01Documentary
HERITAGE · 1895—1989
The films that remain.
Masterpieces, popular pleasures, comedies and foundational works to see at least once.
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02Documentary
... and Women
Heini Drui · 1989A documentary that tries to understand women. About how a hard-working Soviet woman may not achieve the so-called bonus points in sex life.…
03Documentary
...dann antworten Sie mit JA!
Andrea Ritterbusch · 1989The film sheds light on the topic of the high divorce rate among young people in the form of journalistic statements and scenes as well as analytically reflected statemen…
04Comedy
00.99 Da fa cai
Yao-Te Fang · 198900.99 Da fa cai (1989) is a comedy film directed by Yao-Te Fang. The principal cast includes Chun-Fang Chang, Ping-Yu Chang, Po-Chou Chang. This reference entry brings to…
05Documentary
10 Tage im Oktober
Thomas Frick · 198910 Tage im Oktober (1989) is a documentary film directed by Thomas Frick. This reference entry brings together verified credits and production details for the work.…
06Documentary
1000 Lakes Rally 1989
Encyclopedic record · 1989Round 9 of the 1989 World Rally Championship took place in Finland accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain which added the possibility of aquaplaning to its already …
07film historique · Documentary
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
Bruce Halford · 1989Moving documentary looks back on the remarkable life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and combines the tragedy of his untimely death with the rememberances of those who knew hi…
08Germany
15 Days of Fever
Schmelzdahin · 1989We were slightly feverish when we started working with a particular color process. At the development, we had obtained wonderful tones of blue and yellow as well as color…
09Drama
1952: Ivan and Aleksandra
Ivan Nitchev · 1989This grim Bulgarian drama explores the effects that the postwar Stalinist-led social reorganization of that country had upon the lives not only of those who suffered publ…
10Documentary
1968
Zsolt Balogh · 19891968 (1989) is a documentary film directed by Zsolt Balogh. The principal cast includes Zoltán Lengyel, Éva Ágh. This reference entry brings together verified credits and…
11film historique
1988 The Year On Video
Encyclopedic record · 19891988 will long be remembered as the year of celebrations - Australia turned 200, we won gold at the Seoul Olympics, 'Fergie' gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and the …
12Cinema
1989 DCI World Championships - Legacy Collection
Encyclopedic record · 19891989 DCI World Championships held in Kansas City, MO on August 19, 1989 1. Santa Clara Vanguard (1st Place 98.80) 2. Phantom Regiment (2nd Place 98.40) 3. Cavaliers (3th …
13Romance
1989 Fang Shu Jia
Li Fu · 19891989 Fang Shu Jia (1989) is a romance film directed by Li Fu. The principal cast includes Yu-Sheng Chang, Shih-Erh Chin, Yu-Lan Chin. This reference entry brings together…
14Music · Documentary
1989年中央广播电视总台春节联欢晚会
Encyclopedic record · 19891989年中央广播电视总台春节联欢晚会 (1989) is a music, documentary. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and production information for the work.…
15Comedy
1º de Abril, Brasil
Maria Letícia · 1989The daily routine of a women's Republic in the late days of 1963 and early 1964 - before the military coup - is presented from the perspective of several characters, and …
16Comedy
2 Tatlı Serseri
Yavuz Figenli · 19892 Tatlı Serseri (1989) is a comedy directed by Yavuz Figenli. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and production information for the wor…
17Cinema
2 dari 3 Laki-laki
Edward Pesta Sirait · 1989A seminar about Men and Faithfulness, to discuss the result of Matra magazine’s survey, that concludes that two out of three men have affairs, becomes a hot topic. Doddy,…
18Music · Documentary
2 of One
Michael Salomon · Bill Pope · 1989Two versions of the One music video with an intro and outro by Lars, released on VHS in the US, and the smaller 8" LaserDisc in Japan.…
19Cinema
20 Minutes After Running Away
Masaki Ikehata · 1989Ayumi, a young girl who frequently runs away from home at the slightest opportunity, is once again brought back by her older brother just 20 minutes after her latest esca…
20France
212, rue du Faubourg St-Antoine
Michèle Waquant · 1989This video suggests a dialogue between two buildings : on one side, the empty wall of 212, rue du Faubourg, and on the other, the view from a work room. A busy neighbour,…
21Comedy
24 Hour Playboy
Yoshimitsu Morita · 1989Nagashima is a playboy who refuses to be tied down by marriage. Suffering from insomnia recently, he is eager to find a glamorous girl who can make him fall asleep. He le…
22Drama
25 Dollar People
김현명 · 1989New York in 1960. The poor student Han Young-Min sees the want advertisement of the sperm bank and offers his sperm for 25 dollars. His sperm is given to two women, and t…
23Animation · Comedy
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Bill Plympton · 1989The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.…
24Documentary
33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies.
