Native Son

Native Son

N° : 55201 / 85201

Year : 1988

Running time : 104 Minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Matt Dillon, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth McGovern, John Karlen

Director : Jerold Freedman

Story : In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Native Son (Other sleeve design from Belgium & The Netherlands)

Native Son

Native Son

N° : 55201 / 85201

Year : 1988

Running time : 104 Minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Matt Dillon, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth McGovern, John Karlen

Director : Jerold Freedman

Story : In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit

N° : 56950 / 86950

Year : 1988

Running time : 95 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : John Cusack, Ben Stiller, Wendy Gazelle, Robert Loggia

Director : Steven Lisberger

Story : Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.(source IMDB written by Mathias)

Sex Appeal

Sex Appeal

N° : 55189 / 85189

Year : 1988

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands.

Running time : 84 minutes

Actors : Louie Bonnano, Tally Brittany, Marcia karr

Director : Chuck Vincent

Storyline : This is the story of young Tony Cannelloni as he attempts to break away from his overbearing mom and strike out on his own. He sets himself up with a new apartment, look, and lifestyle to improve his "sex appeal". Through a series of encounters with a variety of women he gets ever closer to achieving his goal. However, a never-ending series of calamities always seem to interrupt his progress

UK Version here : sex Appeal

Man Hunt

Man Hunt

AKA : Cane Arrabbiato

N° : 87150 / 57150

Year : 1988

Running time : 90 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : John Ethan Wayne, Raymund Harmstorf, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson

Director : Larry Ludman

Story : A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced to prison where he's forced to do chain-gang type work. He escapes, is recaptured, and escapes again as he tries to locate the man who sold him the horses. (Source IMDB written by Dinky _ 4)

Anna

Anna

N° : S 267138

Year : 1988

Running time : 100 minutes

Country : Sweden

Actors : Sally Kirkland, Paulina Porizkova,Robert Fields

Director : Yurek Bogayevicz

Story : Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now successfully making commercials in New York. After the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Anna was imprisoned and eventually exiled. Anna takes in the young girl Krystyna, who has just arrived from Czechoslovakia, and speaks no English. Anna and Daniel help Krystyna learn English and start a promising acting career. However, the only job Anna can find is as an understudy. (Source IMDB written by Will Gilbert)

Promised Land

Promised Land

N° : VA 17174

Year : 1988

Running time : 110 minutes

Country : UK

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, Jason Gedric, Tracy Polman

Director : Michael Hoffman

Story : This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival, it portrays the other half of the American dream, as Hancock and his cheerleader girlfriend Mary wander to a middle-class mediocrity out itself out of reach for Danny and his psychotic wife Bev. (Source IMDB written by Owen F. Lippsett)

Wimps

Wimps

N° : VA 16830

Year : 1988

Running time : 90 minutes

Country : UK

Actors : Louie Bonanno, Deborah Blaisdell, Jim Abele, Jane Hamilton, Eddie Prevot

Director : Chuck Vincent

Story : A nerdy college student is pressured to help a jock write love letters to the campus beauty, even though the nerd is in love with her himself.

Dolls

Dolls

N° : V158F8487

Year : 1988

Running time : 79 minutes

Country : Japan

Actors : Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hillary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams

Director : Stuart Gordon

Story : A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.

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Dolls

Dolls

N° : VA 14442

Year : 1988

Running time : 74 minutes

Country : UK

Actors : Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hillary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams

Director : Stuart Gordon

Story : A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.

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Dolls

Dolls

N° : S26442

Year : 1988

Running time : 77 minutes

Country : Sweden

Actors : Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hillary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams

Director : Stuart Gordon

Story : A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.

Amsterdamned

N° : 57142 / 87142

Year: 1988

Running time : 113 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Huub Stapel, Monique Van de Ven, Henri Valcke, Hidde Maas

Director : Dick Maas

Story : A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he

Streets of Gold

Streets of Gold

N° : S 265199

Year : 1987

Running time : 90 minutes

Country : Sweden

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes , Angela Molina

Director : Joe Roth

Story : Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets two young amateur boxers. As their coach, he trains them for glory.

Swedish Version here : Streets of Gold

Caribe

Caribe

N° : S 267076

Year : 1988

Country : Sweden.

Running time : 83 minutes

Actors : John Savage, Kara Glover, Stephen McHattie, Sam malkin

Director : Michael Kennedy

Story : Two explosives specialists who work together are involved in a scam down in Belize. They travel there to make the deal, but do not realize they are being followed by a British Secret Intelligence Agent (John Savage). The agent comes upon the dealers and soon bullets fly, causing the explosives expert Helen (Kara Glover) and the Intelligence Agent Jeff (Savage) to flee for their lives. While Helen and Jeff hide in the bush, they soon fall for one another and eventually hatch out a plan to wipe out the explosives dealers all together. In obliterating the dealers, they also detonate the explosives and later Helen realizes she will be a wanted woman back in the states. With Jeff's help, she obtains a new identity and he says that he will take care of her no matter what happens.

The Belgian / Netherlands & UK edition here : caribe

Hostage

Hostage

N° : S267072

Year : 1988

Country : Sweden

Running time : 98 minutes

Actors : Wings Hauser, Karen Black, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Locke

Director : Hanro Mohr & Percival Rubens

Story : The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages

Belgian/ Netherlands version of Hostage here

Penitentiary III

Penitentiary III

N° : 56912 / 86912

Year : 1988

Running time : 91 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Anthony Geary, Steve Antin, >Ric Mancini, Jim Bailey

Director : Jamaa Fanaka

Story : A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.

A Man in love

A Man In Love

Aka : Un Homme Amoureux

N° : 57044 / 87044

Year : 1988

Running time : 106 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Peter Riegert, John Berry, Claudia Cardinale, Jamie Lee Curtis, Vincent Lindon

Director : Diane Kurys

Story : An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship

Hamburger Hill

Hamburger Hill

N° : 56847 / 86847

Year : 09-12-1988

Running time : 105 minutes

Country : Belgium & The Netherlands

Actors : Anthony Barille, Michael Boatman, Michael Dolan, Dylan McDermott

Director : John Irvin

Story : A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

Alladin

Alladin

Aka : Superfantagenio

N° : 66641

Year : 1988

Running time 92 minutes

Country : France

Actors : Bud Spencer, Janet Agren, Julian Voloshin

Director : Bruno Corbucci

Story : Updating of the old "Aladdin" Arabian Nights tale, as a teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.

Ghoulies II

Ghoulies II

N° : V158F9350

Release : 1988

Country : Japan

Running time : 89 minutes

Actors : Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, J.Downing

Director : Albert Band

Story : Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!

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