The Abyss (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Alien Encounter Underwater
Director: James Cameron
Category: Science Fiction
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
World’s Greatest Liar’s Absurdist Adventures
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Eric Idle, …
Category: Fantasy
After Midnight (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Horror Anthology
Actors: Marg Helgenberger, Marc McClure, Jillian McWhirter, Ramy Zada, …
Category: Horror
Alien from the Deep (1989)
Rating: ★
Alien Monster
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Actors: Charles Napier, Luciano Pigozzi
Category: Science Fiction
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Animation/Dog Conman in the Afterlife
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom de Luise
Category: Fantasy
Always (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Man Becomes a Guardian Angel
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Amityville Curse (1989)
Rating: ½
Haunted House
Director: Tom Berry
Actors: Kim Coates, Helen Hughes, Jan Rubes
Category: Horror
Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)
Rating: 0
Cursed Lamp/Haunting
Director: Sandor Stern
Actors: Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Aron Eisenberg, Brandy Gold, …
Category: Horror
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Time Travel
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Banker (1989)
Rating: ★★
Psycho Financier
Director: William Webb
Actors: Duncan Regehr, Robert Forster, Jeff Conaway, Richard Roundtree
Category: Horror
Batman (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, …
Category: Fantasy
Beverly Hills Body$natchers (1989)
Rating: ★
Mortuary and Zombies Comedy
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: Frank Gorshin, Rodney Eastman, Keone Young
Category: Horror
The BFG (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Animation/Roald Dahl Adaptation/Friendly Giant
Director: Brian Cosgrove
Actors: David Jason, Don Henderson
Category: Fantasy
Big Man on Campus (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Modernised Hunchback of Notre Dame Comedy
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Actors: Allan Katz, Corey Parker, Tom Skerritt, Melora Hardin, …
Category: Fantasy
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Rating: ★★★½
Time-Travelling Slackers
Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, …
Category: Science Fiction
Black Rainbow (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Fake Medium’s Abilities Become Real
Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Mark Joy
Category: Fantasy
Blackeyes (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Character in a Book Comes to Life
Director: Dennis Potter
Actors: Gina Bellman, Michael Gough, Nigel Planer
Category: Fantasy
Blades (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Killer Lawnmower/Genre Spoof
Director: Thomas R. Rondinella
Category: Horror
Brenda Starr (1989)
Rating: ★
Girl Reporter Comic-Strip Adaptation
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid, …
Category: Fantasy
Bunker Palace Hotel (1989)
Rating: ★★
Near-Future Civil War
Director: Enki Bilal
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoit Regent, Maria Schneider, …
Category: Science Fiction
The ‘Burbs (1989)
Rating: ★★
Suburban Paranoia Black Comedy
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, …
Category: Horror
Burndown (1989)
Rating: ★★
Radioactive Killer/Nuclear Accident
Director: James Allen
Actors: Peter Firth, Cathy Moriarty, Michael McCabe, Hal Orlandini
Category: Science Fiction
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Jungle Adventure Parody
Director: J.F. Lawton
Actors: Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher, Adrienne Barbeau, Barry Primus
Category: Fantasy
The Cellar (1989)
Rating: ★
Native American Demon
Director: Kevin S. Tenney
Actors: Patrick Kilpatrick, Lou Perry, Danny Mora, Ford Rainey
Category: Horror
The Chair (1989)
Rating: ★★
Haunted Prison
Director: Waldemar Korzeniowsky
Actors: James Coco, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, Stephen Geoffreys, …
Category: Horror
Chances Are (1989)
Rating: ★
Reincarnation Romantic Comedy
Director: Emile Ardolino
Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
Director: Alex Kirby
Actors: Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, David Thwaites, Samuel West, …
Category: Fantasy
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
Director: Alex Kirby
Actors: Richard Dempsey, Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Cook, …
Category: Fantasy
The Church (1989)
Rating: ★★
Possessed Dead Overtake a Church
Director: Michele Soavi
Actors: Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Hugh Quarshie, Feodor Chaliapin, …
Category: Horror
Clownhouse (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Psycho Clowns
Director: Victor Salva
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh
Category: Horror
Communion (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Alien Abduction/”True Story”
Director: Philippe Mora
Category: Science Fiction
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Fine Dining and Brutality/Surrealism
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Richard Bohringer, …
Category: Fantasy
Crime Zone (1989)
Rating: ★★
Dystopian Future
Director: Luis Llosa
Actors: David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn, Peter Nelson, Michael Shaner
Category: Science Fiction
Cyborg (1989)
Rating: ★
Post-Holocaust Kickboxing
Director: Albert Pyun
Category: Science Fiction
Dead Calm (1989)
Rating: ★★★½
Yachtboard Psycho-Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
Category: Horror
The Dead Next Door (1989)
Rating: ★★
Zombie Film
Director: J.R. Bookwalter
Actors: Peter Ferry, Scott Spiegel, J.R. Bookwalter, Bill Morrison
