…
- Woeful comedy with a miscast Hall as a talented high school football player enjoying the perks and pitfalls of college celebrity.
Judgement in Berlin (1988)
- Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, Sam Wanamaker…
- Stolid courtroom drama about the trial of an man who hijacked an airplane in order to flee East Germany for the West, Martin Sheen plays the American…
Just Ask for Diamond (1988)
- Dir. Stephen Bayly
Feat. Colin Dale, Dursley McLinden, Saeed Jaffrey…
- Whimsical British spoof on 'The Maltese Falcon' that tells the story of a precocious private eye and his kid brother who are given £200 to guard a…
Kansas (1988)
- Dir. David Stevens
Feat. Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope…
- Thriller sees Andrew McCarthy play a drifter who inadvertently gets mixed up in the plans of Matt Dillon's psychopath. Paint–by–numbers…
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Dir. Stephen Chiodo
Feat. Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
- Smalltown folk are harvested by blood–drinking alien clowns in this novelty horror confection. Has something of a reputation, but that doesn't…
Kingsajz (Kingsize) (1988)
- Locked inside an abandoned library basement, tiny dwarfs work hard to maintain their all–male dwarf commune.
When a scientist synthesizes…
La Boheme (Puccini) (1988)
- Dir. Brian Large
Feat. Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti
- Superlative production of one of the greatest operas, conducted by Tiziano Severini.
Lady in White (1988)
- Dir. Frank LaLoggia
Feat. Lukas Haas
- If you prefer your spook story with subtlety and atmos–fear, then don't overlook this gem. A young boy discovers the truth concerning a young…