8.3

Die Hard

1987, USA

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Andreas Wisniewski, Clarence Gilyard Jr., De'voreaux White, Dennis Hayden, Bruno Doyon, Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Gérard Bonn, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Hans Buhringer, Wilhelm von Homburg, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Bill Marcus, Rick Ducommun, Matt Landers, Carmine Zozzora, Dustyn Taylor, George Christy, Anthony Peck
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): John McTiernan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

New York City Detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his wife. Unfortunatly, it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for everyone. A group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber is holding everyone in the Nakatomi Plaza building hostage. With no way of anyone getting in or out, it's up to McClane to stop them all. All 12!

  8.0

Rain Man

1987, USA

• Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Dolan Dougherty, Marshall Dougherty, Patrick Dougherty, John-Michael Dougherty, Peter Dougherty, Andrew Dougherty, Loretta Wendt Jolivette, Donald E. Jones, Bryon P. Caunar, Donna J. Dickson, Earl Roat, William Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth Lower, Michael C. Hall, Robert W. Heckel, W. Todd Kenner, Kneeles Reeves, Jack W. Cope, Nick Mazzola
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Barry Levinson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Quantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.

  8.0

A Garfield Christmas Special

1987, USA

• Actors: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Pat Carroll, Pat Harrington Jr., David L. Lander, Julie Payne
• Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Phil Roman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon's grandmother's house for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.

  7.9

Akira

1987, Japan

• Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Katô, Yôsuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Fukue Itô, Issei Futamata, Kôzô Shioya, Michitaka Kobayashi, Hideyuki Umezu, Satoru Inagaki, Kayoko Fujii, Masami Toyoshima, Yuka Ôno, Tarô Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Bob Bergen
• Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Katsuhiro Ôtomo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.

  7.8

Mississippi Burning

1987, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola, Kevin Dunn, Frankie Faison, Tom Mason, Geoffrey Nauffts, Rick Zieff, Christopher White, Gladys Greer, Jake Gipson, Dianne Lancaster, Stanley W. Collins, Daniel Winford, Marc Clement, Larry Shuler, Stephen Bridgewater, Bob Penny, James F. Moore, Park Overall, Georgia F. Wise, Lois Allen, Barry Davis Jim Sr.
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

  7.7

A Fish Called Wanda

1987, USA, UK

• Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Cynthia Cleese, Mark Elwes, Neville Phillips, Peter Jonfield, Ken Campbell, Al Ashton, Roger Hume, Roger Brierley, Llewellyn Rees, Michael Percival, Kate Lansbury, Robert Ian Mackenzie, Andrew MacLachlan, Roland MacLeod, Jeremy Child, Pamela Miles, Tom Pigott Smith, Katherine John, Sophie Johnstone, Kim Barclay, Sharon Twomey, Patrick Newman
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Charles Crichton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer - Archie Leach.

  7.7

Empire of the Sun

1987,

• Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips, Masatô Ibu, Emily Richard, Rupert Frazer, Peter Gale, Takatarô Kataoka, Ben Stiller, David Neidorf, Ralph Seymour, Robert Stephens, Zhai Nai She, Guts Ishimatsu, Emma Piper, James Walker, Jack Dearlove, Anna Turner, Ann Castle, Yvonne Gilan, Ralph Michael, Sybil Maas, Eric Flynn, James Greene, Simon Harrison, Barrie Houghton, Paula Hamilton
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

  7.5

Midnight Run

1987, USA

• Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Foronjy, Robert Miranda, Jack Kehoe, Wendy Phillips, Danielle DuClos, Philip Baker Hall, Tom McCleister, Mary Gillis, John Toles-Bey, Thomas J. Hageboeck, Stanley White, Scott McAfee, Linda Margules, Lois Smith, Fran Brill, Michael Hawkins, John Hammil, Lou Felder, Cameron Milzer, Sonia M. Roberts, Sam Sanders, Frank Pesce, Paul Joseph McKenna, Matt Jennings
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Martin Brest
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.