Category: Horror
The Dead Pit (1989)
Rating: ★★
Mad Scientist Resurrects the Dead in an Asylum
Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Cheryl Lawson, Jeremy Slate
Category: Horror
Deceit (1989)
Rating: ½
Possibly Alien Kidnapper
Director: Albert Pyun
Actors: Norbert Weisser, Samantha Phillips, Scott Paulin
Category: Science Fiction
Deepstar Six (1989)
Rating: ★★
Monster Underwater
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Actors: Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nancy Everhard, Cindy Pickett, …
Category: Science Fiction
Document of the Dead (1989)
Rating: ★★½
George A. Romero Documentary
Director: Roy Frumkes
Actors: Susan Tyrrell, John Amplas, David Emge, Ken Foree, …
Category: Horror
Dr. Caligari (1989)
Rating: ★★
Surrealist Film
Director: Stephen Sayadian
Actors: Madeleine Reynal, Laura Albert, Fox Harris, Jennifer Balgobin, …
Category: Fantasy
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Wacky Alien Visitors/Rock’n’Roll Genre Spoof
Director: Julien Temple
Actors: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, …
Category: Science Fiction
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Rating: 0
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Adaptation
Director: Gerard Kikoine
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur-Thorp
Category: Horror
Erik the Viking (1989)
Rating: ★
Norse Myth Comedy-Adventure
Director: Terry Jones
Actors: Tim Robbins, Imogen Stubbs, John Cleese, Tim McInnerny, …
Category: Fantasy
Field of Dreams (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, …
Category: Fantasy
The Fly II (1989)
Rating: ★★
Human-Fly Hybrid
Director: Chris Walas
Actors: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, Gary Chalk, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction
The Forgotten One (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Ghost Story
Director: Phillip Badger
Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Kristy McNichol, Elisabeth Brooks
Category: Horror
The Freeway Maniac (1989)
Rating: ★★
Psycho Film
Director: Paul Winters
Actors: James Jude Courtney, Loren Winters, Donald Hotton
Category: Horror
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: Rob Hedden
Actors: Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Peter Mark Richman, Kelly Hu, …
Category: Horror
Fright Night Part 2 (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Vampire Film
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Actors: Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Julie Carmen, Traci Lin, …
Category: Horror
Future Force (1989)
Rating: ★★
Near Future Bounty Hunter
Director: David A. Prior
Actors: David Carradine, Robert Tessier, D.C. Douglas, Patrick Culliton, …
Category: Science Fiction
Ghost Writer (1989)
Rating: ½
Starlet’s Ghost Comedy
Director: Kenneth J. Hall
Actors: Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, Jeff Conaway, Joey Travolta, …
Category: Fantasy
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Rating: ★★
Team of Spook Chasers Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, …
Category: Fantasy
Girlfriend from Hell (1989)
Rating: ★
Possession Comedy
Director: Daniel M. Peterson
Actors: Dana Ashbrook, Liane Curtis, Lezlie Deane, Anthony Barrile, …
Category: Fantasy
Gnaw: Food of the Gods II (1989)
Rating: 0
Giant Rats
Director: Damian Lee
Actors: Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Colin Fox, Frank Pellegrino, …
Category: Science Fiction
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Kazuki Ohmori
Actors: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshihiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Megumi Odaka, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gunhed (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Robot Wars
Director: Masato Harada
Actors: Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke
Category: Science Fiction
Halloween 5 (1989)
Rating: ★½
Slasher Film
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, …
Category: Horror
Hard to Be a God (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Human Observers on a Barbarous Alien World
Director: Peter Fleischmann
Actors: Edward Zentara, Werner Herzog
Category: Science Fiction
Hellgate (1989)
Rating: ½
Ghost Town/Resurrection of the Dead
Director: William A. Levey
Actors: Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott
Category: Horror
Hider in the House (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Psycho Hiding in the Attic
Director: Matthew Patrick
Actors: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Bruce Glover, …
Category: Horror
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Miniaturised Backyard Adventures
Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Jared Rushton, Robert Oliveri, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Horror Show (1989)
Rating: ★★
Executed Killer’s Supernatural Revenge
Director: James Isaac
Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg
Category: Horror
The House of Usher (1989)
Rating: ★
Modernised Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Actors: Oliver Reed, Romy Windsor, Donald Pleasence
Category: Horror
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Talking Boil/Black Comedy
Director: Bruce Robinson
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, John Shrapnel
Category: Fantasy
I, Madman (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Killer Emerges from a Book
Director: Tibor Takacs
Actors: Jenny Wright, Randall William Cook, Clayton Rohner, Stephanie Hodge, …
Category: Horror
The Iceman Cometh (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Hong Kong Martial Arts/Warriors Thawed Out in the Present
Director: Huo Yao-Liang
Actors: Yuan Biao, Maggie Cheung, Yuan Hua
Category: Fantasy
The Icicle Thief (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Characters Enter a Film/Comedy
