Movie Releases by Genre
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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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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
November 23, 1990
Set after World War I, India and Walter Bridge (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) find their values clashing with their three children.
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3 Men and a Little Lady
November 21, 1990
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.
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Rocky V
November 16, 1990
Upon returning home from his latest triumph, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) learns that all his money has been lost by an unscrupulous financial advisor. To make matters worse, his fight-related injuries force his retirement from the ring. So Rocky, his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) and his son Rocky Jr. (Sage Stallone) move to their old, low-rent neighborhood in South Philadelphia. There, the fighter must resolve the deep-rooted resentment held by his son, a bitterness that grows when Rocky trains Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison), a young boxer who soon rises to national prominence. When Tommy turns against his mentor and publicly taunts him, Rocky knows he must fight once more. [MGM]
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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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Dances with Wolves
November 9, 1990
Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he falls in love with the beautiful Stands With a Fist (McDonnell), a white woman raised by the tribe. (MGM)
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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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My Twentieth Century
November 9, 1990
On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. [Kino Lorber]
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Graffiti Bridge
November 2, 1990
The unofficial sequel to 'Purple Rain' (1984). The Kid is now club owner and rival to Morris (Morris Day) who get into a fight for the Glam Slam Nightclub.
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Jacob's Ladder
November 2, 1990
The life of a traumatized Vietnam vet. begins to unravel as the line between reality and nightmarish visions becomes blurred.
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Vincent & Theo
November 2, 1990
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent.
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White Palace
October 19, 1990
Still getting over the death of his wife, a young advertising executive meets an older waitress, a woman that might set him free.
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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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Avalon
October 19, 1990
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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Reversal of Fortune
October 17, 1990
Jeremy Irons plays socialite Claus von Bulow, seeking legal exoneration in the most sensational attempted murder scandal of the 1980s. (Warner Bros.)
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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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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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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
October 12, 1990
A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother.
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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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Henry & June
October 5, 1990
Anaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June.
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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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An Angel at My Table
October 4, 1990
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
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Texasville
September 28, 1990
The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. People assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?
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White Hunter Black Heart
September 14, 1990
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
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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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Postcards from the Edge
September 12, 1990
Postcards from the Edge is a film about a very real mother-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of today's Hollywood. (Sony Pictures)
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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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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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Pump Up the Volume
August 22, 1990
A shy teen turns on the high school crowd when he broadcasts outrageous nightly monologues on a pirate radio station. (New Line Cinema)
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The Exorcist III
August 17, 1990
A police Lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.
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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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Flatliners
August 10, 1990
A group of medical students subject themselves to near death experience in order to explore the afterlife, but when they return they are haunter by what they saw.
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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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Metropolitan
August 3, 1990
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.
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Mo' Better Blues
August 3, 1990
Financially irresponsible Giant (Spike Lee) manages a jazz group, but his sax player, Shadow (Wesley Snipes), wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleek (Denzel Washington), the band's trumpeter, then tries to defend his close pal Giant, leading to a power struggle between the two musicians. Meanwhile, as Bleek tries to straighten things out with his band mates and manager, he also must choose to be with either sweet teacher Indigo (Joie Lee) or sultry singer Clarke (Cynda Williams).
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The Unbelievable Truth
July 20, 1990
A comedy of errors surrounding a beautiful college bound girl disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction. Nevertheless, she falls in love with a handsome ex-con who is rumored to have murdered, many years before, the father of his high school sweetheart. (Possible Films)
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Ghost
July 13, 1990
Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams with a psychic (Goldberg) to uncover the truth behind his murder - and to rescue his sweetheart (Moore) from a similar fate. (Paramount Pictures)
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No Picnic
July 12, 1990
A black-and-white love letter to pre-gentrification New York City, Phil Hartman's No Picnic captures a remote time and place - the East Village circa 1985, a vibrant, seedy neighborhood populated by musicians, pimps and poets. Macabee Cohen (David Brisbin), whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes. His beloved Lower East Side neighborhood is in turmoil: rampant real estate speculation, tenants on rent strike, art invading the bars - "in my own neighborhood, I felt like I was in the middle of a party that I hadn't been invited to," he says. Mac's personal life is in turmoil, too: his girlfriend dumped him for the Air Force, his neighbor is pressuring him into a green card marriage, his father has left his mother for a younger man, and his brother is sending post cards from his sexual sojourn to all fifty states. Then a mysterious girl appears in his life, and Mac's obsession to find her becomes a quest of self-discovery, too - "I was looking for someone to save," he says, "to save myself."
