Movie Releases by Genre
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
December 6, 1991
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
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Highlander II: The Quickening
November 1, 1991
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
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Ricochet
October 4, 1991
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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A Better Tomorrow
September 24, 1991
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
August 23, 1991
Forced by the imminent foreclosure of their friend's bar, two lifelong buddies will decide to rob a bank's armored car, not knowing that its cargo is not money but a new street drug.
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Double Impact
August 9, 1991
Twin brothers are separated when their parents are murdered but 25 years later they re-unite in order to avenge their parents' death.
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Hot Shots!
July 31, 1991
A parody of Top Gun in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
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Point Break
July 12, 1991
An FBI agent goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
July 3, 1991
In a future, war-ravaged Los Angeles in which the machines have taken over the earth, a faction of human rebels led by an adult John Connor do battle with the cyborgs. Two "intelligent machines" have been dispatched to the past, one -- a replica of the Terminator model T-800 which dominated the original film -- to protect the young Connor, the other -- a shape-shifting metallic T-1000 -- to kill him.
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The Rocketeer
June 21, 1991
The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense and intrigue. Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret spy. With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes, who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
June 14, 1991
When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.
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Backdraft
May 24, 1991
Stephen McCaffrey (Russell) and his younger brother Brian (Baldwin) are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the McCaffrey brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve the mystery. (Universal)
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Hudson Hawk
May 24, 1991
Two Hoboken cat burglars (Willis and Aiello) are drawn into a plot to steal three separate artificats which are part of a machine invented by Leonardo da Vinci that converts lead into gold.
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Stone Cold
May 17, 1991
A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.
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F/X2
May 10, 1991
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy for help, and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
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Toy Soldiers
April 26, 1991
When terrorists seize control of a boarding school, a group of troublemaking boys decide to resist them.
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Out for Justice
April 12, 1991
The gruesome murder of a Brooklyn Detective will turn the case into a personal vendetta when the deceased's best friend and fellow officer (Steven Seagal) will unleash an all-out attack against a psychotic Mafia enforcer's brutal gang.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
March 22, 1991
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last canister of the ooze that created the Turtles, with which Shredder wants to unleash an army of new mutants.
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The Perfect Weapon
March 15, 1991
An expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.
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New Jack City
March 8, 1991
Drug tycoon Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, have rapidly risen to the top of the New York City narcotics trade. Under Nino's heartless leadership, the drug operation has grown into a multimillion-dollar empire. Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), two police officers who know their way around the streets of Harlem, aim to bring Nino and his cohorts down. To do so, though, they'll have to play by Nino's rules and go undercover. [Warner Bros.]
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La Femme Nikita
March 8, 1991
When a secret governmant agency re-programs a criminal named Nikita (Parillaud), she is released to the outside world as their agent. As her missions become more and more demanding, she is torn between her alliance to the agency and her desire to lead, for once, a normal life. [20th Century Fox]
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Lionheart
January 11, 1991
An Ex-French Soldier (Jean-Claude Van Damme) begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.
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Warlock
January 11, 1991
A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.
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The Godfather: Part III
December 25, 1990
In this third film in the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his 60's, Michael is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. [Paramount Pictures]
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Kindergarten Cop
December 21, 1990
An undercover cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to catch a dangerous criminal. Once he wrangles his young charges, as well as the affections of a beautiful teacher, he prepares for a final showdown with his intended prey in this action-comedy. (Universal Studios)
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The Rookie
December 7, 1990
A veteran detective gets stuck with a rookie cop when in pursuit of a German crook.
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Predator 2
November 21, 1990
Amidst a territorial gang war in 1997, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran L.A.P.D. officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
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Quigley Down Under
October 19, 1990
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
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Memphis Belle
October 12, 1990
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
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Marked for Death
October 5, 1990
A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.
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Desperate Hours
October 5, 1990
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
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Narrow Margin
September 21, 1990
A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.
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State of Grace
September 14, 1990
A New York cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.
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Death Warrant
September 14, 1990
In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.