Director: Maurizio Nichetti
Category: Fantasy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Rating: ★★
High Adventure/Holy Grail Quest
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Julian Glover, …
Category: Fantasy
Intruder (1989)
Rating: ★★
Supermarket Slasher Film
Director: Scott Spiegel
Actors: Renee Estevez, Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Alvy Moore, …
Category: Horror
The January Man (1989)
Rating: 0
Serial Killer Thriller
Director: Pat O'Connor
Actors: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, …
Category: Horror
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Young Witch’s Adventures
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
Killer Crocodile (1989)
Rating: ★
Giant Crocodile
Director: Larry Ludman, Fabrizio De Angelis
Actors: Anthony Crenna, Van Johnson, Thomas Moore, Julian Hampton, …
Category: Horror
Legend of the Overfiend (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Teen Demon
Director: Hideki Takayama
Life on the Edge (1989)
Rating: ★
Family Life in a Weird Alternate Society
Director: Tom Burman
Actors: John Glover, Juliette Lewis, Richard Portnow, Joshua Miller
Category: Science Fiction
Limit Up (1989)
Rating: ★
Pact with the Devil
Director: Richard Martini
Actors: Nancy Allen, Danitra Vance, Brad Hall, Dean Stockwell, …
Category: Fantasy
Lisa (1989)
Rating: ★★
Prank Callers Call a Serial Killer
Director: Gary Sherman
Actors: Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Tanya Fenmore, …
Category: Horror
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Rating: ★★★½
Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Actors: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Pat Carroll, Kenneth Mars, …
Category: Fantasy
Little Monsters (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Secret World of Monsters Under the Bed
Director: Richard Alan Greenberg
Actors: Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Ben Savage, Daniel Stern, …
Category: Fantasy
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Boy’s Adventures in Dreams
Director: Masami Hata, William Hurtz
Actors: Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Danny Mann, …
Category: Fantasy
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
Rating: ★★
Bad SF Movie Parody
Director: Stanley Sheff
Actors: Anthony Hickox, Tony Curtis, Patrick MacNee, Deborah Foreman, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Lost Platoon (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Immortal Mercenaries
Director: David A. Prior
Actors: David Parry, William Knight, Stephen Quadros
Category: Fantasy
Luther the Geek (1989)
Rating: ★★
Psycho Film
Director: Carlton J. Albright
Actors: Edward Terry, Stacy Haiduk
Category: Horror
The Magic Legs (1989)
Rating: ★★
Chinese Martial Arts
Director: Wenhua Li
Actors: Wang Qun
Category: Fantasy
Marquis (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Marquis De Sade Story/Obscene Puppet Show
Director: Henri Xhonneux
Category: Fantasy
Masque of Red Death (1989)
Rating: ★
Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Director: Larry Brand
Actors: Adrian Paul, Patrick MacNee, Maria Ford
Category: Horror
The Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Rating: ★
Edgar Allan Poe Slasher Film
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Actors: Herbert Lom, Frank Stallone, Michelle McBride, Brenda Vaccaro, …
Category: Horror
Millennium (1989)
Rating: ★★
Time Travel
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, …
Category: Science Fiction
Mother Love (1989)
Rating: ★★
Psychopathic Mother
Director: Simon Langton
Actors: Diana Rigg, Fiona Gillies, James Wilby, David McCallum, …
Category: Horror
Murder By Moonlight (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Murder Mystery on a Moonbase
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Actors: Brigitte Nielsen, Julian Sands, Gerald McRaney, Jane Lapotaire, …
Category: Science Fiction
Mutant on the Bounty (1989)
Rating: ★
Space Opera Comedy
Director: Robert Torrance
Actors: Deborah Fenson, John Fleck, Kyle T. Heffner, John Roarke, …
Category: Science Fiction
My Mom’s a Werewolf (1989)
Rating: ★★
Werewolf Housewife Comedy
Director: Michael Fischa
Actors: Susan Blakely, John Saxon, Katrina Caspary, John Schuck, …
Category: Horror
Mystery Train (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Anthology of Tales from a Memphis Hotel/Ghost of Elvis
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Screamin Jay Hawkins, Cinque Lee, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, …
Category: Fantasy
New York Stories (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Anthology of New York Tales/Giant Nagging Mother
Director: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
Actors: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Mae Questel, Heather McComb, …
Category: Fantasy
Night Life (1989)
Rating: ★★
Teen Zombies
Director: David Acomba
Actors: Scott Grimes, John Astin, Cheryl Pollak, Lisa Fuller, …
Category: Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Dream-Invading Boogey Man
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter, Danny Hassel, …
Category: Horror
Paperhouse (1989)
Rating: ★★★½
Girl Builds a House in Dreams
Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Charlotte Burke, Glenne Headly, Gemma Jones, Ben Cross
Category: Horror
Parents (1989)
Rating: ★★
Paranoia Comedy/Boy Thinks His Parents Are Cannibals
Director: Bob Balaban
Actors: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Bryan Madorsky, Sandy Dennis, …
Category: Horror
Party Line (1989)
Rating: ★
Phone Chatline Psycho-Thriller
Director: William Webb
Category: Horror
Patlabor: The Mobile Police (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Anime/Police Amok-Robot Squad
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction