The Top 250 Movies of 1987

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The Top 250 Movies of 1987
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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43 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner PG -
79 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick R -
237 Predator 1987 John McTiernan R -
253 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma R -
285 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders PG13 -
331 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi R -
429 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel & Ethan Coen PG13 -
494 Spaceballs 1987 Mel Brooks PG -
533 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner R -
561 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle NR -
597 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes R -
672 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow R -
680 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson R -
697 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks R -
762 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven R -
817 The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher R -
859 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg PG -
901 House of Games 1987 David Mamet R -
1140 Prince of Darkness 1987 John Carpenter R -
1234 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel G -
1306 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen PG -
1333 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci PG13 -
1337 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone R -
1344 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson R -
1367 The Monster Squad 1987 Fred Dekker PG13 -
1467 The Running Man 1987 Paul Michael Glaser R -
1488 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker R -
1567 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker R -
1611 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison PG -
1634 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder R -
1688 Opera 1987 Dario Argento NR -
1749 Matewan 1987 John Sayles PG13 -
1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987 Chuck Russell R -
2004 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi PG -
2029 No Way Out 1987 Roger Donaldson R -
2115 Innerspace 1987 Joe Dante PG -
2144 Some Kind of Wonderful 1987 Howard Deutch PG13 -
2204 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman PG13 -
2400 Adventures in Babysitting 1987 Chris Columbus PG13 -
2456 Barfly 1987 Barbet Schroeder R -
2481 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne R -
2511 Eddie Murphy: Raw 1987 Robert Townsend R -
2595 The Living Daylights 1987 John Glen PG -
2654 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami NR -
2670 Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 Tony Scott NR -
2724 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino PG13 -
3235 Bad Taste 1987 Peter Jackson NR -
3320 Creepshow 2 1987 Michael Gornick R -
3330 Can't Buy Me Love 1987 Steve Rash PG13 -
3364 The Stepfather 1987 Joseph Ruben R -
3369 Three O'Clock High 1987 Phil Joanou PG13 -
3475 Hamburger Hill 1987 John Irvin R -
3496 StageFright 1987 Michele Soavi NR -
3501 Overboard 1987 Garry Marshall PG -
3512 The Witches of Eastwick 1987 George Miller R -
3516 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 Siu-Tung Ching NR -
3625 A Better Tomorrow II 1987 John Woo R -
3686 Stakeout 1987 John Badham R -
3720 Summer School 1987 Carl Reiner PG13 -
3816 The Secret of My Success 1987 Herbert Ross PG13 -
3877 Dragnet 1987 Tom Mankiewicz PG13 -
3932 Throw Momma from the Train 1987 Danny DeVito PG13 -
3943 The Gate 1987 Tibor Takács PG13 -
4015 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 Bille August PG13 -
4091 La Bamba 1987 Luis Valdez PG13 -
4232 Cry Freedom 1987 Richard Attenborough PG -
4250 Swimming to Cambodia 1987 Jonathan Demme NR -
4346 The Brave Little Toaster 1987 Jerry Rees NR -
4369 Maurice 1987 James Ivory R -
4398 Dolls 1987 Stuart Gordon R -
4408 Less Than Zero 1987 Marek Kanievska R -
4467 Extreme Prejudice 1987 Walter Hill R -
4483 Tin Men 1987 Barry Levinson R -
4509 *batteries not included 1987 Matthew Robbins PG -
4525 Amazon Women on the Moon 1987 Joe Dante NR -
4530 Anne of Avonlea 1987 Kevin Sullivan NR -
4759 Prick Up Your Ears 1987 Stephen Frears R -
4877 Ironweed 1987 Hector Babenco R -
5020 Jackie Chan's Project A2 1987 Jackie Chan PG13 -
5055 A Muppet Family Christmas 1987 Peter Harris, Eric Till NR -
