The most successful movies, first aired in 1988 year

	1. Rain Man (1988) USA Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 354 825 435 User Rating:  9.0/10 Votes: 1
	2. 'Crocodile' Dundee II (1988) Australia Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee"... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 239 606 210 User Rating:  8.0/10 Votes: 1
	3. Twins (1988) USA Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 216 614 388
	4. Big (1988) USA A young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 151 668 774 User Rating:  6.0/10 Votes: 1
	5. Die Hard (1988) USA NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 141 482 154 User Rating:  8.0/10 Votes: 1
	6. The Land Before Time (1988) USA, Ireland An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 84 576 957
	7. Midnight Run (1988) USA Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 81 613 606
	8. Beetlejuice (1988) USA Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 74 270 074 User Rating:  8.0/10 Votes: 1
	9. Oliver & Company (1988) USA Inspired by Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist"... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 74 151 346 User Rating:  6.0/10 Votes: 1
	10. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) USA, UK In London, George Thomason, his seductive American girlfriend Wanda Gershwitz, and their associate Ken Pile are planning their latest crime, a diamond heist that should net them £13 million... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 62 493 712 User Rating:  10.0/10 Votes: 1
	11. Scrooged (1988) USA Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 60 328 558
	12. Willow (1988) USA, New Zealand In the dungeons of the castle of the evil Queen-sorceress Bavmorda, a prisoner gives birth to a child who, according to an ancient prophecy, will put an end to the reign of the Queen... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 57 269 863 User Rating:  8.0/10 Votes: 1
	13. Beaches (1988) USA When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 57 041 866
	14. Colors (1988) USA A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 46 616 067
	15. Child's Play (1988) USA When serial killer Charles Lee Ray is mortally wounded in a police shoot-out, he uses a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into Chucky, a "Good Guys" doll... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 44 196 684 User Rating:  10.0/10 Votes: 1
	16. The Great Outdoors (1988) USA Big-hearted Chicago family man Chet has brought his family to a lakeside resort area, and although his wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is, Chet has high hopes for the vacation... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 43 455 230
	17. Tequila Sunrise (1988) USA Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 41 292 551
	18. Big Business (1988) USA In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 40 150 487
	19. The Dead Pool (1988) USA Harry Callahan - or Dirty Harry as he is known from the previous four movies in this series - is investigating a strange betting game... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 37 903 295
	20. Mississippi Burning (1988) USA Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 34 603 943
	21. The Accidental Tourist (1988) USA After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 32 632 093 User Rating:  10.0/10 Votes: 1
	22. Tonari no Totoro (1988) Japan Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 30 476 708 User Rating:  9.0/10 Votes: 1
	23. Shoot to Kill (1988) USA, Canada An F.B.I... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 29 300 090
	24. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) USA Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 28 202 109
	25. Betrayed (1988) USA, Japan A woman starts work on a farm, and gets to know the owner... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 25 816 139
	26. Cocoon: The Return (1988) USA Art, Ben and Joe are back!.. Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 25 024 919 User Rating:  7.0/10 Votes: 1
	27. License to Drive (1988) USA Les doesn't have a driving license yet, but to impress his gorgeous date Mercedes he borrows his grandpa's Cadillac for a night out..... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 22 433 275
	28. Married to the Mob (1988) USA Angela deMarco is unhappily married to high Mafia member Frank deMarco... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 486 757 User Rating:  7.0/10 Votes: 1
	29. Punchline (1988) USA Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 042 667
	30. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) USA Based on a true story... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 19 652 638 User Rating:  7.0/10 Votes: 1
	31. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988) USA The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 19 510 371
	32. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) USA Lying dormant at the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees is released from his watery grave by a telekinetic girl... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 19 170 001
	33. Above the Law (1988) USA A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 869 631
	34. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) USA It's October 30, 1988 and Michael Myers has been in a coma since his pursuit of Laurie Strode, 10 years ago, was finally stopped (events of H1 and H2)... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 768 757 User Rating:  10.0/10 Votes: 1
	35. Johnny Be Good (1988) USA It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 550 399
	36. For Keeps? (1988) USA After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 514 553
	37. Crossing Delancey (1988) USA Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 262 415
	38. She's Having a Baby (1988) USA Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 031 707 User Rating:  2.0/10 Votes: 1
	39. Big Top Pee-wee (1988) USA In the sequel to "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", Pee-Wee Herman has had enough with the fame and constant media attention he received after the events of the first movie, so he's now a simple farmer living quietly in a small town... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 15 122 324
	40. Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) USA In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 681 192
	41. Poltergeist III (1988) USA As sequels go, Poltergeist II has the advantage of retaining most of the original film's cast (although the absence of the actress Dominique Dunne, a murder victim, is not explained)... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 114 488
	42. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) USA An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 854 000 User Rating:  7.0/10 Votes: 2
	43. Vice Versa (1988) USA On returning from a buying trip abroad for the department store in which he works, Marshall finds he is in possession of a strange ornamental skull... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 664 060 User Rating:  6.0/10 Votes: 1
	44. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) USA Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 030 057
	45. Mystic Pizza (1988) USA Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 793 213
	46. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) Italy, France A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 645 096 User Rating:  7.0/10 Votes: 7
	47. Everybody's All-American (1988) USA Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 638 294 User Rating:  6.7/10 Votes: 3
	48. Casual Sex? (1988) USA Two girls go away to a holiday resort looking for a change of pace, hoping to meet some nice men for a change... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 277 096
	49. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) UK Kirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 090 735
	50. Bloodsport (1988) USA Frank Dux is an American martial artist... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 806 119 User Rating:  5.8/10 Votes: 4