Best films from 1987
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1. Baby Boom (1987)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Kristina Kennedy
Votes: 19,157 | Gross: $26.71M
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.
2. Three Men and a Baby (1987)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Jack 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.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis
Votes: 57,898 | Gross: $167.78M
The lives of three bachelors are disrupted when the baby girl one of them fathered is left on their apartment doorstep.
3. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Votes: 160,223 | Gross: $49.53M
A sales exec coming home for Thanksgiving is stuck traveling with an obnoxious salesman.
4. Spaceballs (1987)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman
Votes: 206,510 | Gross: $38.12M
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.
5. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 454,756 | Gross: $59.74M
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.
6. RoboCop (1987)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox
Votes: 283,043 | Gross: $53.42M
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.
7. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 276,347 | Gross: $65.21M
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.
8. Stakeout (1987)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 28,515 | Gross: $65.67M
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.
9. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 330,771 | Gross: $76.27M
The true story of 1930s police detective Elliot Ness' mission to bring down gang lord Al Capone.
10. Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.
Director: William Dear | Stars: John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy
Votes: 38,274 | Gross: $29.76M
A family brings a sasquach home with them and must protect him from a ruthless hunter.
11. The Lost Boys (1987)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes
Votes: 161,116 | Gross: $32.22M
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.
12. Near Dark (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
Votes: 44,731 | Gross: $3.37M
A teenage boy living in the midwest meets a girl and becomes indoctrinated into her vampire clan.
13. The Monster Squad (1987)
PG-13 | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of young monster fanatics attempts to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr
Votes: 35,299 | Gross: $3.77M
A gang of young boys must stop Dracula, the Mummy, Gillman, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's Monster from taking over the world.
14. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An 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.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,150 | Gross: $43.85M
A young stalk broker falls under the wing of a ruthless CEO.
15. Fatal Attraction (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Latzen
Votes: 97,080 | Gross: $156.65M
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.
16. Hellraiser (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman
Votes: 140,501 | Gross: $14.56M
A metallic box opens the gateway to Hell.
17. The Stepfather (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer
Votes: 18,188 | Gross: $2.49M
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.
18. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A 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.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 450,899 | Gross: $30.86M
An old man reads his grandson a fantasy book about two lovers who must overcome many perils.
19. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A 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.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,303 | Gross: $46.36M
Young marine recruits endure boot camp hell before being sent of to fight, kill and die in Vietnam.
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