Best movies of 1989

Actors : Robert Lipton, Merritt Butrick, Brenda Bakke, William Bumiller,
Directors : Michael Fischa,

Bodies begin to mysterious pile up at a hip Los Angeles health club.

Actors : Judie Aronson, Ramy Zada, Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon,

Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy ...

Actors : Claudia Angelique Rademaker, Joseph P. McGlynn, Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

The spirit of an ancient evil queen posesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.

Actors : Kevin Hardesty, Dan Schneider, Helen Slater, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Mel Damski,

Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and ...

Actors : Nikolaus Dutsch, Mickey Rourke, Andréa Ferréol, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi

Actors : Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Jim Haynie, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Lee Grant,

The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.

Actors : Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Ennio Girolami, Roland Wybenga,

Sinbad and his shipmates aid a young prince, who must battle an evil wizard to gain the hand of a beautiful princess.

Actors : Cindy Williams, Allan Katz, Corey Parker, Melora Hardin,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He is put on trial and made to go through tests. One of the research doctors falls for him, and he falls for her in the end.

Actors : Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran, Abigail Wolcott, Ron Palillo,
Directors : William A. Levey,

A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. ...

Actors : Cheech Marin, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Eric Roberts,

In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.

Actors : Ryûtarô Gan, Kanako Higuchi, Takanori Jinnai, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into ...

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Pat Morita, Jay Leno, Tom Noonan,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Actors : Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek, Matthias Freihof,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.

Actors : Robyn Carlsson, Tomas von Brömssen, Allan Edwall, Olle Sarri,
Directors : Per Åhlin,

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.

Actors : Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Ben Fairman, Anna Alba,
Directors : Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Jacques Dutronc, Valérie Lagrange, Myriam Mézières,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after ...

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Philippe Noiret, Maurice Barrier, Pascale Vignal,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.

Actors : Josh Mostel, Holly Hunter, Karen Allen, Armand Assante,

A sign language scholar's romance is disrupted by a chimp.

Actors : Maxime Leroux, Daniel Auteuil, Pierre Vernier, Firmine Richard,
Directors : Coline Serreau,

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.