Best Drama movies of 1989

Actors : Nancy Mulford, Frank Zagarino, Jeff Celentano, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Cedric Sundstrom,

Mike Teller, with the help of Harry Crawford, must retrieve Mike's wife, Lisa from the clutches of Jack Fisher over a matter of $500,000.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Dragan Maksimovic, Mirjana Karanovic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

September 1945. The village school was burned down in a fire and the new communist authorities get into the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes. But, frescoes each time miraculously returned.

Actors : Jagathi Sreekumar, Jayaram, Philomina, Parvathi,
Directors : Kamal,

After arriving in a remote village called 'Peruvannapuram' a newly appointed college clerk gets in a feud with a wealthy family. Soon he makes a challenge which would shook the entire village.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Paul McGann, John Castle, Derrick O'Connor,
Directors : Colin Bucksey,

The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide ...

Actors : Maury Chaykin, Nathaniel Moreau, Sheila McCarthy, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Paul Donovan,

This is a tale about two children who are put in a foster home, and then on Halloween they breakout and are rescued by their eccentric grandfather who is in a Halloween costume of an ...

Actors : Yury Belyayev, Irina Rozanova, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Vadim Abdrashitov,

Actors : Svetlana Gaytan, Vladimir Kosyrev, Kseniya Nazarova, Aleksandr Bureyev,
Directors : Sergei Bodrov,

Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha...

Actors : Anju Ghosh, Farjana Bobi, Mithun, Ilias Kanchan,
Directors : Tojammel Haque Bokul,

A love story between a gypsy girl and a prince.

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Ronny Cox, Charles Napier, John Matuszak,
Directors : Dale Trevillion,

In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner

Actors : Vincent D'Onofrio, Kevin J. O'Connor, Arthur Kennedy, Beau Bridges,
Directors : John David Coles,

A touching story of life in rural Maine, and the changes brought about by the closing of a town's small boat-building company -- on which many of the residents depended upon for a living.

Actors : Julian Sands, Ned Beatty, Stacey Dash, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A British attorney on vacation in Tennessee is blamed for a local murder.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, George Peppard, Jami Gertz, Bruce Payne,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A ballet dancer is affected with cancer.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Javier Gurruchaga, Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). ...

Actors : Emma Suárez, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal, Mercedes Sampietro,
Directors : Juan Miñón,

The story unfolds in Bilbao. Rocío (Emma Suárez), is in love with Mario (Antonio Banderas), a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, ...

Actors : Najid Jadali, Fred Williamson, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Hoagland,
Directors : Edoardo Margheriti,

Chicago cop Robert Malone (Fred Williamson) finds himself in The Philippines, ostensibly to learn the techniques of Interpol. Before he exits the Manila airport, his wallet is stolen by a ...

Actors : Michael Pas, Frank Aendenboom, Babette van Veen, Hilde Heijnen,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

A group of teenagers, unprepared for their final exams due to their indulgence in more pleasurable pursuits, barricade themselves in their school and challenge their despised and sadistic ...

Actors : Andrew Lee Barrett, Jackson Sims, Steve Monroe, Loretta Gross,
Directors : Maggie Greenwald,

Business at The Pavilion bar is down so Pete and Rags decide that the best way to get The Pavilion off the skids is to turn it into a strip joint.

Actors : Nicolay Lange-Nielsen, Camilla Strøm Henriksen, Espen Skjønberg, Per Jansen,
Directors : Martin Asphaug,

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.

Actors : Setsuko Karasuma, Eri Watanabe, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kanako Fujiwara,
Directors : Hiroaki Yoshida,

A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

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 him?