Best award winning movies with meaty role from 1989

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with meaty role from 1989! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with meaty role from 1989, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

Info

1989-04-07 | Drama

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker

Rating

rating icon 7.539
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    hugely talented
  2. Ranked #70 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  3. Ranked #89 for
    equally talented cast

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2 Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

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1989-12-13 | Drama

Cast

Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy

Rating

rating icon 7.236
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #60 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #86 for
    deservedly won awards

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3 Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Info

1989-12-20 | Drama / War

Cast

Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry

Rating

rating icon 7.007
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #36 for
    gung-ho
  3. Ranked #86 for
    pretty boy

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4 Batman (1989)

Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.

Info

1989-06-21 | Fantasy / Action

Cast

Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson

Rating

rating icon 7.235
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #164 for
    mythology extending
  2. Ranked #208 for
    like Cape Fear
  3. Ranked #215 for
    Based on TV Series

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5 Dead Poets Society (1989)

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Info

1989-06-02 | Drama

Cast

Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard

Rating

rating icon 8.311
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #182 for
    disciplinarian
  2. Ranked #209 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #222 for
    self-improvement

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6 Glory (1989)

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Info

1989-12-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington

Rating

rating icon 7.469
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #102 for
    chivalry
  2. Ranked #104 for
    teaching tool
  3. Ranked #139 for
    Aerial Combat

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7 The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Info

1989-10-13 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges

Rating

rating icon 6.609
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #11 for
    hugely talented
  2. Ranked #37 for
    sassy
  3. Ranked #61 for
    musically talented actor

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8 sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

Info

1989-08-04 | Drama

Cast

Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher

Rating

rating icon 6.95
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #41 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #85 for
    unfaithful partner
  3. Ranked #132 for
    therapeutic

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9 Henry V (1989)

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Info

1989-10-05 | War / Drama

Cast

Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi

Rating

rating icon 7.203
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #79 for
    arthurian
  3. Ranked #91 for
    gung-ho

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10 Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

Info

1989-10-20 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch

Rating

rating icon 7.087
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #64 for
    with bangers
  2. Ranked #116 for
    masterful story
  3. Ranked #169 for
    iconoclast

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