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The Killer
September 1, 1990
A disillusioned assassin (Chow Yun-Fat) accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.
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Darkman
August 24, 1990
A hideously scarred and mentally unstable scientist seeks revenge against the mobster who ruined his life.
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Men at Work
August 24, 1990
Two garbage men uncover a conspiracy involving illegal toxic waste dumping and decide to bring the whole operation down.
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Air America
August 10, 1990
After losing his job as a helicopter traffic pilot, Billy (Downey Jr.) finds himself shuttling not only people but drugs on Air America - the CIA's airline in Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Young Guns II
August 1, 1990
In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.
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Navy Seals
July 20, 1990
A battle-hardened Seal Team sets off on a mission to destroy a shipment of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
July 11, 1990
When Detective Fairlane is hired to find a girl named Zuzu Petals, his Rock n' Roll style gum-shoeing gets put to the test as the case he tries to crack becomes more bizarre by the second, attracting all kinds of homicidal weirdos.
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Die Hard 2
July 2, 1990
John McClane attempts to save the day, again, as rogue military officials seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.
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Days of Thunder
June 27, 1990
From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with racing action. Race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland, Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.
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RoboCop 2
June 22, 1990
Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.
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Dick Tracy
June 15, 1990
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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Another 48 Hrs.
June 8, 1990
Reggie Hammond and Jack Cates return in the sequel. The mob puts a price on Reggie's head. The bus transporting him from the pen flips over about 17 times. His prized Porsche is blown into scrap metal. Creeps in a bar still haven't learned it's dumb to get Reggie mad. And the night is still young. Before these 48 hours are up, Reggie and Jack will turn San Francisco inside out to nail an elusive druglord. The boys are back in town... and the action's on the streets. (Sony Pictures)
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Total Recall
June 1, 1990
Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a construction worker with a beautiful wife (Sharon Stone) and home in in the year 2084, decides to take a virtual vacation to Mars as a secret agent. When things go wrong during the artificial memory implantation process, Quaid becomes reacts violently and must figure out if his life as Quaid or as the secret agent is his true life.
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Fire Birds
May 25, 1990
Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
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Bird on a Wire
May 18, 1990
An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys.
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Class of 1999
May 11, 1990
Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
March 30, 1990
Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.
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Blue Steel
March 16, 1990
A female rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
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Blind Fury
March 16, 1990
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
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The Hunt for Red October
March 2, 1990
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it-because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. (Paramount Pictures)
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Nightbreed
February 16, 1990
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
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Revenge
February 16, 1990
A retired US Navy pilot (Kevin Costner) comes to Mexico, where he falls in love with the wife (Madeleine Stowe) of a powerful businessman. The consequences will be cruel and unforeseen.
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Hard to Kill
February 9, 1990
Left for dead with his wife killed in their house, L.A. Detective Mason Storm will have to make a quick recovery, expose those behind the murder and take revenge.
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Moon 44
February 1, 1990
An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon.
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Ski Patrol
January 12, 1990
A developer attempts to sabotage the safety record of a ski resort.
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Akira
December 25, 1989
Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, Akira begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII.
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Tango & Cash
December 22, 1989
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all.
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
November 17, 1989
Charley B. Barkin, the German shepherd is double-crossed and murdered by his pit bull partner. He returns from heaven to seek revenge but finds redemption instead.
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Best of the Best
November 10, 1989
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
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Henry V
November 8, 1989
The English king invades France and wins the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V.
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Kill Me Again
October 27, 1989
A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.
