Cops (1989)

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

Uncle Buck (1989)

Summary: Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.

Release Date: August 16, 1989

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Hughes

Writer: John Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, HBO Max, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Nickelodeon Network, Showtime Networks, USA Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 66,758,538

International: $ 12,500,000

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

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

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

Prancer (1989)

Summary: A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble under...

Release Date: November 01, 1989

Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Director: John D. Hancock

Writer: Greg Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Cineplex Odeon Films, Nelson Entertainment, Cineplex Odeon Films, Raffaella Productions

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Nelson Entertainment, Orion Home Video, New Line Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Paramount Television, Shout! Factory, Sony Corporation of America, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Viacom, WGN

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 18,587,135

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

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

The Simpsons (1989)

Summary: The satiric half-hour adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.

Release Date: December 17, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Animation

Runtime: 0 h 22 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television Animation

Country: United States

Language: English

TV Series budget: $ 750,000

Winter adé (1989)

Summary: Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and lan...

Release Date: June 15, 1990

Genre: Documentary

Director: Helke Misselwitz

Writers: Helke Misselwitz

, Thomas Plenert

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Production: DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme, Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Country: East Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 12,305

Speed Zone (1989)

Summary: Despite the police's preemptive strike, the illegal coast-to-coast car race is still on with new drivers. It's a race where fair play, red lights, stop signs, police roadblocks and traffic rules in general have no validity.

Release Date: April 21, 1989

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sport

Director: Jim Drake

Writer: Michael Short

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Entcorp Communications, Canadian International Studios VIII, Company Limited Partnership

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Media Home Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Video Treasures

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,077,361

The Abyss (1989)

Summary: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Release Date: August 09, 1989

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Director: James Cameron

Writer: James Cameron

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Twentieth Century Fox, Pacific Western, Pacific Western, Lightstorm Entertainment, Lightstorm Entertainment

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Fox Network, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,461,047

International: $ 35,539,051

Blood Red (1989)

Summary: In 19th-century California, a Sicilian family of able winemakers gets targeted by a corrupt railroad tycoon after they refuse to leave their land.

Release Date: August 18, 1989

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Director: Peter Masterson

Writer: Ron Cutler

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hemdale, Hemdale, Kettledrum Films, Kettledrum Films

Distributor: Hemdale, Nelson Entertainment, Orion Home Video, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 15,510

Red Surf (1989)

Summary: A surfer enjoys life with drug money together with his gang in 1980s California. His girlfriend is pregnant and will not be in a house with drugs and guns and is going to Portland OR. Can he quit the drugs, the gang and that last ...

Release Date: April 21, 1990

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: H. Gordon Boos

Writers: H. Gordon Boos

, Brian Gamble

, Jason Hoffs

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Arrowhead Entertainment

Distributor: Arya Worldwide Entertainment, Arrowhead Films, Academy Entertainment, California Pictures, Platinum Disc, Screen Media Ventures, Sterling Home Entertainment, United American Video, Vinegar Syndrome

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,136