| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1989 |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise | Animation | |
| The BFG | Brian Cosgrove | David Jason, Amanda Root | Family | |
| 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 | |
| Little Sweetheart | Anthony Simmons | John Hurt, Karen Young | Thriller | |
| Melancholia | Andi Engel | Jeroen Krabbé, Susannah York | Thriller | Co-production with West Germany |
| My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker | Biopic | Won 2 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 |
| The Return of the Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain | Adventure | |
| Resurrected | Paul Greengrass | | | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |