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The year 1989 involved many significant films.
Highest-grossing films[]
The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
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| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Paramount Pictures | $474,171,806 |
| 2 | Batman | Warner Bros. | $411,348,924 |
| 3 | Back to the Future Part II | Universal | $331,950,002 |
| 4 | Look Who's Talking | TriStar | $296,999,813 |
| 5 | Dead Poets Society | Disney | $235,860,116 |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Warner Bros. | $227,853,986 |
| 7 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Disney | $222,724,172 |
| 8 | Ghostbusters II | Sony | $215,394,738 |
| 9 | The Little Mermaid | Disney | $211,343,479 |
| 10 | Born on the Fourth of July | Universal | $161,001,698 |
Events[]
- Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena.
- A director's cut of Lawrence of Arabia is released with a 227-minute length. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A. Harris under the supervision of director David Lean.
- April 23 – Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released.
- May 24 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series.
- June 13 – The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. It would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, is not released until 1995.
- June 16 – Ghostbusters II is released.
- June 23
- Batman is released, going on to gross more than $410 million worldwide, and establishing the public and critical attention of director Tim Burton.
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released and marks the directorial debut of visual effects supervisor Joe Johnston, who later went on to direct The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, Jurassic Park III, and Captain America: The First Avenger.
- July 7 – Lethal Weapon 2 is released and becomes the highest-grossing film in the franchise. As well as the highest grossing R-rated film of the year at the domestic box office.
- July 11 – Screen, stage, and Shakespearian legend Laurence Olivier died peacefully in his home in England, after appearing in his last filmed role as an old soldier in War Requiem.
- August 2 – Ron Howard's family comedy Parenthood, starring Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, and Rick Moranis, is released.
- September 28 – Sony announce its intention to buy Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures. The deal is completed in November for a total cost of nearly $5 billion. They appoint Peter Guber and Jon Peters as co-chairman, in a further deal that cost up to $1 billion, after settling a lawsuit with Warner Bros.
- November 7 - Andrew G. Vajna agrees to sell his stake in Carolco Pictures to his co-chairman and co-founder Mario Kassar for $106 million.
- November 17 – The Little Mermaid becomes a critical and commercial success and brings new life to Walt Disney Feature Animation. The Little Mermaid also reinvigorated public and critical interest in The Walt Disney Company, which would become one of the most prestigious corporations of the 1990s.
- November 22 – Back to the Future Part II is released.
Awards[]
| Category/Organization | 47th Golden Globe Awards January 20, 1990 |
62nd Academy Awards March 26, 1990 |
43rd BAFTA Awards 1990 | |
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| Drama | Comedy or Musical | |||
| Best Film | Born on the Fourth of July | Driving Miss Daisy | Dead Poets Society | |
| Best Director | Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July |
Kenneth Branagh Henry V | ||
| Best Actor | Tom Cruise Born on the Fourth of July |
Morgan Freeman Driving Miss Daisy |
Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot | |
| Best Actress | Michelle Pfeiffer The Fabulous Baker Boys |
Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy |
Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Denzel Washington Glory |
Ray McAnally My Left Foot | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | Julia Roberts Steel Magnolias |
Brenda Fricker My Left Foot |
Michelle Pfeiffer Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July |
Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy |
Christopher Hampton Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Tom Schulman Dead Poets Society |
Nora Ephron When Harry Met Sally... | ||
| Best Original Score | The Little Mermaid Alan Menken |
Dead Poets Society Maurice Jarre | ||
| Best Original Song | "Under the Sea" The Little Mermaid |
N/A | ||
| Best Foreign Language Film | Cinema Paradiso | Life and Nothing But | ||
1989 wide-release films[]
January–March[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y |
13 | Cameron's Closet | SVS Films / Smart Egg Pictures | Armand Mastroianni (director); Gary Brandner (screenplay); Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Tab Hunter, Kim Lankford, Leigh McCloskey, Chuck McCann, Gary Hudson, William Lustig, Frank Pesce | Horror | Live action |
| DeepStar Six | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Sean S. Cunningham (director); Lewis Abernathy, Geof Miller (screenplay); Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Matt McCoy, Nia Peeples, Cindy Pickett, Marius Weyers, Elya Baskin, Thom Bray, Ronn Carroll | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live action | ||
| The Experts | Paramount Pictures | Dave Thomas (director); Nick Thiel, Steven Greene, Eric Alter (screenplay); John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Jan Rubeš, Brian Doyle-Murray, Charles Martin Smith, Mimi Maynard, Eve Brent, Rick Ducommun, Steve Levitt, Tony Edwards | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Gleaming the Cube | 20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment | Graeme Clifford (director); Michael Tolkin (screenplay); Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Le Tuan, Min Luong, Art Chudabala, Ed Lauter, Micole Mercurio, Peter Kwong, Max Perlich, Tony Hawk, Christian Jacobs, Buddy Joe Hooker | Drama | Live action | ||
| The January Man | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists | Pat O'Connor (director); John Patrick Shanley (screenplay); Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Rod Steiger, Alan Rickman, Faye Grant | Comedy, Thriller | Live action | ||
| 27 | Cohen and Tate | Hemdale Film Corporation / Nelson Entertainment | Eric Red (director/screenplay); Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Cooper Huckabee, Suzanne Savoy, Marco Perella, Tom Campitelli, Andy Gill, Frank Bates | Thriller | Live action | |
| Parents | Vestron Pictures | Bob Balaban (director); Christopher Hawthorne (screenplay); Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, Juno Mills-Cockell, Kathryn Grody, Deborah Rush, Graham Jarvis, Wayne Robson, Helen Carscallen, Warren Van Evera | Black Comedy, Horror | Live action | ||
| Physical Evidence | Columbia Pictures | Michael Crichton (director); Bill Phillips, Steve Ransohoff (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty, Kay Lenz, Ted McGinley, Tom O'Brien, Kenneth Welsh | Crime, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Three Fugitives | Touchstone Pictures | Francis Veber (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Martin Short, James Earl Jones, Alan Ruck, Sarah Doroff, Kenneth McMillan, David Arnott, Lee Garlington, Bruce McGill, Sy Richardson, Rocky Giordani, Stanley Brock, Rick Hall, Brian Thompson, Jack McGee, Kathy Kinney, Larry Miller, Jeff Perry, Dinah Lenney, John Aylward, Tim De Zarn, Rhoda Gemignani, Charles Noland, Albert Henderson, Gary Armagnac, Dean Smith, Mike MacDonald | Comedy, Crime | Live action | ||
| F E B R U A R Y |
3 | Gone with the Wind (re-release) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Victor Fleming (director); Sidney Howard (screenplay); Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane, Hattie McDaniel, Oscar Polk, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, Everett Brown, Thomas Mitchell, Howard Hickman, Alicia Rhett, Rand Brooks, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Eddie Anderson, Harry Davenport, Leona Roberts, Jane Darwell, Ona Munson, Paul Hurst, Cammie King, J.M. Kerrigan, Jackie Moran, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Marcella Martin, Mickey Kuhn, Irving Bacon, William Bakewell, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden, Ward Bond, Cliff Edwards, Yakima Canutt, Louis Jean Heydt, Olin Howland, Robert Elliott, Mary Anderson | Romance, Historical | Live action |
| Her Alibi | Warner Bros. Pictures | Bruce Beresford (director); Charlie Peters (screenplay); Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Hurd Hatfield, Victor Argo, Patrick Wayne, Tess Harper | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | Cannon Films | J. Lee Thompson (director); Harold Nebenzal (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Perry Lopez, James Pax, Peggy Lipton, Sy Richardson, Juan Fernández de Alarcon, Bill McKinney, Nicole Eggert, Amy Hathaway, Sam Chew Jr., Danny Trejo | Action, Drama | Live action | ||
| Who's Harry Crumb? | TriStar Pictures | Paul Flaherty (director); Robert Conte, Peter Martin Wortmann (screenplay); John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin, Shawnee Smith, Valri Bromfield, Renée Coleman, Wesley Mann, Joe Flaherty, Beverley Elliott, Garwin Sanford, Tony Dakota, Manny Perry, Tino Insana, Deanna Oliver, Jim Belushi, Doug Steckler, Tamsin Kelsey, Lori O'Byrne, Michele Goodger, P. Lynn Johnson, Peter Yunker | Comedy, Mystery | Live action | ||
| Wicked Stepmother | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Lionel Stander, Colleen Camp, David Rasche, Shawn Donohue, Tom Bosley, Richard Moll, Evelyn Keyes, James Dixon, Seymour Cassel | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 5 | Lonesome Dove | CBS / Motown Productions / Qintex Entertainment / Pangaea | Simon Wincer (director); William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Robert Urich, Frederic Forrest, D.B. Sweeney, Ricky Schroder, Chris Cooper, Tim Scott, Glenne Headly, Barry Corbin, William Sanderson, Barry Tubb, Gavan O'Herlihy, Steve Buscemi, Frederick Coffin, Travis Swords, Nina Siemaszko, Bradley Gregg, Kevin O'Morrison, Lanny Flaherty, James McMurtry, O-Lan Jones, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Michael Tylo, Matthew Cowles, Margo Martindale, Jordan Lund, Tony Epper, Bud Shrake, Missy Crider, Lauren Stanley, Jerry Biggs, Sean Hennigan, Julius Tennon, Ron Weyand, David Carpenter, Charlie Haynie, Sonny Carl Davis, Helena Humann, León Singer, Jack Caffrey, Adam Faraizl | Epic, Western, Adventure | Live action | |
| 10 | Cousins | Paramount Pictures | Joel Schumacher (director); Jean-Charles Tacchella, Stephen Metcalfe (screenplay); Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen, Norma Aleandro, Lloyd Bridges, Keith Coogan, Gina DeAngeles, George Coe, Katharine Isabelle, Patrick McGeachan | Romantic comedy | Live action | |
| The Fly II | 20th Century Fox | Chris Walas (director); Mick Garris, Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, Frank Darabont (screenplay); Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, Harley Cross, John Getz, Frank C. Turner, Garry Chalk, Ann Marie Lee | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live action | ||
| Tap | TriStar Pictures | Nick Castle (director/screenplay); Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Joe Morton, Sammy Davis Jr., Savion Glover, Terrence E. McNally | Drama, Dance | Live action | ||
| 15 | Lawrence of Arabia (re-release) | Columbia Pictures / Horizon Pictures | David Lean (director); Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I. S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, Peter Burton, Kenneth Fortescue, Harry Fowler, Jack Hedley, Ian MacNaughton, Henry Oscar, Norman Rossington, John Ruddock, Fernando Sancho, Stuart Saunders | Epic, Historical, Drama | Live action | |
| 17 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Orion Pictures / Nelson Entertainment / Embassy Pictures / Interscope Communications | Stephen Herek (director); Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon (screenplay); Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Rod Loomis, Al Leong, Jane Wiedlin, Robert V. Barron, Clifford David, Hal Landon Jr., Bernie Casey, Amy Stock-Poynton, J. Patrick McNamara, Frazier Bain, John Karlsen, Diane Franklin, Kimberley LaBelle, Clarence Clemons, Martha Davis, Fee Waybill | Comedy, Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| The 'Burbs | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Joe Dante (director); Dana Olsen (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore, Courtney Gains, Gale Gordon, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, Cory Danziger, Franklyn Ajaye, Rance Howard, Nicky Katt, Carey Scott, Kevin Gage, Dana Olsen, Patrika Darbo | Comedy, Thriller | Live action | ||
| The Mighty Quinn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Carl Schenkel (director); Hampton Fancher (screenplay); Denzel Washington, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Robert Townsend, Esther Rolle, Art Evans, Henry Judd Baker, Norman Beaton, Alex Colon, Tyra Ferrell, Keye Luke, Carl Bradshaw, Oliver Samuels | Thriller | Live action | ||
| True Believer | Columbia Pictures | Joseph Ruben (director); Wesley Strick (screenplay); James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, Kurtwood Smith, Tom Bower, Charles Hallahan, Miguel Fernandes, Sully Diaz, Luis Guzman, Joel Polis, Kurt Fuller, Graham Beckel, John Snyder | Drama | Live action | ||
| 24 | American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt | Cannon Films | Cedric Sundstrom (director); Gary Conway (screenplay); David Bradley, Steve James, Michele Chan, Calvin Jung, Marjoe Gortner | Action | Live action | |
| Bert Rigby, You're a Fool | Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment | Carl Reiner (director/screenplay); Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Jackie Gayle, Bruno Kirby, Corbin Bernsen, Anne Bancroft, Cathryn Bradshaw, Carmen du Sautoy, Liz Smith, Mike Grady | Musical | Live action | ||
| Powwow Highway | Warner Bros. Pictures / Handmade Films | Jonathan Wacks (director); David Seals, Janet Heaney, Jean Stawarz (screenplay); A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Joannelle Nadine Romero, Amanda Wyss, Roscoe Born, John Trudell, Wes Studi, Tony Frank, Rodney Grant, Graham Greene, Floyd Westerman, Sam Vlahos, Wayne Waterman, Margot Kane, Geoff Rivas, Chrissie McDonald, Sky Seals, Maria Antoinette Rogers, Dalin Gomez, Mike Means, Ariane Rowland, Chris Rowland, Keith Shoulder Blade, Titus Shoulder Blade, Adam Taylor, Del Zamora | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Toxic Avenger Part II | Troma Entertainment | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz (directors); Gay Partington Terry (screenplay); Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Sekine, Mayako Katsuragi | Comedy, Horror | Live action | ||
| M A R C H |
3 | Hit List | New Line Cinema / CineTel Films | William Lustig (director); Peter Brosnan, John F. Goff (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Rip Torn, Harold Sylvester, Jere Burns, Ken Lerner, Nick Barbaro, Margaret Gwenver, Lisa M. Hansen, Felice Orlandi, Junior Richard, Harreit Hall, Jack Andreozzi, Lou Bonacki, Barry Brener, Geoff Brewer, Richard E. Butler, Christopher Carroll, Robert A. Ferretti, John F. Goff, John Greene, Dennis Junt, Lauri Landry, Scott Lincoln, Jason Lustig, Vic Manni, Frank Pesce, Pearl Shear, John Paul Vetturini | Action, Thriller | Live action |
| Dream a Little Dream | Vestron Pictures | Marc Rocco (director/screenplay); Daniel Jay Franklin, D.E. Eisenberg (screenplay); Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Piper Laurie, Harry Dean Stanton, William McNamara, Lala, Susan Blakely, Matt Adler, Victoria Jackson, Alex Rocco, Josh Evans, Mickey Thomas, John Ford Coley | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Farewell to the King | Orion Pictures | John Milius (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Marius Weyers, Frank McRae, James Fox, Aki Aleong, Gerry Lopez, Richard Morgan, John Bennett Perry, Wayne Pygram | Adventure, Drama | Live action | ||
| Lean on Me | Warner Bros. Pictures | John G. Avildsen (director); Michael Schiffer (director); Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North, Ethan Phillips, Lynne Thigpen, Robin Bartlett, Michael Beach, Tony Todd, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Karen Malina White, Karina Arroyave, Michael P. Moran, Ivonne Coll, Regina Taylor, Jim Moody, Mike Starr, Michael Imperioli | Biography | Live action | ||
| Out Cold | Hemdale Film Corporation | Malcolm Mowbray (director); Leonard Glasser, George Malko (screenplay); John Lithgow, Teri Garr, Randy Quaid, Bruce McGill, Lisa Blount, Alan Blumenfeld, Frederick Coffin, Ada Maris, Larry Miller, Morgan Paull, Barbara Rhoades, Fran Ryan, Robert Schenkkan | Thriller, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Skin Deep | 20th Century Fox / Morgan Creek Productions | Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed, Julianne Phillips, Chelsea Field, Joel Brooks, Peter Donat, Don Gordon, Nina Foch, Denise Crosby, Michael Kidd, Dee Dee Rescher, Bryan Genesse, Bo Foxworth, Raye Hollitt, Brenda Swanson, Jean Marie McKee | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 10 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Columbia Pictures / Allied Filmmakers | Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Charles McKeown (screenplay); John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Valentina Cortese, Peter Jeffrey, Alison Steadman, Ray Cooper, Don Henderson, Sting, Terry Gilliam, Robin Williams | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy | Live action | |
| 12 | Dead Man Out | HBO Showcase | Richard Pearce (director); Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Danny Glover, Rubén Blades, Larry Block, Tom Atkins, Samuel L. Jackson | Crime | Live action | |
| Chances Are | TriStar Pictures | Emile Ardolino (director); Perry Howze, Randy Howze (screenplay); Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher McDonald, Josef Sommer, Joe Grifasi, Henderson Forsythe, Fran Ryan, James Noble, Marc McClure | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| Jacknife | Cineplex Odeon Films / Kings Road Entertainment | David Jones (director); Stephen Metcalfe (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Sloane Shelton, Ivar Brogger, Tom Isbell, Jordan Lund, Tom Rack, Charles S. Dutton, Bruce Ramsay, Jessalyn Gilsig, George Gerdes, Josh Pais, Loudon Wainwright III, Walter Massey, Elizabeth Franz | Drama | Live action | ||
| New York Stories | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / American Zoetrope | Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese (directors); Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Richard Price (screenplay); Woody Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Mia Farrow, Giancarlo Giannini, Julie Kavner, Nick Nolte, Talia Shire, Steve Buscemi, Jesse Borrego, Peter Gabriel, Illeana Douglas, Debbie Harry, Heather McComb, Don Novello, Adrien Brody, Chris Elliott, Carmine Coppola, Carole Bouquet, Mae Questel, George Schindler, Larry David, Mike Starr, | Anthology | Live action | ||
| Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | Warner Bros. Pictures | Peter Bonerz (director); Stephen Curwick (screenplay); Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Lance Kinsey, Bruce Mahler, Kenneth Mars, Matt McCoy, G. W. Bailey, George Gaynes, George R. Robertson, Gerrit Graham, Allison Mack, Arthur Batanides, Dean Norris, Roberta Haynes, Billie Bird, Greg Collins, Anna Mathias, Melle Mel, Peter Elbling, Charlie Adler, Paul Maslansky, Brian Seeman, Darwyn Swalve, Sippy Whiddon, Daniel Ben Wilson | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 17 | Fletch Lives | Universal Pictures | Michael Ritchie (director); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Don Brockett, Cleavon Little, George Wyner, Patricia Kalember, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Belzer, Phil Hartman, Titos Vandis, Don Hood | Comedy | Live action | |
| Leviathan | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Filmauro | George P. Cosmatos (director); David Peoples, Jeb Stuart (screenplay); Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher, Hector Elizondo, Meg Foster, Eugene Lipinski, Tom Woodruff Jr. | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live action | ||
| Rooftops | New Visions Pictures | Robert Wise (director); Allan A. Goldstein, Tony Mark (screenplay); Jason Gedrick, Troy Beyer, , Tisha Campbell-Martin, Alexis Cruz, Allen Payne, Luis Guzmán, Robert LaSardo, Lauren Tom | Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
| 19 | The Women of Brewster Place | ABC / King Features Entertainment / Harpo Productions / Phoenix Entertainment Group | Donna Deitch (director); Gloria Naylor, Karen Hall (screenplay); Oprah Winfrey, Robin Givens, Jackée Harry, Paul Winfield, Lynn Whitfield, Mary Alice, Lonette McKee, Leon, Larenz Tate, Cicely Tyson, Moses Gunn, Shari Belafonte, Paula Kelly, Olivia Cole, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, William Allen Young, Douglas Turner Ward, Glenn Plummer, Barbara Montgomery, Eugene Lee, Vivian Bonnell, William Frankfather, Montrose Hagins, Clark Johnson, Veronica Redd, Charles Weldon, Samm-Art Williams, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Phill Lewis, Ebonie Smith, Geoffrey Thorne, Bruce Beatty, Homeselle Joy, Bebe Drake, Jonathan 'Fudge' Leonard, Maya Leonard, Eddie Palmer, Bee-Be Smith | Drama | Live action | |
| 24 | 976-EVIL | New Line Cinema / CineTel Films | Robert Englund (director); Rhet Topham, Brian Helgeland (screenplay); Stephen Geoffreys, Jim Metzler, Maria Rubell, Pat O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis | Horror | Live action | |
| Castle in the Sky | Paramount Pictures / Streamline Pictures | Hayao Miyazaki (director/screenplay); Barbara Goodson, Lara Cody, Rachel Vanowen, Jeff Winkless, Mike Reynolds, Edward Mannix, Barry Stigler, Dave Mallow, Eddie Frierson, Clifton Wells, Daniel Foster | Family | Animation | ||
| Dead Bang | Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment | John Frankenheimer (director); Robert Foster (screenplay); Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Tim Reid, Tate Donovan, Frank Military, Antoni Stutz, Mickey Jones, Ron Campbell, William Traylor, Hy Anzell, Michael Jeter, James B. Douglas, Brad Sullivan | Action | Live action | ||
| Troop Beverly Hills | Columbia Pictures | Jeff Kanew (director); Pamela Norris, Margaret Grieco Oberman (screenplay); Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham, Jenny Lewis, Emily Schulman, Carla Gugino, Kellie Martin, Tori Spelling, Willie Garson, Karen Kopins, Aquilina Soriano, Tasha Scott, Heather Hopper, Ami Foster, Audra Lindley, Shelley Morrison, Dinah Lacey, Mary Pat Gleason, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Robin Leach, Cheech Marin, Ted McGinley, Pia Zadora | Action | Live action | ||
| 31 | Heathers | New World Pictures | Michael Lehmann (director); Daniel Waters (screenplay); Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Penelope Milford, Glenn Shadix, Lance Fenton, Patrick Labyorteaux, Jeremy Applegate, Em Lodge, Renée Estevez, Carrie Lynn, Chuck LaFont, Phill Lewis | Black comedy | Live action | |
| Sing | TriStar Pictures | Richard Baskin (director); Dean Pitchford (screenplay); Lorraine Bracco, Peter Dobson, Jessica Steen, Louise Lasser, George DiCenzo, Patti LaBelle, Yank Azman, Ingrid Veninger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Susan Peretz, Laurneá Wilkerson, Rachel Sweet, Scott Wentworth, Jason Blicker, Rino Romano, Leslie Carlson, Krista Bridges, Steve Susskind, Phillip Jarrett | Drama | Live action | ||
April–June[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A P R I L |
7 | Cyborg | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Cannon Group | Albert Pyun (director); Kitty Chalmers, Daniel Hubbard-Smith (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Dayle Haddon, Alex Daniels, Ralf Möller, Blaise Loong, Haley Peterson, Terrie Batson, Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney | Action | Live action |
| Dead Calm | Warner Bros. Pictures | Phillip Noyce (director); Terry Hayes (screenplay); Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane | Psychological thriller | Live action | ||
| The Dream Team | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Howard Zieff (director); Jon Connolly, David Loucka (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Lorraine Bracco, Dennis Boutsikaris, Milo O'Shea, Philip Bosco, James Remar, Michael Lembeck, Jack Riley, Larry Pine, John Stocker, Lizbeth MacKay, Ron James, Wayne Tippit, Ted Simonett, Freda Foh Shen, Dennis Parlato, Donna Hanover, Jihmi Kennedy | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Major League | Paramount Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions | David S. Ward (director/screenplay); Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, James Gammon, Rene Russo, Bob Uecker, Wesley Snipes, Charles Cyphers, Chelcie Ross, Dennis Haysbert, Andy Romano, Kip Powers, Steve Yeager, Pete Vuckovich, Willie Mueller, Neil Flynn, Stacy Carroll, Todd Johnson, Ed Grode, Jr., Marc Daniloff | Comedy, Sports | Live action | ||
| 14 | Disorganized Crime | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners | Jim Kouf (director/screenplay); Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen, Rubén Blades, Fred Gwynne, Ed O'Neill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Daniel Roebuck, William Russ | Comedy, Heist | Live action | |
| Say Anything... | 20th Century Fox / Gracie Films | Cameron Crowe (director/screenplay); John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, Polly Platt, Bebe Neuwirth, Jeremy Piven, Eric Stoltz, Amy Brooks, Loren Dean, Pamela Adlon, Chynna Phillips, Jason Gould, Philip Baker Hall, Joanna Frank, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Dan Castellaneta | Romantic comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| She's Out of Control | Columbia Pictures | Stan Dragoti (director); Seth Winston, Michael J. Nathanson (screenplay); Tony Danza, Catherine Hicks, Ami Dolenz, Laura Mooney, Wallace Shawn, Derek McGrath, Dana Ashbrook, Matthew Perry, Dick O'Neill, Dustin Diamond, Oliver Muirhead, Lance Wilson-White | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Winter People | Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment / Nelson Entertainment | Ted Kotcheff (director); Carol Sobieski (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Mitchell Ryan, Jeffrey Meek, Don Michael Paul, Lanny Flaherty, Eileen Ryan, Amelia Burnette, David Dwyer | Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
| 20 | Kickboxer | Cannon Films / Kings Road Entertainment | Mark DiSalle, David Worth (directors); Glenn A. Bruce (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi, Haskell Anderson, Jim Cummings, Ka Ting Lee, Rochelle Ashana, Richard Foo | Action | Live action | |
| 21 | Checking Out | Warner Bros. Pictures / HandMade Films | David Leland (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Ann Magnuson, Allan Havey, Jo Harvey Allen, Ian Wolfe, Billy Beck, Trudi Dochtermann, John Durbin, Adelle Lutz, Felton Perry, Allan Rich, Danton Stone, Stephen Tobolowsky, David Byrne, Joe Unger, George Harrison | Comedy | Live action | |
| Field of Dreams | Universal Pictures | Phil Alden Robinson (director/screenplay); Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, Timothy Busfield, Kelly Coffield Park, Frank Whaley, Gaby Hoffmann, Dwier Brown, Lee Garlington, Michael Milhoan, Steve Eastin, Charles Hoyes, Art LaFleur, Anne Seymour, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck | Drama, Sports | Live action | ||
| Pet Sematary | Paramount Pictures | Mary Lambert (director); Stephen King (screenplay); Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard, Miko Hughes, Blaze Berdahl, Susan Blommaert, Kavi Raz, Mary Louise Wilson, Andrew Hubatsek, Stephen King, Chuck Courtney, Matthew August Ferrell, Richard Collier, Elizabeth Ureneck | Horror | Live action | ||
| Red Scorpion | Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment | Joseph Zito (director); Jack Abramoff, Robert Abramoff, Arne Olson (screenplay); Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T. P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano, Brion James, Alex Colon, Ruben Nthodi | Action | Live action | ||
