Best Thriller movies of 1989

Actors : Joe Pesci, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Patsy Kensit,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Actors : Carey Lowell, Timothy Dalton, Talisa Soto, Robert Davi,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.

Actors : Billy Zane, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar, Sam Neill,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Tom Hanks, Corey Feldman,
Directors : Joe Dante,

An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.

Actors : Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.

Actors : Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

Actors : Sonny Landham, Sylvester Stallone, John Amos, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Flynn,

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

Actors : Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar.

Actors : Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi, Jean-Claude Van Damme,

Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.

Actors : Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Beau Starr, Ellie Cornell,
Directors : Dominique Othenin-Girard,

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 niece.

Actors : Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

Actors : Heather Langenkamp, John Tesh, Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Actors : Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen, Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett,
Directors : Rob Hedden,

A boat of graduating high school students bound for Manhattan pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Irvin,

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Actors : Elizabeth Cox, David Byrnes, Dan Hicks, Renée Estevez,
Directors : Scott Spiegel,

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

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Actors : Jenny Wright, Stephanie Hodge, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook,
Directors : Tibor Takács,

A bookshop clerk finds that an insane and murderous doctor from one of the store's horror novels has come to life.