Gene Hackman · 1980s

4 Gene Hackman movies from the 1980s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 1 S-Tier pick including Mississippi Burning.

Decade

All 15 1970s 4 1980s 4 1990s 4 2000s 2 2010s 1

Year

All 4 1980 1 1981 0 1982 0 1983 0 1984 0 1985 0 1986 0 1987 2 1988 1 1989 0

Mississippi Burning(1988)

7.7/10

dir. Alan Parker

S-Tier

S-Tier Capelight Pictures 4K. Alan Parker's civil rights thriller with Gene Hackman. Capelight's German mediabook release is the only 4K option, which means importing. The picture quality is reported as great. A Criterion release would make sense for this film, given how many directors people keep requesting for the collection.

Capelight Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

No Way Out(1987)

7.1/10

dir. Roger Donaldson

A-Tier

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

Superman II(1980)

6.8/10

dir. Richard Lester

A-Tier

The Donner Cut only exists on the 5-Film Collection, no standalone. The 2025 Reissue fixes the Atmos pitch drift on II and the squished geometry on the Donner Cut's final smile shot. Both were why the 2023 pressing was a pass for transfer nitpickers.

Warner Bros. · 4K Box Set

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace(1987)

3.8/10

dir. Sidney J. Furie

B-Tier

Superman IV is the weakest of the run at B-Tier, but the 2025 Reissue is the one to own because Warner corrected the Atmos mix that had wrong music cues scattered through the original 2023 pressing. No standalone exists.

Warner Bros. · 4K Box Set