100 English films of 1989 ranked by box office. #1: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ($474.2 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | $48 million | $474.2 million | 9.88x | |
| 2 | Batman | Tim Burton | $35 million | $411.6 million | 11.76x | |
| 3 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | $40 million | $333 million | 8.33x | |
| 4 | Look Who's Talking | Amy Heckerling | $10 million | $297 million | 29.70x | |
| 5 | Dead Poets Society | Peter Weir | $16.4 million | $235.8 million | 14.38x | |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | $30 million | $227.3 million | 7.58x | |
| 7 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | $18 million | $222.7 million | 12.37x | |
| 8 | Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | $40 million | $215.4 million | 5.39x | |
| 9 | When Harry Met Sally | Rob Reiner | $16 million | $193 million | 12.06x | |
| 10 | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | $17.8 million | $162 million | 9.10x | |
| 11 | The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito | $26 million | $160.2 million | 6.16x | |
| 12 | Licence to Kill | John Glen | $40 million | $156.1 million | 3.90x | |
| 13 | Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | $7.5 million | $145.8 million | 19.44x | |
| 14 | Black Rain | Ridley Scott | $30 million | $134.2 million | 4.47x | |
| 15 | Parenthood | Ron Howard | $20 million | $126 million | 6.30x | |
| 16 | Tango & Cash | Andrei Konchalovsky | $55 million | $120.4 million | 2.19x | |
| 17 | Sea of Love | Harold Becker | $19 million | $110.9 million | 5.84x | |
| 18 | Steel Magnolias | Herbert Ross | $15 million | $96.8 million | 6.45x | |
| 19 | The Abyss | James Cameron | $47 million | $90 million | 1.91x | |
| 20 | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | $15 million | $84.5 million | 5.63x | |
| 21 | Uncle Buck | John Hughes | $15 million | $79.2 million | 5.28x | |
| 22 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Jeremiah S. Chechik | $25 million | $78.9 million | 3.16x | |
| 23 | Major League | David S. Ward | $11 million | $75 million | 6.82x | |
| 24 | Always | Steven Spielberg | $31 million | $74.1 million | 2.39x | |
| 25 | Turner & Hooch | Roger Spottiswoode | $13 million | $71.1 million | 5.47x | |
| 26 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | William Shatner | $33 million | $63 million | 1.91x | |
| 27 | C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. | David Irving | $49.2 million | $62.4 million | 1.27x | |
| 28 | Road House | Rowdy Herrington | $15 million | $61.6 million | 4.11x | |
| 29 | Harlem Nights | Eddie Murphy | $30 million | $60.9 million | 2.03x | |
| 30 | Pet Sematary | Mary Lambert | $11.5 million | $57.5 million | 5.00x | |
| 31 | Kickboxer | David Worth | $1.5 million | $50 million | 33.33x | |
| 32 | The 'Burbs | Joe Dante | $18 million | $49.1 million | 2.73x | |
| 33 | See No Evil, Hear No Evil | Arthur Hiller | $18 million | $46.9 million | 2.61x | |
| 34 | Skin Deep | Blake Edwards | $8.5 million | $45 million | 5.29x | |
| 35 | K-9 | Rod Daniel | $17 million | $43.2 million | 2.54x | |
| 36 | Three Fugitives | Francis Veber | $13 million | $40.6 million | 3.12x | |
| 37 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | $10 million | $40.5 million | 4.05x | |
| 38 | Fletch Lives | Michael Ritchie | $8 million | $39.5 million | 4.94x | |
| 39 | The Fly II | Chris Walas | $12.5 million | $38.9 million | 3.11x | |
| 39 | The Karate Kid Part III | John G. Avildsen | $12.5 million | $38.9 million | 3.11x | |
| 41 | Shirley Valentine | Lewis Gilbert | $38 million | |||
| 42 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | $6 million | $37.3 million | 6.22x | |
| 43 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | $1.2 million | $36.7 million | 30.58x | |
| 44 | Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | Peter Bonerz | $15 million | $33.2 million | 2.21x | |
| 45 | Lean on Me | John G. Avildsen | $10 million | $31.9 million | 3.19x | |
| 46 | Weekend at Bernie's | Ted Kotcheff | $15 million | $30.2 million | 2.01x | |
| 47 | The Dream Team | Howard Zieff | $14 million | $28.9 million | 2.06x | |
| 48 | Glory | Edward Zwick | $18 million | $27 million | 1.50x | |
