Best Drama movies of 1989

Actors : Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

Actors : Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Kawakami, Takeshi Kitano, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Actors : Salman Khan, Bhagyashree, Alok Nath, Rajeev Verma,
Directors : Sooraj R. Barjatya,

Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to...

Actors : Kathy Baker, Jack Lemmon, Olympia Dukakis, Ted Danson,
Directors : Gary David Goldberg,

A busy, "always-on-the-run" 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 and becomes closer to him ...

Actors : Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Geneviève Lemon, Jon Darling,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Timo Torikka, Vesa Vierikko, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Actors : Bob Balaban, William Forsythe, Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy ...

Actors : Gailard Sartain, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Actors : Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Todd Field, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner. It's up to her and their teacher to find a way to convince ...

Actors : Catherine Wilkening, Rémy Girard, Lothaire Bluteau, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.

Actors : Richard Herd, Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Le Tuan,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so...

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 : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'Arbanville, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nigel Havers,
Directors : John Milius,

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told...

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, David Rasche, Laila Robins, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and ...

Actors : Ozan Bilen, Füsun Demirel, Güzin Özipek, Nur Sürer,
Directors : Tunç Basaran,

Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.

Actors : Nick Dimitri, Pat Mulligan, Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer,
Directors : John Dahl,

A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.