Follow along as I watch and review every single movie from the 1980s!
Below you will find an alphabetical list of every movie released in the tenth and final year of the most iconized — and pedestalized — decades in the history of film, 1989.
Check back for links to individualized reviews as time marches on.
Abyss, The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
Adventures of Milo and Otis, The
After Midnight
Akira
All Dogs Go to Heaven
All’s Fair
Always
American Ninja 3: Bloodhunt
Animal Behavior
Apartment Zero
Ashik Kerib
Avanti Popolo
Avenue Called Brazil, An
Babar: The Movie
Back to Ararat
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
Bear, The
Berlin Blues
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool
Best of the Best
Beverly Hills Brats
Big Picture, The
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces
Black Rain
Blackout
Blades
Blaze
Blood Red
Bloodfist
Born of the Fourth of July
Boy Meets Girl
Brave Little Toaster, The
Break of Dawn
Breaking In
Burbs, The
Buy & Cell
Bye Bye Baby
Cage
Cameron’s Closet
Camille Claudel
Cannibal Tours
Casualties of War
Catch Me If You Can
Champions Forever
Chances Are
Checking Out
Cheetah
Chocolat
Chorus of Disapproval, A
City of Pirates
City of Sadness, A
Cohen and Tate
Cold Feet
Comic Book Confidential
Communion
Comrades
Cookie
Cousins
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cutting Class
Cyborg
Dad
Damned River
Dance of Hope
Dangerous Liaisons 1960
Dead Bang
Dead Calm
Dead Come Home, The
Dead Poets Society
Dealers
Deepstar Six
Demons in Spring
Depeche Mode 101
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Disorganized Crime
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Do the Right Thing
Domino
Dr. Caligari
Dream a Little Dream
Dream Team, The
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
Dry White Season, A
Dybbuk, The (1937)
Earth Girls Are Easy
Easy Wheels
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Echoes of Paradise
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives
Edge of Sanity
84 Charlie MoPic
Emma’s Shadow
Enemies: A Love Story
Erik the Viking
Escape From Safehaven
Esther
Everlasting Secret Family, The
Evil Clutch
Experts, The
Exquisite Corpses
Fabulous Baker Boys, The
Family Business
Far From Home
Farewell to the King
Fast Food
Fat Man and Little Boy
Fear, Anxiety and Depression
Few Days With Me, A
Field of Dreams
Field of Honor
Fight For Us
Fist Fighter
Flame in My Heart, A
Fletch Lives
Fly II, The
Food of the Gods II
For Queen & Country
Forced March
Fortress of Amerikkka
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Friday the 13th Part VIII – Jason Takes Manhattan
Friends, Lovers & Lunatics
Fright Night Part II
From Hollywood to Deadwood
From Russia With Rock
Funny
Gang of Four, The
Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II
Ginger Ale Afternoon
Girl in a Swing, The
Gleaming the Cube
Glory
Great Balls of Fire
Grievous Bodily Harm
Gross Anatomy
Guests of Hotel Astoria, The
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Hanussen
Harlem Nights
Hawks
Heart of Dixie
Heart of Midnight
Heat and Sunlight
Heathers
Heaven Becomes Hell
Heavy Petting
Hell High
Henry V
Her Alibi
Heroes Stand Alone
High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet
High Frequency
High Hopes
High Stakes
Hit List
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Horror Show, The
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Hungarian Fairy Tale, A
I, Madman
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Ice House
Immediate Family
In a Glass Cage
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Innocent Man, An
Iron Triangle, The
It Had to Be You
Jacknife
January Man, The
Jester and the Queen, The
Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Johnny Handsome
K-9
Karate Kid Part III, The
Kickboxer
Kill Me Again
King of the Schmattes
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Kung Fu Master!
