Best 1988 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1988 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. Mississippi Burning
- Stacker score: 89.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 124,000)
- Metascore: 65
- Director: Alan Parker
- Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $34,603,943

#19. Miracle Mile
- Stacker score: 90.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Steve De Jarnatt
- Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar
- Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,145,404

#18. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- Stacker score: 90.6
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $19,656,113

#17. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Stacker score: 90.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 40,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Philip Kaufman
- Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
- Runtime: 2 hours 51 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $10,006,806

#16. Beetlejuice
- Stacker score: 90.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 407,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Tim Burton
- Actors: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $74,664,632

#15. Rain Man
- Stacker score: 90.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 570,000)
- Metascore: 65
- Director: Barry Levinson
- Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $172,825,435

#14. Big
- Stacker score: 91.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 253,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Penny Marshall
- Actors: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $115,227,281

#13. Hairspray
- Stacker score: 91.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: John Waters
- Actors: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $6,671,108

#12. Bird
- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker
- Runtime: 2 hours 41 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,181,286

#11. Dangerous Liaisons
- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 78,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Actors: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $34,670,720

#10. Stand and Deliver
- Stacker score: 93.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Ramón Menéndez
- Actors: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $13,994,920

#9. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- Stacker score: 95.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 209,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: David Zucker
- Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson
- Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $78,756,177

#8. Midnight Run
- Stacker score: 95.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 101,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Martin Brest
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $38,413,606

#7. Die Hard
- Stacker score: 96.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 999,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: John McTiernan
- Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
- Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $85,892,546

#6. The Last Temptation of Christ
- Stacker score: 96.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 66,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
- Runtime: 2 hours 44 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,373,585

#5. A Fish Called Wanda
- Stacker score: 96.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 162,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $62,493,712

#4. Salaam Bombay!
- Stacker score: 98.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Mira Nair
- Actors: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $2,080,046

#3. The Thin Blue Line
- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 27,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Errol Morris
- Actors: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $1,209,846

#2. Dead Ringers
- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 57,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,038,508

#1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 228,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $156,452,370