1988 Movies

Takes a look at the Peking Opera artist, Ah Fung, who defected to the United States after the Cultural Revolution and is now a dishwasher in Los Angel...

Oblique, episodic meditations on the semiotics and ethics of ethnic female identity are accompanied by a blandly cynical narrator explaining how to “w...

After the murder of his father, Emil tries to work under his uncle Daniel. Soon, he discovers that his uncle may have had a hand in his father's death...

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor...

Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessl...

Based on Dino Buzzati’s short story “The Bomb.” A man’s deep sleep is interrupted by a telephone call, followed by a knock at the door. A crowd has ga...

An opera singer finds herself stranded by a snow storm and has to take a taxi with a driver with his own personal version of “La Traviata”

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

Dedicated to the tragically deceased young Belarusian artist Yunis Sandgazin. He left behind a thousand drawings that line up in a clear storyline – a...

On June 10, 1944, the SS murdered nearly the entire population of the French village of Oradour. The ruins still stand, the population is buried in th...

Another prank film by Yehuda Barkan. A gorilla reads a book on a public park bench, a waitress wears only an apron, a model becomes a fashion exhibit...

Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guard post near Kandahar. Then...

A sculptor carves and transforms himself.

Joe Leahy and his complicated relationship with the Guniga people in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

Italian short horror movie from 1988.

South Africa 1988: living in isolation, Anya, a white journalist, is forced to examine her reasons for exile by the unexpected arrival of two old frie...