  7.5

The Year My Voice Broke

1987, Australia

• Actors: Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran, Malcolm Robertson, Judi Farr, Tim Robertson, Bruce Spence, Harold Hopkins, Nick Tate, Vincent Ball, Anja Coleby, Kylie Ostara, Kelly Dingwall, Dorothy St. Heaps, Colleen Clifford, Kevin Manser, Mary Regan, Queenie Ashton, Helen Lomas, Emma Lyle, Louise Birgan, Allan Penney, Rob Carlton, Malcolm Kennard
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): John Duigan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Austrailia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.

  7.4

Le grand bleu

1987, France, USA, Italy

• Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouise, Marc Duret, Griffin Dunne, Andréas Voutsinas, Valentina Vargas, Kimberly Beck, Patrick Fontana, Alessandra Vazzoler, Geoffrey Carey, Bruce Guerre-Berthelot, Gregory Forstner, Claude Besson, Marika Gevaudan, Jan Rouiller, Pierre Semmler, Jacques Lévy, Eric Do, André Germe, Ronald Teuhi, Rosario Campese, Franco Diogene, Tredessa Dalton, Constantin Alexandrov, Pierre-Alain de Garrigues, Claude Robin
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Luc Besson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...

  7.4

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1987, USA

• Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Pavel Landovský, Donald Moffat, Daniel Olbrychski, Stellan Skarsgård, Tomasz Borkowy, Bruce Myers, Pavel Slaby, Pascale Kalensky, Jacques Ciron, Anne Lonnberg, László Szabó, Vladimír Valenta, Clovis Cornillac, Leon Lissek, Consuelo De Haviland, Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier, Judith Atwell, Claudine Berg, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Miroslaw Beuer, Niven Busch, Margot Capelier, Victor Chelkoff, Monica Constandache, Jean-Claude Dauphin
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Philip Kaufman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.

  7.4

Hope and Glory

1987, UK, USA

• Actors: Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Jean-Marc Barr, Ian Bannen, Annie Leon, Jill Baker, Amelda Brown, Katrine Boorman, Colin Higgins, Shelagh Fraser, Gerald James, Barbara Pierson, Nicky Taylor, Jodie Andrews, Nicholas Askew, Jamie Bowman, Colin Dale, David Parkin, Carlton Taylor, Sara Langton, Imogen Cawrse, Susan Brown, Charley Boorman, Peter Hughes, Ann Thornton
• Genre: Drama, War
• Director(s): John Boorman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school.

  7.3

Beetle Juice

1987, USA

• Actors: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Michael Keaton, Rachel Mittelman, Catherine O'Hara, J. Jay Saunders, Mark Ettlinger, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix, Patrice Martinez, Cindy Daly, Douglas Turner, Carmen Filpi, Simmy Bow, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Susan Kellermann, Adelle Lutz, Gary Jochimsen, Bob Pettersen, Duane Davis, Maree Cheatham, Tony Cox, Jack Angel, Charles Schneider
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
• Director(s): Tim Burton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate the house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but ends up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in mind than just helping.

  7.3

Angel Heart

1987, USA, Canada, UK

• Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Eliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Buck, Judith Drake, Gerald Orange, Peggy Severe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Dave Petitjean, Rick Washburn, Neil Newlon, Oakley Dalton, Yvonne Bywaters, Loys T. Bergeron, Joshua Frank, Karmen Harris, Nicole Burdette, Kendall Lupe, Percy Martin, Viola Dunbar, Murray Bandel
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.

