6 BFI 4K + Blu-ray films on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 4 S-Tier picks including La Haine.
dir. John Hillcoat
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
BFI · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ken Russell
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
S-Tier BFI 4K. Kassovitz's 1995 French film about police brutality. The Criterion 4K announcement was a relief for North American collectors who had been paying inflated import prices for the BFI disc. The film still feels current, and first-time viewers keep calling it a masterpiece.
dir. François Truffaut
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
dir. Luchino Visconti
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
dir. Peter Weir
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.