List of British films of 1988

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1988 (see 1988 in film):

## 1988

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed | Adventure/fantasy | Co-production with the United States and West Germany
American Gothic | John Hough | Rod Steiger | Horror | Co-production with Canada
American Roulette | Maurice Hatton | Andy García, Kitty Aldridge | Thriller |
Burning Secret | Andrew Birkin | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway | Drama |
Buster | David Green | Phil Collins, Julie Walters | Comedy/crime |
A Chorus of Disapproval | Michael Winner | Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins | Comedy |
Consuming Passions | Giles Foster | Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce | Comedy |
The Courier | Frank Deasy, Joe Lee | Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen | Action |
The Dawning | Robert Knights | Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Trevor Howard | Drama | Trevor Howard's final film
Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht | Drama |
Dream Demon | Harley Cokeliss | Jemma Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail | Horror |
The Deceivers | Nicholas Meyer | Pierce Brosnan, Shashi Kapoor, Saeed Jaffery | Drama | Cinecom Pictures
The Dressmaker | Jim O'Brien | Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks | Drama |
Drowning by Numbers | Peter Greenaway | Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Empire State | Ron Peck | Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson | Crime |
A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin | Comedy |
The Fruit Machine | Philip Saville | Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth | Thriller |
A Handful of Dust | Charles Sturridge | James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves | Drama |
Hawks | Robert Ellis Miller | Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards | Comedy |
Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Tony Randel | Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley | Horror |
High Hopes | Mike Leigh | Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen | Comedy drama |
High Spirits | Neil Jordan | Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg | Comedy |
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare | John Hough | Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss | Horror |
Imagine: John Lennon | Andrew Soft | Narrated by John Lennon | Documentary |
It Couldn't Happen Here | Jack Bond | Pet Shop Boys | Musical/drama |
Just Ask for Diamond | Stephen Bayly | Colin Dale, Saeed Jaffrey | Family |
The Lair of the White Worm | Ken Russell | Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe | Horror |
Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard | Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness | Literary drama |
Madame Sousatzka | John Schlesinger | Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry | Drama |
Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | Thomas Mogotlane, Marcel Van Heerden | Crime | Co-production with South Africa
Olympus Force | James Fortune, Robert Garofalo | Linda Thorson, Richard Todd, John Draikas | Action | Co-production with Greece [1]
Paperhouse | Bernard Rose | Charlotte Burke, Ben Cross | Drama/fantasy/horror |
Paris by Night | David Hare | Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon | Thriller |
Pascali's Island | James Dearden | Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Prisoner of Rio | Lech Majewski | Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman | Drama |
Run for Your Life | Terence Young | David Carradine, Lauren Hutton, George Segal, Franco Nero | Sport/drama |
Salome's Last Dance | Ken Russell | Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace | Drama | Based on Oscar Wilde's play Salome
Shag | Zelda Barron | Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish | Comedy/romance | Co-production with the United States
Soursweet | Mike Newell | Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun | Drama | Based on Timothy Mo's novel Sour Sweet
Stealing Heaven | Clive Donner | Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, Denholm Elliott | Drama | Co-production with Yugoslavia
Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting | Drama |
A Summer Story | Piers Haggard | Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby | Romance |
Testimony | Tony Palmer | Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines | Biopic |
Verónico Cruz | Miguel Pereira | Juan José Camero, Gonzalo Morales | Drama | Co-production with Argentina
Without a Clue | Thom Eberhardt | Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley | Comedy | Sherlock Holmes spoof
A World Apart | Chris Menges | Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, Jeroen Krabbé | Drama | Won three awards at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Yellow Pages | James Kenelm Clarke | Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons | Comedy | [2]

## See also

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* 1988 in British music
* 1988 in British radio
* 1988 in British television
* 1988 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Olympus Force (1988)". BFI. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
2. ^ "Yellow Pages – review | cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times.

## External links

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* British films of 1988 at IMDb

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