Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1987

84 Charring Cross Road – David Huge Jones
Agent Trouble – Jean-Pierre Mocky
Ammazing Grace and Chuck – Mike Newell
American Ninja 2: The Conforntation – Sam Firstenberg
Anna – Yurek Bogayevicz
Armour of God – Jackie Chan
Asignatura aprobada – Jose Luis Garci
Assassination – Peter R. Hunt
Au Revoir Les Enfants – Louis Malle
Babet’s Feast – Gabrial Axel
Back Fire – Gilbert Cates
Bad Taste – Peter Jackson
Bellman and Ture – Richard Loncraine
Benji The Hunted – Joe Camp
A Better Tomorrow 2 – John Woo
The Bicyclist – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Best Seller – Larry Cohen
The Big Town – Harold Becker
Boyfriends and Girlfriends(L’Ami de mon amie) – Eric Rohmer
Business as Usual – Lezli-An Barrett
Nuy and Cell – Robert Boris
Can’t Buy Me Love – Steve Rash
Captin Khorshid – Nasser Taghvai
Catch the Heat – 
Champ d’honneur – Jean-Pierre Denis
A Chinese Ghost Story (Wade-Giles) – Ching Siu-tung
China Girl – Abel Ferrara
Chronical of a Death Foretold – Francesco Rosi
Chuck Berry, Hail! Hail Rock ‘N’ Roll – Taylor Hackford
Coast to Coast – Sandy Johnson
Cold Steel – Dorathy Ann Puzo
Crazy Love – Dominique Deruddere
Le Cri du hibou – Claude Chabrol
Cristical Condition – Michael Apted
Cyclone – Fred Olen Ray
Dark Eyes – Nikita Mikhalkov
Dark Tower – Freddie Francis
Daughter of the Nile – Hou Hsiao-hsien
Dead of Winter – Arthus Penn
Deadly Illusion – Larry Cohen
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam – Bill Couturie
Death Before Dishonor – Terry Leonard
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown – J. Lee Thompson
Desyat Negrityat – Stanislav Govorukhin
Diary for My Lovers – Marta Meszaros
Down Twisted – Albert Pyun
Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princes in Devil’s Castle – Baisuke Nishio
Duet for One – Andery Konchalovskiy
Eat the Rich – Peter Richrdson
Eien no 1/2 – Kichitaro Negishi
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On – Kazuo Hara
End of the Line – Jay Russell
Enemy Territory – Peter Manoogian
Extreme Prejudice – Walter Hill
The Family – Ettore Scola
Family Viewing – Atom Egoyan
Feathers – John Rauane
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle – Eric Rohmer
The Forth Protocol – John Mackenzie
Freckled Max and the Spooks – Juraj Jakubisko
From the Hip – Bob Clark
Gardens of Stone – Francis Ford Coppola
The Glass Menagerie – Paul Newman
The Good Wife (The Umbrella Woman) – 
Good Morning Babylon
Grand Larceny – Jeannot Szwarc
Le Grand – Chemin (The Great Highway) – Jean-Loup Hubert
Ground Zero – Bruce Myles / Michael Pattinson
Hamberger Hill – John Irvin
The Hanoi Hilton – Lionel Chetwynd
Happy New Year – 
Hidden City – Stephen Poliakoff
High Season – Clare Peploe
High Tide – Gillian Armstrong
Hotel de France – Patrice Chereau
House II: The Second Story – Ethan Wiley
A Hungarian Fairy Tale – Gyula Gazdag
Housekeeping – Bill Forsyth
I ragazzi di via Paniserna – Gianni Amelio
In The Mood – Alden Robinson
Jane and the Lost City – Teryy Marcel
Jaws: The Revenge – Joseph Sargent
Jean de Florette – Claude Barri
Jocks – Steve Carver
Julia and Julia – Peter Del Monte
The Juniper Tree – Nietzchika Keene
