A Dangerous Life

A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language Australian film about the final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986 that ousted Marcos. The film focuses on American TV journalist 
(Gary Busey), who finds himself in the middle of key events that lead to the downfall of the Marcos regime. Originally airing on television as a mini-series that ran for a total of six hours, the film was edited to 162 minutes for the home video release.[1]

The film was shot on location in Sri Lanka, mostly due to hostilities the producers experienced in Manila while filming The Year of Living Dangerously in 1982.

Source:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNhVry_a7pQ

Medea

Directed by Lars von Trier
1988
Starring: Henning Jensen, Udo Kier, Baard Owe

Cinematic genius Lars von Tier explores the dark passions of a woman scorned in this shocking and powerful film adapted from a screenplay by the great Carl-Theodore Dreyer.

The drama unfolds in shimmering marshlands and gloomy subterranean passageways. Medea is a foreign sorceress, abandoned by Jason, her lover. In a fit of mad, jealous rage, she plots a vicious revenge and murders her own children.

Medea is a revelation - the discovery of a rarely-seen, legendary film from the director of Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, and Dogville.

Arghh! I wanted to hate it but loved it anyway! For a family man like me, you will surely hate writer and director Lars von Trier for having a movie like this. But, ok.. for the sake of art, go ahead! watch this, people!

The Last Temptation of Christ

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Starring: Willem Dafoe
Barbara Hershey
Harvey Keithel
1988

The Last Temptation of Christ (or The Last Temptation; Greek: Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός, O Teleftaíos Peirasmós) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1951. It follows the life of Jesus Christ from his perspective. The novel has been the subject of a great deal of controversy due to its subject matter, and appears regularly on lists of banned books.

The central thesis of the book is that Jesus, while free from sin, was still subject to every form of temptation that humans face, including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. By facing and conquering all of man's weaknesses, Kazantzakis argues in the novel's preface, He struggled to do God's will, without ever giving in to the temptations of the flesh.

In its movie adaptation, The Last Temptation of Christ is arguably Martin Scorsese's most passionate work.It is very rare that a film comes along and has the power to change the way someone thinks. Martin Scorsese's epic masterpiece does just that. What happened if Jesus Christ was given a choice in whether or not he was crucified and died "for our sins?" What if Jesus wasn't as perfect as the myths make him out to be, and was instead a human being, who was almost cursed with the idea that he was the son of God? The main reason that the fundamentalists right wingers have come out so strongly against The Last Temptation of Christs is that the film depicts the dual nature of Christ as fully devine and fully human. Other than a brief moment at the end of the film in which Christ ponders what might have been had he lived a normal life, the film is not anti-Christian in the least. As one critic put it, "ironically, The Last Temptation of Christ probably would have drawn more people to Christianity than years of annoying pamphlets and systematic brainwashing." Scorsese's direction is very bizarre and creates a film that is extremely surreal.This is the most intelligent film about Jesus to ever be created.

Grave of the Fireflies

Directed by: Isao Takahata
1988

In the aftermath of a World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside. To Seita and his four-year-old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their countrymen is even more painful than the enemy raids. Through dessperation, hunger and grief, these children's lives are as heartbreakingly fragile as their spirit and love is inspiring. Grave of the Fireflies is a tale of the true tragedy of war and innocence lost, not only of the abandoned young, but of an entire nation.

I was teary-eyed after watching this film. Maybe because I immersed myself (I mean my kids) too much into the situation/s that the main characters have been through. I must say that this is the best animated film I ever saw to this date and the only war film that really made me focus my attention into. I watched it together with my wife and my kids and believe me, it just struck us... leaving us all teary-eyed. You can watch the trailer below.