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17 Best Movies To Watch Released In 1989 - A Good Movie To Watch

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Find the best movies and show to watch from the year 1989. These handpicked recommendations are highly-rated by viewers and critics.

Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)

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8.3

A child inspires camaraderie despite imprisonment in this moving classic drama

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

7.0

The blind swordsman makes his last stand in this action-packed, nostalgic conclusion

Powwow Highway (1989)

7.2

Two Northern Cheyenne men reconnect in this poignant road comedy-drama

Steel Magnolias (1989)

7.3

Women find community in this iconic Southern comedy drama

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

7.8

A high class fine dining restaurant turns terribly disgusting in this provocative portrait of human cruelty

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

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8.5

A watercolor, paradisal coming-of-age story about a teenage witch in training

Shirley Valentine (1989)

7.2

A housewife contemplates to the fourth wall what her life has become in this funny and endearing romcom

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

7.7

An intelligent, preternaturally mature debut from Steven Soderbergh that broke new ground for indie filmmaking

A Dry White Season (1989)

7.2

A grizzly portrait of the cruel brutality of apartheid in 70s South Africa

Henry V (1989)

7.4

An emotionally stirring Shakespeare adaptation with some of Britain’s best

Santa Sangre (1989)

7.4

A terrifying circus act straight from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s nightmares

A City of Sadness (1989)

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8.8

With A City of Sadness, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien paints a picture of a society on the brink

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