Best movies of 1989

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Pauline Collins, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Tomorô Taguchi,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.

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 : Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Margaret Whitton,
Directors : Richard Greenberg,

A boy discovers an incredible and gruesome world of monsters under his bed.

Actors : Roseanne Barr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Actors : Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison, Patrick Cassidy, Stephen Caffrey,
Directors : Norman René,

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.

Actors : Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Dobson,
Directors : Uli Edel,

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

Actors : Lena Farugia, N!xau, Eiros, Hans Strydom,
Directors : Jamie Uys,

Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a ...

Actors : Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.

Actors : Abe Vigoda, Rutanya Alda, Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble understanding.

Actors : Joshua John Miller, Robyn Lively, Caren Kaye, Dan Gauthier,
Directors : Dorian Walker,

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Actors : James Woods, Yuji Okumoto, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

Actors : Billy Zane, Burt Young, Billy Bob Thornton, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Valerie Breiman,

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

Actors : Dick O'Neill, Tony Danza, Wallace Shawn, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

When an average-looking teenage girl gets a makeover, it's enough to turn make her father become overprotective of her.

Actors : Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Blanc,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...

Actors : Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Robert De Niro, Sloane Shelton,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both...

Actors : Elizabeth Peña, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown,
Directors : Kathryn Bigelow,

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jacqueline Tong, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his ...

Actors : Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Geraldine James,
Directors : Mel Smith,

Dexter King plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson. He falls in love with Kate, a pretty nurse he meets when he is receiving injections for hay fever. When Anderson fires ...