Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1987
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| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Fatal Attraction |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$14,000,000 |
$320,099,997 |
|
| Beverly Hills Cop II |
English |
Comedy |
$20,000,000 |
$276,665,036 |
|
| Dirty Dancing |
English |
Drama |
|
$213,893,795 |
|
| The Living Daylights |
English |
Action |
$40,000,000 |
$191,199,996 |
|
| 3 Men and a Baby |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$167,780,960 |
|
| Good Morning Vietnam |
English |
Comedy |
$13,000,000 |
$123,922,582 |
|
| Lethal Weapon |
English |
Action |
$15,000,000 |
$120,192,350 |
|
| Predator |
English |
Action |
$18,000,000 |
$98,267,558 |
|
| Moonstruck |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$80,642,215 |
|
| The Untouchables |
English |
Drama |
$25,000,000 |
$76,271,995 |
|
| Broadcast News |
English |
Comedy |
|
$67,331,309 |
|
| The Secret of My Success |
English |
Comedy |
|
$66,995,000 |
|
| The Witches of Eastwick |
English |
Black Comedy |
|
$63,749,955 |
|
| Dragnet |
English |
Comedy |
|
$57,387,000 |
|
| La Bamba |
English |
Drama |
$6,500,000 |
$54,215,416 |
|
| RoboCop |
English |
Action |
$13,000,000 |
$54,125,172 |
|
| Throw Momma From the Train |
English |
Black Comedy |
|
$53,380,796 |
|
| Eddie Murphy Raw |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$50,504,655 |
|
| Planes, Trains & Automobiles |
English |
Comedy |
|
$49,752,241 |
|
| Full Metal Jacket |
English |
Drama |
$30,000,000 |
$45,017,134 |
|
| Wall Street |
English |
Drama |
$16,500,000 |
$43,848,100 |
|
| Blind Date |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$39,321,000 |
|
| Roxanne |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$39,148,164 |
|
| The Running Man |
English |
Action |
$30,000,000 |
$38,122,000 |
|
| Spaceballs |
English |
Comedy |
$22,700,000 |
$38,119,483 |
|
| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace |
English |
Action |
$17,000,000 |
$36,700,000 |
|
| Like Father Like Son |
English |
Comedy |
|
$34,377,585 |
|
| Adventures in Babysitting |
English |
Comedy |
|
$33,790,923 |
|
| *batteries not included |
English |
Comedy |
|
$32,945,797 |
|
| Harry and the Hendersons |
English |
Comedy |
|
$32,560,613 |
|
| The Lost Boys |
English |
Horror |
$8,500,000 |
$32,394,143 |
|
| Can’t Buy Me Love |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$31,623,833 |
|
| The Princess Bride |
English |
Adventure |
$15,000,000 |
$31,046,220 |
|
| Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol |
English |
Comedy |
|
$28,061,343 |
|
| Overboard |
English,
French,
Portuguese |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$26,713,187 |
|
| Baby Boom |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$26,700,000 |
|
| Cry Freedom |
Afrikaans,
English,
Xhosa,
Zulu |
Drama |
$29,000,000 |
$25,899,797 |
|
| Black Widow |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$25,205,460 |
|
| Ernest Goes to Camp |
English |
Comedy |
|
$23,509,382 |
|
| Raising Arizona |
English |
Comedy |
|
$22,847,767 |
|
| Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise |
English |
Comedy |
|
$22,642,033 |
|
| Empire of the Sun |
English |
Drama |
|
$22,238,696 |
|
| Hello Again |
English |
Comedy |
|
$20,419,446 |
|
| Critical Condition |
English |
Comedy |
|
$20,240,502 |
|
| Innerspace |
English |
Action |
|
$19,816,619 |
|
| The Principal |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$19,214,194 |
|
| The Believers |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$18,753,438 |
|
| Some Kind of Wonderful |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$18,553,948 |
|
| The Big Easy |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$17,685,307 |
|
| Born in East L.A. |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,355,263 |
|
| Angel Heart |
English |
Horror |
|
$17,192,555 |
|
| Burglar |
English |
Comedy |
|
$16,337,355 |
|
| Over the Top |
English |
Action |
|
$16,057,580 |
|
| Benji the Hunted |
English |
Adventure |
|
$15,212,539 |
|
| Radio Days |
English |
Comedy |
$16,000,000 |
$14,792,779 |
|
| Hellraiser |
English |
Horror |
$1,000,000 |
$14,575,148 |
|
| Prince of Darkness |
English |
Horror |
|
$14,182,393 |
|
| Creepshow 2 |
English |
Horror |
$3,500,000 |
$14,000,000 |
|
| Flowers in the Attic |
English |
Horror |
|
$14,000,000 |
|
| Hamburger Hill |
English |
Drama |
|
$13,839,404 |
|
| The Pick-Up Artist |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$13,290,368 |
|
| The Gate |
