Uncle Buck (1989)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Summary: The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

Release Date: December 01, 1989

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik

Writer: John Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Hughes Entertainment, National Lampoon

Distributor: Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Studio Distribution Services (SDS)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Vacation

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,515,899

International: $ 18,500

UHF (1989)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: July 21, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Jay Levey

Writers: 'Weird Al' Yankovic

, Jay Levey

, Charles Holloway

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cinecorp SAC, Imaginary Entertainment, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Comedy Central, Shout! Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,157,157

DeepStar Six (1989)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 13, 1989

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Writers: Lewis Abernathy

, Geof Miller

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Entertainment, Carolco Pictures

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Artisan Home Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Carolco Home Video, Image Entertainment, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Kino Lorber, Live Home Video, Paramount Television, The Sci-Fi Channel, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,143,225

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: February 17, 1989

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Music

Director: Stephen Herek

Writers: Chris Matheson

, Ed Solomon

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), De Laurentiis Film Partners, Interscope Communications, Soisson/Murphey Productions

Distributor: Fox Network, New Line Home Video, Paramount Domestic Television, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Bill & Ted

Movie budget: $ 8,500,000

Domestic: $ 40,485,039

International: $ 23,955

The Church (1989)

Summary: An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.

Release Date: March 10, 1989

Genre: Horror

Director: Michele Soavi

Writers: Dario Argento

, Franco Ferrini

, Michele Soavi

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: ADC Films, Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Reteitalia

Distributor: Shriek Show, Media Blasters, Blue Underground, Southgate Entertainment, Full Moon Streaming, Scorpion Releasing

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

The Killer (1989)

Summary: A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: John Woo

Writer: John Woo

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film Workshop, Golden Princess Film Production Limited, Long Shong Pictures, Magnum Films, Media Asia Group

Distributor: Circle Films, Buena Vista Home Video, Dragon Dynasty, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, Miramax, STAR TV Filmed Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Vivendi Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

Summary: A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.

Release Date: April 16, 1989

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Avala Film, Harmony Gold, Rete Europa

Countries: Italy, United States, West Germany, Yugoslavia

Language: English

Quantum Leap (1989)

Summary: During an experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the lives of different people, sorting out their problems and changing history in hopes of getting back to his own life in the pr...

Release Date: March 26, 1989

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Belisarius Productions, Universal Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Megazone 23 III (1989)

Summary: Eiji Takanaka is a B Level hacker who has been accepted into EX. However, before his first day on the job, he becomes embroiled in a network war, a legendary figure named EVE, and a plot to re-inhabit the Earth.

Release Date: June 05, 1995

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anime International Company (AIC), Tatsunoko Production, Artmic

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Alfred J. Kwak (1989)

Summary: After a horrific car accident takes the lives of his parents and siblings, a young duckling is raised by his considerate uncle to be good and responsible; meanwhile, his schoolmate Dolf slowly becomes seduced by fascism.

Release Date: April 03, 1989

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation

Runtime: 0 h 25 min

Production: Telecable Benelux B.V., Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (VARA), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Countries: Netherlands, Japan, Spain, West Germany

Language: Dutch

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: November 17, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Animation

Directors: Don Bluth

, Gary Goldman

, Dan Kuenster

Writers: Don Bluth

, Ken Cromar

, Gary Goldman

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: G

Production: Goldcrest Films International, Don Bluth Productions, Sullivan Bluth Studios

Distributor: United Artists, Goldcrest Films International, MGM/UA Distribution Company, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Disney Channel, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Amazon Prime Video

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,800,000

Domestic: $ 27,100,027

Communion (1989)

Summary: Oct.4 and Dec.26 the Strieber family drives from NYC to their cabin in the woods. Both nights there are some powerful lights outside and maybe aliens. The dad is mentally affected by the "bad dream", goes to the shrink and is hypn...

Release Date: November 10, 1989

Genres: Drama, Biography, Horror

Director: Philippe Mora

Writer: Whitley Strieber

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Allied Vision, Morgan Creek Entertainment, Pheasantry Films

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Elite Entertainment, Hen's Tooth Video, Image Entertainment, M.C.E.G. Virgin Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Scream Factory, Video Treasures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,919,653

Three Fugitives (1989)

Summary: A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Release Date: January 27, 1989

Genres: Action, Comedy

Director: Francis Veber

Writer: Francis Veber

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,586,886

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Summary: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Release Date: November 22, 1989

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Robert Zemeckis

, Bob Gale

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions

Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Back to the Future

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 119,000,002

International: $ 213,500,000

Patlabor: The Movie (1989)

Summary: The screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 must investigate and stop a spree of rampaging construction robots.

Release Date: July 15, 1989

Genres: Action, Crime, Animation, Anime

Directors: Mamoru Oshii

, Kôji Sawai

Writers: Kazunori Itô

, Yutaka Izubuchi

, Mamoru Oshii

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: G

Production: Sunrise, Production I.G.

Distributor: Bandai Visual USA

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

Summary: Each night, young Nemo goes to Slumberland and has adventures and befriends the king of Slumberland, Morpheus. But one night Nemo discovers Nightmare Land, and the evil nightmare king, throwing Slumberland and Nemo himself into da...

Release Date: August 21, 1992

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Anime

Directors: Masami Hata

, William T. Hurtz

Writers: Chris Columbus

, Richard Outten

, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: G

Production: TMS Entertainment

Distributor: Hemdale Picture Corporation, Hemdale, ADA Filmworks, Discotek Media, Disney Channel, Eastern Star, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, FUNimation Entertainment, Goldhil Home Media, Hemdale Home Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,368,000

Robot Jox (1989)

Summary: In the distant future, mankind has forsaken global wars for battles of single combat. The world has been divided into two opposing super powers, with each side represented by trained champions.

Release Date: November 21, 1990

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Stuart Gordon

Writers: Stuart Gordon

, Joe Haldeman

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Empire Pictures, Altar Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Scream Factory, Screen Media Ventures, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,272,977

Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)

Summary: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Release Date: February 03, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Mystery

Director: Paul Flaherty

Writers: Bob Conte

, Peter Wortmann

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: TriStar Pictures, NBC Productions, Arnon Milchan Productions, Frostbacks

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Columbia TriStar Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 10,982,364