The most beautifully-crafted films deserve to be seen in the highest quality – with crisp, crystal-clear picture, distinctive colours, and richly balanced sound. Which is why, when watching at home, you can’t get better than 4K Ultra-HD, giving you the best experience on your 4K HDR television.
If you’re just entering the world of 4K now, or are looking to add to your growing collection, here are 10 must-see films to own on 4K Ultra-HD, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Seven
David Fincher’s serial killer thriller is one of the best of its kind – tightly plotted, extremely tense, and astonishing to look at in its unsettling evocation of murders themed after the seven deadly sins. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are the cops trying to solve the case, which spirals deeper and darker with every victim. Fincher is such a detail-oriented director, and you’ll see all of it better than ever on 4K.
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Constantine
Just celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Keanu Reeves-starring adaptation of the DC Comics character has become a true cult favourite. It might not be ultra-faithful to the source material, but it’s a pulpy and imaginative take on the supernatural, with Reeves’ John Constantine able to see the angels, demons and devils existing around us. Hell never looked this good.
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Amadeus
A 4K release gives you perfect sound too – so let the majesty of Mozart fill your living room. Miloš Forman’s classic drama unspools a rivalry between Tom Hulce’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and F. Murray Abraham’s deeply jealous Antonio Salieri, as the pair vie for renown in 18th Century Vienna. It swept the Oscars, including for Best Sound.
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Dirty Harry
Sure, you’ve seen Clint Eastwood give grizzled grit. But you’ve never seen that grizzled grit look so sharp. This ‘70s thriller, directed by Don Siegel, casts Eastwood as ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan, a San Francisco cop on the trail of the ‘Scorpio’ killer, willing to bend – or even break – the rules to solve the case. A classic that spawned a five-film series of Dirty Harry movies.
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Pale Rider
Or, if you’re more of a Western fan, try another flavour of Clint Eastwood. Two decades after starring in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, Eastwood starred in, produced, and directed this 1985 hit. He appears as the mysterious Preacher, who teams up with Michael Moriarty’s Hull Barrett to face down the forces of authority trying to kick independent prospectors out of the town of LaHood, California.
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Lethal Weapon
Riggs and Murtaugh remain the high-water mark of buddy-cop duos – bickering and bantering in razor-sharp Shane Black dialogue, as they’re forced to work together on a shady case over Christmas in LA. Richard Donner marshals the action impeccably – and it all pops better than ever on 4K – while the emotional undertow of the central duo’s relationship remains perfectly drawn.
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The Conjuring
What’s that in the dark? A pair of clapping hands? An evil spirit? The Annabelle doll? With 4K, you’ll be able to see into the shadows better than ever. James Wan’s film spawned the most successful horror franchise of all time – as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) help a family experiencing a terrifying haunting in their new home.
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Corpse Bride
Few cinematic disciplines are as painstaking as stop-motion cinema – where every hand-crafted frame deserves to be celebrated. Tim Burton’s spooky fairy story – about a man who accidentally marries a corpse when rehearsing his wedding vows – is frighteningly fun, and full of macabre musical numbers. Pause every second on the 4K release to see the sheer craft on display.
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A Nightmare On Elm Street
Not for the first or last time in his career, Wes Craven reinvented the horror genre. The original outing of Freddy Krueger is a pure feat of imagination, the knife-handed killer who slashes teens in their dreams – leaving Heather Langenkamp’s Nancy Thompson to try and figure out a way to stay awake and survive. And over its six sequels the series only got wilder and weirder – now all available on 4K for the first time.
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Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick’s historical drama – following Ryan O’Neal’s Redmond Barry as he seeks to rise up the societal ranks in the 18th Century – is famously one of the most beautiful movies ever made. It is a lavish production, lit often purely by candlelight, visually inspired by the paintings of William Hogarth. 50 years on, that astonishing visual prowess is presented perfectly on 4K.
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