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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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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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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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Last Exit to Brooklyn
May 4, 1990
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.
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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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The Guardian
April 27, 1990
A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.
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Wild Orchid
April 27, 1990
A female lawyer (Carrie Otis) becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire (Mickey Rourke) during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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Lisa
April 20, 1990
A flirtatious teenager with an eye for older men gets more than she bargained for when the handsome stranger she's pursuing turns out to be a serial killer.
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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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Crazy People
April 13, 1990
A bitter ad executive (Dudley Moore) who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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The Juniper Tree
April 10, 1990
Margit (Björk) and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland in Iceland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her, ensuring the wellbeing of herself and Margit. Jóhann's son, Jóhas, sees through Katla's plan and pleads for his father to make her go away. To help Jóhas in his struggle, Margit's mother appears to Margit in visions and provides a magic amulet of protection for the boy. Will Jóhas be able to rid his family of Katla or will she continue to control them with her witchcraft?
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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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Side Out
March 30, 1990
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
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The Fourth War
March 23, 1990
Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.
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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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Lord of the Flies
March 16, 1990
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
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Bad Influence
March 9, 1990
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Within a matter of days, Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down, and Michael doesn't realize that Alex is a dangerous sociopath until it's too late.
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The Handmaid's Tale
March 9, 1990
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Cinema Paradiso
March 1, 1990
Set in an Italian village, Salvatore finds himself enchanted by the flickering images at the Cinema Paradiso, yearning for the secret of the cinema’s magic. When the projectionist, Alfredo, agrees to reveal the mysteries of moviemaking, a deep friendship is born. The day comes for Salvatore to leave the village and pursue his dream of making movies of his own. Thirty years later he receives a message that beckons him back home to a secret and beautiful discovery that awaits him. [Miramax]
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Glory
February 16, 1990
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
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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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Stella
February 2, 1990
A strong and eccentric woman's devoted relationship to her daughter through the years.
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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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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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Always
December 22, 1989
A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for dare-devil firefighting and his one true love.
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Born on the Fourth of July
December 20, 1989
Based on a true story, the film follows the young Ron Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted. (Universal Studios)
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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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Driving Miss Daisy
December 15, 1989
This adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play looks at the 25-year relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur.
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The Wizard
December 15, 1989
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
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Blaze
December 13, 1989
A middle-aged Louisiana governor (Paul Newman) falls in love with a young stripper (Lolita Davidovich), jeopardizing his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
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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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Steel Magnolias
November 22, 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
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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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Valmont
November 17, 1989
Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Valmont (Firth) seduces a young lady on a bet from his former lover.
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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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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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Dad
November 10, 1989
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, final time.
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My Left Foot
November 10, 1989
True story of cerebral palsied Christy Brown, who overcame his illness and poverty to become an accomplished artist, poet and writer.
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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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The Bear
October 27, 1989
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
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Fat Man and Little Boy
October 20, 1989
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
October 13, 1989
The film's title indicates the themes of two separate stories: 1) a renowned opthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship...which ends up in murder; and 2) an ethically frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss. [MGM]
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
October 13, 1989
The lives of two struggling musicians (the Bridges brothers), who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer (Michelle Pfeiffer)
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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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A Dry White Season
September 20, 1989
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
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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 Big Picture
September 15, 1989
Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.
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Sweetie
September 10, 1989
An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
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Shirley Valentine
August 30, 1989
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
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Millennium
August 25, 1989
An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.
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The Adventures of Milo and Otis
August 25, 1989
The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.
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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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