Best movies of 1989

Actors : Rosanna DeSoto, Sean Connery, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a ...

Actors : Annie Potts, John Candy, Tim Thomerson, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Paul Flaherty,

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dylan McDermott, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Michael Almereyda,

Delusional and spoiled Maureen and her eccentric brother Howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships, disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue.

Actors : Kevin Tighe, James Belushi, Ed O'Neill, Mel Harris,
Directors : Rod Daniel,

To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.

Actors : Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen, Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett,
Directors : Rob Hedden,

A boat of graduating high school students bound for Manhattan pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride.

Actors : William Daniels, Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, James Farentino,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff, Martin Short, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Francis Veber,

A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Actors : David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Peter Bonerz,

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

Actors : Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Actors : Cinqué Lee, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yûki Kudô,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Kim Miyori, Jeroen Krabbé, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Mark Goldblatt,

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.

Actors : Ben Meyerson, Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

Actors : Hulk Hogan, Joan Severance, Kurt Fuller, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister,
Directors : Thomas J. Wright,

Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

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 : Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti, Pauline Collins,
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 : 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.