Best movies of 1989

Titles indexed: 126

Society

Rating: 6.7

Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to ea...

Ghostbusters II

Rating: 6.6

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business....

Etoile

Rating: 5.7

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem....

Batman

Rating: 7.2

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batm...

Marquis

Rating: 6.5

On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plot...

Relentless

Rating: 5.3

Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory....

Sweetie

Rating: 6.0

The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampag...

Winter People

Rating: 5.6

Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are ta...

Stepfather 2

Rating: 5.5

"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future ...

Dad

Rating: 6.4

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker a...

The 'Burbs

Rating: 6.8

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they sta...

Glory

Rating: 7.5

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confede...

Hoodwinked

Rating: 6.3

Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary track down his one remaining loved one, his...

Magnús

Rating: 6.8

Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and...

Licence to Kill

Rating: 6.4

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife i...

The Abyss

Rating: 7.3

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds...

Kickboxer

Rating: 6.8

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Th...

Wild Orchid

Rating: 5.3

A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters....

Tango & Cash

Rating: 6.5

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss o...

Warlock

Rating: 6.3

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flu...

Mystery Train

Rating: 7.3

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visit...

Buried Alive

Rating: 4.1

A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spur...

Drugstore Cowboy

Rating: 7.1

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and...

Vampire's Kiss

Rating: 5.9

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he ...

An Innocent Man

Rating: 6.1

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to ...

Romero

Rating: 7.0

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a pa...

Cousins

Rating: 6.0

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an ...

Cruising Bar

Rating: 6.1

Saturday, 12 p.m. The countdown has begun for four men on the make for women. Massage studios, last minute shopping, bodybuilding; our men a...

Three Fugitives

Rating: 6.7

On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry ...

Road House

Rating: 6.7

The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might ...

Valmont

Rating: 6.7

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, b...

Elves

Rating: 4.8

While conducting a pagan ritual in the woods with her friends, Kirsten inadvertently awakens the spirit of a demonic Christmas elf involved ...

Leviathan

Rating: 6.0

Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying result...

Far from Home

Rating: 5.4

Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits em...

Neo Tokyo

Rating: 6.8

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ...

The January Man

Rating: 4.9

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him ...

Venus Wars

Rating: 6.7

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommer...

The Package

Rating: 6.2

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escap...

Shag

Rating: 6.1

Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last ir...

Intruder

Rating: 6.3

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac....

Pedicab Driver

Rating: 6.9

Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their ...

The Fly II

Rating: 5.7

Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his ...

New York Stories

Rating: 6.2

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter c...

Turner & Hooch

Rating: 6.3

Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just...

Rhea Gall Force

Rating: 6.4

The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survi...

Baroque

Rating: 5.1

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly rou...

Dr. Caligari

Rating: 5.8

Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. ...

The Mighty Quinn

Rating: 6.0

Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was fo...

K-9

Rating: 6.2

The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry ...

Arabesque

Rating: 7.3

Sener and Müjde, who can never come together because of endless obstacles and misunderstandings, slowly drift into the plaintive world of ar...

Kill Me Again

Rating: 6.1

After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, whe...

Parents

Rating: 5.9

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease ar...

Meet the Feebles

Rating: 6.3

Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting ...

Continental

Rating: 2.5

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old frie...

Psycho Cop

Rating: 4.2

Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly...

Laser Mission

Rating: 3.9

A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, co...

The Banker

Rating: 4.1

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is ...

Dragon Fight

Rating: 6.2

Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he pl...

Tridev

Rating: 6.3

A honest but disgraced Police Inspector's attempts to clear his name pits him against terrorists and the brother of his sweetheart. Starrin...

The Public House

Rating: 8.0

"Horror" film about the harsh lives of the children living in an outwardly prosperous orphanage. When a young boy dies during a clandestine ...

Autumn Milk

Rating: 7.9

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation...

Cohen and Tate

Rating: 6.5

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Coh...

Jail House Eros

Rating: 5.4

In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad g...

Maine Pyar Kiya

Rating: 6.0

After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for...

Coming Out

Rating: 6.5

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. ...

Proud Heritage

Rating: 7.0

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one wit...

Robot Ninja

Rating: 4.6

A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists....

Staying Together

Rating: 5.0

After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot...

Soccer Poker

Rating: 7.4

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an internationa...

L.A. Vice

Rating: 3.9

Detective Jon Louroy Chance investigates a string of murders in Los Angeles and uncovers a ruthless kidnapping scheme....

Power Games

Rating: 3.5

A group of teenagers training for the national Power Commando championship games mistakenly find themselves on land owned by drug merchants....

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