Best Drama movies of 1989

Actors : Vijayshanti, Saeed Jaffrey, Anil Kapoor, Asha Sachdev,

Ishwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody. He meets with a young widow with a son and marries her. This story is about him and his trials and triumphs.

Actors : Pierre Bokma, Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer, Viviane de Muynck,
Directors : Rudolf van den Berg,

Actors : Ivan Drozdy, Judita Durdiaková, Bolek Polívka, Adela Gáborová,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.

Actors : Meg Lam, Simon Yam, Anzu Lawson, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Shuji Goto,

Years after retiring from the world of free fighting martial arts, a man returns to the deadly world of fighting after his best student is killed in the tournament.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Liem Whatley, Johnny Hallyday, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Eric Weston,

Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him ...

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Irini Antonios Zampona, Rashko Mladenov, Vassil Mihajlov,
Directors : Nikolai Volev,

Margarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school...

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Alan Bates, Kristin Scott Thomas, François Cluzet,
Directors : Pierre Jolivet,

Philippe and Daniel go on vacation to South-East Asia, where they meet Hans, a resident of the area who acts as their patron and guide. Before they leave to return to Paris, the two present...

Actors : Anton Androsov, Andrey Tashkov, Lev Durov, Aleksandr Mokhov,
Directors : Igor Gostev,

A drama from the life of the prisoners in a regular jail in Soviet Union.

Actors : Grant Heslov, Matt Lattanzi, Loryn Locklin, Billy Morrissette,
Directors : Stephen Sommers,

A hotshot car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure.

Actors : Larry Hudson, Gerry Quigley, Valerie Buhagiar, Bruce McDonald,
Directors : Bruce McDonald,

Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually ...

Actors : Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey, Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie,
Directors : Ann Turner,

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It ...

Actors : Edowan Bersmea, Thomas Hartham, Dewey Bosworth, Pierre Kirby,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Ethan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, ...

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Richard Berry,
Directors : Alexandre Arcady,

Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, ...

Actors : Roy Cheung, Paul Chun, Cherie Chung, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun-dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but...

Actors : Régis Arpin, David Behar, Dominique Blanc, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Françoise Fabian, Samuel West,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish...

Actors : Wojciech Klata, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Rafal Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska,
Directors : Maciej Dejczer,

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Actors : Jonathan Penner, George Plimpton, Sandra Bullock, Gerald Orange,
Directors : Daniel Adams,

While watching TV, ex-adman Morris Codman receives a message from God. Advised by the Almighty to go into business for himself, Codman inaugurates his own religion, founded on a philosophy of selfishness.