Tom Hanks movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Penny Marshall
S-Tier Sony 4K. Strong extras package with audio commentary, deleted scenes, and TV series episodes.
Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Paul Greengrass
S-Tier Sony 4K. Tom Hanks and a cargo ship. Sony announced the 4K release.
dir. Jonathan Demme
S-Tier Sony 4K. Demme's 1993 AIDS drama with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Sony's 4K has a massive subtitle language list. Thin dedicated collector discussion around the 4K disc specifically, though the film regularly appears in collection photos.
dir. Nora Ephron
Part of the Columbia Classics Vol. 4 box set alongside Punch-Drunk Love and Starman. People who just bought the Criterion Punch-Drunk Love were annoyed. The box set gets praise for being one of the strongest selections since Vol. 1. Standalone availability may come eventually, but for now it's box set or nothing. The film itself has aged in interesting ways, with modern viewers noting the parasocial relationship dynamics more critically.
dir. Frank Darabont
Warner S-Tier 4K. The Green Mile steelbook kept selling out at Gruv and getting restocked, with people stuck on backorders for weeks. The Darabont/King emotional gut-punch lands differently at this resolution, and the HDR gives the prison interiors depth the old Blu-ray flattened.
Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
StudioCanal S-Tier 4K. Part of their restoration push and one of the Coens' more overlooked films. Hanks leaning into a cartoonish Southern gentleman is a strange performance that either works for you or doesn't.
StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Robert Zemeckis
A-Tier Paramount 4K. Tom Hanks on a bench. The transfer is clean and Paramount gave it standard packaging at a reasonable price.
Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Steven Spielberg
20th Century A-Tier 4K. Spielberg's newsroom drama. Decent transfer but not a disc that demands 4K. More of a Hanks/Streep collection purchase than a demo pick.
20th Century Studios · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. John Lasseter
Disney A-Tier 4K, available individually or in the 29-Pixar steelbook set. Best Buy cycles these through sales at $9.99-$14.99 USD a few times a year.
Walt Disney Studios · 4K + Blu-ray
Disney A-Tier 4K. The Pixar steelbook collection has matching art across the trilogy and animation collectors are trying to complete the set. Best Buy sales are the usual entry point.
dir. Lee Unkrich
Disney A-Tier 4K. The Toy Story steelbooks look coordinated on a shelf, which is why people buy all three even though most only really want the first.
dir. Josh Cooley
Disney A-Tier 4K. Target had this at $10 USD during their 70% off Blu-rays sale last year, a price a lot of people felt was closer to fair.
dir. Baz Luhrmann
B-Tier 4K. Luhrmann turned the color saturation up to eleven and the 4K disc doesn't pull any punches on that front. Walmart had an exclusive steelbook that sold through quickly.
B-Tier from Paramount on a film that deserves better. The steelbook has been commanding high resale prices, with some listings hitting $200 USD. Sony taking over Disney's disc production created temporary OOP situations across Paramount's catalog too, and Saving Private Ryan availability fluctuated. The Omaha Beach sequence is the obvious demo material, but the B-Tier transfer means it's not showing what a proper 4K restoration could.
C-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg and DiCaprio. Paramount announced this alongside Minority Report. The C-Tier might improve with a future rescan.
dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
4K steelbook preorder. The cover art looks like a Studio Ghibli poster and people are into it.
Shout! Factory · Limited Edition Steelbook
dir. Joe Dante
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
dir. Ron Howard
Sony 4K coming May 19. No tier rating yet and the movie is uneven, but the announcement got decent attention from Ron Howard collectors and theology buffs.
Sony Pictures · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Richard Benjamin
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
