Movies In 1989
Director: Michael Mak
Stars: Andy Lau, Elizabeth Lee, Siu Chung Mok
Michal Maks second sequel to his brothers action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he...
Director: Roland Steiner
Stars: N/A
Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history country and society....
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Stars: Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga a warrior...
Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman who always seems to be at the right place at the right...
Director: Georg Tressler
Stars: Peter Simonischek, Giovanni Früh, Andy Voß
After a delirious night of drinking two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus they have to fear for their...
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Bengal, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi
The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life and that of his wife Michi and their two children undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li a...
Director: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Andrew Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore
Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium Pasadena California while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert through the United States on a...
Director: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemà Frenkel, Hugo Soto
Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela a young woman about to commit suicide it serves him as material to make this...
Director: Gordon Chan
Stars: Lawrence Cheng, Cherie Chung, Sibelle Hu
Yuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his wife Ann tries to get back together with his former girlfriend and flirts with his woman boss but finally realizes that he was much better off where he...
Director: Dezsö Garas
Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány
In the small village of Rátót every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child she names him Józsi... Almost 2 decades later Józsi becomes...
Director: René Cardona III
Stars: Pedro Fernández, Julio Alemán, Gabriela Hassel
An evil witch gets burned at the stake but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the same immediate countryside area where the...
Director: Hadi Poernomo
Stars: Dono Warkop, Kasino Warkop, Indro Warkop
Stuck on their uncles chicken farm two bumbling men get jealous of their cousin Don and his out-of-place American...
Director: Stephen Shin
Stars: Bill Tung, Lydia Shum, Elsie Chan
The Biu Family collects their lottery winnings in Canada and returns to Hong Kong to start a new life together minus the second daughter due to a family quarrel of her involvement with her boyfriend. After Mrs. Biu shows off her...
Director: Eric Louzil
Stars: Gene LeBrock, Kellee Bradley, David Crane
A rebel is planing revenge against a corrupted sheriff. Meanwhile in the nearby woods a crazy general is leading a secret militia called Fortress of Amerikkka who brutally kill anyone trespassing close to their...
Director: Helke Misselwitz
Stars: N/A
A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead bright deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. Refreshing and new... A beautiful...
Director: Robert L. Collins
Stars: Angie Dickinson, Joseph Bologna, David Soul
In this crime drama a NYPD detective looks into the deaths of several policewomen and discovers that she is to be the killers next victim. In...
Director: John Wintergate
Stars: Kodey Wintergate, Shanti Wintergate, Theresa Hunter
Picturesque adventures of two orphans who flee into the wilderness to prevent being separated by the...
Director: Jon Alpert
Stars: Freddy, Michael Jandreau, Robert
Documentary maker Jon Alpert follows three petty criminals in Newark. Filmed by a hidden camera the three are stealing using drugs getting caught and...
Director: Pekka Parikka
Stars: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka
In 1939 two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet...
Director: Arthur Dong
Stars: Larry Ching, Frances Chun, Charlie Low
It was the swinging 30s. The big bands of the 40s. It was San Francisco night life Baghdad by the Bay. And the crowds were packing the nations premiere all-Chinese nightclub Forbidden City. Like the Cotton Club of Harlem which...
Director: Marty Callner
Stars: Alice Cooper, Kane Roberts, Kip Winger, Devlin 7
The concert was filmed live in Detroit Michigan USA on Halloween 1986 at the start of his The Nightmare Returns World Tour in support of his album...
Director: David Greene
Stars: Robin Givens, David Hewlett, Cedric Smith
Dinah St. Clair is the daughter of a record producer. She leads a charmed life as her father and her live in a high rise penthouse. Enter Joe Dobson a friend from Dinahs past that has mental problems. Joes mother killed...
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Bacri
They are the worlds best friends. Five friends who shared everything: May 1968 hippie years rock and their love for Bernadette who left them to become a rock star. 15 years later Bernadette is back for a weekend. This...
Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh
Stars: N/A
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage text and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent...
Director: Frantisek Uldrich
Stars: Frantisek Vlácil
A short documentary about the making of the Czech film Marketa Lazarova...
Director: Wu Ma
Stars: Kenny Bee, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Wu Ma
A firefighter savages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer who was killed in a stage fire 30 years before. Grateful for saving her spirit the ghost falls for...
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell
A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial...
Director: Helke Misselwitz
Stars: Helke Misselwitz
Before GDR collapsed Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories frustrations hopes aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and...
Director: Eddie Arno, Markus Innocenti
Stars: Christopher Lee, Bruce Boa, Alexis Denisof
Tony Zonis wants to write the next great suspense thriller so he decides to study the work of master crime writer Willard Hope. Together they pick through newspaper stories looking for the unusual event that will make a good...