La Boca del Lobo
La Boheme
La Lectrice (The Reader)
Lady Terminator
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Last Warrior, The
Le Schpountz (1938)
Lean on Me
Let It Ride
Let’s Get Lost
Lethal Weapon 2
Letters From a Dead Man
Leviathan
Licence to Kill
Lightning Over Braddock
Limit Up
Listen to Me
Little Mermaid, The
Little Monsters
Little Thief, The
Little Vera
Lock Up
Lódź Ghetto
Look Who’s Talking
Lords of the Deep
Lost Angels
Loverboy
Luckiest Man in the World, The
Magic Toyshop, The
Major League
Making ‘Do the Right Thing’
Manifesto
Mapantsula
Masque of the Red Death
Me and Him
Meet the Hollowheads
Meher Baba: Avatar of the Age
Method, The
Michelangelo: Self-Portrait
Midnight
Mighty Quinn, The
Milk and Honey
Millennium
Mind Games
Ministry of Vengeance
Miracle Mile
Miss Firecracker
Moontrap
Murmur of the Heart
Music Box
Music Teacher, The
Mutant on the Bounty
My Left Foot
My Mom’s a Werewolf
Mystery Train
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Navigator: An Odyssey Across Time, The
New Year’s Day
New York Stories
Next of Kin
Night Game
Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba, A
Night of the Pencils
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A
976-EVIL
No Holds Barred
No Retreat No Surrender II
Now I Lay Me
Nowhere to Run
Old Gringo
On the Make
On Tour With Pina Bausch
One Man Force
One Man Out
Out Cold
Out of the Dark
Package, The
Paperhouse
Parenthood
Parents
Pathfinder
Peking Opera Blues
Penn and Teller Get Killed
Pet Semetary
Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge
Phantom of the Opera, The
Physical Evidence
Pieces of Tam Tam
Pin
Pink Cadillac
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Powwow Highway
Prancer
Project A/Part II
Pumpkinhead
Purgatory
Queen of Hearts
Rabid Grannies
Race for Glory
Rachel Papers, The
Rachel River
Rainbow, The
Red Scorpion
Relentless
Renegades
Return of Swamp Thing, The
Riding the Edge
River of Death
Road House
Roger & Me
Romero
Rooftops
Rose Garden, The
Rude Awakening
Runnin’ Kind, The
Sand and Blood
Savage Beach
Say Anything
Scandal
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Sea of Love
Second Animation Celebration, The
Second Sight
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
See You in the Morning
sex, lies and videotape
Shag, the Movie
Shanghai Blues
She-Devil
She’s Back
She’s Out of Control
Shell Shock
Shirley Valentine
Shocker
Sidewalk Stories
Siege of Firebase Gloria, The
Signed: Lino Brocka
Signs of Life
Sinful Life, A
Sing
Skin Deep
Slaves of New York
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Some Girls
Speaking Parts
Speed Zone
Spices
SR-71 Blackbird: The Secret Vigil
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Staying Together
Stealing Heaven
Steel Magnolias
Stepfather 2
Story of Women
Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls
Suitors, The
Summer Job
Tales From the Gimli Hospital
Talvisota
Tango & Cash
Tango Bar
Tap
Taxing Woman’s Return, A
Teen Witch
Ten Little Indians
Terror Within, The
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
36 Fillette
Three Fugitives
Three Sad Tigers
Thunderground
Time Guardian, The
Time Trackers
To Kill a Priest
To the Limit
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Too Beautiful for You
Tora San Goes to Vienna
Tout Une Nuit
Toxic Avenger Part II, The
Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, The
Transylvania Twist
Triumph of the Spirit
Troop Beverly Hills
Tropical Snow
Trouble With Dick, The
True Believer
True Blood
True Love
Trust Me
Turner & Hooch
UHF
Uncle Buck
Under the Boardwalk
Under the Sun of Satan
Unremarkable Life, An
Up Your Alley
Valentino Returns
Valmont
Vampire’s Kiss
Very Moral Night, A
Vineyard, The
Virgin Machine
Voices From the Attic
Voices of Sarafina!
Voyage to Cythera
War of the Roses, The
War Party
War Requiem
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
We’re No Angels
Weapons of the Spirit
Weekend at Bernie’s
Welcome Home
When Harry Met Sally…
When the Whales Came
White Hot
White Magic
Who’s Harry Crumb?
Whooping Cough
Wicked Stepmother
Winter People
Wired
Witchtrap
Wizard of Speed and Time, The
Wizard, The
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II
Wonderland
Worth Winning
Yaaba
Young Einstein
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain