Top Movies of 1989


The top movies of 1989 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

151. Gross Anatomy

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough, Robert Desiderio
Plot: First year med student Joe Slovak is brilliant but has trouble taking anything seriously. He pursues his beautiful lab partner with zest, and she, along with their professor, will have to figure out how to get through to him and finally commit.

152. Cutting Class

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rospo Pallenberg
Actors: Donovan Leitch, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Jill Schoelen, Martin Mull, Nancy Fish
Plot: A murderer is loose in a high school.

153. Howling V: The Rebirth

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neal Sundstrom
Actors: Philip Davis, Victoria Catlin, Elizabeth Shé, Ben Cole, William Shockley, Clive Turner
Plot: A group releases a werewolf at a 500-year-old castle in Romania.

154. In Country

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, Stephen Tobolowsky, John Terry

155. Farewell to the King

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Milius
Actors: Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nick Nolte, Marilyn Tokuda, Choy Chang Wing

156. Patlabor: The Movie ( Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: The Movie )

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu

157. Leviathan

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Hector Elizondo
Plot: An underwater mining crew finds the Russian ship "Leviathan" on the bottom of the ocean. The Leviathan's crew, long dead, offer few answers. They soon find themselves trapped in the ship, along with something that starts taking them out, one by one.

158. Who's Harry Crumb?

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Paul Flaherty
Actors: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin, Shawnee Smith
Plot: Harry Crumb comes from a long and distinguished line of detectives... but the talent seems to have skipped a generation, landing him a job at a remote location. When a high-profile kidnapping case is handed over to him, Crumb doesn't realize it's all part of an evil plot hatched by a nefarious executive confident the bumbling Crumb will never snare the kidnappers.

159. Homework ( Mashgh-e Shab )

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Actors: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh

160. Hanussen

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: István Szabó
Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Károly Eperjes, Grazyna Szapolowska

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