Movie Releases by Genre
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
June 28, 1991
Lieutenant Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
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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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Thelma & Louise
May 24, 1991
Director Ridley Scott's infamous feminist road movie.
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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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A Kiss Before Dying
April 26, 1991
A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
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Oscar
April 26, 1991
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".
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The Object of Beauty
April 12, 1991
Stranded in a London hotel due to their excessive spending, an American couple finds that their most valuable artifact has been stolen.
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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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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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The Silence of the Lambs
February 13, 1991
In pursuit of one serial killer, ambitious FBI student Clarice Starling (Foster) is forced to enlist the aid of another notorious killer, the incarcerated ex-psychiatrist known as "Hannibal the Cannibal" Lecter (Hopkins).
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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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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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The Grifters
December 5, 1990
When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)
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Misery
November 30, 1990
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
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Home Alone
November 16, 1990
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! (20th Century Fox Corp.)
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The Rescuers Down Under
November 16, 1990
The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.
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The Krays
November 9, 1990
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
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The Hot Spot
October 12, 1990
A lowlife drifter (Johnson) who sells used cars in a Texas burg robs the local bank and gets involved with two women: one bad (Madsen), one innocent (Connelly). Based on Charles Williams' 1952 novel "Hell Hath No Fury." (MGM)
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Miller's Crossing
October 5, 1990
In an unnamed Eastern city in 1929, the friendship between the local political boss (Finney) and Tom (Byrne), the man behind the man, is severed when they fall for same woman. Tom joins ranks with Johnny Caspar, Leo's enemy and rival, in a race for political power, resulting in a bloody, citywide gang war.
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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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King of New York
September 28, 1990
A drug kingpin (Christopher Walken) is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
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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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Goodfellas
September 1, 1990
Based on the bestselling book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, Scorsese's film profiles nearly 30 years of mob life in New York City.
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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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Opera
August 31, 1990
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
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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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After Dark, My Sweet
August 24, 1990
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
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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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Wild at Heart
August 12, 1990
David Lynch explores old theme: the story of two people (Cage and Dern) who thoroughly love each other, of two people whose love seems so strong that nothing can corrupt it. Yet, the evil forces of murder, corruption and perversion, which lurk beneath the seemingly clean surface of modern day America transform their journey into a ghost train ride and challenge their love to the extremes. (Von Marc Eberle)
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The Two Jakes
August 10, 1990
It's 1948 and private eye Jake Gittes is still in Los Angeles in this sequel to "Chinatown."
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The Freshman
July 20, 1990
An N.Y.C. film school student (Matthew Broderick) accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
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Quick Change
July 13, 1990
Grimm, a frazzled urbanite, disguises himself as a clown and sets out to rob a bank. Swiping a million bucks is a snap compared to getting out of town. Grimm and cohorts commandeer a car, a cab, a bus, a baggage tram and a plane to make what becomes for them a less-than-merry escape. (Warner Bros. Studio)
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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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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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Cadillac Man
May 18, 1990
Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife. What more could go wrong ?.. a lot, enter a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun..
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
May 4, 1990
When a disturbed young man (Antonio Banderas) kidnaps and ties up a porn queen, a psychological power play ensues. As the woman is held captive, she becomes torn by her growing bond with her abductor.
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Q & A
April 27, 1990
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
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Miami Blues
April 20, 1990
An ex-con's first act of freedom is moving to Miami where he restarts his old criminal ways with even more potency.
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I Love You to Death
April 6, 1990
After Joey (Kline) is found having an affair, his wife Rosalie hires hitmen to kill him.
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Ernest Goes to Jail
April 6, 1990
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.
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The First Power
April 6, 1990
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
April 6, 1990
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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A Shock to the System
March 23, 1990
When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to "level" the playing field, both professionally and personally. Sir Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.
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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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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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The Plot Against Harry
January 12, 1990
A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. Returning to his old neighborhood, he finds that the streets that he and his friends once controlled have now been taken over by blacks and Hispanics. On top of that, he must try to get back with his family, who want nothing to do with him.
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Internal Affairs
January 12, 1990
An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
January 5, 1990
Henry (Michael Rooker) is a psychopathic drifter who has coldly murdered a number of people for no particular reason and without any remorse. Leaving scores of bodies in his wake, Henry makes his way to Chicago, where his murderous streak continues and he settles into the rundown apartment of his drug-dealing former prison friend Otis (Tom Towles). Also moving into the space is Otis’s younger sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who is fleeing from her abusive husband. Henry soon reveals his troubled childhood background to Becky, which resulted in Henry’s murder of his mother, the crime that landed him in prison. Unbeknownst to Becky, Henry continues to commit a series of random killings along with Otis, who has quickly developed a taste for murder. [Dark Sky Films]
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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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Family Business
December 15, 1989
An ex professor offers Adam $1,000,000 to "get" some plasma from a high tech company's lab. Adam asks his criminal grandpa for help. Can they convince Adam's now honest dad to join?
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We're No Angels
December 15, 1989
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
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Mapantsula
December 3, 1989
During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his own interests, Panic finds himself being irreversibly pulled into the fray. Now, he is forced to choose between his personal freedom and taking a stand in the fight against the oppressive apartheid government.
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Mystery Train
November 17, 1989
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
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Harlem Nights
November 17, 1989
He's Quick with a quip, Quick with a gun. And Quick with a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on the 1930's Harlem hot spot, Club Sugar Ray. (Paramount Pictures)
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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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Drugstore Cowboy
October 6, 1989
A group of heroin addicts lead by Bob (Dillon) rob drugstores to continue their addictions.
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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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Johnny Handsome
September 29, 1989
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
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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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Sea of Love
September 15, 1989
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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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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Casualties of War
August 18, 1989
During the Vietnam War, a soldier (Michael J. Fox) finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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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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Turner & Hooch
July 28, 1989
A detective (Tom Hanks) must adopt a dog of a dead man to help him find the man's murderer.
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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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Weekend at Bernie's
July 5, 1989
Two young insurance agents attempt to cover up the fact that their crooked boss has been murdered when they arrive at his beach house for a weekend party.
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Cutting Class
July 1, 1989
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
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Batman
June 23, 1989
Tim Burton's 1989 Blockbuster introduces us to the origins of Gotham City's fearless crimestopper Batman (Keaton) and his arch-enemy The Joker (Nicholson).
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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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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
May 12, 1989
Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.
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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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The Dream Team
April 7, 1989
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
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Heathers
March 31, 1989
A razor sharp black comedy about high school politics centers on Veronica Sawyer (Ryder) who joins an exclusive clique of popular girls named Heather (Walker, Doherty, Falk) and plays along with her new boyfriend J.D. (Slater) in a series of pranks which turn into a series of murders made to look like suicides.
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Fletch Lives
March 17, 1989
After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into trouble.
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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
March 10, 1989
The funky cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
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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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True Believer
February 17, 1989
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
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Her Alibi
February 3, 1989
A writer of BAD detective novels confronts total writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.
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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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Mississippi Burning
January 27, 1989
A fictionalized version of the murders of three civil rights activists on June 21, 1964 in Mississippi. The FBI comes in to solve the case and succeeds only after using unethical and illegal means. (MGM)
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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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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
December 14, 1988
Two wiley con-men living in the south of France join forces to bilk rich American women of their fortunes. WHen one decides to strike out on his own, a bet is made over who can take a rich American heiress for $50,000 first. After much outrageous tomfoolery, the boys learn the heiress has no money and all three join forces. [MGM]
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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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Things Change
October 21, 1988
Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.
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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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