Helen Mirren · 1980s

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

Decade

All 12 1970s 1 1980s 3 1990s 1 2010s 6 2020s 1

Year

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

Excalibur(1981)

7.3/10

dir. John Boorman

S-Tier

A VHS-to-4K comparison post made the rounds and the transfer quality gap is staggering. The comments turned into a meditation on how 4K is the last physical format and we lucked out that it's the best one.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

The Long Good Friday(1980)

7.2/10

dir. John Mackenzie

A-Tier

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

2010(1984)

6.7/10

dir. Peter Hyams

Announced

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Arrow Video · 4K Ultra HD

Announced