| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| 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 ofShakespeare'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 the16th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Resurrected | Paul Greengrass | | | Entered into the39th 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 the1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | John Hurt,Joanne Whalley,Bridget Fonda,Ian McKellen | Drama | Screened at the1989 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 | |
