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The Best Movies Of 1989
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A list of movies that came out in 1989. They all came out in 1989, despite the date it shows on here.


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Movie: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure ( 1989 )
Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.
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Movie: Batman ( 1989 )
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
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Movie: Road House ( 1989 )
A legendary bouncer comes to restore order at a notorious bar but runs afoul of a ruthless crime boss who controls the town.
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Movie: Dead Poets Society ( 1989 )
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
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Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 )
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
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Movie: Field of Dreams ( 1989 )
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
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Movie: Ghostbusters II ( 1989 )
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
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Movie: The Little Mermaid ( 1989 )
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
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Movie: Uncle Buck ( 1989 )
Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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Movie: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ( 1989 )
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.
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Movie: Parenthood ( 1989 )
Four Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings.
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Movie: Steel Magnolias ( 1989 )
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
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Movie: Pet Sematary ( 1989 )
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
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Movie: The 'Burbs ( 1989 )
An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.
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Movie: Major League ( 1989 )
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
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Movie: Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 )
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
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Movie: The Abyss ( 1989 )
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
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Movie: Say Anything ( 1989 )
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
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Movie: Do the Right Thing ( 1989 )
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.
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Movie: Licence to Kill ( 1989 )
A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.
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Movie: Weekend at Bernie's ( 1989 )
Two idiots try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
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Movie: When Harry Met Sally... ( 1989 )
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
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Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ( 1989 )
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
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Movie: Glory ( 1990 )
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.
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Movie: The Karate Kid Part III ( 1989 )
Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
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Movie: Dead Calm ( 1989 )
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
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Movie: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1990 )
At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.
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Movie: Sex, Lies, and Videotape ( 1989 )
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
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Movie: The Wizard ( 1989 )
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.
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Movie: Tango & Cash ( 1989 )
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a pair of mismatched LAPD officers must put their differences aside to get even with the brutal crime baron who sent them to rot in a maximum-security prison.
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Movie: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan ( 1989 )
Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high-school students headed to Manhattan, New York.
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Movie: Lethal Weapon 2 ( 1989 )
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
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Movie: #Dupe# ( 1989 )
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.
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Movie: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland ( 1989 )
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.
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Movie: Born on the Fourth of July ( 1990 )
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 for which he fought.
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Movie: Black Rain ( 1989 )
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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Movie: The Return of Swamp Thing ( 1989 )
In this tongue-in-cheek sequel, the benevolent bog creature falls for the vegetarian, plant-loving daughter of the evil scientist who created him.
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Movie: Sea of Love ( 1989 )
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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Movie: Little Monsters ( 1989 )
11-year-old Bryan Stevenson is drawn into a world of magic , mischief and wonder . After moving to a new town . He offers a sleep in his 6 year old brother Eric Stevenson's room and soon discovers there really is a monster Under the Bed.
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Movie: My Left Foot ( 1990 )
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
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Movie: Always ( 1989 )
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
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Movie: Driving Miss Daisy ( 1990 )
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
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Movie: Cyborg ( 1989 )
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
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Movie: The Punisher ( 1989 )
When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as The Punisher.
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Movie: Teen Witch ( 1989 )
High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?
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Movie: Harlem Nights ( 1989 )
During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.
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Movie: Wild Orchid ( 1990 )
A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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Movie: Turner & Hooch ( 1989 )
A detective must adopt a rambunctious dog in order to help him find a killer.
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Movie: Casualties of War ( 1989 )
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager, for their sexual enjoyment.
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Movie: Kickboxer ( 1989 )
Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
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Movie: Look Who's Talking ( 1989 )
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 baby is narrated through voice-over.
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Movie: Leviathan ( 1989 )
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
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Movie: See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 )
Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.
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Movie: All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 )
A canine angel, Charlie, sneaks back to earth from heaven but ends up befriending an orphan girl who can speak to animals. In the process, Charlie learns that friendship is the most heavenly gift of all.
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Movie: UHF ( 1989 )
An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
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Movie: Going Overboard ( 1989 )
A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship hoping for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise-ship comedy.
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Movie: Dream a Little Dream ( 1989 )
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.
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Movie: Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 )
A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
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Movie: Puppet Master ( 1990 )
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.
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Movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 )
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
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Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child ( 1989 )
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
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Movie: Troop Beverly Hills ( 1989 )
A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts.
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Movie: Fletch Lives ( 1989 )
After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irwin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into hilarious trouble.
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Movie: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ( 1989 )
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
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Movie: Lean on Me ( 1989 )
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
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Movie: The War of the Roses ( 1989 )
A married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.
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Movie: Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy ( 1989 )
After escaping the insane asylum in which he was incarcerated, Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) impersonates a marriage counselor and manages to win over a patient (Meg Foster) and her young son (Jonathan Brandis).
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Movie: Next of Kin ( 1989 )
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.
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Movie: Henry V ( 1989 )
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Movie: Loverboy ( 1989 )
Randy is still unfocused after 2 years in college. When his dad refuses to keep paying his tuition, he gets a job delivering pizzas. Several alluring cougars pay him $200 for pizza delivery and "services rendered." As for their husbands.
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Movie: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ( 1989 )
One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece.
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Movie: The Killer ( 1989 )
A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.
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Movie: Shag ( 1989 )
Carson marries her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for an irresponsible last weekend.
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Movie: Parents ( 1989 )
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
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Movie: Lock Up ( 1989 )
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.
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Movie: Gleaming the Cube ( 1989 )
A young avid skateboarder uncovers a conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.
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Movie: She-Devil ( 1989 )
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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Movie: Cutting Class ( 1992 )
A teenage girl befriends a suspected high school slasher.
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Movie: Chances Are ( 1989 )
A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.
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Movie: DeepStar Six ( 1989 )
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
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Movie: The Fly II ( 1989 )
The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.
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Movie: Meet the Feebles ( 1995 )
Multiple animals and insects experience the sleazier side of show business while working on a variety show.
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Movie: How I Got Into College ( 1989 )
Marlon has a crush on Jessica, who's running for senior-class president and wants to attend Ramsey College. Marlon wants to go wherever she's going. Problem: low SAT scores.
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Movie: Fat Man and Little Boy ( 1989 )
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
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Movie: Longtime Companion ( 1990 )
The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.
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Movie: Valmont ( 1989 )
France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.
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Movie: The Dream Team ( 1989 )
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
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Movie: No Holds Barred ( 1989 )
A TV-network boss pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip in a wrestling match.
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Movie: Shirley Valentine ( 1989 )
Shirley is a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who takes a holiday trip to Greece and meets a local man who bolsters her self-confidence. She evolves and transforms to the point that her husband doesn't even recognize her.
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Movie: Santa Sangre ( 1990 )
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
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Movie: The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989 )
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.
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Movie: L.A. Takedown ( 1989 )
Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.
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Movie: K-9 ( 1989 )
To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.
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Movie: New York Stories ( 1989 )
A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12-year-old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.
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Movie: Intruder ( 1989 )
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
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Movie: Tetsuo: The Iron Man ( 1989 )
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
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Movie: Great Balls of Fire! ( 1989 )
The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Movie: The Tall Guy ( 1990 )
An American actor based in London, is stuck playing the sidekick to a successful British comic. He meets an attractive nurse at the local hospital and starts to date her, also landing the lead role in a musical version of The Elephant Man.
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Movie: Best of the Best ( 1989 )
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country - can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
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Movie: Police Academy 6: City Under Siege ( 1989 )
Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.