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Top Films by Year (1987-1989)

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

1987

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Princess Bride Rob Reiner 145
2 Wings of Desire Wim Wenders 195
3 Withnail & I Bruce Robinson 227
4 Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick 302
5 Moonstruck* Norman Jewison 349
6 The Untouchables Brian De Palma 379
7 Dirty Dancing Emile Ardolino 395
8 Au Revoir, les Enfants Louis Malle 460
9 Broadcast News* James L. Brooks 476
10 Evil Dead II Sam Raimi 495
11 Babette's Feast Gabriel Axel 498
12 Fatal Attraction* Adrian Lyne 499
13 The Last Emperor** Bernardo Bertolucci 504
14 Raising Arizona Joel Coen 569
15 RoboCop Paul Verhoeven 589
16 Roxanne Fred Schepisi 798
17 Lethal Weapon Richard Donner 807
18 Near Dark Kathryn Bigelow 848
19 The Dead John Huston 856
20 Pelle the Conqueror Bille August 879
21 Predator John McTiernan 986
22 House of Games David Mamet 993
23 Hope and Glory* John Boorman 994
24 Good Morning, Vietnam Barry Levinson 1013
25 Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg 1089
26 Red Sorghum Yimou Zhang 1178
27 Hellraiser Clive Barker 1212
28 Yeelen Souleymane Cissé 1246
29 Wall Street Oliver Stone 1333
30 Planes, Trains & Automobiles John Hughes 1340
31 Bagdad Café Percy Adlon 1410
32 The Big Easy Jim McBride 1455
33 Where is the Friend's Home? Abbas Kiarostami 1485
34 Matewan John Sayles 1505
35 A Chinese Ghost Story Siu-Tung Ching 1718
36 The Lost Boys Joel Schumacher 1849
37 Housekeeping Bill Forsyth 1854
38 Angel Heart Alan Parker 1876
39 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story Todd Haynes 1987
40 Radio Days Woody Allen 2150
41 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema 2166
42 The Stepfather Joseph Ruben 2177
43 Barfly Barbet Schroeder 2227
44 The Hidden Jack Sholder 2418
45 A Taxing Woman Juzo Itami 2515

1988

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard John McTiernan 124
2 Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 192
3 Rain Man** Barry Levinson 296
4 A Fish Called Wanda Charles Crichton 378
5 Akira Katsuhiro Ôtomo 386
6 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Robert Zemeckis 408
7 Bull Durham Ron Shelton 419
8 The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris 525
9 Big Penny Marshall 563
10 Dangerous Liaisons* Stephen Frears 573
11 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Pedro Almodóvar 584
12 Dead Ringers David Cronenberg 679
13 Working Girl* Mike Nichols 694
14 Beetlejuice Tim Burton 749
15 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Philip Kaufman 845
16 Eight Men Out John Sayles 852
17 My Neighbor Totoro Hayao Miyazaki 892
18 The Last Temptation of Christ Martin Scorsese 910
19 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! David Zucker 999
20 The Vanishing George Sluizer 1001
21 Distant Voices, Still Lives Terence Davies 1002
22 A Short Film about Killing Krzysztof Kieslowski 1149
23 Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata 1188
24 Hairspray John Waters 1196
25 Beaches Garry Marshall 1266
26 Midnight Run Martin Brest 1365
27 Salaam Bombay! Mira Nair 1371
28 Stand and Deliver Ramón Menéndez 1450
29 Alice Jan Svankmajer 1486
30 Landscape in the Mist Theodoros Angelopoulos 1639
31 Time of the Gypsies Emir Kusturica 1686
32 Mystic Pizza Donald Petrie 1728
33 The Bear Jean-Jacques Annaud 1783
34 The Accused Jonathan Kaplan 1847
35 The Accidental Tourist* Lawrence Kasdan 2072
36 Bird Clint Eastwood 2100
37 Crossing Delancey Joan Micklin Silver 2192
38 High Hopes Mike Leigh 2199
39 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey Michael Apted 2273
40 Mississippi Burning* Alan Parker 2296
41 Story of Women Claude Chabrol 2333
42 Willow Ron Howard 2354
43 Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophüls 2356
44 They Live John Carpenter 2409

1989

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 106
2 When Harry Met Sally… Rob Reiner 172
3 Field of Dreams* Phil Alden Robinson 219
4 Dead Poet's Society* Peter Weir 310
5 The Killer John Woo 355
6 Glory Edward Zwick 358
7 The Decalogue Krzysztof Kieslowski 376
8 Say Anything… Cameron Crowe 438
9 Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen 488
10 Sex, Lies, and Videotape Steven Soderbergh 491
11 Batman Tim Burton 493
12 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Steven Spielberg 514
13 Driving Miss Daisy** Bruce Beresford 652
14 Born on the Fourth of July* Oliver Stone 678
15 Drugstore Cowboy Gus Van Sant 725
16 The Abyss James Cameron 731
17 My Left Foot* Jim Sheridan 739
18 Henry V Kenneth Branagh 822
19 Heathers Michael Lehmann 833
20 The Little Mermaid Ron Clements and John Musker 874
21 Roger & Me Michael Moore 926
22 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover Peter Greenaway 1106
23 Back to the Future Part II Robert Zemeckis 1112
24 Steel Magnolias Herbert Ross 1221
25 Enemies, A Love Story Paul Mazursky 1376
26 Sweetie Jane Campion 1442
27 Parenthood Ron Howard 1591
28 The Fabulous Baker Boys Steven Kloves 1594
29 The War of the Roses Danny DeVito 1646
30 A Grand Day Out Nick Park 1677
31 City of Sadness Hsiao-hsien Hou 1702
32 Jesus of Montreal Denys Arcand 1748
33 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Joe Johnston 1924
34 Kiki’s Delivery Service Hayao Miyazaki 1961
35 Lean on Me John G. Avildsen 2018
36 Casualties of War Brian De Palma 2028
37 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Stephen Herek 2107
38 The Tall Guy Mel Smith 2162
39 The Asthenic Syndrome Kira Muratova 2272
40 The Unbelievable Truth Hal Hartley 2346
41 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Jeremiah S. Chechik 2357

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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