Sean Connery · 1980s

6 Sean Connery movies from the 1980s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 4 S-Tier picks including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Untouchables, Highlander.

Decade

All 17 1960s 6 1970s 3 1980s 6 1990s 2

Year

All 6 1980 0 1981 2 1982 0 1983 0 1984 0 1985 0 1986 2 1987 1 1988 0 1989 1

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989)

7.8/10

dir. Steven Spielberg

S-Tier

S-Tier Paramount 4K. The best Indy film by popular vote. The individual steelbook has been as low as $13 USD on Amazon and under $15 USD at Best Buy. Paramount has released and re-released these steelbooks enough times that early adopters are pretty tired of it.

Paramount Pictures · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

Outland(1981)

6.6/10

dir. Peter Hyams

S-Tier

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

The Untouchables(1987)

7.8/10

dir. Brian De Palma

S-Tier

Paramount's 2022 4K is a strong A-Tier transfer with natural grain and a punchier audio mix than the old Blu-ray. Avoid the $11 USD Paramount 4K Preorders line on Amazon, which ships in DVD-sized cases with no special features and is cheaply produced on purpose. The Best Buy steelbook has better artwork if you want the premium version.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

Highlander(1986)

6.9/10

dir. Russell Mulcahy

S-Tier

40th Anniversary Collector's Edition 4K announced for June in the UK. Early looks suggest it's a repackage of the existing release with identical extras, just new physical packaging. The video transfer is apparently strong but the audio has problems, with one owner saying it sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a trash can.

StudioCanal · Collector's Edition

Time Bandits(1981)

6.6/10

dir. Terry Gilliam

A-Tier

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

The Name of the Rose(1986)

7.7/10

dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.