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The most successful movies, first aired in 1989 year
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) USA,  United KingdomIn 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 474 171 806 IMDb: 8.2/10 (821 158) |
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Batman (1989) USA, United Kingdom Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 411 556 825 IMDb: 7.5/10 (410 830) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Back to the Future Part II (1989) USA Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 335 881 828 IMDb: 7.8/10 (583 149) User Rating: /10 Votes: 11 |
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The Little Mermaid (1989) USA Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 274 176 364 IMDb: 7.6/10 (294 990) |
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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) USA Riggs and Murtaugh are trying to take down some drug dealers but the they turn out to be not run of the mill drug dealers; they have automatic weapons and helicopters... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 227 853 986 IMDb: 7.3/10 (191 690) |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) USA Wayne Szalinski is your average "nutty scientist", working on a top secret machine that shrinks objects... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 222 724 172 IMDb: 6.4/10 (168 810) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Ghostbusters II (1989) USA Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 215 394 738 IMDb: 6.6/10 (228 931) |
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989) USA The biography of Ron Kovic... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 161 001 698 IMDb: 7.2/10 (118 046) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The War of the Roses (1989) USA A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 160 188 546 IMDb: 6.8/10 (58 181) |
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Parenthood (1989) USA The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 126 297 830 IMDb: 7.1/10 (55 853) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Field of Dreams (1989) USA Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 84 431 625 IMDb: 7.5/10 (131 132) |
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Uncle Buck (1989) USA As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 79 258 538 IMDb: 7.1/10 (110 221) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Christmas Vacation (1989) USA It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 71 319 526 IMDb: 7.5/10 (222 509) |
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Turner & Hooch (1989) USA Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 71 079 915 IMDb: 6.2/10 (77 293) |
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Pet Sematary (1989) USA The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 57 469 467 IMDb: 6.5/10 (117 045) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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The 'Burbs (1989) USA An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 49 101 993 IMDb: 6.8/10 (84 968) |
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Three Fugitives (1989) USA On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 40 586 886 IMDb: 6.2/10 (12 922) |
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) USA Two seemingly dumb teens set off on a quest to prepare the ultimate historical presentation with the help of a time machine... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 40 485 039 IMDb: 6.9/10 (143 496) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Fly II (1989) USA Seth Brundle was a renowned scientist whose warped experiments with teleportation transformed him into a man/fly hybrid called BrundleFly... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 38 903 179 IMDb: 5.1/10 (25 074) |
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Do the Right Thing (1989) USA This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 37 313 222 IMDb: 8.0/10 (114 823) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Dad (1989) USA John's mom has a heart attack and ends in hospital... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 29 237 250 IMDb: 6.3/10 (5 346) |
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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) Ireland, United Kingdom, USACharlie B... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 27 100 027 IMDb: 6.7/10 (47 289) |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) USA Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 22 168 359 IMDb: 5.0/10 (51 655) |
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Cousins (1989) USA Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 22 026 369 IMDb: 6.4/10 (5 197) |
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Say Anything... (1989) USA High school senior Lloyd Dobler wants nothing more than to go out with beautiful and intelligent Diane Court... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 515 196 IMDb: 7.3/10 (97 447) |
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Her Alibi (1989) USA A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 699 037 IMDb: 5.8/10 (7 909) |
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Prancer (1989) USA,  CanadaJessica, the daughter of an impoverished farmer, still believes in Santa Claus... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 587 135 IMDb: 6.4/10 (6 398) |
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) USA Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 428 904 IMDb: 6.9/10 (26 118) |
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) USA Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 254 702 IMDb: 7.8/10 (61 266) |
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Shocker (1989) USA After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 554 699 IMDb: 5.5/10 (18 036) |
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Chances Are (1989) USA A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 278 590 IMDb: 6.5/10 (14 075) |
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She-Devil (1989) USA Ruth is a wife and mother who tries to please her husband, even though she is fat... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 15 351 421 IMDb: 5.7/10 (19 507) |
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) Ireland, United Kingdom Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 743 391 IMDb: 7.8/10 (80 848) |
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Kickboxer (1989) USA Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 697 005 IMDb: 6.4/10 (62 156) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Canada, USA A boatful of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan accidentally pull Jason Voorhees along for the ride... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 343 976 IMDb: 4.5/10 (44 112) |
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The Wizard (1989) USA Corey and Jimmy Woods are two brothers who are being separated due to their parents divorcing... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 278 900 IMDb: 6.1/10 (16 816) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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She's Out of Control (1989) USA Doug Simpson lives alone with his two daughters Katie and Bonnie... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 065 892 IMDb: 5.4/10 (4 982) |
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Halloween 5 (1989) USA It's one year later after the events of Halloween 4... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 642 254 IMDb: 4.9/10 (47 886) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Gross Anatomy (1989) USA A fisherman's son goes through medical school with a bad attitude, especially in cadaver class... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 604 598 IMDb: 6.2/10 (4 159) |
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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) USA A string of business robberies have taken place in the city's Wilson Heights neighborhood, all done by the same three crooks... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 567 217 IMDb: 4.4/10 (33 603) |
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) USA, Canada Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 982 364 IMDb: 5.9/10 (18 048) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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New York Stories (1989) USA A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 763 469 IMDb: 6.4/10 (19 979) |
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The Package (1989) USA Johnny Gallagher, a sergeant, is sent from Germany with a prisoner... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 647 219 IMDb: 6.4/10 (11 845) |
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Henry V (1989) United Kingdom King Henry V of England (Kenneth Branagh) is insulted by the King of France... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 161 099 IMDb: 7.5/10 (31 980) |
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Majo no takkyûbin (1989) JapanThis is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now thirteen years old... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 150 365 IMDb: 7.8/10 (170 376) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Warlock (1989) USA In Boston of 1691, a warlock is sentenced to death, but escapes magically into the future (our present), followed doggedly by the witch hunter... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 9 094 451 IMDb: 6.2/10 (19 298) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Troop Beverly Hills (1989) USA As Phyllis, a Beverly Hills housewife, is in the middle of a divorce, she tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter Hannah's Wilderness Girl troop... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 508 843 IMDb: 5.9/10 (11 676) |
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Cheetah (1989) USA An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 153 677 IMDb: 5.9/10 (1 207) |
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Dead Bang (1989) USA A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 125 592 IMDb: 6.1/10 (4 587) |
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) United Kingdom,  FranceThe wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 724 701 IMDb: 7.5/10 (42 469) |
