1987 in film
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The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987.
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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
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The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Three Men and a Baby | Touchstone Pictures | $167,780,960 |
| 2. | Fatal Attraction | Paramount Pictures | $156,645,693 |
| 3. | Beverly Hills Cop II | Paramount | $153,665,036 |
| 4. | Good Morning, Vietnam | Touchstone | $123,922,370 |
| 5. | Moonstruck | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $80,640,528 |
| 6. | The Untouchables | Paramount | $76,270,454 |
| 7. | The Secret of My Success | Universal Pictures | $66,995,000 |
| 8. | Stakeout | Touchstone | $65,673,23 |
| 9. | Lethal Weapon | Warner Bros. | $65,207,127 |
| 10. | The Witches of Eastwick | Warner Bros. | $63,766,510 |
Events
- January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.
- May 23 - Starlog Salutes Star Wars is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary.
- June 29 - The James Bond franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, The Living Daylights
- July 17 - Walt Disney's classic masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary.
- 1987 - Paramount Pictures launches a new on-screen logo to celebrate 75 years.
Awards
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- Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables
- Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
- Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas – Wall Street
- Best Actress: Sally Kirkland – Anna
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Hope and Glory
- Best Actor: Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam
- Best Actress: Cher – Moonstruck
- Other
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
- Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR
Notable films released in 1987
U.S.A. unless stated
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- 84 Charing Cross Road, starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench - (U.K./U.S.A.)
A
- Adventures in Babysitting (aka A Night on the Town in the UK), starring Elisabeth Shue
- Aha Naa Pellanta - (India)
- L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- Amazing Grace and Chuck, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Petersen, Alex English, Gregory Peck
- Amazon Women on the Moon, starring Arsenio Hall, Griffin Dunne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Guttenberg, Steve Forrest
- Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
- Anguish (Angustia), starring Zelda Rubinstein - (Spain)
- Anna, starring Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova
- Aria, 10 short films by directors including Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, Nicolas Roeg - (U.K.)
- Assassination, starring Charles Bronson
- Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle - Golden Lion award - (France)
- An Autumn's Tale (Chou tin dik tong wah), starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
B
- Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, starring Stephane Audran - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Denmark)
- Baby Boom, directed by Charles Shyer, starring Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis
- Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson - (New Zealand)
- Bagdad Café, aka Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988) - (West Germany/U.S.A.)
- Barfly, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
- *batteries not included, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
- The Bedroom Window, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elizabeth McGovern
- Bellman and True, directed by Richard Loncraine - (U.K.)
- The Belly of an Architect, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb - (U.K./Italy)
- Benji the Hunted
- Best Seller, starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy
- A Better Tomorrow 2 (Jing hung bun sik), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
- Beverly Hills Cop II, starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold
- Beyond Therapy, directed by Robert Altman, starring Julie Haggerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson
- The Bicyclist (Bicycleran) - (Iran)
- The Big Easy, directed by Jim McBride, starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Ned Beatty
- Big Shots, directed by Robert Mandel, starring Darius McCrary, Robert Prosky, Paul Winfield
- The Big Town, starring Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lee Grant, Bruce Dern
- Black Widow, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
- Blind Chance (Przypadek) - (Poland)
- Blind Date, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger
- Born in East L.A., starring Cheech Marin
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Broadcast News, directed by James L. Brooks, starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Lois Chiles, Robert Prosky, Joan Cusack
- Burglar, starring Whoopi Goldberg
- Business as Usual, starring Glenda Jackson and John Thaw - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Buy & Cell, starring Robert Carradine
C
- Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
- Captain Khorshid (Nakhoda Khorshid), directed by Nasser Taghvai - (Iran)
- The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland - (Canada)
- Cherry 2000, starring Melanie Griffith
- A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂), starring Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
- The Chipmunk Adventure
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada), starring Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Gian Maria Volontè - (France/Italy/Colombia)
- City on Fire (Lóng hǔ fēng yún), starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
- Coast to Coast, starring Lenny Henry - (U.K.)
