LOCK UP (1989)
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum-security prison to a maximum-security prison by a vindictive warden.
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.
THE ABYSS (1989)
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
SANTA SANGRE (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother (the leader of a strange religious cult), and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms"...
FOR ALL MANKIND (1989)
An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
PET SEMATARY (1989)
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
PARENTS (1989)
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)
Two seemingly dumb teens set off on a quest to prepare the ultimate historical presentation with the help of a time machine...
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
French writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is...
DER TODESKING (1989)
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
HOUSE (1986) • HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY (1987) • HOUSE III: THE HORROR SHOW (1989) • HOUSE IV: THE REPOSSESSION (1992)
HOUSE (1986) Steve Miner’s an unsung hero of cult ’80s movies, having earned his stripes working on Wes Craven’s The Last House on the...
