1989 Movies

A police officer and a journalist team up to rid their village of crime.

Ken Loach documentary; made for Central Television in 1988, but rejected, and not shown until the following year, when it was taken up by Channel 4. I...

Shot in winter in a difficult-to-reach mountainous region in north-western Iran, the film depicts the lives of nomadic shepherds who are believed to b...

Take to the sky and come face-to-face with Washington states majestic mountains, including one of the Pacific Northwests most well-known symbols: Moun...

This film consists of loosely assembled footage including a confrontation between abortion-rights advocates, abortion-rights opponents and police at C...

"Gravediggers: species of beetles, black, live off cadavers of small animals, which they roll into balls."

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf,...

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

This is the first documentary to illuminate Neue Sachlichkeit against the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Dix’s works—includin...

This film depicts the laborious and isolated existence of Emilia, a working class, urban, Latina housewife in the U.S. Emilia's detached attitude towa...

Based on the story of the same name by Grigory Baklanov, which raises the problems of honor, conscience and human responsibility for what happens in o...

A trinity of aliens, who arrived on Earth in order to find out the state of the intellect of its inhabitants, settled in a camping tent not far from a...

The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation mark the period in which the film Cafe Astoria is set. The story re...

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of sc...

Hjalmar Berglund is turning 50 and is having a big party.

Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

A group of abandoned children, each of them escaping a terrifying past, meet at a hospital, become close to each other and strive to survive.

The film depicts the French occupation of the Mediterranean city of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey during World War I and the resistance of the Maraş people...

During the 1980s, Russia fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan. Shot by a Western crew, the 40 minute film includes footage of combat missions with t...