- Cobra Verde, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski - (West Germany)
- Cold Steel, starring Brad Davis and Sharon Stone
- Crazy Love (Amor Loco) - (Belgium)
- Creepshow 2
- Critical Condition, starring Richard Pryor
- Cross My Heart, starring Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser
- Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington - (U.K./U.S.A./South Africa)
- The Cry of the Owl ( Le cri du hibou), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
D
- Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy/U.S.S.R.)
- Dark Tower, directed by Freddie Francis, starring Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley
- Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer) - (Taiwan)
- Days to Remember (Die Verliebten), starring Barbara Sukowa - (West Germany)
- The Dead, directed by John Huston, starring his daughter, Anjelica Huston - (U.K./Ireland/U.S.A.)
- Dead of Winter, starring Mary Steenburgen
- Deadline, starring Christopher Walken
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, starring Charles Bronson and Kay Lenz
- Desyat Negrityat (10 Little Indians) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Diary for My Lovers (Napló szerelmeimnek) - (Hungary)
- Dirty Dancing, directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach
- Down Twisted, starring Carey Lowell
- Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer
- Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (Doragon Bōru: Majin-Jō No Nemuri Hime) - (Japan)
E
- Eastern Condors (Dung fong tuk ying), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
- Eat the Rich, directed by Peter Richardson - (U.K.)
- Eddie Murphy Raw, performance documentary
- Eien no 1/2 (Half of Eternity) - (Japan)
- Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite Shingun) - (Japan)
- End of the Line, starring Kevin Bacon, Wilford Brimley, Mary Steenburgen, Holly Hunter
- Enemy Territory, starring Gary Frank, Ray Parker, Jr., Frances Fisher
- Ernest Goes to Camp, starring Jim Varney
- Escape from Sobibor, starring Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer - (U.K./Yugoslavia)
- Evil Dead II, starring Bruce Campbell
- Extreme Prejudice, directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn
F
- La Famiglia (The Family), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Vittorio Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli - (Italy)
- Family Viewing - (Canada)
- Far Side of the Moon (La face cachée de la lune) - (France)
- Fatal Attraction, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
- Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg
- Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro
- Flowers in the Attic, starring Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Louise Fletcher
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- The Fourth Protocol, starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan - (U.K.)
- Freckled Max and the Spooks (Pehavý Max a strašidlá) - (Czechoslovakia)
- From the Hip, directed by Bob Clark, starring Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt
- Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard
G
- G.I. Joe: The Movie, with the voices of Don Johnson and Burgess Meredith
- Gardens of Stone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston, D.B. Sweeney, James Earl Jones
- The Gate, starring Stephen Dorff
- The Glass Menagerie, directed by Paul Newman, starring Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich
- Good Morning, Babylon, starring Vincent Spano and Greta Scacchi - (Italy)
- Good Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, J. T. Walsh, Bruno Kirby
- The Good Wife, aka The Umbrella Woman, starring Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill
- Le Grand Chemin (The Great Highway) - (France)
- Da Grande - (Italy)
- Ground Zero, starring Colin Friels and Jack Thompson - (Australia)
H
- Hamburger Hill, directed by John Irvin, starring Dylan McDermott
- Hamlet Goes Business (Hamlet liikemaailmassa), directed by Aki Kaurismäki - (Finland)
- The Hanoi Hilton, starring Michael Moriarty
- Happy New Year, starring Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay
- Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon
- Hello Again, starring Shelley Long, Corbin Bernsen, Judith Ivey, Sela Ward, Gabriel Byrne
- Hellraiser, directed by Clive Barker - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- The Hidden, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri
- Hidden City, directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Charles Dance - (U.K.)
- Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
- High Season, starring Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Kenneth Branagh
- High Tide, directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Judy Davis - (Australia)
- Hollywood Shuffle, directed by and starring Robert Townsend
- Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman, starring Sammi Davis, Sarah Miles - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- House II: The Second Story, starring Arye Gross and Jonathan Stark
- House of Games, directed by David Mamet, starring Joe Mantegna and Lindsay Crouse
- Housekeeping, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti
- A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt) - (Hungary)
I
- I ragazzi di via Panisperna (Via Panisperna Boys) - (Italy)
- Innerspace, directed by Joe Dante, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan
- In the Mood, directed by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Patrick Dempsey and Beverly D'Angelo
- Intervista (Interview), directed by and starring Federico Fellini - (Italy)
- Iron Earth, Copper Sky (Yer Demir Gök Bakır) - (Turkey)
- Ironweed, directed by Héctor Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep
- Ishtar, directed by Elaine May, starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
- I've Heard the Mermaids Singing - (Canada)
J
- Jaws: The Revenge, starring Lorraine Gary and Michael Caine
- Julia and Julia, starring Kathleen Turner - (Italy)
K
- Kaash (If Only) - (India)
- Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu - (India)
- Kelid (The Key) - (Iran)
- King Lear, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Peter Sellers, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald
- King of the Children (Háizǐ Wáng), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
- Kingsajz (Kingsize) - (Poland)
- The Kreutzer Sonata - (U.S.S.R.)
L
- La Bamba, featuring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales
- Lady Beware, starring Diane Lane
- The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring John Lone and Joan Chen - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture - (China/U.K./Italy)
- The Last of England, directed by Derek Jarman, starring Tilda Swinton and Nigel Terry - (U.K.)
- Late Summer Blues (Blues Lahofesh Hagadol) - (Israel)
- Laughter and Grief by the White Sea (Smekh i gore u Bela morya) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Law of Desire (La ley del deseo), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura - (Spain)
- Leonard Part 6, starring Bill Cosby - won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
- Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader
- Lethal Weapon, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- Light of Day, starring Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands
- The Lighthorsemen - (Australia)
- Like Father Like Son, starring Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron
- Lionheart, starring Eric Stoltz and Gabriel Byrne
- The Living Daylights, starring Timothy Dalton (as James Bond), with Maryam d'Abo, Joe Don Baker - (U.K.)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins - (U.K.)
- Long Gone, starring William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Dermot Mulroney
- The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest
- Love at Stake, starring Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Barbara Carrera
- Love is a Fat Woman (El Amor es una mujer gorda) - (Argentina)
- Loyalties - (Canada/U.K.)
- El Lute: Run for Your Life (El Lute: camina o revienta) - (Spain)
M
- Macbeth, an opera - (France)
- Made in Heaven, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis
- Maid to Order, starring Ally Sheedy
- Making Mr. Right, directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Ann Magnuson and John Malkovich
- Malone, starring Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Kenneth McMillan, Lauren Hutton, Cynthia Gibb
- A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Man On Fire, starring Scott Glenn
- The Man Who Planted Trees (L'homme qui plantait des arbres) - (Canada)
- Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall
- Masks (Masques), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
- Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Courteney Cox
- Matewan, directed by John Sayles, starring Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, David Strathairn
- Maurice, directed by James Ivory, starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
- Miami Connection
- Mio in the Land of Faraway (Mio Min Mio), starring Christopher Lee and Christian Bale - (Sweden/U.S.S.R./Norway)
- Mirror for a Hero
- The Monster Squad
- A Month in the Country, starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson - (U.K.)
- Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
- Morning Patrol, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis – (Greece)
- The Moro Affair (Il Caso Moro), starring Gian Maria Volontè - (Italy)
- The Mother of Kings (Matka Królów), produced in 1982 but not released until 1987 - (Poland)
- Mr. India, starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi - (India)
- Mr. Muhsin (Muhsin Bey) - (Turkey)
- Mr. Nice Guy, starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
- My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund), directed by Lasse Hallström - Golden Space Needle award - (Sweden)
- My Little Girl, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and James Earl Jones
N
- Nadine, directed by Robert Benton, starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger
- Nayakan - (India)
- Near Dark, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
- Nekromantik - (West Germany)
- Night Zoo (Un Zoo la Nuit) - (Canada)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, starring Craig Wasson and Heather Langenkamp
- No Man's Land, starring Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, Randy Quaid
- No Way Out, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Iman
- Nowhere to Hide, starring Amy Madigan and Michael Ironside
- Number One with a Bullet, directed by Jack Smight, starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams
- Nuts, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Karl Malden, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, James Whitmore
O
- O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, starring Daniel H. Jenkins, Neill Barry, Martin Mull, Jane Curtin, Dennis Hopper
- On the Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie) - (Poland)
- Opera, directed by Dario Argento - (Italy)
- Orphans, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, Albert Finney
- Outrageous Fortune, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long
- Over the Top, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, David Mendenhall
- Overboard, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn
P-Q
- Partition, starring Saeed Jaffrey - (U.K.)