  7.3

Cry Freedom

1987, UK

• Actors: Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, John Matshikiza, Juanita Waterman, Evelyn Sithole, Xoliswa Sithole, James Coine, Kevin Kline, Kevin McNally, Albert Ndinda, Andrew Whaley, Shelley Borkum, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, Graeme Taylor, Adam Stuart Walker, Hamish Stuart Walker, Spring Stuart Walker, Sophie Mgcina, Jim Findley, Patricia Gumede, Angela Gavaza, Nocebo Mlambo, Walter Matemavi, Clement Muchachi, Ruth Chinamando, Basil Chidyamathamba, Marcy Mushore, Alton Kumalo
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Director(s): Richard Attenborough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

  7.2

Big

1987, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Josh Clark, Kimberlee M. Davis, Oliver Block, Erika Katz, Allan Wasserman, Mark Ballou, Gary Howard Klar, Alec Von Sommer, Chris Dowden, Rockets Redglare, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Herman, Nancy Giles, Jordan Thaler, Dana Kaminski, Harvey Miller, Tracy Reiner, James Eckhouse, Linda Gillen, Mildred R. Vandever, Bert Goldstein, Kevin Meaney
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Penny Marshall
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown ups including getting a job, and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world?

  7.2

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987, USA

• Actors: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, J.T. Walsh, Noble Willingham, Richard Edson, Juney Smith, Richard Portnow, Floyd Vivino, Cu Ba Nguyen, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton, Danny Aiello III, James McIntire, Peter Mackenzie, No Tran, Hoa Nguyen, Uikey Kuay, Suvit Abakaz, Panas Wiwatpanachat, Lerdcharn Namkiri, Hanh Hi Nguyen, Tuan Lai, Boonchai Jakraworawut, Joe B. Veokeki, Wichien Chaopramong, Kien Chufak
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Director(s): Barry Levinson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.

  7.2

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987, USA

• Actors: Eddie Murphy, Tatyana Ali, Billie Allen, James Brown III, Eyde Byrde, Michelle Davison, Clebert Ford, Geri Gibson, Birdie M. Hale, J.D. Hall, Tiger Haynes, Barbara Iley, Leonard Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jody Jones, John Lafayette, Davenia McFadden, Gwen McGee, Lex Monson, Warren Morris, Deon Richmond, Basil Wallace, Damien Dante Wayans, Ellis Williams, Carol Woods, Kim Wayans
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Robert Townsend
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After achieving fame with Saturday Night Live and Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy released a film version of one of his live stand-up performances. He mainly focuses on the topics of divorce and relations between the sexes, but also goes into some of the problems he's encountered because of fame, including offended listeners and fans who continually greet him with his unprintable catch phrases.

  7.2

The Brave Little Toaster

1987, USA

• Actors: Jon Lovitz, Timothy Stack, Timothy E. Day, Thurl Ravenscroft, Deanna Oliver, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft, Judy Toll, Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage, Mindy Stern, Jim Jackman, Randall William Cook, Randy Bennett, Jonathan Benair, Louis Conti, Beth Anderson, Pat Ericson, Gary Falcone, Roger Freeland, Janis Liebhart, Darryl Phinnessee, Joe Pizzulo
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
• Director(s): Jerry Rees
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, á la "The Incredible Journey", seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.

  7.1

Barfly

1987, USA

• Actors: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn, Frank Stallone, Sandy Martin, Roberta Bassin, Gloria LeRoy, Joe Unger, Harry Cohn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Joe Rice, Julie 'Sunny' Pearson, Donald L. Norden, Wil Albert, Hal Shafer, Zeke Manners, Pearl Shear, Rik Colitti, Michael Collins, Ronald G. Joseph, Damon Hines, Lahmard J. Tate, Gary Cervantes, Peter Conti, Vance Colvig Jr., Stacey Pickren, Leonard Termo, Gary Cox
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Barbet Schroeder
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some clothes throwing and two visits from the paramedics Henry and Wanda manage to patch up their relationship. Then Henry gets a visit from a literary agent who has decided to publish one of his stories that he sent in because he "liked the name of the mag". He follows the agent home to her place in order to receive his payment and with the help of a little whiskey sleeps with her. When he leaves to go back to the bar and back to Wanda the agent is heartbroken, she sees something special in Henry and has fallen in love with him. She follows him to his usual bar and gets into a cat fight with Wanda that Wanda wins. In celebration of new found love, happiness and money Henry buys a round for everyone at the bar and toasts them "to my friends!"