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Movies and TV shows that don't exist on Blu-Ray. Please leave a comment if you have a suggestion! "Digital HD" means the film is available on stores like Amazon Instant Video and iTunes.
I have another list for movies that are on Blu-Ray, but not in America.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070973738/
I have another list for movies that are on Blu-Ray, but not in America.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070973738/
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- DirectorErich von StroheimStarsGibson GowlandZasu PittsJean HersholtThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.No complete version of this exists. However, no HD versions of the shortened versions exist either. An HD transfer of the truncated should be possible.
Best: 4-hour-long iTunes version / Turner Classic Movies broadcasts / various VHS & Betamax copies - DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsVincent PriceMatthew BroderickJennifer BealsA lonely princess and a poor cobbler fall in love while trying to retrieve three magical orbs that were stolen by a bumbling thief, all while outwitting a powerful sorcerer as adventure and comedic pop culture references abound.[For The Thief and the Cobbler.] Best available: The Thief and the Cobbler (Re-Cobbled Cut Mark 4 [semi-final version, 2013-09]), and/or the workprint that was screened 2013-12-12 and 2014-06-01.
AMPAS (the company that runs the Academy Awards) has a "digital print" of this workprint.
Lionsgate got the rights to the movie (or perhaps just the "Princess" version) in 2014. They are releasing yet another 480p DVD in late 2014 (October?). - DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonThe filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back-to-basics album, which instead drove them further apart.Best available: "Let It Be: The Big Picture" (DVD / VHS quality). Logically, the surviving Beatles and their wives may object to releasing a remastered Let It Be.
- CreatorTim HillStephen HillenburgNick JenningsStarsTom KennyRodger BumpassBill FagerbakkeThe misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.Best: DVD. Season 1 is on animation cels, which can be scanned in at a resolution higher than DVD quality if they still exist. The original scans may also be higher than DVD quality. Seasons 2+ are digitally painted. Whether the mastering resolution of the digital canvas was TV-quality 480p or something higher remains to be seen. Also, seasons 2 and later were released interlaced. Even if the mastering quality was 480p, it would be a step-up from the DVDs' 480i.
- DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.Best: Digital HD (720p from official site). The director has said (in the solo DVD commentary) that the actual 16mm film looks fine, but an improperly set-up 35mm transfer added considerable amounts of digital noise, particularly noticeable during night scenes. Todo: Examine 1080p version which came out of the ether.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Best: a non-theatrical Blu-Ray. Note: "Despecialized" 720p editions exist and efforts are underway to make 1080p versions.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherAfter the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.Best: a non-theatrical Blu-Ray. See above.
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherAfter rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.Best: a non-theatrical Blu-Ray. See above.
- CreatorLarry DavidJerry SeinfeldStarsJerry SeinfeldJulia Louis-DreyfusMichael RichardsThe continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.Best: European HDTV rips / US webrips / US HDTV rips. This was shot with "widescreen" film, so there's extra detail on the left and right sides that was cropped out for the TV / DVD releases. The actual release on Hulu seems to have been cropped, adding detail to the sides but removing detail from the top.
- DirectorSeong-yun OhStarsMoon So-riYoo Seung-hoChoi Min-sikLeafie is a hen who manages to escape the horrible conditions of an egg production line. After surviving a harrowing encounter with a one-eyed weasel and being rejected by the barnyard animals where she grew up, a chance encounter sees her becoming the guardian of a duckling. Despite the child being a duck, Leafie is willing to learn and make the sacrifices she needs in order to ensure the happiness of her son.The Blu-Rays are missing one scene. The DVDs are apparently unaffected.
- CreatorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts."Other choices, like the replacement of the show's original (and quite distinctive) fonts, seem more arbitrary and may actually invite at least as much umbrage as the reframed aspect ratio issue."
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.Best: DVD
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.Best: Digital HD
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsFred AstaireRita HayworthRobert BenchleyIn order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.Best: Digital HD
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsHumphrey BogartLauren BacallJohn RidgelyPrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.Best: DVD
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsFred AstaireRita HayworthAdolphe MenjouIn Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.Best: DVD
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.Best: Digital HD
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.Best: Digital HD
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.Best: DVD
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.Best: Digital HD
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.Best: DVD
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Best: DVD
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.Best: DVD
- CreatorMichael Dante DiMartinoBryan KonietzkoStarsDee Bradley BakerZach Tyler EisenMae WhitmanIn a war-torn world of elemental powers, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.Best: DVD
- DirectorJohn-Paul DavidsonTrudie StylerStarsJohn GoodmanTom JonesEartha KittSting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.Best: VHS workprint