- Pathfinder (Veiviseren) - (Norway)
- Pelle the Conqueror, directed by Bille August, starring Max von Sydow - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988) - (Denmark)
- Personal Services, directed by Terry Jones, starring Julie Walters - (U.K.)
- The Pick-up Artist, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Molly Ringwald, Danny Aiello, Dennis Hopper
- Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles, directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin and John Candy
- A Prayer for the Dying, starring Mickey Rourke - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Predator, directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers
- Prick Up Your Ears, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Gary Oldman, a biopic of playwright Joe Orton - (U.K.)
- Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
- The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant
- The Principal, starring James Belushi and Louis Gossett, Jr.
- Prison on Fire (Jian yu feng yun), starring Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung - (Hong Kong)
- Project A Part II ('A' gai wak juk jap), directed by and starring Jackie Chan, starring Maggie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
- Project X, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt
- Queenie, television miniseries, starring Mia Sara
R
- Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen, starring Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, Wallace Shawn
- Raising Arizona, directed by the Coen Brothers, starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
- Rampage, directed by William Friedkin, starring Michael Biehn
- Real Men, starring James Belushi and John Ritter
- Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen - Golden Bear award (for 1988) - (China)
- Reflections (Već viđeno) - (Yugoslavia)
- Rent-a-Cop, starring Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, Dionne Warwick
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
- RoboCop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
- Roxanne, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa) - (Japan)
- The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson
S
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Shashi Kapoor and Claire Bloom - (U.K.)
- Satyamev Jayate - (India)
- The Secret of My Succe$s, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater
- September, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Sam Waterston, Jack Warden, Elaine Stritch
- Shaka Zulu, starring Henry Cele - (South Africa)
- Shy People, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Barbara Hershey and Jill Clayburgh
- The Sicilian, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Christopher Lambert
- Siesta, directed by Mary Lambert, starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster
- Sign 'o' the Times, a concert film with Prince
- Sister, Sister, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey, Eric Stoltz
- Slam Dance, starring Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
- Some Kind of Wonderful, starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer
- Someone to Love, directed by and starring Henry Jaglom, with Orson Welles
- Someone to Watch Over Me, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco
- Spaceballs, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers
- Square Dance, starring Winona Ryder
- The Squeeze, starring Michael Keaton
- Stage Fright (Deliria) - (Italy)
- Stakeout, directed by John Badham, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe
- The Stepfather, starring Terry O'Quinn
- Steel Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze
- Straight to Hell, starring Courtney Love and Joe Strummer - (U.K./U.S.A./Spain)
- Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker and Morgan Freeman
- Street Trash
- Storm - (Canada)
- Subway to the Stars (Um Trem para as Estrelas) - (Brazil)
- Summer School, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer
- Surrender, starring Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle
- The Surrogate Woman (Ssibaji) - (South Korea)
- Suspect, directed by Peter Yates, starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Liam Neeson
- Swimming to Cambodia, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Spalding Gray
T
- A Taxing Woman (Marusa no onna) - (Japan)
- Teen Wolf Too, starring Jason Bateman
- The Theme (Tema), winner of Golden Bear - (U.S.S.R.)
- Three for the Road, starring Charlie Sheen
- Three Men and a Baby, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis
- Throw Momma from the Train, starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew
- A Tiger's Tale, starring Ann-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston
- Timestalkers
- Tin Men, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Jackie Gayle
- Tough Guys Don't Dance, directed by Norman Mailer, starring Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Lawrence Tierney
- Train of Dreams - (Canada)
- Travelling North, starring Leo McKern - (Australia)
- Tropic of Ice (Jään kääntöpiiri) - (Finland)
- The Trouble with Spies, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Donald Sutherland and Lucy Gutteridge
U-V
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), starring Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire - Palme d'Or award - (France)
- The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson
- Vera - (Brazil)
W
- Waiting for the Moon - (U.K./U.S.A./France/West Germany)
- Walker, starring Ed Harris - (U.S.A./Mexico/Spain)
- Walk Like a Man, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Howie Mandel
- Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, Martin Sheen
- Wanted: Dead or Alive, starring Rutger Hauer
- Weeds, starring Nick Nolte
- The Whales of August, starring Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price
- Where Is the Friend's Home? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?) - (Iran)
- White Mischief, starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Trevor Howard, John Hurt - (U.K.)
