Best films from 1987
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- DirectorCharles ShyerStarsDiane KeatonSam ShepardHarold RamisThe life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.A highly successful corporate carrier woman is completely unprepared when distant relative dies and leaves her saddled with the task of raising their infant daughter.
- DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsTom SelleckSteve GuttenbergTed DansonJack Holden and his friends, Peter and Michael, spend most of their time having flings with several women in their apartment. Their life changes when a mysterious baby appears at their doorstep.The lives of three bachelors are disrupted when the baby girl one of them fathered is left on their apartment doorstep.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsSteve MartinJohn CandyLaila RobinsA Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.A sales exec coming home for Thanksgiving is stuck traveling with an obnoxious salesman.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksJohn CandyRick MoranisA star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.STAR WARS gets the BLAZING SADDLES treatment: the Spaceballs Empire, led by the evil Emperor Scroob and his henchman Dark Helmet, plan to kidnap Princess Invidia so they can force her father the king to give them her planets entire air supply. Only space adventurer Lone Star and his half man/half dog sidekick Barf can save Invidia and her home world.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter HallA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.After wiping out an enemy base in Central America, a team of US mercenaries find themselves being stalked and killed one by one by an alien hunter who comes to Earth to pursue the most dangerous prey.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'HerlihyIn a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.After being brutally slain in the line of duty, an Detroit cop in the near future is resurrected as a near-invincible cyborg police officer.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonDanny GloverGary BuseyTwo newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.Two cops, one who has become suicidal after the death of his wife, are reluctantly partnered together to find the man responsible for the death of a police captain's daughter.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsRichard DreyfussEmilio EstevezMadeleine StoweTwo detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.To cops are tasked to keep an eye on a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a recently-escaped convict. Things get complicated when the older cop begins to fall in love with her.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.The true story of 1930s police detective Elliot Ness' mission to bring down gang lord Al Capone.
- DirectorWilliam DearStarsJohn LithgowMelinda DillonMargaret LangrickThe Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.A family brings a sasquach home with them and must protect him from a ruthless hunter.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsJason PatricCorey HaimDianne WiestAfter moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.A single mom moves with her two teenage sons to her fathers home at a beachside resort. The older son soon falls in with a biker gang who are actually vampires.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsAdrian PasdarJenny WrightLance HenriksenA small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.A teenage boy living in the midwest meets a girl and becomes indoctrinated into her vampire clan.
- DirectorFred DekkerStarsAndre GowerRobby KigerStephen MachtA group of young monster fanatics attempts to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.A gang of young boys must stop Dracula, the Mummy, Gillman, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's Monster from taking over the world.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenMichael DouglasTamara TunieAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.A young stalk broker falls under the wing of a ruthless CEO.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsMichael DouglasGlenn CloseAnne ArcherA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.While his wife and daughter are away, a married man has a tawdry affair with a woman who turns out to be dangerously unstable and won't leave him alone.
- DirectorClive BarkerStarsAndrew RobinsonClare HigginsAshley LaurenceA woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.A metallic box opens the gateway to Hell.
- DirectorJoseph RubenStarsTerry O'QuinnJill SchoelenShelley HackAfter murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.A mentally unbalanced man marries into fatherless families, then when they end up failing to meet his expectations he murders them and moves on to the next unsuspecting family.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsCary ElwesMandy PatinkinRobin WrightA bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.An old man reads his grandson a fantasy book about two lovers who must overcome many perils.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'OnofrioA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.Young marine recruits endure boot camp hell before being sent of to fight, kill and die in Vietnam.