Mykola Loktionov-Stezenko · 1989Filming of this documentary began in 1987 and ended in 1989. As archival materials and newsreels were inaccessible, the authors of the film appealed to the Holodomor witn…
25Romance
4 Colors Heart
Pornpoj Kanitsen · 1989Wiphawee gets a job as a nanny to Watchara’s kids. Pongnarin, her best friend, doesn’t want her work this job since they have to be separated but they promise they will s…
26Comedy · Romance
4 κούκλες για έναν
Andreas Katsimitsoulias · 19894 κούκλες για έναν (1989) is a comedy, romance directed by Andreas Katsimitsoulias. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and production i…
27États-Unis
4:44 (from her house home)
Jem Cohen · 1989A personal, poetic approach to narrative, originally shot on 8mm film and mastered to ¾” video. Created in collaboration with Gabriel Cohen…
28Documentary · TV movie
50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
John Moffitt · 1989A special highlighting fifty years in the history of television. Includes tributes to Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and Ed Sulliv…
29Cinema
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
George Kuchar · 1989The dark and sloppy side of touring college towns with your work. An internal expose of external secretions that unfortunately make it to the boob tube in full color.…
30TV movie · Drama
5000 Metres Steeplechase
Radoslav Moskovlić · 1989It takes place in 1952 in a mountain village in Serbia. Unable to get used to the peacetime metropolitan life, young Major Dobrilo returns to his native village. But, som…
31Comedy
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
John Whiston · 1989A short satirical film devised by and starring Alan Rickman, Jim Broadbent and Alison Steadman about the seven sins of stage acting.…
32Documentary
80cm 5t
Michael Pilz · 1989Karl Prantl, the main character in the film, is one of the leading figures of Austrian art. As a sculptor - as one who shapes stones - he has produced an oeuvre of rare c…
33Documentary
88.9 Radio Redfern
Geoff Burton · Sharon Bell · 1989An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music…
34Comedy
A Baby in My Taxi
Kostas Karagiannis · 1989Paul drives his taxi, trying to solve his problems. Suddenly, he hears a baby crying. From that moment on, his perception of life changes completely and, without meaning …
35Animation
A Basket With Spruce Cones
Olga Chikina · 1989Composer Edvard Grieg meets a girl collecting fir cones. He promises her a gift, only not now, but after many years. Later, he writes a musical piece for her 18th birthda…
36Cinema
A Call to Arms
Cordelia Swann · 1989A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoires unravel in her head. In the final light of day she wakes herself a…
37Action · Drama · TV movie
A Casualty of War
Tom Clegg · 1989David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage for one last job. The …
38Comedy
A Comedy Celebration: The Comedy & Magic Club's 10th Anniversary
Joe Hostettler · 1989A variety special, taped October 30, 1988 during the 10th anniversary of the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring routines by stand-up comics.…
39Drama · film historique · Animation
A Contemplation of the Cross
Michael Lee · 1989A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand painted footage, live-act…
40Comedy · Documentary
A Crise do Cinema Brasileiro
Regina Rheda · 1989A Crise do Cinema Brasileiro (1989) is a comedy, documentary directed by Regina Rheda. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and productio…
41Drama · TV movie
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
Encyclopedic record · 1989Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally b…
42film familial · Adventure · Fantasy · Music
A Day at the Beach
John Grable · 1989After beach plans for Michael and Amy's family are ruined, Barney takes the Backyard Gang to the beach. They play in the sand, explore a pirate ship, and meet a mermaid.…
43Drama · Romance
A Dead Sea
Atıf Yılmaz · 1989A retired teacher and a very succesful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while t…
44Drama · Thriller
A Deadly Silence
John Patterson · 1989The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people know nothing about his…
45China
A Death Of An Inspector
Fu Huayang · 1989This tv-movie was shot in 1989. It is about a Taipei's police officer revenging for his potency and family.…
46Animation · Science fiction · Comedy
A Disregarded Galaxy
Inna Pshenichnaya · Anatoliy Solin · 1989An extraterrestrial tries in vain to establish contact with scientists on Earth. Unfortunately the first human he meets is Akimych the forester who doesn't believe in mir…
47Drama
A Divorce in Venice
Nick Millard · 1989A Divorce in Venice (1989) is a drama film directed by Nick Millard. The principal cast includes Irmgard Millard, Nick Millard. This reference entry brings together verif…
48Drama · TV movie
A Double Victory