- White of the Eye, starring Cathy Moriarty and David Keith - (U.K.)
- White Water Summer, starring Kevin Bacon
- Who's That Girl, starring Madonna and Griffin Dunne
- Why? (Proc?) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Wild Thing, starring Kathleen Quinlan
- Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk - (West Germany/France)
- Wish You Were Here, directed by David Leland, starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell - (U.K.)
- The Witches of Eastwick, directed by George Miller, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Withnail and I, directed by Bruce Robinson, starring Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths - (U.K.)
XYZ
- The Year My Voice Broke - (Australia)
- Yeelen (Brightness) - (Mali)
- Zegen, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
Wide-release films
January–March
- January 1987
- January 9 - Assassination
- January 16
- January 23
- January 30
- February 1987
- February 6
- February 13
- February 20 - Square Dance
- February 27
- March 1987
- March 6
- March 13 - Evil Dead II
- March 20
- March 27 - Blind Date
April–June
- April 1987
- April 3
- April 10
- The Secret of My Success
- Three for the Road
- The Aristocats (re-release)
- April 17
- April 24 - Extreme Prejudice
- May 1987
- May 1 - American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
- May 8 - Gardens of Stone
- May 15
- May 20 - Beverly Hills Cop II
- May 22
- June 1987
- June 3 - The Untouchables
- June 5
- June 12
- June 17 - Benji the Hunted
- June 19 - Roxanne
- June 24 - Spaceballs
- June 26
- June 29 - The Living Daylights (London premiere)
July–September
- July 1987
- July 1
- July 10
- July 17
- July 20 - Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
- July 22 - Summer School
- July 24
- July 31 - The Lost Boys
- August 1987
- August 5 - Stakeout
- August 7
- August 14
- August 21
- August 28
- September 1987
- September 18 - Amazon Women on the Moon
- September 2
- September 4 - Man on Fire
- September 15 - King Lear
- September 18
- Fatal Attraction
- Hellraiser (U.S.; UK Sep. 11, 1987)
- Maurice
- Orphans
- The Principal
- September 25
- September 30 - Barfly
October–December
- October 1987
- October 2
- October 7
- October 9
- October 11 - House of Games
- October 16
- October 20 - The Hidden
- October 23
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Last Emperor (Italy; NYC Nov. 18 1987; LA Nov. 19, 1987; US Dec. 18, 1987)
- No Man's Land
- Prince of Darkness
- The Sicilian
- Suspect
- October 30
- November 1987
- November 6
- November 13
- November 20
- November 25
- December 1987
- December 4 - Walker
- December 11
- December 16
- Broadcast News
- Moonstruck (NYC; USA Dec. 18, 1987)
- Overboard
- December 17 - The Dead
- December 18
- December 23 - Good Morning, Vietnam
- December 25
Births
- January 5 - Kristin Cavallari, television personality/actress
- January 7 - Lyndsy Fonseca, actress
- January 16 - Carrie Keranen, voice actress
- January 31 - Zoe Costello, actress
- February 5 - Darren Criss, actor
- February 9 - Michael B. Jordan, actor
- February 21
- Ashley Greene, actress
- Ellen Page, Canadian actress
- April 4 - Sarah Gadon, actress
- April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor, singer-songwriter and voice actor
- April 19 - Oksana Akinshina, actress
- April 27 - William Moseley, English actor
- June 27 - Ed Westwick, English film and television actor
- July 11 - Cristina Vee, voice actress
- July 26 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
- July 27 - Mara Wilson, actress and writer
- August 8 - Katie Leung Scottish film, television and stage actress
- August 25 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
- September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, actress
- September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor
- September 22 - Tom Felton, English actor
- September 28 - Hilary Duff, actress
- September 29 - Anaïs Demoustier, actress
- October 18 - Zac Efron, actor and singer
- November 12 - Kengo Kora, Japanese actor
- December 28 - Adam Gregory, actor
Notable deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 9 | Arthur Lake | 81 | USA | Actor | |
| 14 | Douglas Sirk | 89 | Germany | Director | ||
| 15 | Ray Bolger | 83 | USA | Actor, Singer | ||
| 27 | Norman McLaren | 72 | Canada | Animator, Director | ||
| February | 1 | Alessandro Blasetti | 86 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter | |
| 23 | Esmond Knight | 80 | UK | Actor | ||
| 25 | James Coco | 56 | USA | Actor | ||
| 25 | John Collin | 58 | UK | Actor | ||
| 28 | Joan Greenwood | 65 | UK | Actress | ||
| March | 2 | Randolph Scott | 89 | USA | Actor | |
| 3 | Danny Kaye | 74 | USA | Actor | ||
| 7 | Waldo Salt | 72 | USA | Screenwriter | ||
| 21 | Robert Preston | 68 | USA | Actor | ||
| 28 | Patrick Troughton | 67 | UK | Actor | ||
| April | 17 | Dick Shawn | 63 | USA | Actor | |
| May | 14 | Rita Hayworth | 68 | USA | Actress | |
| June | 1 | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | 72 | India | Director, Screenwriter | |
| 6 | Fulton Mackay | 64 | UK | Actor | ||
| 10 | Elizabeth Hartman | 43 | USA | Actress | ||
| 13 | Geraldine Page | 62 | USA | Actress | ||
| 22 | Fred Astaire | 88 | USA | Actor | ||
| 24 | Jackie Gleason | 71 | USA | Actor | ||
| July | 3 | Viola Dana | 90 | USA | Actress | |
| 7 | Hannelore Schroth | 65 | Germany | Actress | ||
| 15 | Alfie Bass | 71 | UK | Actor | ||
| 31 | Joseph E. Levine | 81 | USA | Producer | ||
| August | 1 | Pola Negri | 90 | Poland | Actress | |
| 17 | Clarence Brown | 97 | USA | Director | ||
| 28 | John Huston | 81 | USA | Actor, Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 29 | Lee Marvin | 63 | USA | Actor | ||
| September | 4 | Richard Marquand | 49 | UK | Director | |
| 5 | Bill Fraser | 79 | UK | Actor | ||
| 13 | Mervyn LeRoy | 89 | USA | Director | ||
| 23 | Bob Fosse | 60 | USA | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 25 | Mary Astor | 81 | USA | Actress | ||
| 25 | Emlyn Williams | 81 | UK | Actress | ||
| October | 2 | Madeleine Carroll | 81 | UK | Actress | |
| 22 | Lino Ventura | 68 | Italy | Actor | ||
| November | 5 | Georges Franju | 75 | France | Director, Screenwriter | |
| December | 4 | Rouben Mamoulian | 90 | Georgia | Director |
Film debuts
- Patricia Arquette - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- Alec Baldwin - Forever, Lulu
- Jason Bateman - Teen Wolf Too
- Kenneth Branagh - A Month in the Country
- Sandra Bullock - Hangmen
- Patricia Clarkson - The Untouchables
- George Clooney - Return to Horror High
- Courteney Cox - Down Twisted
- Stephen Dorff - The Gate
- Edie Falco - Sweet Lorraine
- Gong Li - Red Sorghum
- Richard E. Grant - Withnail and I
- Anthony LaPaglia - Cold Steel
- Nathan Lane - Ironweed
- Brad Pitt - No Man's Land
- Chris Rock - Beverly Hills Cop II
- David Spade - Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
- Ben Stiller - Empire of the Sun
- Nancy Travis - Three Men and a Baby
- Jesse Ventura - Predator
- Robin Wright - The Princess Bride
See also
- List of American films of 1987
- List of British films of 1987r
- List of French films of 1987
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1987r
- List of Italian films of 1987r
- List of Japanese films of 1987
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
References
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