Movies In 1989
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Stars: Samuel Hui, Karl Maka, Leslie Cheung
Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities...
Director: Paul Wendkos
Stars: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, George Dzundza
Story of the rise and fall of 1920s Ku Klux Klan leader D.C....
Director: Peter Wood
Stars: Alan Bates, Alan Howard, Simon Cadell, Sylvestra Le Touzel
In Stoppards LeCarrecature Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog and causes problems for Blair his superior at MI5. And Blair must convince Hogbin the agent whos been tailing...
Director: Chris Painter, Marc Reshovsky
Stars: Chris De Garmo, Paul Greenstein, Dennis Henning, Eddie Jackson
Compilation of music videos for the US heavy metal band Queensrÿches classic 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime about disillusioned Nikki brainwashed by sinister Dr. X to kill for him. Nikki falls for one of his targets - nun...
Director: Robert Mandel
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a...
Director: José Antonio de la Loma
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Maud Adams, Ramon Estevez, Victoria Vera
A coming of age story of a young boy who is left to live with his grandfather. His grandfather is a famous painter and with fame comes a grand lifestyle with a lot of parties and woman. The boy learns about life women and...
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino
In 1840 a young Russian aristocrat Dimitri Sanin is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl Gemma Rosselli who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to...
Director: Rod Daniel
Stars: Jim Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe
To stop an elusive criminal a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog whos an unusually intelligent smart...
Director: Alan Clarke
Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is...
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell
One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 1988 the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute...
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Allan Katz, Corey Parker, Cindy Williams
In this version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He is put on trial and made to go through tests. One of the research doctors falls for him and he falls for her in the...
Director: Robert Markowitz
Stars: Nancy McKeon, Dale Midkiff, Graham Jarvis, Yvette Heyden
A victim of domestic violence winds up in an ongoing struggle to get the police to take her seriously until the abuse escalates to the worst...
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh
In this documentary Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of...
Director: Arizal
Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Bill Wallace, Ida Iasha
A lethal hunter of bad guys tries to retrieve a microfilm containing information that would cause a Wall Street panic and an economic crisis for Western...
Director: Nigel Dick
Stars: Steven Adler, Mike Clink, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose
A music video for Guns N Roses song...
Director: Steve Harris
Stars: Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris
On November 27th and 28th 1988 Iron Maiden filmed their two sold-out concerts at Birminghams...
Director: Don Boyd
Stars: Charles Dance, Phyllis Logan, Patrick Ryecart, Marsha Fitzalan
Fact-based biography of James Bond author Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the...
Director: Wayne Isham
Stars: Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
A documentary of the tour for Pink Floyds delicate Sound of...
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him then moved on. When he reappears quite alive the question is what must he do and how will his family respond to...
Director: Dan Hoskins
Stars: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff
A gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave and those still alive in the...
Director: John Bacchus
Stars: Jared Bushansky, The Duke, Abad Kaleel, Spencer Snygg
A murderer shoots a snuff film on rented equipment from a local video store but accidentally returns the equipment to the store with the tape still inside the...
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää, Heikki Keskinen
Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of...
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
A surrealistic revision of Alice in...
Director: John Pasquin
Stars: Ricky Schroder, Mary Kay Place, Richard Jenkins, Natalija Nogulich
A troubled 17-year old is involuntarily committed to a sleazy behavior treatment center after dealing with the consequences of a bitter...
Director: Debbie Allen
Stars: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Dorian Harewood, Barbara Montgomery
An musical adaptation of the book Pollyanna set in the 1950s in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern...
Director: Joseph Ruben
Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to specializing in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder...
Director: Alan Grint
Stars: Rue McClanahan, Tony Randall, Edward Woodward, Stephanie Zimbalist
An American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South...
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Stars: Robert Urich, Lesley-Anne Down, Mark Joy, Michael Alldredge
Geneva Miller is lonely depressed women living in a marriage that has been failing for some years however after asking her controlling husband Jerry Miller for her to take a weekend break...
Director: Mel Damski
Stars: Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, Roxana Zal, Will Oldham
A caring community and variety of people nationwide come together to rescue a baby who is trapped in an abandoned water well but they have a short time before something bad might...