| See You in the Morning | Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment | Alan J. Pakula (director/screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas, David Dukes, Frances Sternhagen, George Hearn, Theodore Bikel, Linda Lavin, Heather Lilly, Macaulay Culkin, Tom Aldredge, William LeMassena, Dorothy Dean, Alixe Gordin, Kate Williamson, Christopher Curry, Betsy Aidem, Robert Levine | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| Speed Zone | Orion Pictures | Jim Drake (director); Michael Short (screenplay); Melody Anderson, Peter Boyle, Donna Dixon, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dick Smothers, Tom Smothers, Shari Belafonte, Joe Flaherty, Matt Frewer, Mimi Kuzyk, Alyssa Milano, Brooke Shields, Carl Lewis, Louis Del Grande, Jamie Farr, Brian George, Art Hindle, Harvey Atkin, Don Lake, Tim Matheson, Richard Petty, Michael Spinks, John Schneider, Lee Van Cleef | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Teen Witch | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / | Dorian Walker (director); Robin Menken, Vernon Zimmerman (screenplay); Robyn Lively, Zelda Rubinstein, Dan Gauthier, Joshua John Miller, Caren Kaye, Dick Sargent, Lisa Fuller, Marcia Wallace, Amanda Ingber, Shelley Berman, Cindy Valentine, Megan A. Gallivan, Noah Blake, Tina Caspary | Comedy, Fantasy | Live action | ||
| 23 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | HBO Pictures / Citadel Entertainment | Brian Gibson (director); Abby Mann, Robin Vote, Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Ben Kingsley, Renée Soutendijk, Craig T. Nelson, Anton Lesser, Jack Shepherd, Paul Freeman, David Threlfall, Anna Cropper, Vernon Dobtcheff, Oliver Ford Davies, Philip Franks, Zoltán Gera, Patrick Godfrey, Henry Goodman, Jack Klaff, Carol MacReady, Miriam Margoyles, Harry Towb, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Robert Morelli, Sándor Téri | Biography | Live action | |
| 28 | Criminal Law | Hemdale Film Corporation | Martin Campbell (director); Mark Kasdan (screenplay); Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young, Joe Don Baker, Sean McCann, Ron Lea, Michael Sinelnikoff, Elizabeth Shepherd | Thriller | Live action | |
| The Horror Show | United Artists | James Isaac (director); Allyn Warner, Leslie Bohem (screenplay); Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg, Thom Bray, Matt Clark, David Oliver, Terry Alexander, Lawrence Tierney, Lewis Arquette | Horror | Live action | ||
| K-9 | Universal Pictures | Rod Daniel (director); Steven Siegel, Scott Myers, Lloyd Levin, Donna Smith (screenplay); Jim Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill, James Handy, Sherman Howard, Daniel Davis, Cotter Smith, John Snyder, Pruitt Taylor Vince | Action, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Loverboy | TriStar Pictures | Joan Micklin Silver (director); Robin Schiff, Tom Ropelewski, Leslie Dixon (screenplay); Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Carrie Fisher, Robert Ginty, Barbara Carrera, Kirstie Alley, Nancy Valen, Vic Tayback, Robert Picardo, Ray Girardin, E.G. Daily, Peter Koch, Robert Camilletti, Bernie Coulson, Dylan Walsh, Kim Miyori | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Miss Firecracker | Corsair Pictures | Thomas Schlamme (director); Beth Henley (screenplay); Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn, Veanne Cox, Ann Wedgeworth, Trey Wilson, Amy Wright, Kathleen Chalfant, Greg Germann, Bert Remsen, Robert Fieldsteel, Avril Gentles, Angela Turner | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Scandal | Miramax Films | Michael Caton-Jones (director); Michael Thomas (screenplay); John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Ian McKellen, Bridget Fonda, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey, Roland Gift, Jeroen Krabbé, Jean Alexander, Deborah Grant, Alex Norton, Ronald Fraser, Paul Brooke, Keith Allen, Ralph Brown, Iain Cuthbertson, Johnny Shannon, Leon Herbert | Drama | Live action | ||
| M A Y |
5 | Listen to Me | Columbia Pictures | Douglas Day Stewart (director/screenplay); Jack Cummins, Daniel Arthur Wray (screenplay); Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Roy Scheider, Amanda Peterson, George Wyner, Anthony Zerbe, Quinn Cummings, Christopher Atkins, Timothy Dang, Peter DeLuise, Jason Gould, Yeardley Smith, Moon Unit Zappa, Tom Schanley, Dan Schneider, Rance Howard, Ron Masak, Martin West, Nancy Valen, Julie Dretzin, Lynn Fischer, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Lilyan Chauvin, Annette Sinclair, Anna Lee, Jon Lindstrom, David Downing, Don Galloway, Sean Stewart, Dottie Archibald, Jon Shear, Christopher Rydell, Dorrie Krum, Robert A. Chumbrook Jr., Ed Wright, R. Norwood Smith, Dave Gilbert, Mary Gregory, Frank Ferruccio, Chillie Mo | Drama | Live action |
| Lost Angels | Orion Pictures | Hugh Hudson (director); Michael Weller (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Adam Horovitz, Amy Locane, Don Bloomfield, Celia Weston, Graham Beckel, Patricia Richardson, Ron Frazier, Joe D'Angerio, William O'Leary, Kevin Corrigan, Gary Riley, Michael Cunningham, Leonard Porter Salazar, Jonathan Del Arco, Celia Newman, David Herman, Max Perlich, Nina Siemaszko, Kevin Tighe, John C. McGinley, Frances Fisher, Lee Wilkof, James N. Harrell, Jack Gold, Keone Young, Park Overall, Pauly Shore | Drama | Live action | ||
| Signs of Life | Avenue Pictures | John David Coles (director); Mark Malone (screenplay); Beau Bridges, Vincent D'Onofrio, Arthur Kennedy, Kevin J. O'Connor, Will Patton, Kate Reid, Georgia Engel, Kathy Bates, Mary-Louise Parker | Drama | Live action | ||
| 12 | Earth Girls Are Easy | Vestron Pictures / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group | Julien Temple (director); Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, Terrence E. McNally (screenplay); Geena Davis, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Michael McKean, Charles Rocket, Larry Linville, Rick Overton, Nedra Volz, Angelyne, Diane Stilwell | Musical, Romantic comedy, Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| The Rachel Papers | United Artists / Virgin Films | Damian Harris (director/screenplay); Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce, James Spader, Bill Paterson, Michael Gambon, Lesley Sharp, Jared Harris, Aubrey Morris, Claire Skinner, Shirley Anne Field, Pat Keen, Amanda de Cadenet, Gina McKee, Eric Stoltz | Drama, Romance | Live action | ||
| See No Evil, Hear No Evil | TriStar Pictures | Arthur Hiller (director); Earl Barret, Arne Sultan, Marvin Worth, Eliot Wald, Andrew Kurtzman, Gene Wilder (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North, Anthony Zerbe, Louis Giambalvo, Kirsten Childs | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 19 | Cold Feet | Avenue Pictures | Robert Dornhelm (director); Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison (screenplay); Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits, Bill Pullman, Kathleen York, Rip Torn, Jeff Bridges, Macon McCalman, Vincent Schiavelli, Chuck Woolery | Comedy | Live action | |
| For Queen and Country | Atlantic Entertainment Group | Martin Stellman (director/screenplay); Trix Worrell (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Bruce Payne, Amanda Redman, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish, Geff Francis, Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, George Baker, Stella Gonet, Ken Stott, Jimmi Harkishin, Stephen Lawrence, Michael Bray, Colin Thomas, Brian McDermott | Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
| Fright Night Part 2 | TriStar Pictures | Tommy Lee Wallace (director/screenplay); Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada-Flores (screenplay); Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen, Jon Gries, Brian Thompson, Merritt Butrick, Ernie Sabella, Josh Richman, Blair Tefkin, Russell Clark | Horror, Comedy | Live action | ||
| How I Got into College | 20th Century Fox | Savage Steve Holland (director); Terrel Seltzer (screenplay); Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Finn Carter, Charles Rocket, Brian Doyle-Murray, Tichina Arnold, Tom Kenny, Richard Jenkins, Phil Hartman, Nora Dunn, Christopher Rydell, O-Lan Jones, Bruce Wagner, Bill Raymond, Philip Baker Hall, Nicolas Coster, Duane Davis, Diane Franklin, Robert Ridgely, Micole Mercurio, Bill Henderson, Richard Steven Horvitz, Curtis Armstrong, Taylor Negron | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| Miracle Mile | Columbia Pictures / Hemdale Film Corporation | Steve De Jarnatt (director/screenplay); Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson, Kelly Jo Minter, Kurt Fuller, Brian Thompson, Denise Crosby, Robert DoQui, O-Lan Jones, Claude Earl Jones, Alan Rosenberg, Danny De La Paz, Earl Boen, Raphael Sbarge, Lucille Bliss, Diane Delano, Edward Bunker, Peter Berg, Richard Biggs, Jenette Goldstein | Thriller | Live action | ||
| Road House | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists / Silver Pictures | Rowdy Herrington (director); David Lee Henry, Hilary Henkin (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Kevin Tighe, Red West, Sunshine Parker, Marshall R. Teague, Anthony De Longis, Keith David, Jeff Healey, John Doe, Kathleen Wilhoite, Terry Funk, Julie Michaels, Travis McKenna, John William Young | Action | Live action | ||
| 24 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm | Steven Spielberg (director); Jeffrey Boam (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Kevork Malikyan, Robert Eddison, Richard Young, Alexei Sayle, Alex Hyde-White, Paul Maxwell, Isla Blair, Vernon Dobtcheff, Bradley Gregg, Frederick Jaeger, Eugene Lipinski | Action, Adventure | Live action | |
| 26 | Pink Cadillac | Warner Bros. Pictures / Malpaso Productions | Buddy Van Horn (director); John Eskow (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, John Dennis Johnston, Gerry Bamman, Michael Des Barres, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Bill Moseley, Michael Champion, William Hickey, Geoffrey Lewis, Dirk Blocker, Frances Fisher, Paul Benjamin, Bryan Adams, Mara Corday, Jim Carrey, James Cromwell, Bill McKinney | Action, Comedy | Live action | |
| 28 | Third Degree Burn | HBO Pictures / Paramount Pictures / MTM Enterprises | Roger Spottiswoode (director); Duncan Gibbins, Yale Udoff (screenplay); Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder, Mary Armstrong, John Aylward, George Catalano, Michael Chapman, William Marquez, Joe Mays, Robert Nadir, Alex Thayer, Rick Tutor, Lisa Zebro | Crime | Live action | |
| J U N E |
2 | Dead Poets Society | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners | Peter Weir (director); Tom Schulman (screenplay); Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Lara Flynn Boyle, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood Smith, Dylan Kussman, Melora Walters, James Waterston, Alexandra Powers, Leon Pownall, George Martin, Allelon Ruggiero, Jane Moore, Kevin Cooney, Colin Irving, Matt Carey, John Cunningham | Drama | Live action |
| No Holds Barred | New Line Cinema / WWE Studios | Thomas J. Wright (director); Dennis Hackin (screenplay); Hulk Hogan, Kurt Fuller, Joan Severance, Tiny Lister, Jr., Mark Pellegrino, Bill Henderson, Charles Levin, David Paymer, Patrick O'Bryan, Jeep Swenson, Bill Eadie, Stan Hansen, Rebecca Wackler, Bruce Taylor, Gene Okerlund, Jesse Ventura, Howard Finkel, Joey Marella, Rick Allen | Action | Live action | ||
| Renegades | Universal Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions / Interscope Communications | Jack Sholder (director); David Rich (screenplay); Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich, Jami Gertz, Clark Johnson, Peter MacNeill, Floyd Westerman, Joseph Griffin, Kyra Harper | Action, Crime | Live action | ||
| Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills | Cinecom Pictures | Paul Bartel (director); Bruce Wagner (screenplay); Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Arnetia Walker, Paul Bartel, Paul Mazursky, Rebecca Schaeffer, Barret Oliver, Edith Diaz, Susan Saiger, Jerry Tondo, Michael Feinstein, Frank Welker, Little Richard | Black comedy | Live action | ||
| Vampire's Kiss | Hemdale Film Corporation | Robert Bierman (director); Joseph Minion (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, María Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons, Bob Lujan, Jessica Lundy, John Walker, Boris Leskin, Michael Knowles, John Michael Higgins, Jodie Markell, Marc Coppola, David Pierce, Amy Stiller, Christopher Sluka, ESG | Black comedy, Horror | Live action | ||
| 9 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Paramount Pictures | William Shatner (director); David Loughery (screenplay); William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Laurence Luckinbill, Todd Bryant, Spice Williams-Crosby, George Murdock, David Warner, Charles Cooper, Cynthia Gouw, Bill Quinn, Harve Bennett | Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| 16 | Ghostbusters II | Columbia Pictures | Ivan Reitman (director); Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis (screenplay); Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, Kurt Fuller, David Margulies, Harris Yulin, Janet Margolin, William T. Deutschendorf, Hank J. Deutschendorf II, Wilhelm von Homburg, Max von Sydow, Brian Doyle-Murray, Karen Humber, Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman, Mary Ellen Trainor, Cheech Marin, Philip Baker Hall, Bobby Brown, Ben Stein | Comedy, Fantasy | Live action | |
| 23 | Batman | Warner Bros. Pictures / Guber-Peters Company | Tim Burton (director); Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, Jack Palance, Jerry Hall, Tracey Walter, Lee Wallace, William Hootkins, John Dair, Christopher Fairbank, George Roth, Kit Hollerbach, Hugo E. Blick, Charles Roskilly, David Baxt, Sharon Holm, Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon, Adrian Meyers | Action, Superhero | Live action | |
| Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Walt Disney Pictures | Joe Johnston (director); Ed Naha, Tom Schulman (screenplay); Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O'Neill, Robert Oliveri, Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Carl Steven | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Family | Live action | ||
| 25 | Traveling Man | HBO Pictures | Irvin Kershner (director); David Taylor (screenplay); John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman, Margaret Colin, John Glover, John M. Jackson, Chynna Phillips, J. Don Ferguson, Jennifer Hale, Paul Armbruster, Dawn Arnemann, Jerry Campbell, Marc Clement, Saundra Dunson-Franks, David Dwyer, Danny Nelson, Bob Penny, Johnny Popwell, Alex Van, Tim Ware | Comedy | Live action | |
| 30 | Do the Right Thing | Universal Pictures / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks | Spike Lee (director/screenplay); Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, John Savage, Roger Guenveur Smith, Rosie Perez, Joie Lee, Steve White, Martin Lawrence, Leonard L. Thomas, Christa Rivers, Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, Frankie Faison, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Park, Rick Aiello, Miguel Sandoval, Luis Antonio Ramos, Frank Vincent, Richard Parnell Habersham, Ginny Yang, Nicholas Turturro | Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
| Great Balls of Fire! | Orion Pictures | Jim McBride (director/screenplay); Jack Baran (screenplay); Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Trey Wilson, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lisa Blount, Mojo Nixon, Jimmie Vaughan, Steve Allen, Joshua Sheffield, David R. Ferguson, Robert Lesser, Michael St. Gerard, Lisa Jane Persky, Peter Cook, Jerry Lee Lewis | Biography | Live action | ||
| The Karate Kid Part III | Columbia Pictures | John G. Avildsen (director); Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith, Martin Kove, Sean Kanan, Jonathan Avildsen, Christopher Paul Ford, Randee Heller, Pat E. Johnson, Rick Hurst, Frances Bay, Joseph V. Perry, Jan Tříska, Glenn Medeiros, Gabe Jarret | Action, Drama | Live action | ||
July–September[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J U L Y |
5 | Ice Pawn | Motion Picture Corporation of America | Barry Samson (director); Paul Cross (screenplay); Dan Haggerty | Drama, Sports | Live action |
| Weekend at Bernie's | 20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment | Ted Kotcheff (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa, Catherine Parks, Eloise Broady, Gregory Salata, Louis Giambalvo, Ted Kotcheff, Margaret Hall, Jason Woliner | Black comedy | Live action | ||
| 7 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Warner Bros. Pictures / Silver Pictures | Richard Donner (director); Jeffrey Boam (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor, Patsy Kensit, Darlene Love, Steve Kahan, Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein, Dean Norris, Nestor Serrano, Mary Ellen Trainor, Kenneth Tigar, Pat Skipper, Bruce Young, Traci Wolfe, Juney Smith | Action | Live action | |
| 14 | Licence to Kill | United Artists / Eon Productions | John Glen (director); Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae, Everett McGill, Wayne Newton, Benicio del Toro, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Caroline Bliss, Anthony Starke, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., David Hedison, Priscilla Barnes, Don Stroud, Alejandro Bracho, Guy De Saint Cyr, Grand L. Bush, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Christopher Neame, Rafer Johnson, Diana Lee Hsu | Action, Spy | Live action | |
| Peter Pan (re-release) | Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors); Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, Heather Angel, Bill Thompson, Robert Ellis, June Foray, Candy Candido, Tom Conway, Roland Dupree, Don Barclay, The Mellomen, Tony Butala, Connie Hilton, Karen Kester, Margaret Kerry | Adventure, Fantasy | Animation | ||
| When Harry Met Sally... | Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment / Nelson Entertainment | Rob Reiner (director); Nora Ephron (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Steven Ford, Lisa Jane Persky, Michelle Nicastro, Kevin Rooney, Harley Jane Kozak, Estelle Reiner | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| 21 | Shag | Hemdale Film Corporation | Zelda Barron (director); Lanier Laney, Terry Sweeney, Robin Swicord (screenplay); Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Robert Rusler, Tyrone Power, Jr., Jeff Yagher, Carrie Hamilton, Leilani Sarelle | Comedy | Live action | |
| UHF | Orion Pictures | Jay Levey (director/screenplay); "Weird Al" Yankovic (screenplay); "Weird Al" Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy, David Bowe, Anthony Geary, Fran Drescher, Stanley Brock, Sue Ane Langdon, Gedde Watanabe, Anthony Geary, Billy Barty, John Paragon, Trinidad Silva, Vance Colvig Jr., David Proval, Belinda Bauer, Dr. Demento, Emo Philips, Patrick Thomas O'Brien, The Kipper Kids | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 28 | Babar: The Movie | New Line Cinema / Nelvana | Alan Bunce (director/screenplay); Peter Sauder, J.D. Smith, John de Klein, Raymond Jafelice (screenplay); Gordon Pinsent, Elizabeth Hanna, Lisa Yamanaka, Marsha Moreau, Bobby Becken, Amos Crawley, Gavin Magrath, Sarah Polley, Stephen Ouimette, Chris Wiggins, John Stocker, Charles Kerr, Stuart Stone, Carl Banas, Ray Landry, Angela Fusco, Christopher Britton, Jason Burke, Frank Perry, Chris Robson, Norm Spencer, Barbara Mantini, Christopher Andrande, Scott Brunt, Katie Coristine, Lea-Helen Weir, Anna Lena Malloy | Adventure, Family | Animation | |
| Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Paramount Pictures | Rob Hedden (director/screenplay); Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Barbara Bingham, Peter Mark Richman, Martin Cummins, Gordon Currie, Alex Diakun, V.C. Dupree, Saffron Henderson, Kelly Hu, Sharlene Martin, Warren Munson, Kane Hodder, Ken Kirzinger, Amber Pawlick, Timothy Burr Mirkovich | Horror, Slasher | Live action | ||
| Turner & Hooch | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners | Roger Spottiswoode (director); Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett, Daniel Petrie Jr., Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Scott Paulin, J. C. Quinn, John McIntire, Ebbe Roe Smith, Ernie Lively, Clyde Kusatsu, David Knell, Kevin Scannell, Joel Bailey, Mary McCusker, Elaine Renee Bush, Eda Reiss Merin | Comedy, Detective | Live action | ||
| A U G U S T |
2 | Parenthood | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Ron Howard (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Harley Jane Kozak, Eileen Ryan, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Shaw, Jasen Fisher, Paul Linke, Alisan Porter, Ivyann Schwann, Zachary La Voy, Alex Burrall, Charmin Lee, Dennis Dugan, Max Elliott Slade | Comedy Drama | Live action |
| 4 | Lock Up | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | John Flynn (director); Richard Smith, Jeb Stuart, Henry Rosenbaum (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore, William Allen Young, Larry Romano, Jordan Lund, Danny Trejo, John Lilla, Dean Duval, Jerry Strivelli, David Anthony Marshall, Kurek Ashley, Michael Petroni, Frank Pesce | Action, Prison | Live action | |
| 9 | The Abyss | 20th Century Fox | James Cameron (director/screenplay); Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, J.C. Quinn, Leo Burmester, Kimberly Scott, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd, Chris Elliott, Kidd Brewer Jr., Richard Warlock, Jimmie Ray Weeks, J. Kenneth Campbell, William Wisher, Jr., Ken Jenkins, George Robert Klek, Christopher Murphy, Adam Nelson | Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| 11 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | New Line Cinema / Heron Communications | Stephen Hopkins (director); Leslie Bohem (screenplay); Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Kelly Jo Minter, Erika Anderson, Joe Seely, Beatrice Boepple, Whit Hertford, Nicholas Mele, Valorie Armstrong, Burr DeBenning, Clarence Felder, Michael Bailey Smith | Slasher | Live action | |
| 16 | Rude Awakening | Orion Pictures / Aaron Russo Productions / Cineplex Odeon Films | David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo (directors); Neil Levy, Richard LaGravenese (screenplay); Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry, Louise Lasser, Cindy Williams, Andrea Martin, Cliff DeYoung, Tom Sizemore, Rae Dawn Chong, Timothy Leary | Comedy | Live action | |
| Uncle Buck | Universal Pictures / Hughes Entertainment | John Hughes (director/screenplay); John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Underwood, Laurie Metcalf, Garrett M. Brown, Elaine Bromka, Brian Tarantina, Suzanne Shepherd, Mike Starr, William Windom | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 18 | Blood Red | Hemdale Film Corporation | Peter Masterson (director); Ron Cutler (screenplay); Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn, Lara Harris, Joseph Runningfox, Al Ruscio, Michael Madsen, Elias Koteas, Francesca De Sapio, Marc Lawrence, Frank Campanella, Aldo Ray, Gary Swanson, Susan Anspach, Julia Roberts, Kevin Cooney, Charles Dierkop | Western, Drama | Live action | |
| Casualties of War | Columbia Pictures | Brian De Palma (director); David Rabe (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Patrick Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Thuy Thu Le, Erik King, Ving Rhames, Dale Dye, Holt McCallany, Dan Martin, Wendell Pierce, Sam Robards, Steve Larson, Vyto Ruginis, Maris Valainis, Darren E. Burrows, Sherman Howard, John Marshall Jones, Amy Irving, Jack Gwaltney | Drama | Live action | ||
| Cheetah | Walt Disney Pictures | Jeff Blyth (director); Erik Tarloff, John Cotter, Griff Du Rhone (screenplay); Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins, Jim Ward, Collin Mothupi, Timothy Landfield, Breon Gorman-Landfield, Mhlangabezi Ka Vundla, Lydia Kigada, Kuldeep Bhakoo, Paul Onsongo, Anthony Baird, Rory McGuinness, Rod Jacobsen, David Adido, Evalyne Kamau, Richard Clarke, Michael Rogers, Joe Herrington | Family, Drama | Live action | ||
| A Chorus of Disapproval | Curzon Films | Michael Winner (director/screenplay); Alan Ayckbourn (screenplay); Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Sims, Gareth Hunt, Patsy Kensit, Lionel Jeffries, Alexandra Pigg, Richard Briers, Barbara Ferris, Pete Lee-Wilson, Dinah May, David King, Amanda Mainard, Anne Priestley, Audrey Trotter | Comedy, Drama, Musical | Live action | ||
| Cookie | Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment | Susan Seidelman (director); Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen (screenplay); Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael V. Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro, Adrian Pasdar, Jerry Lewis, Lionel Stander, Bob Gunton, Joe Mantello, Ricki Lake, Joy Behar | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! | Columbia Pictures / Aurora Productions | Jean-Claude Lord (director); Charles Zev Cohen, Rick Doehring (screenplay); Michael Paré, Marina Orsini, Bernie Coulson, Matthew Laurance, Michael "Tunes" Antunes, Anthony Sherwood, David Matheson, Mark Holmes, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Paul Markle, Larry King, Martha Quinn, Bo Diddley | Musical, Drama | Live action | ||
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Miramax Films | Steven Soderbergh (director/screenplay); James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Steven Brill, Ron Vawter | Drama | Live action | ||
| 20 | Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy | HBO Showcase / Granada Television | David Darlow (director); Brian Phelan (screenplay); Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin, Otto Jarman, Bradley Lavelle, Ed O'Ross, Gavan O'Herlihy, Jay Patterson, Shane Rimmer, Colin Stinton, Rolf Saxon, Angus MacInnes, Vincent Marzello, Brian Greene, Robert Jezek, Garrick Hagon, Michael Shannon, Tomasz Borkowy, Stéphane Cornicard, Togo Igawa, Soon Tek-Oh | Thriller | Live action | |
| 25 | The Adventures of Milo and Otis | Columbia Pictures | Mark Saltzman (screenplay); Dudley Moore | Adventure, Drama, Family | Live action | |
| Heart of Dixie | Orion Pictures | Martin Davidson (director); Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom McCown (screenplay); Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Don Michael Paul, Kurtwood Smith, Richard Bradford, Treat Williams, Kyle Secor, Francesca P. Roberts, Peter Berg, Lisa Zane, Ashley Gardner, Barbara Babcock, Michael St. Gerard, Jenny Robertson, Eddy Kiihnl, Hazen Gifford | Drama | Live action | ||
| Little Monsters | United Artists | Richard Alan Greenberg (director); Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott (screenplay); Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Ben Savage, Daniel Stern, Margaret Whitton, Frank Whaley, Rick Ducommun, Amber Barretto, Devin Ratray, William Murray Weiss, Kala Savage | Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Package | Orion Pictures | Andrew Davis (director); John Bishop (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz, Pam Grier, Kevin Crowley, Ron Dean, Nathan Davis, Chelcie Ross, Thalmus Rasulala, Gregory Alan Williams, Joe V. Greco, Reni Santoni, Marco St. John, Boris Leskin, Gene Barge, Danny Goldring, Ike Pappas, Harry Lennix, Nicholas Kusenko, Joe Guzaldo | Action, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Wired | FM Entertainment / Taurus Entertainment | Larry Peerce (director); Earl Mac Rauch (screenplay); Michael Chiklis, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney, Alex Rocco, Gary Groomes, Ray Sharkey, Jere Burns, Clyde Kusatsu, Tom Bower, Earl Billings, Dakin Matthews, J.C. Quinn, Steve Vinovich, Brooke McCarter, Paul Ben-Victor, Billy Preston, Matthew Faison, Jon Snyder | Biography | Live action | ||
| 30 | Shirley Valentine | Paramount Pictures | Lewis Gilbert (director); Willy Russell (screenplay); Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Joanna Lumley, Bernard Hill, George Costigan, Anna Keaveney, Tracie Bennett, Sylvia Sims, Gillian Kearney, Ken Sharrock, Karen Craig, Gareth Jefferson, Catharine Duncan | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
| S E P T E M B E R |
1 | Relentless | New Line Cinema / CineTel Films | William Lustig (director); Phil Alden Robinson (screenplay); Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Ken Lerner, Angel Tompkins, Beau Starr, Ron Taylor, Roy Brocksmith, Patrick O'Bryan, Mindy Seeger | Crime | Live action |
