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)
  • Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
  • Where Is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Rouge (Stanley Kwan)

    • Additional 1987 Films By Rating

  • Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
  • Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
  • Anguish (Bigas Luna)
  • Matewan (John Sayles)
  • The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
  • White of the Eye (Donald Cammell)
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes)
  • Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
  • Ishtar (Elaine May)
  • RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)
  • Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
  • The Dead (John Huston)
  • Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
  • The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben)
  • Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
  • Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
  • King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Walker (Alex Cox)
  • Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel)
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin? (Christine Choy)
  • The Sound and the Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
  • Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
  • Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)