1989 Movies

Cindy, an American FBI agent, travels to Hong Kong to investigate a newspaper editor, Ronny Dak, who is suspected of printing counterfeit money using the newspaper’s presses. The American teams…

In Los Angeles, photographer Peter Mitchell learns that he has inherited a palatial estate in Sweden from his unknown relative, Annie Holst. He, his girlfriend Sarah, and her deaf son…

Several different factions compete in the search for ancient Japanese tablets that have the secret of immortality.

Marital ups and downs and extramarital flings provide the background to this uproarious tale of life in an advertising agency. Yuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his wife Ann, tries…

In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi…

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrive to spend their vacation at…

A prostitute is brutally killed by the road side by a maniancal killer. Nearby a horror film is being produced but the director is worried that the script is too…

Stuck on their uncle’s chicken farm, two bumbling men get jealous of their cousin Don and his out-of-place American girlfriend.

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and understanding. Her seven male employees respect…

Portrait of the Swedish actress and director Mai Zetterling, who was born in 1923, began her career in the 1940s and has been making her own films since 1964. Mai…

A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but…

Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they’re headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war…

A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is…

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

Tora-san’s nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love,…

A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

Denny, a young and handsome actor in surrealist theatre, is an object of desire for all who encounter him. When a young woman, with whom Denny is having an affair,…

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family – trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate…

This is a prophetic drama about a young couple, Miguel (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) and Patricia (Alma Delfina), who desperately need money and are forced to commit robbery — until the…

Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of…

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

Zane, a young rebel warrior from another planet, is transported to Earth to compete in a deadly game of survival against six of the most brutal warriors in the galaxy.

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer’s treasure, in this animated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale.

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend…

Arabella is a nymphomaniac whose husband catches her with another man. When Arabella inexplicably kills the man, they hatch a scheme in which Arabella lures and then murders her lovers…

Celebrities and creatives — including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg– recall their earliest sexual experiences.

Lee Ying, who is the chief inspector of Regional Crime Unit, is newly promoted to Royal Hong Kong Police Cadet School as Deputy Commandant. He confronts a group of youngsters…

Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of teenagers living on or near De Grassi Street in…

Aspiring young novelist Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee)….

In Amsterdam – in the time before the legalisation of some drugs and the following growth of competition on the market – takes place a war between the Italian and…

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam…

An alien sent to Earth to retrieve a drug that was sent here on a black disc has to fight her race’s enemies, who are also on Earth to search…

A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction….

An unreleased “family film” where young siblings are orphaned and, when the foster system tries to split them up, runaway. Meanwhile, there’s a psycho killer abducting and horrifically murdering children.

An inspector is researching a number of murders on police officers in New York. During his research he starts suspecting that the serial killer is a police officer as well.

A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the…