Best award winning movies with scientific genius from 1988

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with scientific genius from 1988! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with scientific genius from 1988, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Dead Ringers (1988)

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

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1988-09-23 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold

Rating

rating icon 7.122
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #50 for
    downward spiral
  2. Ranked #79 for
    wallflower
  3. Ranked #129 for
    socially awkward

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2 Monkey Shines (1988)

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

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1988-07-29 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Jason Beghe, John Pankow

Rating

rating icon 6.236
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #106 for
    poindexter
  2. Ranked #214 for
    acting of welcoming presence
  3. Ranked #226 for
    haywire

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3 Rain Man (1988)

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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1988-12-12 | Drama

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    smug
  2. Ranked #65 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #86 for
    narcissist

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4 Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

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1988-09-23 | Drama / History

Cast

Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown

Rating

rating icon 6.977
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6 for
    naturalist
  2. Ranked #34 for
    bludgeoned to death
  3. Ranked #89 for
    monomaniacal

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5 The Blob (1988)

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, the trio witness the Blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and the police refuse to believe the kids without proof.

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1988-08-05 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon

Rating

rating icon 6.757
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    Monster Movie
  2. Ranked #79 for
    jock
  3. Ranked #207 for
    for Stephen King's fans

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6 Twins (1988)

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.

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1988-12-09 | Comedy

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    fish out of water
  2. Ranked #221 for
    callow
  3. Ranked #226 for
    juxtaposition

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7 Radio Bikini (1988)

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

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1988-03-12 | Documentary

Cast

Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    thudding sound
  2. Ranked #253 for
    vertiginous
  3. Ranked #261 for
    mythology extending

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8 Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

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1988-12-21 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Glenn Close, John Malkovich

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #31 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #51 for
    Period Drama

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9 Young Einstein (1988)

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.

Info

1988-12-15 | Comedy / Science Fiction

Cast

Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio

Rating

rating icon 5.179
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    goofball
  2. Ranked #168 for
    madcap comedy
  3. Ranked #184 for
    most underrated

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10 Cinema Paradiso (1988)

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Info

1988-11-17 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Rating

rating icon 8.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    father figure
  2. Ranked #75 for
    mawkish
  3. Ranked #115 for
    remarkable

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