Best Movies of 1987

These are the 38 best-rated movies released in 1987, led by Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables and The Princess Bride. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

★ 8.1/10

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
2. The Untouchables (1987)

★ 7.8/10

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
3. The Princess Bride (1987)

★ 7.7/10

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of…
4. Predator (1987)

★ 7.5/10

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
5. Evil Dead II (1987)

★ 7.5/10

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording…
6. Empire of the Sun (1987)

★ 7.5/10

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
7. Lethal Weapon (1987)

★ 7.3/10

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
8. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

★ 7.3/10

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
9. Pushpaka Vimana (1987)

★ 7.3/10

An unemployed man, who dreams of living it large, finds a rich man drunk and lying in the sewer. Things take a turn when he imprisons him and takes his identity to get a taste of his lifestyle.
10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

★ 7.2/10

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
11. Wall Street (1987)

★ 7.2/10

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
12. Return of the Kickfighter (1987)

★ 7.2/10

The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection…
13. Raising Arizona (1987)

★ 7.1/10

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
14. The Lost Boys (1987)

★ 7.1/10

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
15. Spaceballs (1987)

★ 6.9/10

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts…
16. Assa (1987)

★ 6.8/10

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

★ 6.7/10

During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a suicide attempt, sends her to a psychiatric ward, where she joins…
18. Gap-Toothed Women (1987)

★ 6.7/10

A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were…
19. Iron Angels (1987)

★ 6.6/10

Yeung’s poppy fields are torched by a law enforcement task force, she retaliates by ordering police officials assassinated. The Angels break into Yeung’s corporate offices, eventually tracing her headquarters. After…
20. Salvation! (1987)

★ 6.6/10

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star.
21. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

★ 6.5/10

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is…
22. The Living Daylights (1987)

★ 6.5/10

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union…
23. The Running Man (1987)

★ 6.5/10

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which…
24. The Young Magician (1987)

★ 6.3/10

A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick…
25. George and Rosemary (1987)

★ 6.0/10

A shy old man works up the gumption to meet a woman on whom he has a crush.
26. Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans (1987)

★ 5.7/10

Deathstalker helps Reena the Seer out of a few jams, and she solicits his help for a bigger task. She reveals that she is actually Princess Evie, but the evil sorcerer had her abducted and cloned in order to seize…
27. Widow's Walk (1987)

★ 5.7/10

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found…
28. Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert (1987)

★ 5.5/10

Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.
29. The Wild Pair (1987)

★ 5.3/10

A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.
30. Dennis the Menace (1987)

★ 5.3/10

While digging in his front garden, Dennis finds a big bone. To prove it's from a dinosaur, he persuades his father to invite an old buddy of him, Bowen Skyler III, who's a famous 'dinosaur hunter'. Being desperate for…
31. School of Thieves 2 (1987)

★ 5.3/10

In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.
32. Death Stone (1987)

★ 5.0/10

Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent…
33. Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)

★ 4.9/10

A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
34. I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)

★ 4.7/10

A high-school student and a drug pusher land in a nuclear-wasted river and come out zombies.
35. Terminal Exposure (1987)

★ 4.5/10

Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in the sun turns dangerous when…
36. Last Summer in Tangiers (1987)

★ 4.1/10

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.
37. You Talkin' to Me? (1987)

★ 3.8/10

A young actor's fascination with Rober De Niro's TAXI DRIVER persona leads him into a morass of strange and obsessional behaviors.
38. Erciyes’s Fertility (1987)

★ 0.0/10

The episode titled “Erciyes’s Fertility” from the documentary series “Old Houses Old Masters” is about the unique architectural structure of the Kayseri, Nevşehir and Ürgüp area, known as Cappadocia in the Central…