Lodovico Gasparini · 1989Following a life-altering heart attack, a train driver named Saverio receives a heart transplant from a young, deceased runner. To honor his donor, Saverio takes on the c…
49Drama · film historique
A Dream of Red Mansions
Zhao Yuan · Xie Tieli · 1989A Chinese serial feature film, released in 6 parts (8 episodes) between 1988 and 1989. The film adapts the major events and incidents of the novel of the same name, depic…
50Japan
A Drifting Man and A Wandering Girl
Koichi Matsunaga · 1989A young man travels around in a truck while turning an 8mm camera. In his hometown in Kansai, he meets a high school girl. The film tells the story of the moratorium of y…
51Japan
A Film That Uses a Cheap Wine Glass to Consider Light
Jun Kurosawa · 1989A Film That Uses a Cheap Wine Glass to Consider Light (1989) is a film directed by Jun Kurosawa. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and…
52Japan
A Film of Buddy Matsumae
Hiroyuki Oki · 1989The establishment of Hiroyuki Ohki's Matsumae-Kun's film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary, in which something is…
53Drama
A Fire in Africa
Gerhard Uys · 1989A Fire in Africa (1989) is a drama film directed by Gerhard Uys. The principal cast includes Eddie Dorey, Rod Alexander, Paulus Masuku. This reference entry brings togeth…
54Cinema
A Gentle Afternoon Nap
Haruka Doi · 1989A work filmed in a room at the Washington Square Hotel in New York, created with the technique of multiple exposure. Scenes of a nude couple are overlaid with images of n…
55Cinema
A Hollywood Story
Tony Zarindast · 1989Carol Turner is a dancer actress with little talent but with a great desire to succeed. his goal to be a movie star in Hollywood.…
56Documentary
A House
Vladimir Perović · 1989A big modern house has only two inhabitants: an elderly couple, humble peasants. They seem rather lost and not too much accustomed to such a space. They are waiting for s…
57Cinema
A Knowledge They Cannot Lose
Nina Fonoroff · 1989Using both found footage and her own material, Nina Fonoroff recollects the memory of her father. Constructing and deconstructing a portrait, she weaves family and friend…
58Animation · film historique
A Lesson in History
Maybelle Peters · 1989Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, she was inspi…
59Drama · TV movie
A Master of the Marionettes
Pedr James · 1989Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspicuous success. Then o…
60Cinema
A Metamorphosis in Logic
Brady Lewis · 1989Combining animation with live action, this is an absurd, dark, slightly comic portrayal of a man who feels stuck and wonders how he got there. While it borrows images fro…
61film historique · Drama
A More Perfect Union
Peter N. Johnson · 1989Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness the struggles and the mira…
62Drama · TV movie
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
John Patterson · 1989The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings …
63Documentary · Music
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
John Holland · 1989A documentary on Dizzy Gillespie's landmark visit to Cuba and his performance at the Fifth International Jazz Festival in Havana, Cuba. Filmed in 1985 with Arturo Sandova…
64Drama · TV movie
A Night on the Tyne
Corin Campbell-Hill · 1989When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.…
65Horror · Comedy
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Fan Film Recreation
colleen briggs · 1989A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Fan Film Recreation is a home movie that was made by teenagers. All of the male parts—except for a dad, who is played by someone’s dad—ar…
66Drama
A Nutjob
Baljinnyam Begz · Nagnaidorj Badamsuren · 1989In this film, which tells about the harmful effects of bureaucracy that existed among some employees of the socialist society, it is said that Khartsag, who wrote about t…
67Animation
A Parable About an Artist
Nikolay Serebryakov · 1989Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.…
68Documentary
A Place of Skulls
Saxon Logan · 1989A Place of Skulls (1989) is a documentary film directed by Saxon Logan. The principal cast includes Julian Pettifer. This reference entry brings together verified credits…
69Comedy · Drama
A Point Of View
Mohamed Sobhi · 1989The story of the comedy is about a group of blind people who live in a place that is like hell and is not surrounded by any kind of care or appreciation for their difficu…
70Cinema
A Porta Aberta
Aluizio Abranches · 1989A Porta Aberta (1989) is a film directed by Aluizio Abranches. This catalogue entry brings together the currently verified editorial and production information for the wo…
71Documentary
A Preponderance of Evidence
Sandra Davis · 1989The stories of three women intertwine in voiceover to Sandra Davis' collage of contradictory images: a Florida swamp, mermaids, the majestic medieval architecture of Euro…
72Drama · TV movie