Kaash – Mahesh Bhatt
Kelid – Ebrhim Forouzash
Keep Your Right Up – Jean-Luc Godard
King Lear – Jean-Luc Godard
King of the Children – Chen Kaige
Kingsaja – Juliusz Machulski
Lady Beware – Karen Arthur
The Last of England – Derek Jarman
Laughter and Grief by the White Sea – Leonid Nosyrev
Late Summer Blues – Renen Schorr
Law of Desire – Pedro Almodovar
Leonard Part 6 – Paul Weiland
Light Of Day – Paul Shrader
The Lighthorsemen – Simon Wincer
Like Father  Like Son – Rob Daniel
Lionheart – Frankline J. Schaffner
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Jack Clayton
Long Gone – Martin Davidson
Love at Stake – John C. Moffitt
Loyalties – Anne Wheeler
Macbeth – Claude d’Anna
Made in Heaven – Alan Rudolph
Malone – Herley Cokeliss
A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines – Alla Surikova
Man on Fire (Un uomo sotto tiro) – Elie Chouraqui
A Man In Love – Diane Kurys
The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono
Manon of the Spring – Claude Barri
Marlene – Mximillian Shell
Masks – Claude Chabrol
Matewan – John Sayles
Maurice – James Ivory
Mio in the Land of Faraway – Vladimir Grammatikov
The Monster Squad – Fred Dekker
A month in the Country – Pat O’Connor
The Moro Affair – Giuseppe Ferrara
Mr. India – Shekhar Kapur
Mr. Nice Guy – 
My Little Girl – Connie Kaiserman
Nadine – Robert Benton
Nayakan – Lijo Jose Pellissery
Nekromantik – Jorg Buttgereit
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors – Chuck Russell
No Man’s Land – Peter Werner
Nowhere to Hide – Mario Azzopardi
Number One with a Bullet – Jack Smight
Opera – Dario Argento
Orphans – Alan J. Pakula
Over the Top Menahem Golan
The Pathfinder - Nils Gaup
Personal Services – Terry Jones
A Pryer for the Dying – Mike Hodges
Prick Up Your Ears – Stephen Frears
The Principal – Christopher Cain
Rampage – William Friedkin
Real Men – Dennis Feldman 
Red Sorghum – Zhang Yimou
Reflections – Goran Markovic
Rent-a-Cop – Jerry London
Restless Natives – Michael Hoffman
Rouge – Stanley Kwan
The Shiralee – Leslie Norman
Shy People – Andrei Konchalovsky
The Sicilian – Michael Cimino
Siesta – Mary Lambert
Sister, Sister – Bill Condon
Slam Dance – Wayne Wang
Someone to Love – Henry Jaglom
Square Dance – Daniel Petrie
Steel Dawn – Lance Hool
Straight to Hell – Alex Cox
Street Smart – Jerry Schatzberg
Stripped to Kill – Katt Shea
Storm – David Winning
Subway to the Stars – Carlos Diegues
The Surrogate Woman – Im Kwon-taek
A Taxing Woman – Juzo Itami
Teen Wolf Too – Christopher Leitch
Testimony – Tony Palmer
Three for the Road – Bill L. Norton
Tema – Gleb Panfilov
A Tiger’s Tale – Peter Douglas
Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Norman Mailer
Tropic of Ice – Lauri Torhonen
The Trouble with Spies – Burt Kennedy
Under the Sun of Satan – Maurice Pialat
Vere – Sergio Toledo
Waiting for the Moon – Jill Godmilow
Walk Like A Man – Melvin Frank
Wanted: Dead or Alive – Gary Sherman
Wedding in Galilee – 
Weeds – John D. Hancock
The Whistle Blower – Simon Langdon
White of the Eye – Donald Cammell
White Mischief – Michael Radford
White Water Summer – Jeff Bleckner
Why – Karel Smyczek
Wild Thing – Max Reid
Wish You Were Here – David Leland
Yeelen – Souleymane Cisse