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Next of Kin
October 20, 1989
Truman (Patrick Swayze), a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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An Innocent Man
October 6, 1989
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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Black Rain
September 22, 1989
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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Kickboxer
September 8, 1989
Kurt Sloane (Jean-Claude Van Damme) must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
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The Package
August 25, 1989
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones), back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
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Let It Ride
August 18, 1989
Jay Trotter has waited a lifetime for this day. He's got a hot tip on a horse everyone thinks is ready for the glue factory. But, as track aficionados say, "Even when you know, you never know." (Paramount)
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The Abyss
August 9, 1989
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, one diver (Harris) soon finds himself on an odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. (20th Century Fox)
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Lock Up
August 4, 1989
"This is hell and I'm going to give you a guided tour!" With these chilling words, the warden welcomes Frank Leone to Gateway Prison, a nightmare jail where every minute is hard time. The warden wants vengeance for the past; Leone wants only to survive the present. Their explosive battle of wills is the electrifying heart of one of LOCK UP. Stallone gives a monumental performance as Leone, a convict driven to break his own cherished code by a warden who will stop at nothing to get him. (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)
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Licence to Kill
July 14, 1989
When his good friend Felix Leiter is beaten and left for dead, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) sets out on a mission, against his organization's wishes, to track down the drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) who tortured his friend. [MGM]
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Lethal Weapon 2
July 7, 1989
Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. (Warner Bros.)
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The Karate Kid Part III
June 30, 1989
Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
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Ghostbusters II
June 16, 1989
The Ghostbusters take up their proton packs once more to battle the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the they find themselves out of business until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett's baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum's possessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art form!
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
June 9, 1989
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise and takes it on an obsessive search for God.
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No Holds Barred
June 2, 1989
Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network. Rip refuses and goes back to his normal life. Still looking for a way to raise ratings, Brell initiates a show called "The Battle of the Tough Guys", a violent brawling competition. A mysterious man, Zeus, wins the competition. This gets Brell to use him as an angle to get at Rip.
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Renegades
June 2, 1989
An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.
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Pink Cadillac
May 26, 1989
Skip tracer Tommy looks for bail-jumper Lou Ann. Her crime is marrying Roy, who left counterfeit money in their mobile home and got her arrested. She leaves Roy in his pink Cadillac full of money. His psycho friends want their money back.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
May 24, 1989
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.
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Road House
May 19, 1989
A veteran cooler (Patrick Swayze) is hired to bring a level of decorum to an up-and-coming bar that serves as the haunt for a county's corrupt element of bad guys.
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Miracle Mile
May 19, 1989
A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit the city within 70 minutes.
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The Return of Swamp Thing
May 12, 1989
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
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K-9
April 28, 1989
To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.
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Cyborg
April 7, 1989
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
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Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
March 15, 1989
The government hires a feminist at the local university to track down the Piranha Women living in the uncharted Avocado Jungle (westernmost outpost is San Bernardino) to convince them to move to a reservation condo in Malibu. She hires a guide at the edge of the jungle, a male chauvinist pig, and they have many arguments about men and women as they work their way in, and eventually confront the Piranha Women.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
March 10, 1989
The enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen follow him on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures. (Sony Pictures)
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The Mighty Quinn
February 17, 1989
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.
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
February 3, 1989
A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
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Three Fugitives
January 27, 1989
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
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DeepStar Six
January 13, 1989
At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.
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Gleaming the Cube
January 13, 1989
Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so he skates off to investigate the murder himself.
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The January Man
January 13, 1989
Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
December 14, 1988
When Junebug Spade is found dead, having OG'd (Over-Gold) on funky gold chains (how did he go to the bathroom with all that on?) his soldier brother, Jack, vows to avenge him and hits the mean streets of his old neighborhood, looking for the nefarious Mr. Big, who's two-bit henchmen push gold chains on the street. The way Jack sees it, Mr. Big has got to pay and with the help of legendary vigilante, John Slade, Jack is gonna git that sucka.
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Tequila Sunrise
December 2, 1988
Two former high school friends -- one a fast-rising L.A.. cop and the other a drug dealer desperate to get out -- are both vying for the affection of a sleek restaurant owner. (Warner Bros.)
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
December 2, 1988
Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. (Paramount)
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They Live
November 4, 1988
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE. A rugged loner (Piper) stumbles upon a terrifying discovery: goulish creatures are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible. (TheOfficialJohnCarpenter.com)
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Alien Nation
October 7, 1988
In 1991, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.
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