English |
Horror |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| The Bedroom Window |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$12,640,385 |
|
| The Fourth Protocol |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$12,423,831 |
|
| Back to the Beach |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,208,754 |
|
| Fatal Beauty |
English |
Action |
|
$12,046,526 |
|
| Extreme Prejudice |
English |
Action |
|
$11,307,844 |
|
| Someone to Watch Over Me |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$10,278,549 |
|
| Disorderlies |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,000,000 |
|
| Maid to Order |
English,
Spanish |
Comedy |
|
$9,868,000 |
|
| The Hidden |
English |
Horror |
|
$9,748,233 |
|
| From the Hip |
English |
Comedy |
|
$9,518,342 |
|
| Teen Wolf Too |
English |
Comedy |
$3,000,000 |
$7,888,000 |
|
| Ironweed |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,393,346 |
|
| Hiding Out |
English |
Comedy |
|
$7,019,441 |
|
| Death Wish 4: The Crackdown |
English |
Action |
|
$6,880,310 |
|
| The Chipmunk Adventure |
English |
Adventure |
|
$6,804,312 |
|
| Assassination |
English |
Action |
|
$6,075,793 |
|
| Evil Dead II |
English,
Latin |
Horror |
$3,500,000 |
$5,927,557 |
|
| Gardens of Stone |
English |
Drama |
|
$5,262,047 |
|
| River's Edge |
English |
Drama |
$1,900,000 |
$4,600,000 |
|
| Best Seller |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$4,278,150 |
|
| Leonard Part 6 |
English |
Comedy |
|
$4,000,000 |
|
| Made in Heaven |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$4,000,000 |
|
| American Ninja 2: The Confrontation |
English |
Action |
$350,000 |
$4,000,000 |
|
| Amazing Grace and Chuck |
English |
Drama |
|
$4,000,000 |
|
| Death Before Dishonor |
English |
Action |
|
$3,776,540 |
|
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City |
English |
Adventure |
|
$3,751,699 |
|
| Maurice |
English |
Drama |
$2,600,000 |
$3,305,831 |
|
| Barfly |
English |
Drama |
|
$3,221,000 |
|
| Big Shots |
English |
Comedy |
|
$3,000,000 |
|
| Malone |
English |
Action |
$10,000,000 |
$3,000,000 |
|
| My Demon Lover |
English |
Comedy |
|
$3,000,000 |
|
| No Man’s Land |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,877,571 |
|
| Heat |
English |
Action |
|
$2,833,142 |
|
| The Allnighter |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,700,000 |
|
| The Stepfather |
English |
Horror |
|
$2,488,740 |
|
| The Squeeze |
English |
Action |
|
$2,228,951 |
|
| The Kindred |
English |
Horror |
|
$2,014,803 |
|
| The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland |
English |
Adventure |
|
$2,000,000 |
|
| Date With an Angel |
English |
|
|
$2,000,000 |
|
| The Big Town |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$1,733,017 |
|
| Withnail & I |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,720,947 |
|
| Matewan |
English,
Italian |
Drama |
|
$1,680,358 |
|
| Prick Up Your Ears |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,672,572 |
|
| Three for the Road |
English |
|
|
$1,539,000 |
|
| I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,415,331 |
|
| The Offspring |
English |
Horror |
$1,100,000 |
$1,355,728 |
|
| Sammy and Rosie Get Laid |
English |
|
|
$1,196,336 |
|
| Dancers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,190,416 |
|
| The Curse |
English |
Horror |
|
$1,169,922 |
|
| The Good Wife |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,155,020 |
|
| Nightflyers |
English |
Horror |
|
$1,149,470 |
|
| Street Smart |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,119,112 |
|
| Swimming to Cambodia |
English |
|
|
$1,092,000 |
|
| 84 Charing Cross Road |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,083,486 |
|
| Cross My Heart |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,025,762 |
|
| Million Dollar Mystery |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,000,000 |
|
| The Dead |
English |
Drama |
|
$961,967 |
|
| Dead of Winter |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$951,548 |
|
| China Girl |
English |
Drama |
|
$918,055 |
|
| Gothic |
English |
Horror |
|
$916,172 |
|
| Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 |
English |
Horror |
|
$911,351 |
|
| The Glass Menagerie |
English |
|
|
$895,904 |
|
| Real Men |
English |
Comedy |
|
$873,903 |
|
| The Barbarians |
English |
Action |
$4,000,000 |
$800,000 |
|
| Beyond Therapy |
English |
Comedy |
|
$790,000 |
|
| The Hanoi Hilton |
English,
French,
Vietnamese |
Drama |
|
$760,000 |
|
| Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll |
English |
Documentary |
|
$719,323 |
|
| Deadly Illusion |
English |
|
|
$626,724 |
|
| Steel Dawn |
English |
Action |
|
$562,187 |
|
| Amazon Women on the Moon |
English |
Comedy |
|
$548,696 |
|
| The Time Guardian |
English |
Action |
|
$548,000 |
|
| Man on Fire |
English,
French,
Italian |
Action |
|
$519,596 |
|
| Walk Like a Man |
English |
Comedy |
|
$460,608 |
|
| The Good Father |
English |
Drama |
|
$421,201 |
|
| Slam Dance |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$406,881 |
|
| Summer Heat |
English |
Drama |
|
$350,481 |
|
| White Water Summer |
English |
|
|
$300,859 |
|
| Cold Steel |
English |
Action |
|
$285,885 |
|
| Walker |
English |
|
|
$257,043 |
|
| Orphans |
English |
Drama |
|
$252,430 |
|
| Square Dance |
English |
|
|
$225,358 |
|
| The Trouble with Spies |
English |
|
|
$205,507 |
|
| Der Himmel über Berlin |
English,
French,
German,
Hebrew,
Japanese,
Spanish,
Turkish |
Drama |
|
$165,954 |
|
| Hotshot |
English |
Drama |
|
$161,806 |
|
| Deadline |
English |
|
|
$141,000 |
|
| Offret |
English,
French,
Swedish |
Drama |
|
$140,131 |
|
| Gaby, A True Story |
English |
|
|
$125,400 |
|
| Rita, Sue and Bob Too |
English |
Comedy |
|
$124,167 |
|
| Down Twisted |
English |
|
|
$80,000 |
|
| Two Friends |
English |
|
|
$73,754 |
|
| Australian Made: The Movie |
English |
Documentary |
|
$54,690 |
|
| End of the Line |
English |
Drama |
|
$42,000 |
|
| The Fringe Dwellers |
English |
|
|
$38,098 |
|
| Zombie High |
English |
Black Comedy |
|
$16,000 |
|
| Cherry 2000 |
English |
Action |
|
$14,000 |
|
| Home is Where the Hart is |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,660 |
|
| Sweet Country |
English |
Drama |
|
$6,614 |
|
| Sign 'o' the Times |
English |
Documentary |
|
$900 |
|
| The Stranger Within |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Inside Out |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Shelter in the Storm |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Baja Oklahoma |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Misfit Brigade |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Masterblaster |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Brave Little Toaster |
English |
Adventure |
$2,300,000 |
$0 |
|
| Deadly Prey |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Blood Diner |
English |
Black Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Tough Guys Don’t Dance |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Star Slammer |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Drive-In Madness! |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Sweet Revenge |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Empire State |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Cyclone |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Delta Fever |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Death Blow: A Cry for Justice |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Real Bullets |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Princess Academy |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Vicious Lips |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| North Shore |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Whales of August |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Howling III |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Hard Ticket to Hawaii |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Scared Stiff |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Killing Time |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Whistle Blower |
English,
Russian |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Blood Sisters |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Blue Monkey |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Lighthorsemen |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Intervista |
English,
Italian,
Japanese |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Strike Commando |
English,
Filipino |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Working Girls |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Commando Mengele |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| A Return to Salem’s Lot |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Robotto kânibaru |
English,
Japanese |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Lust for Freedom |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Ghoulies II |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Yogi’s Greate Escape |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