| 48 | Dad | Gary David Goldberg | $19 million | $27 million | 1.42x | |
| 50 | Lock Up | John Flynn | $24 million | $22.1 million | 0.92x | |
| 50 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | Stephen Hopkins | $8 million | $22.1 million | 2.76x | |
| 52 | Cousins | Joel Schumacher | $13 million | $22 million | 1.69x | |
| 53 | Say Anything... | Cameron Crowe | $16 million | $21.5 million | 1.34x | |
| 54 | An Innocent Man | Peter Yates | $20 million | |||
| 55 | Renegades | Jack Sholder | $16 million | $20 million | 1.25x | |
| 56 | Blaze | Ron Shelton | $22 million | $19.1 million | 0.87x | |
| 57 | Leviathan | George P. Cosmatos | $21 million | $19 million | 0.90x | |
| 58 | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma | $22.5 million | $18.7 million | 0.83x | |
| 59 | Prancer | John D. Hancock | $7 million | $18.6 million | 2.66x | |
| 60 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steve Kloves | $11.5 million | $18.4 million | 1.60x | |
| 61 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | $19 million | $18.3 million | 0.96x | |
| 62 | Her Alibi | Bruce Beresford | $15 million | $18 million | 1.20x | |
| 63 | Shocker | Wes Craven | $16.6 million | |||
| 64 | Chances Are | Emile Ardolino | $16 million | $16.3 million | 1.02x | |
| 65 | No Holds Barred | Thomas J. Wright | $8 million | $16 million | 2.00x | |
| 65 | Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | $9.5 million | $16 million | 1.68x | |
| 67 | Next of Kin | John Irvin | $12 million | $15.9 million | 1.33x | |
| 68 | She-Devil | Susan Seidelman | $16 million | $15.4 million | 0.96x | |
| 69 | Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Rob Hedden | $5.1 million | $14.3 million | 2.80x | |
| 69 | The Wizard | Todd Holland | $6 million | $14.3 million | 2.38x | |
| 71 | Best of the Best | Robert Radler | $5 million | $14.1 million | 2.82x | |
| 72 | Great Balls of Fire! | Jim McBride | $16 million | $13.7 million | 0.86x | |
| 73 | Pink Cadillac | Buddy Van Horn | $19 million | $12.1 million | 0.64x | |
| 73 | Family Business | Sidney Lumet | $12.1 million | |||
| 73 | She's Out of Control | Stan Dragoti | $12 million | $12.1 million | 1.01x | |
| 76 | Gross Anatomy | Thom Eberhardt | $8.5 million | $11.6 million | 1.37x | |
| 77 | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Dominique Othenin-Girard | $5.5 million | $11.6 million | 2.11x | |
| 78 | Wild Orchid | Zalman King | $7 million | $11.1 million | 1.59x | |
| 79 | Who's Harry Crumb? | Paul Flaherty | $11 million | |||
| 80 | New York Stories | Martin Scorsese | $15 million | $10.7 million | 0.71x | |
| 81 | The Package | Andrew Davis | $16 million | $10.6 million | 0.66x | |
| 82 | We're No Angels | Neil Jordan | $20 million | $10.5 million | 0.53x | |
| 83 | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | $9 million | $10.2 million | 1.13x | |
| 84 | The Gods Must Be Crazy II | Jamie Uys | $7.5 million | $9.6 million | 1.28x | |
| 85 | Cyborg | Albert Pyun | $1.8 million | $9.5 million | 5.28x | |
| 86 | Tap | Nick Castle | $9.1 million | |||
| 87 | Warlock | Steve Miner | $7 million | $9 million | 1.29x | |
| 88 | True Believer | Joseph Ruben | $8.7 million | |||
| 89 | Troop Beverly Hills | Jeff Kanew | $18 million | $8.5 million | 0.47x | |
| 90 | Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | $8.2 million | |||
| 91 | Cheetah | Jeff Blyth | $5 million | $8.2 million | 1.63x | |
| 92 | DeepStar Six | Sean S. Cunningham | $8.5 million | $8.1 million | 0.96x | |
| 93 | Dead Bang | John Frankenheimer | $14.5 million | $8.1 million | 0.56x | |
| 94 | Disorganized Crime | Jim Kouf | $5.3 million | $7.7 million | 1.46x | |
| 95 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover | Peter Greenaway | £1.5 million | $7.7 million | ||
| 96 | Johnny Handsome | Walter Hill | $20 million | $7 million | 0.35x | |
| 97 | Relentless | William Lustig | $4 million | $6.9 million | 1.73x | |
| 98 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore | $140,000 | $6.7 million | 47.86x | |
| 99 | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | $18 million | $6.3 million | 0.35x | |
| 100 | UHF | Jay Levey | $5 million | $6.1 million | 1.22x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.