Cry Freedom (1987)

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)

Summary: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional couple. They live amid chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody except each other. Things become interesting when Sammy's father visits.

Release Date: October 30, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Stephen Frears

Writer: Hanif Kureishi

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Channel Four Films, Working Title Films

Distributor: Cinecom Pictures, Evergreen Entertainment, Lorimar Home Video, October Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,196,336

The Princess Academy (1987)

Summary: Lowbrow humor is the feature in this 'Porky's for girls'. The students of an elite international private school that teaches rich young women how to behave like proper ladies rebel against their strict, snobbish and brutish head t...

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bruce A. Block

Writer: Sandra Weintraub

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cloverleaf, Jadran Film, Sofracima

Distributor: Lightning Video, Vestron Television

Countries: France, United States, Yugoslavia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 205,000

The Bedroom Window (1987)

Summary: A young executive starts an affair with his boss's wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.

Release Date: January 16, 1987

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Curtis Hanson

Writers: Anne Holden

, Curtis Hanson

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)

Distributor: Vestron Video, Video Treasures, Avid Home Entertainment, TBS Superstation, TNT, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, StudioCanal, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,300,000

Domestic: $ 12,640,385

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Summary: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, J.G. Ballard

, Menno Meyjes

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,238,696

International: $ 425

Baby Boom (1987)

Summary: The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Release Date: October 30, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Charles Shyer

Writers: Nancy Meyers

, Charles Shyer

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: United Artists, Meyers/Shyer

Distributor: United Artists, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, KTLA, MGM Home Entertainment, TBS Superstation, TNT, Twilight Time, WPIX, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 26,712,476

China Girl (1987)

Summary: An Italian boy and Chinese girl fall in love in New York, igniting a conflict between their ethnic gangs.

Release Date: September 25, 1987

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Abel Ferrara

Writer: Nicholas St. John

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: 16+

Production: Great American Films Limited Partnership, Street Lite, Vestron Pictures

Distributor: Lionsgate, Vestron Television, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 1,262,091

Over the Top (1987)

Summary: Tough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.

Release Date: February 13, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, Sport

Director: Menahem Golan

Writers: Gary Conway

, David Engelbach

, Stirling Silliphant

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Viacom, Paramount Television, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,057,580

International: $ 350

Five Corners (1987)

Summary: A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

Release Date: August 20, 1987

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Tony Bill

Writer: John Patrick Shanley

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: HandMade Films

Distributor: Cannon Video, Direct Source, Front Row Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, The Criterion Collection, United American Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 969,205

Big Shots (1987)

Summary: Ivan Reitman brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago.

Release Date: October 02, 1987

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Director: Robert Mandel

Writer: Joe Eszterhas

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Lorimar Motion Pictures

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,390,043

Angel Heart (1987)

Summary: In 1955 New Orleans, small-time private investigator Harry Angel is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cypher to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite, but the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.

Release Date: March 06, 1987

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Alan Parker

Writers: William Hjortsberg

, Alan Parker

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco International N.V., Winkast Film Productions, Union

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Artisan Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Image Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,185,632

International: $ 322

La Bamba (1987)

Summary: Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Release Date: July 24, 1987

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Luis Valdez

Writer: Luis Valdez

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: G

Production: Columbia Pictures, New Visions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, CBS, Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Twilight Time, VH1 Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 54,215,416

International: $ 3,175

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Summary: Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.

Release Date: March 06, 1987

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Richard Donner

Writers: Shane Black

, Jeffrey Boam

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Silver Pictures

Distributor: HBO Max, KTLA, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Starz, WPIX

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Lethal Weapon

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 65,207,127

International: $ 55,000,000

Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

Summary: Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

Release Date: May 29, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alan Clarke

Writer: Andrea Dunbar

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: British Screen Productions, Channel Four Films, Umbrella Films

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, Twilight Time

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 124,167

Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

Summary: Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.

Release Date: December 18, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Director: Robert Townsend

Writers: Eddie Murphy

, Keenen Ivory Wayans

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,504,655

International: $ 634

Mannequin (1987)

Summary: A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

Release Date: February 13, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Michael Gottlieb

Writers: Edward Rugoff

, Michael Gottlieb

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Gladden Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Cannon Screen Entertainment

Distributor: Cannon Film Distributors, 20th Television, Comedy Central, Fox Network, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Media Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Olive Films, Video Treasures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 42,721,196

Hamburger Hill (1987)

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

Release Date: August 28, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: John Irvin

Writer: James Carabatsos

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: RKO Pictures, Interaccess Film Distribution

Distributor: Vestron Video, Live Distributing Inc., Artisan Entertainment, Artisan Home Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Home Video, Vestron Video International

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,839,404