List of British films of 1989

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1989 (see 1989 in film):

## 1989

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1989
All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise | Animation |
Batman | Tim Burton | Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, Jack Palance | Superhero |
The BFG | Brian Cosgrove | David Jason, Amanda Root | Animation |
Black Rainbow | Mike Hodges | Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards | Thriller |
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Peter Greenaway | Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard | Drama |
Crusoe | Caleb Deschanel | Aidan Quinn, Adé Sapara | Adventure |
Dealers | Colin Bucksey | Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay | Drama |
Edge of Sanity | Gérard Kikoïne | Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber | Thriller |
Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | Tim Robbins, Tim McInnerny | Comedy |
Eversmile, New Jersey | Carlos Sorín | Daniel Day-Lewis, Mirjana Joković | Comedy/drama |
For Queen and Country | Martin Stellman | Denzel Washington, Bruce Payne | Crime drama |
Getting It Right | Randal Kleiser | Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, Helena Bonham Carter | Comedy |
Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed | Literary drama | Adaptation of Shakespeare's play
How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Bruce Robinson | Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward | Comedy |
Howling V: The Rebirth | Neal Sundstrom | Philip Davis, Victoria Catlin | Horror |
King of the Wind | Peter Duffell | Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson | Adventure |
Licence to Kill | John Glen | Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Carey Lowell | Spy/action | Filmed in Mexican studiss
Little Sweetheart | Anthony Simmons | John Hurt, Karen Young | Thriller | [1]
Melancholia [de] | Andi Engel [de] | Jeroen Krabbé, Susannah York | Thriller | Co-production with West Germany [2]
My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker | Biopic | Won two Academy Awards
The Rachel Papers | Damian Harris | Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce | Drama |
The Rainbow | Ken Russell | Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe | Drama | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival
Resurrected | Paul Greengrass |  |  | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival
Return from the River Kwai | Andrew McLaglen | Edward Fox, Chris Penn, Denholm Elliott | War |
The Return of the Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain | Adventure |
Reunion | Jerry Schatzberg |  |  | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival
Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen | Drama | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival
Shirley Valentine | Lewis Gilbert | Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman | Comedy/drama |
Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | Science fiction |
Strapless | David Hare | Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda | Drama |
The Tall Guy | Mel Smith | Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson | Comedy |
Tank Malling | James Marcus | Ray Winstone, Amanda Donohoe | Thriller |
Ten Little Indians | Alan Birkinshaw | Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone | Mystery |
That Summer of White Roses | Rajko Grlić | Tom Conti, Rod Steiger, Susan George | War | British-Yugoslav co-production
Torrents of Spring | Jerzy Skolimowski | Nastassja Kinski, Timothy Hutton, Valeria Golino | Romance/drama | Co-production with France and Italy
Tree of Hands | Giles Foster | Helen Shaver, Lauren Bacall | Drama |
Urge to Kill | Derek Ford | Peter Gordeno, Jeremy Mark | Thriller | [3]
War Requiem | Derek Jarman | Laurence Olivier, Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean | Music | Olivier's last film
When the Whales Came | Clive Rees | Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren | Drama |
Wilt | Michael Tuchner | Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith | Comedy |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Stuart Orme | Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith | Family |

## See also

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* 1989 in British music
* 1989 in British radio
* 1989 in British television
* 1989 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Little Sweetheart (1989)".
2. ^ "Melancholia (1989)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
3. ^ "Urge to Kill (1989)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.

## External links

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* British films of 1989 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
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* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
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* Hemdale Film Corporation
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* Ideal Film Company
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* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
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* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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* British New Wave
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* Ealing comedies
* Free Cinema
* Kitchen sink realism
* Gainsborough melodramas

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* British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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* Children's Film Foundation
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