5063 Law of Desire 1987 Pedro Almodóvar NC17 -
5126 84 Charing Cross Road 1987 David Hugh Jones PG -
5232 Three Men and a Baby 1987 Leonard Nimoy PG -
5334 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang NR -
5420 Suspect 1987 Peter Yates R -
5467 Harry and the Hendersons 1987 William Dear PG -
5507 Hollywood Shuffle 1987 Robert Townsend R -
5526 Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II 1987 Bruce Pittman R -
5552 Housekeeping 1987 Bill Forsyth PG -
5590 Street Trash 1987 J. Michael Muro NR -
5591 Wings of Honneamise 1987 Hiroyuki Yamaga NR -
5900 Over the Top 1987 Menahem Golan PG13 -
5955 The Man Who Planted Trees 1987 Frédéric Back NR -
5958 Cobra Verde 1987 Werner Herzog NR -
5992 The Quick and the Dead 1987 Robert Day NR -
6227 The Believers 1987 John Schlesinger R -
6301 The Dead 1987 John Huston PG -
6489 City on Fire 1987 Ringo Lam R -
6631 Blind Date 1987 Blake Edwards PG13 -
6637 Masters of the Universe 1987 Gary Goddard PG -
6657 Best Seller 1987 John Flynn R -
6824 G.I. Joe: The Movie 1987 Don Jurwich NR -
6944 Project X 1987 Jonathan Kaplan PG -
6947 Walker 1987 Alex Cox R -
6978 Mannequin 1987 Michael Gottlieb PG -
7035 September 1987 Woody Allen PG -
7078 Street Smart 1987 Jerry Schatzberg R -
7231 House II: The Second Story 1987 Ethan Wiley PG13 -
7368 Bagdad Cafe 1987 Percy Adlon PG -
7374 Baby Boom 1987 Charles Shyer NR -
7389 Gardens of Stone 1987 Francis Ford Coppola R -
7401 Someone to Watch over Me 1987 Ridley Scott R -
7502 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 Kazuo Hara NR -
7546 The Principal 1987 Christopher Cain R -
7565 A Garfield Christmas 1987 Phil Roman, George Singer NR -
7612 The Bedroom Window 1987 Curtis Hanson R -
7635 Wicked City 1987 Yoshiaki Kawajiri NR -
7879 Anguish 1987 Bigas Luna R -
7992 Brightness 1987 Souleymane Cissé NR -
8067 Born in East L.A. 1987 Cheech Marin R -
8108 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987 Bill Couturié PG -
8166 Nekromantik 1987 Jörg Buttgereit NR -
8183 The Belly of an Architect 1987 Peter Greenaway R -
8187 Black Widow 1987 Bob Rafelson NR -
8203 The Year My Voice Broke 1987 John Duigan PG13 -
8347 Cherry 2000 1987 Steve De Jarnatt PG13 -
8593 Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll 1987 Taylor Hackford PG -
8764 Hiding Out 1987 Bob Giraldi PG13 -
9007 The Fourth Protocol 1987 John Mackenzie R -
9039 The Chipmunk Adventure 1987 Janice Karman G -
9114 In a Glass Cage 1987 Agustí Villaronga NR -
9237 Ernest Goes to Camp 1987 John R. Cherry III PG -
9273 Outrageous Fortune 1987 Arthur Hiller R -
9317 Star Tours 1987 Dennis Muren NR -
9419 Wanted: Dead or Alive 1987 Gary Sherman R -
9429 Escape from Sobibor 1987 Jack Gold NR -
9488 Jaws: The Revenge 1987 Joseph Sargent PG13 -
9693 Back to the Beach 1987 Lyndall Hobbs PG -
9733 Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol 1987 Jim Drake PG -
9763 Dead of Winter 1987 Arthur Penn R -
9908 Hot Pursuit 1987 Steven Lisberger PG13 -
9947 Eastern Condors 1987 Sammo Hung R -
10179 Flowers in the Attic 1987 Jeffrey Bloom PG13 -
10224 Blood Rage 1987 John Grissmer R -
10252 Straight to Hell 1987 Alex Cox R -
10464 Blood Diner 1987 Jackie Kong R -
10807 The Whales of August 1987 Lindsay Anderson NR -
11036 Boyfriends and Girlfriends 1987 Eric Rohmer PG -
11119 My Best Friend Is a Vampire 1987 Jimmy Huston PG -
11210 Slumber Party Massacre II 1987 Deborah Brock R -
11230 Pathfinder 1987 Nils Gaup NR -
11237 Ishtar 1987 Elaine May PG13 -
11301 Real Men 1987 Dennis Feldman PG13 -
11469 Sign o' the Times 1987 Prince PG13 -
11471 The Kindred 1987 Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow R -
11488 Light of Day 1987 Paul Schrader PG13 -
11537 Creepozoids 1987 David DeCoteau R -
11548 North Shore 1987 William Phelps PG -
11722 The Secret Garden 1987 Alan Grint PG -
11732 Metallica: Cliff 'em All! 1987 Doug Freel, Jean Pellerin NR -
11916 My Best Friend's Birthday 1987 Quentin Tarantino NR -
11925 A Prayer for the Dying 1987 Mike Hodges R -
12138 Nuts 1987 Martin Ritt R -
12189 Made in Heaven 1987 Alan Rudolph PG -
12257 White Water Summer 1987 Jeff Bleckner PG -
12521 Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 1987 Gary Nelson NR -
12568 The Wind in the Willows 1987 Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. NR -
12685 Benji the Hunted 1987 Joe Camp G -
12901 Prison 1987 Renny Harlin R -
13108 Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy 1987 Masayuki Ozeki NR -
