Venice 1988 - Official Competition
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1. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,169
2. Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
157 min | Drama, War
In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Directors: Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow | Stars: Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé
Votes: 644
3. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama
Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou
Votes: 9,659
4. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 46,492 | Gross: $7.18M
5. The Black Monk (1988)
88 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
Director: Ivan Dykhovichnyy | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Lyubshin, Pyotr Fomenko, Lyubov Selyutina
Votes: 149
6. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Daisy Granados, Asdrúbal Meléndez, Luis Alberto Ramírez, Adolfo Llauradó
Votes: 128
7. Burning Secret (1988)
PG | 106 min | Drama
While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: David Eberts, Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ian Richardson
Votes: 516
8. Things Change (1988)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, J.J. Johnston
Votes: 4,065 | Gross: $3.53M
9. Madame Sousatzka (1988)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Music
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy
Votes: 1,614 | Gross: $3.55M
10. Story of Women (1988)
108 min | Drama, History, Romance
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier
Votes: 5,748 | Gross: $0.44M
11. Qi wang (1988)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A xiangqi (Chinese Chess) genius is discovered by a group of youths during the "Down the Countryside" movement of the Cultural Revolution.
Director: Wenji Teng | Stars: Dahong Ni, Ben Niu, Yuan Xie, Liang Zhao
Votes: 37
12. Caro Gorbaciov (1988)
81 min | Drama
The last night in the life of Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bukharin, which he spent with his wife at home, before Stalin had him arrested and shot. During this night he dictated a speech which he wanted to be read to future generations.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Flaminia Lizzani, Gianluca Favilla, Francesca Lucidi
Votes: 33
13. Dedé Mamata (1988)
96 min | Drama
During his childhood and teenage years living with his anarchist and communist grandparents, he was known as Andre and he managed to survive the hard years of the military regime, finding ... See full summary »
Directors: Rodolfo Brandão, Tereza Gonzalez | Stars: Guilherme Fontes, Malu Mader, Marcos Palmeira, Iara Jamra
Votes: 109
14. Eldorádó (1988)
104 min | Drama
Sandor Monori thinks that he can buy everything with his gold. The story takes place after the World War II at the famous Teleki ter where he is the King of the market.
Director: Géza Bereményi | Stars: Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikõ Eszenyi, Barnabás Tóth
Votes: 1,145
15. Once More (1988)
82 min | Drama
A man decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love.
Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Jean-Louis Rolland, Florence Giorgetti, Pascale Rocard, Nicolas Silberg
Votes: 197
16. Hard Times (1988)
90 min | Drama
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Henrique Viana, Júlia Britton, Eunice Muñoz, Ruy Furtado
Votes: 105
17. Haunted Summer (1988)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Gli invisibili (1988)
99 min | Drama
At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
Director: Pasquale Squitieri | Stars: Alfredo Rotella, Giulia Fossà, Igor Zalewsky, Victor Cavallo
Votes: 29
19. Lights and Shadows (1988)
105 min | Drama
A child enters the time of Felipe IV through the picture "Las Meninas" from Velázquez.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: José Luis Gómez, Fermí Reixach, Martí Galindo, Víctor Rubio
Votes: 39
20. The Moderns (1988)
R | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 2,036 | Gross: $2.01M
21. Straight for the Heart (1988)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette
Votes: 256
22. The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)
115 min | Drama, Fantasy
A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Rafal Wieczynski, Michael Lonsdale, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Gabriela Kownacka
Votes: 279
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