On a distant space station far in the future, the best fighters from every planet vie for the championship in an intergalactic fighting competition. After over fifty years of no human contenders, Steve Armstrong emerges having trained all his life for a shot at the title, only to come up against a ruthless extra-terrestrial crime lord who wants him dead.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

1989

Japanese

6.9

♡ 26

78%

Shin'ya Tsukamoto Director

Naomasa Musaka as Doctor

Tomorô Taguchi as Man

Shin'ya Tsukamoto as Metal Fetishist

Renji Ishibashi as Tramp

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Black Rain

1989

Japanese

7.8

♡ 7

52%

55%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Drama

hiroshima, japan

husband wife relationship

marriage proposal

War

world war ii

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sabu Kawahara as Kanemaru

Akiji Kobayashi as Katayama

Kazuko Shirakawa as Old Woman with white flag

Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

Beyond the Door III

1989

English

5.2

♡ 5

15%

Jeff Kwitny Director

Mary Kohnert as Beverly Putnic

Predrag Milinkovic as Foreman

Bo Svenson as Professor Andromolek

Andreja Maricic as Railroad Personell

A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, the main key to bring Satan back to life. But can the co-ed lose her virginity before Satan controls the world?

Slaves of New York

1989

English

5.7

♡ 8

22%

James Ivory Director

John Harkins as Chuck Dade Dolger

Stanley Tucci as Darryl

Tammy Grimes as Georgette

Steve Buscemi as Wilfredo

Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion while hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rent, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.

Young Rebels

1989

English

4.4

♡ 8

Action

Adventure

drug cartel

Amir Shervan Director

Jon Greene as Charlie

Eric Lee as Henchman

Delia Sheppard as Joey's Girl

Aldo Ray as Sheriff

From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).

Dead Calm

1989

English

6.8

♡ 33

84%

Phillip Noyce Director

Billy Zane as Hughie Warriner

Sam Neill as John Ingram

Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram

Rod Mullinar as Russell Bellows

An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

Santet 2

1989

Indonesian

4.9

♡ 5

Action

Horror

sequel

Sisworo Gautama Putra Director

Simon P.S. as

Nenny Ribut Rawit as

Leo Shonarna as Nasir

Nasir as (as Nasir T.)

Katemi, shunned for past murders, is cursed by Nyi Angker's mentor, transforming her into a vicious tiger each night, brutally slaughtering villagers. Madness ensues as Katemi's nightly rampages continue, ripping people limb from limb.

Hey, Cutie!

1989

Indonesian

6.3

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Hadi Poernomo Director

Ida Kusumah as

Dono Warkop as Dono

Indro Warkop as Indro

Kasino Warkop as Kasino

Kasino and Indro work at their uncle’s chicken farm. They are jealous of Dono, son of the uncle who studied in America, and returns with an American girlfriend, Madonna. But Dono is already arranged to marry Ayu Sukoco by his parents. The comedy is played out in the chicken farm, Madonna’s awkwardness in a village environment, Dono running away with his girlfriend because his parents disapprove of them, an auto repair shop, and a dream about entering Indian territory.

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

1989

English

5.9

♡ 1

Wayne Wang Director

Victor Wong as Blind Man

Cora Miao as Money

Dennis Dun as Narrator

John Chan as The Son-in-Law

A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.

The Killer

1989

Cn

7.7

♡ 34

95%

92%

Action

blindness and impaired vision

John Woo Director

Barry Wong as Chief Insp. Dou / Tu

Lung Fei as Gangster

Sally Yeh as Jennie

Dion Lam as Wong Hoi's Thug

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

Major League

1989

English

7.2

♡ 30

83%

David S. Ward Director

James Gammon as Lou Brown

Rene Russo as Lynn Wells

Andy Romano as Pepper Leach

Wesley Snipes as Willie Mays Hayes

When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.

Maya

1989

Italian

4.7

♡ 11

Marcello Avallone Director

Cyrus Elias as Dr. Santos

Erich Wildpret as Larry

Peter Phelps as Peter

William Berger as Salomon Slivak

An Ancient Mayan curse is awakened in the ancient temples in Mexico, and people are killed in strange and gory ways by an invisible force.

Kill Me Again

1989

English

6.3

♡ 27

100%

John Dahl Director

Joanne Whalley as Fay Forrester

Val Kilmer as Jack Andrews

Michael Sharrett as Tim the Motel Clerk

Michael Madsen as Vince Miller

After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.

The House on Tombstone Hill

1989

English

5.1

♡ 10

Horror

old house

James Riffel Director

Bruce Spaulding Fuller as Bob's Legs on Ground

Eugene Sautner as Joey

Naomi Kooker as Linda

James Griffith as Ricky

A group of friends decide to renovate an old house located in the middle of nowhere, in the hope of turning it into their crash pad, but shortly after arriving, a strange and seemingly senile old woman is found to be lurking around the premises.

Dream a Little Dream

1989

English

5.7

♡ 7

9%

Marc Rocco Director

Corey Feldman as Bobby Keller / Coleman Ettinger

Susan Blakely as Cherry Diamond

Alex Rocco as Gus Keller

Harry Dean Stanton as Ike Baker

Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.

The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt

1989

English

6.1

♡ 3

60%

Action

based on novel or book

Michael Tuchner Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Dr. Pittman

Alison Steadman as Eva Wilt

Mel Smith as Inspector Flint

Diana Quick as Sally

Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.

Worth Winning

1989

English

5.7

♡ 8

Will Mackenzie Director

Emily Kuroda as Cory Chu

Samuel Shipman as Kid in Volvo

Mark Blum as Ned Braudy

Mark Harmon as Taylor Worth

Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.

Stars and Roses

1989

Cn

5.7

♡ 3

Drama

War

Taylor Wong Director

Andy Lau as

Lung Fei as

Chi Tung as

Dung Hoh as

Hong Kong photo-journalist Lau and Vietnamese translator Yuen Hung become friends when Lau is arrested for a traffic accident. Yuen wants Lau to find out the whereabouts of her brother. Lau is later thrown into prison again due to being mistakenly as a demonstrator and sentenced to three years of hard labor. With help of Yuen, Lau and Yuen's brother escape to China but Yuen's brother is killed on the way. Lau flees to freedom. Yuen cannot go to China and Lau has to let her go...