1989 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1989, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Francesco
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mickey Rourke, Paolo Bonacelli, Mario Adorf, Andréa Ferréol, Paco Reconti, Peppe Lanzetta, Tomas Arana, Fabio Bussotti, Hanns Zischler, Diego Ribon, Lorenzo Piani
Country: Italy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them obtaining its powers.
Dead Poets Society
Directed by: Peter Weir
Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Country: United States of America
Outline: English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.
Back to the Future Part II
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson
Country: United States of America
Outline: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Batman
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Lethal Weapon 2
Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit
Country: United States of America
Outline: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Born on the Fourth of July
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans
Country: United States of America
Outline: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Ghostbusters II
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Country: United States of America
Outline: The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Starring: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland
Country: United States of America
Outline: The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Look Who's Talking
Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal
Country: United States of America
Outline: After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice-over.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom
Outline: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
My Left Foot
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Country: United States of America
Outline: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Do the Right Thing
Directed by: Spike Lee
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Country: United States of America
Outline: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Kiki's Delivery Service
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Glory
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Henry V
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Country: United States of America
Outline: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Mystery Train
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee
Country: United States of America
Outline: Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
When Harry Met Sally...
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Country: United States of America
Outline: Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
The Abyss
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Country: United States of America
Outline: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Country: United States of America
Outline: The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Christmas Vacation
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Field of Dreams
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan
Country: United States of America
Outline: An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.
Say Anything...
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Starring: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor
Country: United States of America
Outline: A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
Driving Miss Daisy
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone
Country: United States of America
Outline: An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
The Unbelievable Truth
Directed by: Hal Hartley
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal
Outline: A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
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