1987 Top Ten List

  • House of Games (David Mamet)
  • Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
  • Barfly (Barbet Schroeder)
  • Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
  • Tin Men (Barry Levinson)
  • Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
  • Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
  • The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
  • Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • Where Is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)

    • Additional 1987 Films By Rating

  • Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
  • Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
  • Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
  • Anguish (Bigas Luna)
  • Matewan (John Sayles)
  • The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
  • Maurice (James Ivory)
  • White of the Eye (Donald Cammell)
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes)
  • Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
  • Ishtar (Elaine May)
  • Predator (John McTiernan)
  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
  • RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Border Radio (Allison Anders & Dean Lent & Kurt Voss)
  • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)
  • Blood Rage (John M. Grissmer)
  • Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
  • The Dead (John Huston)
  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema)
  • Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
  • The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben)
  • Bad Taste (Peter Jackson)
  • Living on Tokyo Time (Steven Okazaki)
  • No Way Out (Roger Donaldson)
  • Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
  • The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  • Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
  • Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill)
  • King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Epidemic (Lars von Trier)
  • Walker (Alex Cox)
  • Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel)
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin? (Christine Choy)
  • Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino)
  • Making Mr. Right (Susan Seidelman)
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Jack Clayton)
  • China Girl (Abel Ferrara)
  • Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
  • Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott)
  • Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)
  • O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman)