Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)

Summary: The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

Release Date: February 24, 1989

Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror

Directors: Michael Herz

, Lloyd Kaufman

Writers: Lloyd Kaufman

, Gay Partington Terry

, Pericles Lewnes

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Troma Entertainment

Distributor: Troma Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Troma Team Video, Renaissance Content Group, The Sci-Fi Channel, USA Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 792,966

The Mighty Quinn (1989)

Summary: When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Release Date: February 17, 1989

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Carl Schenkel

Writers: Albert Z. Carr

, Hampton Fancher

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: G

Production: A&M Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Star Partners II Ltd.

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,557,214

Babar: The Movie (1989)

Summary: In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.

Release Date: July 28, 1989

Genres: Adventure, Family, Animation

Director: Alan Bunce

Writers: Jean de Brunhoff

, Laurent de Brunhoff

, Patrick Loubert

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: F

Production: Nelvana, Ellipse Animation, Odessa Films, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Investimage 2, Investimage, Soffia

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Entertainment One, Family Home Entertainment (FHE), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Promotional Concept Group

Countries: Canada, France, United States, South Korea

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,305,187

Violent Cop (1989)

Summary: A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Release Date: July 16, 1999

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writers: Hisashi Nozawa

, Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bandai Media Department, Shochiku-Fuji Company

Distributor: Fox Lorber, Film Movement

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,960

Gross Anatomy (1989)

Summary: A fisherman's son goes through medical school with a bad attitude, especially in cadaver class.

Release Date: October 20, 1989

Genre: Drama

Director: Thom Eberhardt

Writers: Mark Spragg

, Howard Rosenman

, Alan Jay Glueckman

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Hill/Rosenman, Sandollar Productions, Silver Screen Partners IV

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,500,000

Domestic: $ 11,604,598

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)

Summary: Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.

Release Date: November 24, 1989

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Directors: Michael Herz

, Lloyd Kaufman

Writers: Lloyd Kaufman

, Gay Partington Terry

, Pericles Lewnes

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Troma Entertainment

Distributor: Renaissance Content Group, The Sci-Fi Channel, Troma Entertainment, Troma Team Video, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 363,561

Metropolitan (1989)

Summary: A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Release Date: August 03, 1990

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Whit Stillman

Writer: Whit Stillman

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Westerly Films, Allagash Films, Producciones Kaplan S.L., Westerly Film

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Rialto Pictures, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 230,000

Domestic: $ 2,960,492

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

Summary: A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.

Release Date: July 28, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Bruce Robinson

Writer: Bruce Robinson

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: HandMade Films

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, Virgin Vision, Warner Bros.

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 418,053

Dad (1989)

Summary: While his mom recovers in hospital from a heart attack, John puts his busy life on hold to fly home and help his elderly dad around the house. John's son later joins them and they all truly bond for the first and, tragically, fina...

Release Date: November 10, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Gary David Goldberg

Writers: William Wharton

, Gary David Goldberg

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Ubu Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,103,037

International: $ 5,400,000

The Tall Guy (1989)

Summary: A nasty comedian's assistant has allergy induced sneezes, giving problems at work, et cetera. He accepts weekly injections after seeing the cute nurse. After a dozen injections, he finally asks her out.

Release Date: April 13, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Mel Smith

Writer: Richard Curtis

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: London Weekend Television (LWT), Virgin Vision, Working Title Films, Virgin Vision

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Miramax, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 510,712

Society (1989)

Summary: An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Release Date: June 11, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: Brian Yuzna

Writers: Zeph E. Daniel

, Rick Fry

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wild Street Pictures, Society Productions, Screaming Mad George

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Arrow Films, Image Entertainment, MVD Entertainment Group, Re-Animator Productions, Republic Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek sequel, the benevolent bog creature falls for the vegetarian, plant-loving daughter of the evil scientist who created him.

Release Date: May 12, 1989

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Jim Wynorski

Writers: Neil Cuthbert

, Grant Morris

, Len Wein

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lightyear Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Video, Image Entertainment, Screen Media Ventures, Warner Home Video, MVD Rewind Collection, Lightyear Entertainment, Miramax

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 192,816

Cutting Class (1989)

Summary: A teenage girl befriends a suspected high school slasher.

Release Date: February 07, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Director: Rospo Pallenberg

Writer: Steve Slavkin

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: April Productions, Gower Street Pictures

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Vestron Pictures, Vinegar Syndrome

Country: United States

Language: English

The Blood of Heroes (1989)

Summary: In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.

Release Date: October 19, 1989

Genres: Action, Sport, Sci-Fi

Director: David Webb Peoples

Writer: David Webb Peoples

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kings Road Entertainment, Handistom Investment, Kamisha Corporation

Distributor: Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Countries: Australia, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 882,290

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Summary: After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.

Release Date: September 29, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Walter Hill

Writers: John Godey

, Ken Friedman

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Pictures, The Guber-Peters Company, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Artisan Home Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Home Video, Paramount Pictures, Pioneer Entertainment, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, WGN, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,237,794

Cousins (1989)

Summary: Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.

Release Date: February 10, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Jean-Charles Tacchella

, Stephen Metcalfe

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,026,369