| 15 | The Big Picture | Columbia Pictures | Christopher Guest (director); Michael McKean (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Roddy McDowell, John Cleese, Martin Short, Elliott Gould, Kim Miyori, Dan Schneider, Jason Gould, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Franklin, Gary Kroeger, Fran Drescher, June Lockhart, Eddie Albert, Bruce Kirby, Beth Chamberlin, Suzanne M. Slater | Comedy | Live action | |
| Sea of Love | Universal Pictures | Harold Becker (director); Richard Price (screenplay); Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey, Richard Jenkins, John Spencer, Michael O'Neill, Samuel L. Jackson | Thriller | Live action | ||
| 16 | The Heist | HBO Pictures | Stuart Orme (director); William Irish Jr., David Fuller, Rick Natkin (screenplay); Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Noble Willingham, Tom Atkins, Robert Prosky, Chino 'Fats' Williams, Stephen Apostolina, Shelton Redden, Roger Hewlett, Joseph Carberry, Art Frankel, Ben Mittleman, Nino Surdo | Romance, Thriller | Live action | |
| 20 | Gandahar | Miramax Films | René Laloux (director/screenplay); Glenn Close, Jennifer Grey, Terrence Mann, Penn and Teller, John Shea, Bridget Fonda, David Johansen, Earle Hyman, Earl Hammond, Christopher Plummer, Sheila McCarthy, Alexander Marshall, Paul Shaffer, Dennis Predovic, Chip Bolcik, Kevin O'Rourke, Ray Owens, Jill Haworth, Charles Busch | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Animation | |
| 22 | Black Rain | Paramount Pictures | Ridley Scott (director); Craig Bolotin, Warren Lewis (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yūsaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kōyama, John Spencer, Luis Guzmán, Stephen Root, Guts Ishimatsu, Yuya Uchida, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Miyuki Ono | Action, Thriller | Live action | |
| A Dry White Season | MGM/UA | Euzhan Palcy (director/screenplay); Colin Welland (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jürgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Susannah Harker, Leonard Maguire, Winston Ntshona, Michael Gambon, John Kani, Gerard Thoolen, David de Keyser, Rowen Elmes, Thoko Ntshinga, Bekhithemba Mpofu | Drama | Live action | ||
| Erik the Viking | Orion Pictures | Terry Jones (director/screenplay); Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, John Cleese, Antony Sher, Charles McKeown, Tim McInnerny, John Gordon Sinclair, Richard Ridings, Freddie Jones, Samantha Bond, Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Neil Innes, Allan Surtees, Tsutomu Sekine, John Scott Martin, Simon Evans, Matthew Baker | Comedy, Fantasy | Live action | ||
| Heavy Petting | Skouras Pictures / Americas in Transition | Obie Benz, Joshua Waletzky (directors); Pierce Rafferty (screenplay); David Byrne, Abbie Hoffman, Ann Magnuson, Frances Fisher, Spalding Gray, William S. Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Sandra Bernhard, Allen Ginsberg, Josh Mostel, John Oates, Wayne Jobson | Documentary | Live action | ||
| Penn & Teller Get Killed | Warner Bros. Pictures | Arthur Penn (director); Penn Jillette, Teller (screenplay); Penn Jillette, Teller, Caitlin Clarke, Celia McGuire, David Patrick Kelly, Leonardo Cimino, Bill Randolph, Jon Cryer, Christopher Durang, Camille Saviola, Paul Calderón, Eddie Gorodetsky, Nancy Giles, Tom Sizemore, Reg E. Cathey, Alan North, Matthew Penn | Black Comedy | Live action | ||
| 27 | C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. | Vestron Pictures / Lightning Pictures | David Irving (director); M. Kane Jeeves (screenplay); Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham, Robert Vaughn, Larry Cedar, Bianca Jagger, Larry Linville, Jack Riley, Sandra Kerns, June Lockhart, Norman Fell, Rich Hall, Robert Symonds, Priscilla Pointer, Marvin J. McIntyre, Ritch Shydner, Clive Revill, Michael Bell, Robert Englund | Zombie, Comedy | Live action | |
| 29 | In Country | Warner Bros. Pictures | Norman Jewison (director); Frank Pierson, Cynthia Cidre, Bobbie Ann Mason (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry, Peggy Rea, Judith Ivey, Daniel Jenkins, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Beaver, Heidi Swedberg, Ken Jenkins, Patricia Richardson, Richard Hamilton, Jonathan Hogan | Drama | Live action | |
| Johnny Handsome | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Walter Hill (director); Ken Friedman (screenplay); Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Lance Henriksen, Scott Wilson, David Schramm, Yvonne Bryceland, Peter Jason, Jeffrey Meek, Allan Graf, Raynor Scheine, J.W. Smith, Ed Zang, John P. Fertitta, Edward Walsh | Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
| Welcome Home | Columbia Pictures | Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Maggie Kleinman (screenplay); Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith, Thomas Wilson Brown, Trey Wilson, John Marshall Jones, Ken Pogue, Kieu Chinh | Drama | Live action | ||
October–December[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O C T O B E R |
6 | An Innocent Man | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Interscope Communications | Peter Yates (director); Larry Brothers (screenplay); Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young, Badja Djola, Bruce A. Young, Dennis Burkley, Todd Graff, M.C. Gainey, Tobin Bell, Maggie Baird, Lt. Mike Budge, Peter Van Norden, James T. Morris | Crime, Thriller | Live action |
| Old Gringo | Columbia Pictures | (director); William M. Anderson, Glenn Farr, Juan Carlos Macías (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jenny Gago, Gabriela Roel, Jim Metzler, Anne Pitoniak, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pedro Damián, Sergio Calderón, Guillermo Ríos, Samuel Valadez De La Torre | Romance, Western | Live action | ||
| 12 | Puppet Master | Paramount Home Video / Full Moon Pictures | David Schmoeller (director/screenplay); Charles Band, Kenneth J. Hall (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Jimmie F. Skaggs, William Hickey, Irene Miracle, Mews Small, Barbara Crampton, Robin Frates, Matt Roe, Kathryn O'Reilly, David Boyd, Peter Frankland, Andrew Kimbrough | Horror | Live action | |
| 13 | Breaking In | The Samuel Goldwyn Company / Act III Communications | Bill Forsyth (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Lorraine Toussaint, Sheila Kelley, Albert Salmi, Harry Carey, Maury Chaykin, Stephen Tobolowsky | Crime, Comedy | Live action | |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | Orion Pictures | Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Jerry Orbach, Joanna Gleason, Claire Bloom, Sam Waterston, Caroline Aaron, Martin S. Bergmann, Frances Conroy, Daryl Hannah, Nora Ephron, Jenny Nichols, Zina Jasper | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Fabulous Baker Boys | 20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment / Mirage Enterprises | Steve Kloves (director/screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab, Xander Berkeley, Jennifer Tilly, Dakin Matthews, Ken Lerner, Albert Hall, Terri Treas, Gregory Itzin, Bradford English, David Coburn | Romantic comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Galaxy International / 20th Century Fox / Compass International Pictures | Dominique Othenin-Girard (director/screenplay); Michael Jacobs, Shem Bitterman (screenplay); Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr, Wendy Kaplan, Tamara Glynn, Matthew Walker, Troy Evans, Don Shanks, Jeffrey Landman, Jonathan Chapin, Betty Carvalho, Max Robinson, Frank Como, David Ursin | Slasher | Live action | ||
| I, Madman | Trans World Entertainment | Tibor Takács (director); David Chaskin (screenplay); Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook, Stephanie Hodge, Bob Frank, Bruce Wagner, Michelle Jordan, Vance Valencia, Mary Baldwin, Rafael Nazario | Horror | Live action | ||
| Look Who's Talking | TriStar Pictures | Amy Heckerling (director/screenplay); John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda, Bruce Willis, Twink Caplan, Joy Boushel, Joan Rivers | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| 20 | Drugstore Cowboy | Avenue Pictures | Gus Van Sant (director/screenplay); Daniel Yost (screenplay); Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Remar, James LeGros, Heather Graham, William S. Burroughs, Max Perlich, Grace Zabriskie | Crime, Drama | Live action | |
| Fat Man and Little Boy | Paramount Pictures | Roland Joffé (director/screenplay); Bruce Robinson (screenplay); Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C. McGinley, Natasha Richardson, Fred Dalton Thompson, Ron Vawter, Del Close, John Considine, Allan Corduner, Todd Field, Ed Lauter, Gerald Hiken, James Eckhouse, Mary Pat Gleason, Clark Gregg, Péter Halász, Robert Peter Gale, Ron Frazier, Michael Brockman, Franco Cutietta, Joe D'Angerio, Jon DeVries | Drama, Historical | Live action | ||
| Gross Anatomy | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Sandollar Productions | Thom Eberhardt (director); Ron Nyswaner, Mark Spragg, Howard Rosenman, Alan Jay Glueckman, Stanley Isaacs (screenplay); Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, Robert Desiderio, Zakes Mokae, John Scott Clough, Alice Carter, Ryan Cash | Drama | Live action | ||
| Next of Kin | Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment / Barry & Enright Productions | John Irvin (director); Michael Jenning (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Ben Stiller, Andreas Katsulas, Michael J. Pollard, Ted Levine, Del Close, Paul Greco, Paul Herman, Valentino Cimo, Vincent Guastaferro, Starla Fugate | Action | Live action | ||
| 27 | The Bear | TriStar Pictures | Jean-Jacques Annaud (director); Gerard Brach (screenplay); Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, Andre Lacombe, Bart the Bear | Adventure, Drama | Live action | |
| Immediate Family | Columbia Pictures | Jonathan Kaplan (director); Barbara Benedek (screenplay); Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Linda Darlow, Harrison Mohr, Mimi Kennedy, Charles Levin, Jessica James, Ken Lerner, Jane Greer | Drama | Live action | ||
| Dad | Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment | Gary David Goldberg (director/screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Zakes Mokae, J.T. Walsh, Chris Lemmon, Sprague Grayden, Justin Peterson, Gina Raymond | Drama | Live action | ||
| Shocker | Universal Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Camille Cooper, Sam Scarber, Richard Brooks, Vincent Guastaferro, Ted Raimi, Heather Langenkamp, Dr. Timothy Leary, Kane Roberts, Wes Craven, Jessica Craven, Jonathan Craven, John Tesh, Eugene Chadbourne, Michael Matthews | Horror, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Worth Winning | 20th Century Fox | Will Mackenzie (director); Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott (screenplay); Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, Maria Holvöe, Mark Blum, Andrea Martin, Tony Longo, Alan Blumenfeld, Brad Hall, Jon Korkes, Arthur Malet, Joan Severance, David Brenner, Devin Ratray | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
| 28 | Perfect Witness | HBO Pictures / Granger Productions | Robert Mandel (director); Terry Curtis Fox, Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington, Delroy Lindo, Joe Grifasi, Ken Pogue, Markus Flanagan, David Margulies, Colm Meaney, Tobin Bell, Tony Sirico, David Proval, Nial Lancaster, James Greene, Sam Malkin, Kevin Rushton, David Cumming, Christopher Trace, David Christopher Adamson, Jennifer Pearson | Thriller | Live action | |
| N O V E M B E R |
3 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Columbia Pictures | Howard Brookner (director/screenplay); Colman deKay (screenplay); Damon Runyon (stories); Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales, Anita Morris, Randy Quaid, Josef Sommer, Steve Buscemi, Fisher Stevens, Alan Ruck, Dinah Manoff, Ethan Phillips | Period, Comedy | Live action |
| Limit Up | MCEG/Virgin | Richard Martini (director/screenplay); Luana Anders (screenplay); Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell, Brad Hall, Danitra Vance, Ray Charles, Rance Howard, Sally Kellerman, Sandra Bogan, William J. Wolf, Ava Fabian, Robbie Martini, Teressa Ovetta Burrell, Winifred Freedman, Kellie Joy Beals, Nicky Blair | Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Phantom of the Opera | 21st Century Film Corporation / Columbia Pictures | Dwight H. Little (director); Gerry O'Hara, Duke Sandefur (screenplay); Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Terence Harvey, Stephanie Lawrence, Molly Shannon, Terence Beesley, Mark Ryan, Emma Rawson, Nathan Lewis, Peter Clapham, Yehuda Efroni, Nancy Fontana | Horror | Live action | ||
| Second Sight | Warner Bros. Pictures | Joel Zwick (director); Tom Schulman, Patricia Resnick (screenplay); John Larroquette, Bronson Pinchot, Bess Armstrong, Stuart Pankin, John Schuck, James Tolkan, Will Le Bow, Christine Estabrook, Marisol Massey, William Prince, Dominic Chianese, Michael Lombard, Adam LeFevre, Ron Taylor, Andrew Mutnick, Lucy Johnson, Michelle Fortune | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Stepfather II | ITC Entertainment / Millimeter Films | Jeff Burr (director); John Auerbach (screenplay); Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Caroline Williams, Jonathan Brandis, Henry Brown, Mitchell Laurance, Miriam Byrd-Nethery, Leon Martell, Renata Scott, John O'Leary, Glen Adams, Eric Brown, Bob Gray, Rosemary Welden | Thriller | Live action | ||
| 8 | Henry V | The Samuel Goldwyn Company / BBC Films | Kenneth Branagh (director/screenplay); Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, Alec McCowen, Judi Dench, Christian Bale, James Larkin, Simon Shepherd, Brian Blessed, Charles Kay, Nicholas Ferguson, Edward Jewesbury, Danny Webb, Ian Holm, Jimmy Yuill, John Sessions, Shaun Prendergast, Patrick Doyle, Michael Williams, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Briers, Geoffrey Hutchings, Robert Stephens, Michael Maloney, Nigel Greaves, Harold Innocent, Richard Easton, Colin Hurley, Geraldine McEwan, David Lloyd Meredith, Christopher Ravenscroft, David Parfitt, James Simmons, Paul Gregory, Tom Whitehouse, Fabian Cartwright, Stephen Simms, Jay Villiers, Richard Clifford, Julian Gartside | Drama | Live action | |
| 10 | Best of the Best | Taurus Entertainment | Bob Radler (director); Paul Levine (screenplay); Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Phillip Rhee, John P. Ryan, John Dye, Tom Everett, Louise Fletcher, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Hee Il Cho, James Lew, Ahmad Rashād, David Agresta, Simon Rhee, Ken Nagayama, Ho Sik Pak, Dae Kyu Chang, Emilie Hagen | Action | Live action | |
| Communion | New Line Cinema | Philippe Mora (director); Whitley Strieber (screenplay); Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terry Hanauer, Joel Carlson | Drama, Horror | Live action | ||
| My Left Foot | Palace Pictures | Jim Sheridan (director/screenplay); Shane Connaughton (screenplay); Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Kirsten Sheridan, Cyril Cusack, Phelim Drew, Eileen Colgan, Adrian Dunbar, Alison Whelan, Eanna MacLiam, Declan Croghan, Marie Conremme, Ruth McCabe | Biography, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Staying Together | Hemdale Film Corporation | Lee Grant (director); Monte Merrick (screenplay); Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Levon Helm, Dermot Mulroney, Daphne Zuniga, Dinah Manoff, Jim Haynie, Tim Quill, Keith Szarabajka, Sheila Kelley, Ryan Hill, Rick Marshall | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| 12 | Polly | NBC / Buena Vista Television / Walt Disney Television / Echo Cove Productions | Debbie Allen (director); Eleanor H. Porter, W.F. Blinn, David Swift (screenplay); Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Dorian Harewood, Barbara Montgomery, T.K. Carter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Brandon Quintin Adams, Butterfly McQueen, Larry Riley, Brock Peters, Celeste Holm, Ken Page, George Anthony Bell, Michael Peters, Vickilyn Reynolds, Ashanti, Barbara Perry | Musical | Live action | |
| 17 | All Dogs Go to Heaven | United Artists / Sullivan Bluth Studios | Don Bluth (director); David N. Weiss (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Judith Barsi, Vic Tayback, Charles Nelson Reilly, Loni Anderson, Melba Moore, Ken Page, Rob Fuller, Earleen Carey, Godfrey Quigley, Anna Manahan, Candy Devine, Dan Kuenster, David N. Weiss, Charlie Adler, Jack Angel, Nancy Cartwright, Philip L. Clarke, Patrick Pinney, Laura Summer, Nigel Pegram, Jay Stevens, Kelly Briley, Cyndi Cozzo, Thomas Durkin, Dana Rifkin, Daryl Gilley, John Carr, John Eddings, Jeff Etter, T. Dan Hofstedt, Dan Molina, Mark Swan, Taylor Swanson, Dick Zondag, Anaida R. Garcia | Musical, Family | Animation | |
| Harlem Nights | Paramount Pictures | Eddie Murphy (director/screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese, Berlinda Tolbert, Stan Shaw, Jasmine Guy, Vic Polizos, Lela Rochon, David Marciano, Arsenio Hall, Thomas Mikal Ford, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Charlie Murphy, Robin Harris, Michael Buffer, Reynaldo Rey, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Desi Arnaz Hines II, Uncle Ray Murphy, Don Familton | Comedy, Crime | Live action | ||
| The Little Mermaid | Walt Disney Pictures | Ron Clements, John Musker (directors/screenplay); Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett, Paddi Edwards, Ben Wright, Edie McClurg, Kimmy Robertson, Caroline Vasicek, Will Ryan, René Auberjonois, Gerrit Graham, J.D. Daniels, Rod McKuen, Malachi Pearson, Frank Welker, Jim Cummings, Hamilton Camp, Debbie Shapiro, Ed Gilbert, Charlie Adler, Jack Angel, Steve Bulen, Nancy Cartwright, Philip L. Clarke, Jennifer Darling, Gail Farrell, Donny Gerrard, Phillip Ingram, Anne Lockhart, Sherry Lynn, Patrick Pinney, Sally Stevens, Jackie Ward, Robert Weil, Susan Boyd, Allan Davies, Mitch Gordon, Willie Greene Jr., Linda Harmon, Walter S. Harrah, Luana Jackman, William A. Kanady, Edie Lehmann, Melissa MacKay, Guy Maeda, Lynn Dolin Mann, Arne B. Markussen, Mickie T. McGowan, Gene J. Merlino, Lewis Morford, Kathleen O'Connor, Marilyn Powell, Gloria G. Prosper, Michael Redman Jr., Robert Tebow, Rob Trow, Joe Turano, Bobbi White, Robert S. Zwirn | Musical, Fantasy, Family | Animation | ||
| Mystery Train | Orion Classics | Jim Jarmusch (director/screenplay); Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinque Lee, Rufus Thomas, Jodie Markell, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Sy Richardson, Tom Noonan, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tom Waits | Anthology | Live action | ||
| Prancer | Orion Pictures / Nelson Entertainment / Cineplex Odeon Films | John D. Hancock (director); Greg Taylor (screenplay); Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Abe Vigoda, Michael Constantine, Ariana Richards, Rebecca Harrell, John Joseph Duda, Johnny Galecki, Rutanya Alda, Mark Rolston, Walter Charles, Michael Luciano, Jesse Bradford, Sandra Olson, Dan Atherton, Boo | Family, Christmas | Live action | ||
| Steel Magnolias | TriStar Pictures / Rastar | Herbert Ross (director); Robert Harling (screenplay); Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor, Sam Shepard, Bill McCutcheon, Jonathan Ward, Knowl Johnson, Ann Wedgeworth, Bibi Besch, Janine Turner, James Wlcek, Tom Hodges, Ronald Young, C. Houser, Daniel Camp, Norman Fletcher | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Valmont | Orion Pictures | Miloš Forman (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay); Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, T.P. McKenna, Isla Blair, Ian McNeice, Aleta Mitchell, Ronald Lacey, Vincent Schiavelli, Sandrine Dumas | Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
| 22 | Back to the Future Part II | Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment | Robert Zemeckis (director); Bob Gale (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Jeffrey Weissman, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, Charles Fleischer, Ricky Dean Logan, Darlene Vogel, Jason Scott Lee, Flea, Buck Flower, Neil Ross, John Erwin, Harry Waters Jr., Wesley Mann, Joe Flaherty, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, Donald Fullilove, Marc McClure, Mary Ellen Trainor, Gian Maria Volonté | Comedy, Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| 25 | Red King, White Knight | HBO Pictures / Zenith Entertainment / Citadel Entertainment | Geoff Murphy (director); Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Gavan O'Herlihy, Barry Corbin, Clarke Peters, Lou Hirsch, Kerry Shale, David de Keyser, Kenneth Nelson, Shane Rimmer, Garrick Hagon | Spy, Thriller | Live action | |
| D E C E M B E R |
1 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Warner Bros. Pictures / Hughes Entertainment | Jeremiah S. Chechik (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Miriam Flynn, William Hickey, Mae Questel, Sam McMurray, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brian Doyle-Murray, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Cody Burger, Nicholas Guest, Natalia Nogulich, Nicolette Scorsese, Alexander Folk, Doug Llewelyn | Comedy, Christmas | Live action |
| 8 | She-Devil | Orion Pictures | Susan Seidelman (director); Barry Strugatz, Mark R. Burns (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley Jr., Sylvia Miles, Linda Hunt, A Martinez, Maria Pitillo, Mary Louise Wilson, Susan Willis, Jack Gilpin, Robin Leach, June Gable, Rosanna Carter, Lori Tan Chinn, Sally Jessy Raphael, Elisebeth Peters, Bryan Larkin, Nitchie Barrett | Black Comedy | Live action | |
| Triumph of the Spirit | Triumph Releasing Corporation | Robert M. Young (director); Andrzej Krakowski, Laurence Heath (screenplay); Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia | Biography, Drama | Live action | ||
| The War of the Roses | 20th Century Fox / Gracie Films | Danny DeVito (director); Michael J. Leeson (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin, Heather Fairfield, G.D. Spradlin, Peter Donat, Dan Castellaneta, Shirley Mitchell, Ellen Crawford, Vickilyn Reynolds, Roy Brocksmith, Peter Hansen, Robert Harper, Danitra Vance, David Wohl | Black comedy | Live action | ||
| 13 | Enemies, A Love Story | 20th Century Fox | Paul Mazursky, (director/screenplay); Roger L. Simon (screenplay); Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophie Stein, Alan King, Judith Malina, Elya Baskin, Paul Mazursky, Phil Leeds, Rita Karin, Zypora Spaisman | Drama | Live action | |
| New Year's Day | Rainbow Releasing | Henry Jaglom (director/screenplay); David Duchovny, Maggie Wheeler, Gwen Welles, Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom, Miloš Forman, Tracy Reiner, Michael Emil | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| 15 | Blaze | Touchstone Pictures / A&M Films | Ron Shelton (director/screenplay); Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Jenkins, Jay Chevalier, Robert Wuhl, Eloy Casados, James Harper, Blaze Starr, Gilbert Lewis, Gary Anthony Sturgis, Emily Warfield, King Cotton, Brad Leland, Garland Bunting, Brandon Smith, Michael Brockman, Teresa Gilmore, Dianne Brill, Louanne Stephens, Harlan Jordan | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
| Driving Miss Daisy | Warner Bros. Pictures / The Zanuck Company | Bruce Beresford (director); Alfred Uhry (screenplay); Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Jo Ann Havrilla, William Hall, Jr., Ray McKinnon, Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Crystal R. Fox, Bob Hannah | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Glory | TriStar Pictures | Edward Zwick (director); Kevin Jarre (screenplay); Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Cliff DeYoung, Andre Braugher, Jihmi Kennedy, Alan North, John Finn, RonReaco Lee, Donovan Leitch, Bob Gunton, Jay O. Sanders, Raymond St. Jacques, Richard Riehle, JD Cullum, Christian Baskous, Peter Michael Goetz, Jane Alexander | Epic, War | Live action | ||
| We're No Angels | Paramount Pictures | Neil Jordan (director); David Mamet (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally, James Russo, Wallace Shawn, John C. Reilly | Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Wizard | Universal Pictures | Todd Holland (director); David Chisholm (screenplay); Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Will Seltzer, Jackey Vinson, Wendy Phillips, Sam McMurray, Frank McRae, Vincent Leahr, Beth Grant, Lee Arenberg, Tobey Maguire, Dante Basco | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | Live action | ||
| 16 | Age-Old Friends | HBO Pictures / Granger Productions | Allan Kroeker (director); Bob Larbey (screenplay); Hume Cronyn, Vincent Gardenia, Tandy Cronyn, Barry Flatman, Michele Scarabelli, Esther Rolle, Aaron Schwartz, Murray Westgate | Drama | Live action | |
| 20 | Born on the Fourth of July | Universal Pictures | Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Ron Kovic (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Willem Dafoe, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Stephen Baldwin, Sean Stone, Anne Bobby, Jenna von Oÿ, John Getz, David Warshofsky, Jason Gedrick, Bill Allen, William Baldwin, James Le Gros, William Mapother, Markus Flanagan, R.D. Call, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Jessica Prunell, Tom Berenger, Mel Allen, Ed Lauter, Oliver Stone, Dale Dye, Rocky Carroll, Chris Pedersen, David Herman, Damien Leake, Norman D. Wilson, Richard Poe, Bob Gunton, Vivica Fox, Mark Moses, Abbie Hoffman, Jake Weber, Reg E. Cathey, Edie Brickell, Tom Sizemore, Andrew Lauer, Michael Wincott, Anthony Pena, Holly Marie Combs, Mike Starr, Beau Starr, Tony Frank, Lili Taylor, Peter Crombie, Eagle Eye Cherry, Brian Tarantina, Jack McGee, Jodi Long, Michelle Hurst, John McGinley, Wayne Knight, Elizabeth Hoffman, Lucinda Jenney, Annie McEnroe, Daniel Baldwin, Samantha Larkin, Kevin Harvey Morse, Jason Klein, Lane R. Davis, Richard Panebianco, Johnny Pinto, Rob Camilletti, J.R. Nutt, Philip Amelio, Michael McTighe, Cody Beard, Corkey Ford, Billie Neal, Jayne Haynes | War, Drama | Live action | |
| Roger & Me | Warner Bros. Pictures / Dog Eat Dog Films | Michael Moore (director/screenplay); Michael Moore, Roger Smith | Documentary | Live action | ||
| 21 | Camille Claudel | Gaumont | Bruno Nuytten (director/screenplay); Marilyn Goldin (screenplay); Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson, Philippe Clévenot, Katrine Boorman, Maxime Leroux, Danièle Lebrun, François Berléand | Biography, Drama, History | Live action | |
| 22 | Always | Universal Pictures / United Artists / Amblin Entertainment | Steven Spielberg (director); Jerry Belson, Diane Thomas (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson, Audrey Hepburn, Roberts Blossom, Keith David, Marg Helgenberger, Dale Dye, Doug McGrath, Ed Van Nuys, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones | Romantic comedy, Drama | Live action | |
| Music Box | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Costa-Gavras (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas, Mari Törőcsik, Elżbieta Czyżewska, James Zagel, Michael Rooker, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Albert Hall, Ned Schmidtke, Margo Winkler, Larry Brandenburg, Ralph Foody, Zoltán Gera | Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
| Tango & Cash | Warner Bros. Pictures | Andrei Konchalovsky (director); Randy Feldman (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Teri Hatcher, Brion James, Geoffrey Lewis, Eddie Bunker, James Hong, Marc Alaimo, Michael J. Pollard, Michael Jeter, Robert Z'Dar, Lewis Arquette, Roy Brocksmith, Richard Fancy, Phil Rubenstein, Clint Howard, Benny Urquidez, Billy Blanks, Kristen Dalton, Dale Swann, Glenn Morshower | Buddy Cop, Action, Comedy | Live action | ||
Notable films released in 1989[]
United States unless stated
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- A Better Tomorrow III, directed by Tsui Hark, starring Chow Yun-fat, Anita Mui and Tony Leung – (Hong Kong)
- The Abyss, directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
- All About Ah-Long (Ah Long dik gu si), starring Chow Yun-fat and Sylvia Chang – (Hong Kong)
- All Dogs Go To Heaven, directed by Don Bluth, voices of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise – (Ireland/U.K./U.S.)
- Always, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Audrey Hepburn
- Amanece, que no es poco (Sunrise, which is not a small thing) – (Spain)
- Apartment Zero (Conviviendo con la muerte), directed by Martin Donovan, starring Colin Firth – Golden Space Needle award – (Argentina)
B[]
- The BFG, voice of David Jason – (U.K.)
- Babar: The Movie – (Canada/France)
- Back to the Future Part II, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen
- Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, gharibeye koochak) – (Iran)
- Batman, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Jack Palance and Robert Wuhl
- Before the Bat's Flight Is Done (Mielőtt befejezi röptét a denevér) – (Hungary)
- Bert Rigby, You're a Fool, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane and Anne Bancroft
- Best of the Best, starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones and Sally Kirkland
- The Big Picture, directed by Christopher Guest, starring Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Martin Short
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin
- Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García and Kate Capshaw – (United States)
- Black Rain (Kuroi ame), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
- Black Rainbow, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards and Tom Hulce
- Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose Is an Emblem of Love (Chyornaya roza – emblema pechali, krasnaya roza – emblema lyubvi) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Blasphemers' Banquet
- Blaze, directed by Ron Shelton, starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich
- Blind Fury, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Rutger Hauer
- Bloodhounds of Broadway, starring Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales and Randy Quaid
- Blood Red, directed by Peter Masterson, starring Eric Roberts, Julia Roberts, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young and Giancarlo Giannini
- Blue Steel
- Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise—Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
- Breaking In, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Burt Reynolds and Casey Siemaszko
- The 'Burbs, directed by Joe Dante starring Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher and Bruce Dern
- Bye Bye Blues, starring Rebecca Jenkins and Michael Ontkean – (Canada)
C[]
- Cage, directed by , starring Reb Brown and Lou Ferrigno
- Cameron's Closet, starring Scott Curtis
- Casualties of War, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
- Cat Chaser, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Peter Weller and Kelly McGillis
- Chameleon Street, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
- Chances Are, starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal and Mary Stuart Masterson
- Chandni (Moonlight), starring Sridevi – (India)
- Checking Out, starring Jeff Daniels
- Cheetah
- A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), starring Tony Leung – Golden Lion award – (Taiwan)
- Cohen and Tate, starring Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin
- Cold Feet, starring Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland and Tom Waits
- Communion, starring Christopher Walken
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
- Cousins, starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young and William Petersen
- Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Martin Landau, Sam Waterston and Anjelica Huston
- Criminal Law, starring Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon
- Crusoe, starring Aidan Quinn – (U.K.)
- Cyborg, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
D[]
- Dad, starring Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker and Kevin Spacey
- Dead Bang, starring Don Johnson
- Dead Calm, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane – (Australia)
- Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, starring Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke and Norman Lloyd
- DeepStar Six, starring Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Cindy Pickett, Taurean Blacque and Miguel Ferrer
- Dekalog, directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski – (Poland)
- The Delinquents, starring Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter – (Australia)
- Der Todesking, directed by Jörg Buttgereit – (Germany)
- Dimenticare Palermo (To Forget Palermo), directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy)
- Disorganized Crime, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Rubén Blades
- Do the Right Thing, directed by and starring Spike Lee, with Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
- Doggie Adventure, a novelty video made for dogs and released on VHS
- Dream a Little Dream, starring Corey Feldman, Corey Haim and Meredith Salenger
- The Dream Team, starring Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Christopher Lloyd and Stephen Furst
- Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd – Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture
- Drugstore Cowboy, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch
- A Dry White Season, directed by Euzhan Palcy, starring Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando
E[]
- The Ear (Ucho) – (Czechoslovakia) – made in 1970 but banned until 1989
- Echoes of Paradise, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Wendy Hughes and John Lone – (Australia)
- Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!, starring Michael Pare and Marina Orsini – (Canada)
- Edge of Sanity, starring Anthony Perkins
- Eeshwar, starring Anil Kapoor – (India)
- Elves, starring Dan Haggerty
- Enemies, a Love Story, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein
- Erik the Viking, directed by and starring Terry Jones, with Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney and John Cleese – (U.K.)
- Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, starring Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle and Roxana Zal
- The Experts, starring John Travolta, Arye Gross and Kelly Preston
F[]
- The Fabulous Baker Boys, starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer and Beau Bridges
- Family Business, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick
- Farewell to the King, directed by John Milius, starring Nick Nolte and Nigel Havers
- Fat Man and Little Boy, starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, John Cusack and Laura Dern
- Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield and Burt Lancaster
- Fletch Lives, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook and R. Lee Ermey
- Food of the Gods II, directed by Damian Lee
- Fool's Mate (Zugzwang), starring Victoria Tennant – (West Germany)
- For Queen and Country, starring Denzel Washington – (UK/US)
- Freeze Die Come to Life (Zamri, umri, voskresni!) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, directed by Rob Hedden, starring Jensen Daggett and Scott Reeves
G[]
- Gang of Four, directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Bulle Ogier – (France)
- Getting It Right, starring Jane Horrocks and Helena Bonham Carter – (U.K.)
- Ghostbusters II, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Peter MacNicol
- Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater
- Glory, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman
- God of Gamblers (Du shen), starring Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau – (Hong Kong)
- Godzilla vs. Biollante – (Japan)
- A Grand Day Out, directed by Nick Park, voice of Peter Sallis - (U.K.)
- Great Balls of Fire!, directed by Jim McBride, starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin
- Gross Anatomy, starring Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga and Christine Lahti
H[]
- Harlem Nights, directed by and starring Eddie Murphy, with Richard Pryor, Danny Aiello, Jasmine Guy, Redd Foxx and Della Reese
- Hathyar, starring Dharmendra and Sanjay Dutt – (India)
- Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates and Treat Williams
- Heathers, directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
- Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Paul Scofield and Emma Thompson – (U.K.)
- Her Alibi, starring Tom Selleck and Paulina Porizkova
- Hit List, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Rip Torn
- Homer and Eddie, starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, starring Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer and Marcia Strassman
- A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (Kopytem sem, kopytem tam) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Houseboat Horror, starring Alan Dale – (Australia)
- How I Got Into College, starring Lara Flynn Boyle and Anthony Edwards
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising, directed by Bruce Robinson, starring Richard E. Grant – (U.K.)
I[]
- I Love, You Love (Ja milujem, ty miluješ) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Ice Pawn, starring Dan Haggerty
- The Icicle Thief (Ladri di saponette) – (Italy)
- Immediate Family, starring Glenn Close, James Woods and Mary Stuart Masterson
- In Country, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Julian Glover and River Phoenix
- An Innocent Man, starring Tom Selleck
- Intergirl (Interdevochka) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Interrogation (Przesluchanie), directed by Ryszard Bugajski – (Poland) – banned for over 7 years, released after overthrow of communist regime in Poland
- Ivan and Alexandra – (Bulgaria)
J[]
- Jacknife, starring Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker
- The January Man, starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello and Rod Steiger
- Je suis le seigneur du château (I'm the King of the Castle) – (France)
- Jesus of Montreal – (Canada/France)
- Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill, starring Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern and Morgan Freeman
K[]
- K-9, starring James Belushi
- The Karate Kid Part III, starring Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
- Kickboxer, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin), directed by Hayao Miyazaki – (Japan)
- The Killer (dip hyut soeng hung), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat – (Hong Kong)
- Killing Dad
- Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, starring Charles Bronson
L[]
- Last Exit to Brooklyn, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Lean on Me, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Morgan Freeman
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys – (Finland)
- Lethal Weapon 2, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- Leviathan, starring Peter Weller, Richard Crenna and Meg Foster
- Licence to Kill, 16th of James Bond series, starring Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi and Carey Lowell – (U.K.)
- Life and Nothing But (La vie et rien d'autre), directed by Bertrand Tavernier – (France)
- Listen to Me, starring Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz and Roy Scheider, Christopher Atkins
- The Little Mermaid, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, voices of Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll and Buddy Hackett
- Little Monsters, starring Fred Savage and Howie Mandel – (Ireland/UK/US)
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, voices of Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, René Auberjonois and , Bernard Erhard
- Lock Up, starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland
- Lonesome Dove, TV film, starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Chris Cooper, Ricky Schroder, Danny Glover and Frederic Forrest
- Look Who's Talking, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
- Lost Angels, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Donald Sutherland, Adam Horovitz and Amy Locane
- Loverboy, starring Patrick Dempsey, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Carrera and Kirstie Alley
M[]
- Maine Pyar Kiya (I Fell in Love), starring Salman Khan – (India)
- Major League, directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, James Gammon, Margaret Whitton and Wesley Snipes
- Marquis – (Belgium/France)
- The Marriage of the Blessed (Arousi-ye Khouban) – (Iran)
- Meet the Feebles, directed by Peter Jackson – (New Zealand)
- Meet the Hollowheads, starring Juliette Lewis
- The Mighty Quinn, starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers and Esther Rolle
- Millennium, starring Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd
- Miracles, starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui and Richard Ng (Hong Kong)
- Miss Firecracker, starring Holly Hunter, Tim Robbins, Mary Steenburgen, Alfre Woodard and Scott Glenn
- Monsieur Hire, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Michel Blanc and Sandrine Bonnaire – (France)
- Mother (Mat) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Music Box, directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest and Lukas Haas – Golden Bear award (for 1990)
- My 20th Century – (Hungary/West Germany)
- My Left Foot, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker – (Ireland/U.K.)
- Mystery Train, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Steve Buscemi and Joe Strummer – (Japan/United States)
- Milo and Otis, narrated by Dudley Moore, directed by Masanori Hata (English translation)
N[]
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and Randy Quaid
- New York Stories, trilogy directed by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen, starring Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Mia Farrow and Talia Shire
- Next of Kin, starring Patrick Swayze
- Night Game, starring Roy Scheider
- A Nightmare on Drug Street, starring Adam Jeffries
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child directed by Stephen Hopkins, starting Robert Englund and Lisa Wilcox
- No Holds Barred, starring Hulk Hogan
- Nowhere to Run, directed by Carl Franklin, starring David Carradine
O[]
- O Sangue (Blood) – (Portugal)
- Old Gringo, starring Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits
- Out of the Dark, starring Karen Black and Bud Cort
P[]
- The Package, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy and Tommy Lee Jones
- The Paper Wedding, starring Geneviève Bujold – (Canada)
- Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce and Martha Plimpton
- Parents, directed by Bob Balaban, starring Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt
- Pedicab Driver (Qun long xi feng), directed by and starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
- Penn & Teller Get Killed
- Pet Sematary, directed by Mary Lambert written by Stephen King, starring Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby and Miko Hughes
- Physical Evidence, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Burt Reynolds and Theresa Russell
- Pink Cadillac, starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters
- Prancer, starring Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman
- The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren
- Puppet Master, starring Paul Le Mat
R[]
- The Rainbow, directed by Ken Russell, starring Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
- Ramji Rav Speaking – (India)
- Red Scorpion, starring Dolph Lundgren
- Relentless, starring Judd Nelson and Robert Loggia
- Renegades, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips
- The Return of the Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain and Kim Cattrall – (U.K./France/Spain)
- Reunion, starring Jason Robards – (U.K.)
- La Révolution française (The French Revolution), starring Klaus Maria Brandauer – (France/West Germany/Italy/U.K.)
- Road House, starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Ben Gazzara and Sam Elliott
- Roadkill – (Canada)
- Roger & Me, a documentary by Michael Moore
- Rojo Amanecer (Red Dawn) – (Mexico)
- Rosalie Goes Shopping, starring Marianne Sägebrecht and Judge Reinhold – (West Germany)
S[]
- Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) – (Mexico)
- Say Anything..., directed by Cameron Crowe, starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney
- Scandal, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Bridget Fonda – (U.K.)
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Bartel, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Ed Begley, Jr., Rebecca Schaeffer
- Sea of Love, directed by Harold Becker, starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
- Second Sight, starring John Larroquette, Bronson Pinchot, Stuart Pankin
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil, starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
- See You in the Morning, starring Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett
- The Servant (Sluga) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent), directed by Michael Haneke – (Austria)
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo—Palme d'Or award
- Shag, starring Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish
- Shaso – (Japan)
- She-Devil, directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley, Jr.
- She's Out of Control, starring Tony Danza
- Shirley Valentine, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Pauline Collins (BAFTA for best actress) – (U.K.)
- Shocker, directed by Wes Craven, starring Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Cami Cooper
- Signs of Life, starring Beau Bridges and Kathy Bates
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas, starring Lou Ferrigno
- Sing, starring Lorraine Bracco
- Skin Deep, directed by Blake Edwards, starring John Ritter
- Slaves of New York, directed by James Ivory, starring Bernadette Peters
- Slipstream, starring Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley
- Society, starring Billy Warlock
- Souvenir, starring Christopher Plummer
- Speed Zone, starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Tim Matheson, Donna Dixon, the Smothers Brothers
- Spider's Web (Das Spinnennetz), directed by Bernhard Wicki – (West Germany)
- Splendor, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- Split
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by and starring William Shatner, with Leonard Nimoy, Laurence Luckinbill
- Staying Together, directed by Lee Grant, starring Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Levon Helm, Dermot Mulroney, Daphne Zuniga
- Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah
- Strapless, directed by David Hare, starring Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda – (U.K.)
- The Striker with Number 9 (I fanela me to '9') – (Greece)
- Sweet Home – (Japan)
- Sweetie, directed by Jane Campion – (Australia)
T[]
- The Tall Guy, directed by Mel Smith, starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson – (U.K.)
- Tango & Cash, starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell
- Tap, starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Ten Little Indians, starring Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro and Frank Stallone – (U.K.)
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man – (Japan)
- Thick Skinned (Peaux de vaches), starring Sandrine Bonnaire – (France)
- Three Fugitives, starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short
- Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu and Carole Bouquet – (France)
- Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe
- Troop Beverly Hills, starring Shelley Long, Betty Thomas and Craig T. Nelson
- Tropical Snow, starring David Carradine
- True Love – won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
- Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson and Reginald VelJohnson
U[]
- UHF, written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Uncle Buck, directed by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Amy Madigan
V[]
- Valmont, directed by Miloš Forman, starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk and Henry Thomas – (United States/France)
- Vampire's Kiss, starring Nicolas Cage, María Conchita Alonso and Jennifer Beals
- Violent Cop (Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki), directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano – (Japan)
W[]
- Waltzing Regitze (Dansen med Regitze) – (Denmark)
- Warlock, starring Julian Sands
- The War of the Roses, directed by and starring Danny DeVito, with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
- War Requiem, starring Laurence Olivier in his final role – (U.K.)
- Weekend at Bernie's, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman
- Welcome Home, directed by Franklin Schaffner, starring Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston and Brian Keith
- We're No Angels, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby and John C. Reilly
- What Time is it? (Che ora è?), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- When Harry Met Sally..., directed by Rob Reiner, starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher
- When the Whales Came, starring Paul Scofield, David Threlfall and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
- Who's Harry Crumb?, starring John Candy, Annie Potts, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Corbin, Tim Thomerson and Shawnee Smith
- Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) – (South Korea)
- Wicked Stepmother, starring Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera and Colleen Camp
- Willy the Sparrow (Vili, a veréb) – (Hungary)
- Wilt, starring Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith – (U.K.)
- Winter People, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis and Lloyd Bridges
- The Winter War (Talvisota) – (Finland)
- The Wizard, starring Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Beau Bridges and Christian Slater
- Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
- The Women on the Roof
- Worth Winning, starring Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe and Lesley Ann Warren
Y[]
- Yaaba – (Burkina Faso)
Births[]
- January 1 – Adele Haenel, French actress
- January 3 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
- January 8 - Karan Soni, Indian-American actor
- January 9 – Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress and model
- January 17 – Kelly Marie Tran, American actress
- January 23 – April Pearson, English actress
- January 20 – Piret Krumm, Estonian actress
- January 26 – Hannah Arterton, American actress
- January 30 - Khleo Thomas, American actor
- February 4
- Märt Pius, Estonian actor
- Priit Pius, Estonian actor
- February 5 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
- February 10 – Olga Korsak, Latvian actress
- February 13
- Carly McKillip, Canadian actress and singer
- Katie Volding, American actress
- February 16 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
- February 21
- Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
- Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress and singer
- February 24 – Daniel Kaluuya, English actor
- March 1 – Daniella Monet, American actress and singer
- March 3
- Andrea Brooks, Canadian actress and model
- Nathalie Emmanuel, English actress
- March 5
- Jake Lloyd, American actor
- Sterling Knight, American actor and musician
- March 11 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (died 2016)
- March 15 – Caitlin Wachs, American actress
- March 18 – Lily Collins, English-American actress
- March 20 – Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
- March 25 – Aly Michalka, American actress and singer
- April 2 – Liis Lass, Estonian actress
- April 5 – Lily James, English actress
- April 18 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
- April 19 – Simu Liu, Canadian actor, writer, producer and stuntman
- April 20 – Alex Black, American actor
- April 29 – Gabriel Chavarria, American-Hispanic actor
- May 5 – Larissa Wilson, English actress
- May 10 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
- May 16 – Pääru Oja, Estonian actor
- May 23 – Alberto Frezza, Italian–American actor
- May 29
- Riley Keough, American actress
- Mathew Waters, Australian actor
- June 3
- Imogen Poots, English actress
- Megumi Han, Japanese voice actress
- June 3 – Daniela Vega, Chilean actress
- June 14
- Lucy Hale, American actress and singer
- Courtney Halverson, American actress
- June 18 - Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
- June 20 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
- June 23 - Marielle Jaffe, American actress, singer and model
- June 25
- Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director, and screenwriter
- June 27
- Kimiko Glenn, American actress
- Matthew Lewis, English actor
- July 1
- Mitch Hewer, English actor
- Hannah Murray, English actress
- July 11
- David Henrie, American actor
- Shareeka Epps, American actress
- July 21
- Rory Culkin, American actor
- Juno Temple, English actress
- Jing Tian, Chinese actress
- July 23 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
- July 27
- Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
- Kelley Jakle, American actress and singer-songwriter
- July 31
- Alexis Knapp, American actress
- Zelda Williams, American actress, director, producer and writer
- August 2 – Priscilla Betti, French actress
- August 10 – Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
- August 14 – Artyom Bogucharsky, Russian actor
- August 11 – Alexis Tipton, American voice actress
- August 15
- Joe Jonas, American singer and actor (Jonas Brothers)
- Carlos PenaVega, actor (Big Time Rush)
- August 18 - Anna Akana, American filmmaker, actress, comedian, musician and YouTuber
- August 21 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer
- September 5
- Thomas Cocquerel, Australian actor
- Kat Graham, American actress, model, singer and dancer
- Olivier Richters, Dutch bodybuilder, actor and model
- September 7
- Loren Allred, American singer, songwriter and actress
- Hannah John-Kamen, English actress
- Jonathan Majors, American actor
- September 14 – Logan Henderson, actor (Big Time Rush)
- October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress
- October 4 – Dakota Johnson, American actress
- October 14 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
- November 10 – Taron Egerton, Welsh actor
- November 20 - Cody Linley, American actor and singer
- November 22 - Alden Ehrenreich, American actor
- December 2 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress and singer
- December 7 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor
- December 13 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, actress, and musician
- December 18 – Ashley Benson, American actress and model
- December 29
- Jane Levy, American actress
- Left Brain, American rapper
Deaths[]
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 3 | Nell O'Day | 79 | US | Actress |
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| 3 | Jean Willes | 65 | US | Actress |
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| 8 | Kenneth McMillan | 56 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | Helen Logan | 82 | US | Screenwriter |
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| 15 | Joe Spinell | 52 | US | Actor |
| |
| 16 | Prem Nazir | 62 | India | Actor |
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| 16 | Trey Wilson | 40 | US | Actor |
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| 19 | Norma Varden | 90 | UK | Actress |
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| 20 | Beatrice Lillie | 94 | Canada | Actress |
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| 26 | Morton DaCosta | 74 | US | Director |
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| February | 3 | John Cassavetes | 59 | US | Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
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| 3 | Lionel Newman | 73 | US | Composer |
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| 5 | Emrys James | 60 | UK | Actor |
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| 11 | T. E. B. Clarke | 81 | UK | Screenwriter |
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| 11 | George O'Hanlon | 76 | US | Actor |
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| 17 | Marguerite Roberts | 83 | US | Screenwriter |
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| 22 | Joan Woodbury | 73 | US | Actress |
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| March | 6 | Harry Andrews | 77 | UK | Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
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| 10 | Maurizio Merli | 49 | Italy | Actor | ||
| 12 | Maurice Evans | 87 | UK | Actor |
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| 21 | Milton Frome | 80 | US | Actor |
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| 25 | Reginald Le Borg | 89 | Austria | Director |
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| 27 | May Allison | 98 | US | Actress |
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| 27 | Jack Starrett | 52 | US | Actor, Director |
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| 28 | Robert J. Wilke | 74 | US | Actor |
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| 29 | Bernard Blier | 73 | France | Actor |
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| April | 12 | Gerald Flood | 61 | UK | Actor |
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| 15 | Charles Vanel | 96 | France | Actor, Director |
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| 24 | Clyde Geronimi | 87 | US | Animator, Director |
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| 25 | George Coulouris | 85 | UK | Actor |
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| 26 | Lucille Ball | 77 | US | Actress |
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| 30 | Sergio Leone | 60 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |
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| 30 | Guy Williams | 65 | US | Actor |
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| May | 3 | William Squire | 71 | UK | Actor |
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| 19 | Anton Diffring | 72 | Germany | Actor |
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| 19 | Robert Webber | 64 | US | Actor |
| |
| 20 | Gilda Radner | 42 | US | Actress |
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| 22 | Gerd Oswald | 69 | Germany | Director |
| |
| 25 | Brigid Bazlen | 44 | US | Actress |
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| June | 10 | Richard Quine | 68 | US | Director |
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| 15 | Victor French | 54 | US | Actor |
| |
| 15 | Ray McAnally | 63 | Ireland | Actor |
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| 20 | Dona Drake | 74 | US | Actress |
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| 27 | Jack Buetel | 73 | US | Actor |
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| 28 | Joris Ivens | 90 | Netherlands | Director, Documentarian |
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| July | 2 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 79 | US | Director |
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| 2 | Ben Wright | 74 | UK | Actor |
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| 3 | Jim Backus | 76 | US | Actor, Voice Actor |
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| 10 | Mel Blanc | 81 | US | Voice Actor |
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| 11 | Laurence Olivier | 82 | UK | Actor, Director |
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| 18 | Rebecca Schaeffer | 21 | US | Actress |
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| 28 | Jeff Richards | 64 | US | Actor |
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| August | 4 | Maurice Colbourne | 49 | UK | Actor |
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| 16 | Amanda Blake | 60 | US | Actress |
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| 20 | Joseph LaShelle | 89 | US | Cinematographer |
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| 30 | Joe De Santis | 80 | US | Actor |
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| 31 | Claire Luce | 85 | US | Actress |
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| September | 21 | Ertem Eğilmez | 60 | Turkey | Producer, Director | |
| 21 | Corrado Gaipa | 65 | Italy | Actor |
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| 22 | Irving Berlin | 101 | US | Composer |
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| October | 2 | Vittorio Caprioli | 68 | Italy | Actor, Director | |
| 4 | Graham Chapman | 48 | UK | Actor, Screenwriter |
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| 4 | Betsy King Ross | 68 | US | Actress |
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| 5 | Noël-Noël | 92 | France | Actor, Screenwriter | ||
| 6 | Bette Davis | 81 | US | Actress |
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| 8 | Onest Conley | 82 | US | Actor |
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| 11 | Paul Shenar | 53 | US | Actor |
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| 13 | Cesare Zavattini | 87 | Italy | Screenwriter |
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| 14 | Michael Carmine | 30 | US | Actor |
| |
| 15 | James Lee Barrett | 59 | US | Screenwriter |
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| 16 | Cornel Wilde | 77 | US | Actor, Director |
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| 20 | Anthony Quayle | 76 | UK | Actor |
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| 21 | Jean Image | 78 | France | Director |
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| 22 | Roland Winters | 84 | US | Actor |
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| 23 | Armida | 78 | Mexico | Actress, Singer |
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| November | 1 | Peter Childs | 50 | UK | Actor |
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| 6 | Margit Makay | 98 | Hungary | Actress | ||
| 6 | Yūsaku Matsuda | 40 | Japan | Actor |
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| 7 | Brunello Rondi | 64 | Italy | Screenwriter, Director |
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| 17 | Billy Lee | 60 | US | Actor |
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| 20 | Lynn Bari | 75 | US | Actress | ||
| 21 | Harvey Hart | 61 | Canada | Director |
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| December | 6 | Frances Bavier | 86 | US | Actress |
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| 6 | John Payne | 77 | US | Actor |
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| 11 | Howard Lang | 78 | UK | Actor |
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| 15 | Ben Barzman | 79 | Canada | Screenwriter |
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| 15 | Emile de Antonio | 70 | US | Director |
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| 15 | Jock Mahoney | 70 | US | Actor, Stuntman |
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| 15 | Edward Underdown | 81 | UK | Actor |
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| 16 | Aileen Pringle | 94 | US | Actress |
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| 16 | Lee Van Cleef | 64 | US | Actor |
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| 16 | Silvana Mangano | 59 | Italy | Actress |
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| 17 | Luciano Salce | 67 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |
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| 25 | Betty Garde | 84 | US | Actress |
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| 25 | Robert Pirosh | 79 | US | Director, Screenwriter |
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Film debuts[]
- William Baldwin – Born on the Fourth of July
- Hugo Blick – Batman
- Adrien Brody – New York Stories
- Vincent Cassel – Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
- Michael Chiklis – Wired
- Anna Chlumsky – Uncle Buck
- Steve Coogan – Resurrected
- Kevin Corrigan – Lost Angels
- Kirsten Dunst – New York Stories
- Ron Eldard – True Love
- Vivica A. Fox – Born on the Fourth of July
- Carla Gugino – Troop Beverly Hills
- Jared Harris – The Rachel Papers
- Teri Hatcher – The Big Picture
- Rob Hedden (director) – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- John Michael Higgins – Vampire's Kiss
- Bryce Dallas Howard – Parenthood
- Kelly Hu – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- Jason Isaacs – The Tall Guy
- Allison Janney – Who Shot Patakango?
- Martin Lawrence – Do the Right Thing
- Harry Lennix – The Package
- Tobey Maguire – The Wizard
- Costas Mandylor – Triumph of the Spirit
- Mary-Louise Parker – Signs of Life
- Rosie Perez – Do the Right Thing
- John C. Reilly – Casualties of War
- Sam Rockwell – Clownhouse
- Rene Russo – Major League
- Adam Sandler – Going Overboard
- Annabella Sciorra – True Love
- Molly Shannon – The Phantom of the Opera
- Tom Sizemore – Lock Up
- Emma Thompson – The Tall Guy
- Elijah Wood – Back to the Future Part II
- Michael Jai White – The Toxic Avenger Part II
See also[]
- List of American films of 1989
- List of British films of 1989
- List of French films of 1989
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1989
- List of Italian films of 1989
- List of Japanese films of 1989
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
References[]
- ^ "1989 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
External links[]
- "The Summer Of '89" – www.screenrush.co.uk
- 1989 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
- Top 1989 Movies at the Domestic Box Office at The Numbers
- Top 1989 Movies at the International Box Office at The Numbers
- Top 1989 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office at The Numbers
- Top-US-Grossing Titles Released 1989-01-01 to 1989-12-31 at IMDb
- Most Popular Feature Films Released 1989-01-01 to 1989-12-31 at IMDb
Categories:
- 1989 in film
- Film by year