Al Pacino · 1980s

3 Al Pacino movies from the 1980s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 1 S-Tier pick including Cruising.

Decade

All 15 1970s 3 1980s 3 1990s 6 2000s 2 2020s 1

Year

All 3 1980 1 1981 0 1982 0 1983 1 1984 0 1985 0 1986 0 1987 0 1988 0 1989 1

Cruising(1980)

6.6/10

dir. William Friedkin

S-Tier

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Friedkin's controversial leather bar thriller with Pacino. Arrow gave it the boutique treatment.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

Sea of Love(1989)

6.8/10

dir. Harold Becker

A-Tier

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

Scarface(1983)

8.2/10

dir. Brian De Palma

A-Tier

People who have owned this on every format from VHS through 4K say each upgrade felt meaningful. Often discounted to $10-11 USD new, which makes it one of the cheapest high-quality 4K discs in Universal's catalog. The special edition with the "World is Yours" statue and the 1932 original is a collector's item in its own right. A-Tier transfer with the neon and white suits looking exactly how you'd hope in HDR.

Universal Pictures · Gold Edition