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Best Movies of 1987, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
87 films from 1987 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Full Metal Jacket ('1987), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Three O'Clock High, 7.1 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full Metal Jacket '1987 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 89% | 78 | 8.1 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2 | The Princess Bride '1987 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 8.0 | 93% | 78 | 7.7 | Rob Reiner |
| 3 | Predator '1987 | Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller | 7.8 | 65% | 47 | 7.6 | John McTiernan |
| 4 | The Untouchables '1987 | Crime / Thriller | 7.8 | 83% | 79 | 7.8 | Brian De Palma |
| 5 | Wings of Desire '1987 | Drama / Fantasy / Romance | 7.9 | 95% | 79 | 7.8 | Wim Wenders |
| 6 | RoboCop '1987 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 84% | 70 | 7.4 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 7 | Lethal Weapon '1987 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.3 | Richard Donner |
| 8 | Empire of the Sun '1987 | Drama / War | 7.7 | 75% | 62 | 7.5 | Steven Spielberg |
| 9 | The Last Emperor '1987 | Drama | 7.7 | 86% | 76 | 7.6 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 10 | Evil Dead II '1987 | Horror / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.6 | 88% | 72 | 7.5 | Sam Raimi |
| 11 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles '1987 | Comedy | 7.6 | 93% | 72 | 7.3 | John Hughes |
| 12 | Au Revoir les Enfants '1987 | Drama / War | 8.0 | 97% | 88 | 7.5 | Louis Malle |
| 13 | Where Is The Friend's House? '1987 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 14 | Wall Street '1987 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 78% | 56 | 7.2 | Oliver Stone |
| 15 | Good Morning, Vietnam '1987 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.3 | 90% | 67 | 7.3 | Barry Levinson |
| 16 | Raising Arizona '1987 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 91% | 69 | 7.1 | Joel Coen |
| 17 | Withnail & I '1987 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 84% | 87 | 7.2 | Bruce Robinson |
| 18 | The Lost Boys '1987 | Horror / Comedy / Thriller | 7.2 | 75% | 63 | 7.1 | Joel Schumacher |
| 19 | Babette's Feast '1987 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 97% | 78 | 7.2 | Gabriel Axel |
| 20 | Maurice '1987 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 81% | 75 | 7.6 | James Ivory |
| 21 | Angel Heart '1987 | Horror / Mystery | 7.2 | 82% | 61 | 7.1 | Alan Parker |
| 22 | Radio Days '1987 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 92% | 74 | 7.0 | Woody Allen |
| 23 | Dirty Dancing '1987 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 7.1 | 73% | 65 | 7.3 | Emile Ardolino |
| 24 | Eddie Murphy Raw '1987 | Comedy | 7.6 | 79% | 54 | 7.3 | Robert Townsend |
| 25 | Moonstruck '1987 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 90% | 83 | 6.8 | Norman Jewison |
| 26 | Spaceballs '1987 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 53% | 46 | 6.9 | Mel Brooks |
| 27 | Broadcast News '1987 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 98% | 84 | 6.8 | James L. Brooks |
| 28 | No Way Out '1987 | Thriller / Drama | 7.1 | 92% | 77 | 6.9 | Roger Donaldson |
| 29 | Bagdad Cafe '1987 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 80% | 71 | 7.2 | Percy Adlon |
| 30 | The Brave Little Toaster '1987 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 79% | - | 6.9 | Jerry Rees |
| 31 | House of Games '1987 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.2 | 94% | 78 | 6.8 | David Mamet |
| 32 | Adventures in Babysitting '1987 | Comedy | 7.0 | 73% | 45 | 6.9 | Chris Columbus |
| 33 | A Chinese Ghost Story '1987 | Fantasy / Action | 7.3 | 70% | - | 7.3 | Tony Ching Siu-Tung |
| 34 | Barfly '1987 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 76% | 70 | 6.9 | Barbet Schroeder |
| 35 | La Bamba '1987 | Drama / Musical | 7.0 | 83% | 65 | 7.3 | Luis Valdez |
| 36 | Some Kind of Wonderful '1987 | Romance / Comedy | 7.0 | 76% | 55 | 6.9 | Howard Deutch |
| 37 | Hellraiser '1987 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 72% | 56 | 6.9 | Clive Barker |
| 38 | Fatal Attraction '1987 | Thriller / Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 74% | 67 | 6.8 | Adrian Lyne |
| 39 | Law of Desire '1987 | Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy | 7.1 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 40 | The Hidden '1987 | Action / Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.0 | 76% | 69 | 6.9 | Jack Sholder |
| 41 | Overboard '1987 | Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 46% | 53 | 6.9 | Garry Marshall |
| 42 | Innerspace '1987 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 81% | 66 | 6.8 | Joe Dante |
| 43 | Three O'Clock High '1987 | Comedy | 7.1 | 60% | 36 | 6.8 | Phil Joanou |
| 44 | A Better Tomorrow II '1987 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.1 | 63% | - | 7.1 | John Woo |
| 45 | Near Dark '1987 | Horror | 6.9 | 80% | 78 | 6.8 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 46 | The Monster Squad '1987 | Comedy / Action / Fantasy | 6.9 | 53% | 61 | 6.7 | Fred Dekker |
| 47 | Project A - Part II '1987 | Action / Comedy | 7.0 | 73% | - | 7.1 | Jackie Chan |
| 48 | Opera '1987 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 90% | 68 | 6.7 | Dario Argento |
| 49 | Can't Buy Me Love '1987 | Comedy / Romance | 6.8 | 48% | 36 | 6.9 | Steve Rash |
| 50 | Wicked City '1987 | Animation / Fantasy / Horror | 6.7 | - | - | 6.7 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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