Best Drama Films of 1988

Pulse of Cinema lists 170 drama films released in 1988, ranked by the Pulse Score blended from IMDb, Letterboxd and TMDB. Standouts include Grave of the Fireflies, Cinema Paradiso, Time of the Gypsies.

8.4

Grave of the Fireflies

1988

8.4

Cinema Paradiso

1988

7.6

Time of the Gypsies

1988

7.8

A Short Film About Love

1988

7.9

Heart of a Dog

1988

7.9

Chithram

1988

7.9

Akira

1988

7.6

A Short Film About Killing

1988

7.6

Landscape in the Mist

1988

7.9

Yesterday

1988

7.8

Rain Man

1988

7.2

Salaam Bombay!

1988

7.6

Damnation

1988

7.4

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988

7.7

Mississippi Burning

1988

7.8

Time of Violence

1988

7.4

Running on Empty

1988

7.1

The Bear

1988

7.1

Ariel

1988

6.9

Rudraveena

1988

8.0

The Wife of an Important Man

1988

7.3

Story of Women

1988

7.2

The Last Temptation of Christ

1988

7.2

Madame

1988

6.9

Chocolat

1988

7.9

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars

1988

7.4

The Big Blue

1988

7.2

Dangerous Liaisons

1988

7.2

The Land Before Time

1988

6.8

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

7.3

The Cold Summer of 1953

1988

7.2

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

1988

7.1

Dead Ringers

1988

7.1

To Kill a Dragon

1988

7.0

Drowning by Numbers

1988

7.5

Camp de Thiaroye

1988

7.3

The Mouth of the Wolf

1988

7.3

School on Fire

1988

7.2

Big

1988

7.1

Red Sorghum

1988

7.1

The Beast

1988

7.0

Talk Radio

1988

6.8

Another Woman

1988

6.8

Camille Claudel

1988

6.7

Zerograd

1988

6.6

Sound and Fury

1988

6.2

Ashik Kerib

1988

7.9

Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu

1988