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CocktailCocktail (1988)
Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown
Tom Cruise receives behind–the–bar cocktail tips from Bryan Brown. Slick comedy was an early box–office for kiwi dir. Donaldson.
Crossing DelanceyCrossing Delancey (1988)
Dir. Joan Micklin Silver
Feat. Amy Irving, Peter Riegert
Liberal New Yorker Amy Irving juggles her passion for literature around two (in)eligible bachelors – a handsome academic and a humble pickle…
DaDa (1988)
Dir. Matt Clark
Feat. Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen returns to his native Ireland for his father's funeral and finds his ghost alive and well and willing to discuss the past.
DamnationDamnation (Karhozat) (1988) Recommended
Dir. Bela Tarr
Feat. Miklós B. Székely, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer
A magnificent representation of the earlier feature films of Hungarian master of miserabilism Béla Tarr, telling the story of a lonely barfly who…
Dangerous LiaisonsDangerous Liaisons (1988) Recommended
Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Classic tale of an unscrupulous French countess who creates royal havoc by challenging her former lover to the sexual conquest of a virginal…
Decalogue - Parts 1 - 5Decalogue - Parts 1 - 5 (Dekalog) (1988) Aro Favourite
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Polish master's extraordinary series of hour–long dramas, each pertaining to one of the ten commandments. He matches the high concept with…
Decalogue - Parts 6 - 10Decalogue - Parts 6 - 10 (Dekalog) (1988) Aro Favourite
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Continuing Kieslowski's exemplary series of hour–long dramas, with a further five 'commandments'. Episodes: Dekalog 6 – "Thou Shalt…
Deceivers, TheDeceivers, The (1988)
Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor
Fact–based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825. Based on the novel by John Masters.
Distant Voices, Still LivesDistant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Recommended
Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Pete Postlethwaite
Dream–like autobiographical vignettes of the director's good and bad memories of growing up in wartime Liverpool. Little narrative structure,…
Dominick and EugeneDominick and Eugene (1988)
Dir. Robert M Young
Feat. Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis
Ray Liotta cares for his autistic twin brother Tom Hulce in this affecting drama.

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