13192 Under the Sun of Satan 1987 Maurice Pialat NR -
13342 Bad 1987 Martin Scorsese NR -
13392 The Video Dead 1987 Robert Scott R -
13466 Five Corners 1987 Tony Bill R -
13587 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 1987 J. Lee Thompson R -
13630 King Lear 1987 Jean-Luc Godard PG -
13667 From the Hip 1987 Bob Clark PG -
13683 Dudes 1987 Penelope Spheeris R -
13794 The Glass Menagerie 1987 Paul Newman PG -
13809 Hard Ticket to Hawaii 1987 Andy Sidaris R -
13824 Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise 1987 Joe Roth PG13 -
13920 Aria 1987 Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple NR -
13932 Wish You Were Here 1987 David Leland PG -
14188 The Sicilian 1987 Michael Cimino R -
14475 Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 1987 Lee Harry R -
14514 Epidemic 1987 Lars von Trier NR -
14546 The Curse 1987 David Keith R -
14634 White of the Eye 1987 Donald Cammell R -
14858 Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle 1987 Daisuke Nishio NR -
14934 Shake!: Otis at Monterey 1987 D.A. Pennebaker NR -
15058 Steel Dawn 1987 Lance Hool R -
15061 Intervista 1987 Federico Fellini NR -
15220 Neo Tokyo 1987 Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Rintaro NR -
15420 Like Father, Like Son 1987 Rod Daniel PG13 -
15422 Nadine 1987 Robert Benton PG -
15683 Red's Dream 1987 John Lasseter G -
15699 Return to Horror High 1987 Bill Froehlich R -
15730 Cross My Heart 1987 Armyan Bernstein R -
15955 Magnificent Warriors 1987 David Chung R -
15975 Personal Services 1987 Terry Jones R -
16054 The Barbarians 1987 Ruggero Deodato R -
16104 Bubblegum Crisis 1987 Katsuhito Akiyama, Hiroaki Gôda, Hiroki Hayashi, Fumihiko Takayama, Masami Ôbari NR -
16182 The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones 1987 Don Lusk, Ray Patterson NR -
16262 Long Gone 1987 Martin Davidson NR -
16285 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 Stephen Frears R -
16293 Dark Eyes 1987 Nikita Mikhalkov NR -
16357 No Man's Land 1987 Peter Werner R -
16489 Sleeping Beauty 1987 David Irving NR -
16516 China Girl 1987 Abel Ferrara R -
16629 Making Mr. Right 1987 Susan Seidelman PG13 -
16630 Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle 1987 Eric Rohmer NR -
16789 A Return to Salem's Lot 1987 Larry Cohen NR -
16817 Redneck Zombies 1987 Pericles Lewnes NR -
16834 Deathstalker II 1987 Jim Wynorski R -
16887 The Canterville Ghost 1987 Paul Bogart NR -
16948 Rage of Honor 1987 Gordon Hessler R -
17249 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 Sidney J. Furie PG -
17512 Bill Cosby: 49 1987 Camille O. Cosby & David Lewis NR -
17578 The Sign of Four 1987 Peter Hammond NR -
17590 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers 1987 Paul Sommer NR -
17602 American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 1987 Sam Firstenberg R -
17650 Slam Dance 1987 Wayne Wang R -
17689 The Offspring 1987 Jeff Burr R -
17971 Orphans 1987 Alan J. Pakula R -
18167 The Pick-Up Artist 1987 James Toback PG13 -
18172 Siesta 1987 Mary Lambert R -
18216 Aenigma 1987 Lucio Fulci NR -
18254 Nightflyers 1987 Robert Collector R -
18255 Nightmare Sisters 1987 David DeCoteau R -
18364 The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland 1987 Raymond Jafelice NR -
18396 Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules 1987 Walter C. Miller NR -
18397 White Mischief 1987 Michael Radford R -
18424 Critical Condition 1987 Michael Apted R -
18632 Killer Workout 1987 David A. Prior R -
18768 The Red Spectacles 1987 Mamoru Oshii NR -
19083 The Big Town 1987 Ben Bolt NR -
19147 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies 1987 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
19155 A Taxing Woman 1987 Jûzô Itami NR -
19225 Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare 1987 John Fasano R -
19317 Shy People 1987 Andrey Konchalovskiy R -
19745 Maid to Order 1987 Amy Holden Jones PG -
19803 The Dante Quartet 1987 Stan Brakhage NR -
19983 An Autumn's Tale 1987 Mabel Cheung NR -
20033 Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime 1987 Andy Kim, Ray Lee NR -
20057 Delirium: Photo of Gioia 1987 Lamberto Bava NR -
20262 Who's That Girl 1987 James Foley PG -
20310 Date with an Angel 1987 Tom McLoughlin PG -
20416 Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987 Vladimir Grammatikov PG -
20869 Lionheart 1987 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
21257 Landscape Suicide 1987 James Benning NR -

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