Gangster/Mob movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Scott Frank
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Walt Disney Studios
dir. Cathy Yan
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Seijun Suzuki
Sold out during the Criterion 24-hour flash sale in March 2026. Seijun Suzuki's yakuza masterpiece on Criterion 4K.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Brian De Palma
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. De Palma and Pacino's follow-up to Scarface. The Zavvi exclusive box set with the steelbook inside is the collector's item.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Sheldon Lettich
S-Tier Capelight Pictures 4K. Van Damme plays twins. Capelight has the German 4K.
Capelight Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Second Sight S-Tier disc with one of the best boutique transfers around. Refn's neon-noir in HDR with the Cliff Martinez score in lossless is something else.
Second Sight Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. John Woo
S-Tier Universal 4K. Van Damme directed by John Woo in Louisiana. The action sequences work well in HDR.
dir. Chad Stahelski
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. The best-looking disc in the John Wick series. The location cinematography across New York, Wadi Rum, France, Germany, and Japan is where HDR really pays off. Multiple steelbook exclusives dropped from different retailers with different artwork, and collectors were buying all of them.
Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Abel Ferrara
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Abel Ferrara's crime film with Walken. Lionsgate put out a re-release with a steelbook that collectors found ugly, and most people are happy sticking with their Arrow or StudioCanal versions. The 4-hour documentary included with the Arrow release is almost as good as the film itself.
dir. Martin Scorsese
S-Tier Second Sight Films 4K. Early Scorsese, loud and rough. Criterion's 4K got a negative review from blu-ray.com that collectors told each other to ignore, arguing the reviewer was comparing it to the old Blu-ray instead of judging the transfer on its own terms. Second Sight co-funded the new restoration and will likely use a Fidelity in Motion encode, which typically beats Criterion's Pixelogic encoding.
dir. Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
S-Tier Criterion 4K. The Hughes Brothers' film about growing up in Watts. Criterion's announcement was part of a wave of Black cinema releases alongside Deep Cover and the Melvin Van Peebles set. The cover art was praised as really good. Vantiva manufacturing QC issues have been affecting Criterion discs, with scratched new discs being reported across multiple titles.
dir. Jackie Chan
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jackie Chan directed and starred in this 1989 crime comedy. One of the less-discussed entries in his 88 Films run but the transfer is in line with their Hong Kong Cinema Classics standard.
88 Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
S-Tier Criterion 4K. The Coens' best film by popular vote, and the 4K announcement generated enormous excitement. The scan comes in at 88.7 GB, which is enormous. Someone spotted a crew member hiding in the bushes during the river scene, which started a whole thing. People are waiting on There Will Be Blood and Assassination of Jesse James to complete the 2007 western trio.
dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
S-Tier Criterion 4K. Roeg and Cammell's 1970 film with Mick Jagger. The Criterion 4K means Warner Archive films are now fair game for Criterion upgrades, which has people hoping for The Hudsucker Proxy and others.
dir. Quentin Tarantino
The transfer confused people because the fine grain from Kodak 50D stock looks almost like digital noise reduction to untrained eyes. It is not. Same stock as Titanic, and both looked suspiciously clean in 4K. Once people understood the film stock, the consensus shifted to calling it the best Tarantino 4K, with Pulp Fiction second. The Manta Lab steelbook artwork reveal got massive engagement. StudioCanal's disc itself is S-Tier.
StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Billy Wilder
Criterion's S-Tier 4K arrived after Kino Lorber put out their own disc first. Kino's release came from a new scan and includes Dolby Vision, and collectors who already own it are split on whether the Criterion is worth the double dip. Both are strong releases from different labels working the same MGM catalog.
dir. Fritz Lang
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Following the release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three Godfather movies into chronological order. As had the earlier compilations, this film incorporated scenes that are not part of the theatrical releases.
dir. Graham Moore
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.
dir. Raoul Walsh
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Paramount's 2022 4K scored 4.5 on blu-ray.com 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.
dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
dir. Orson Welles
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
Eureka Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
A-Tier Shout Factory 4K. John Woo's breakthrough film and the one that started the heroic bloodshed genre. The Shout Factory disc is the way to go for this. Comes up regularly in dream Criterion box set threads alongside other Hong Kong action classics.
Shout! Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Robert De Niro
A-Tier MVD Entertainment 4K. De Niro's directorial debut. Spent years on collector wishlists before this release finally materialized.
MVD Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. John Singleton
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Travolta and Cage swap faces. Kino got this from Paramount's catalog.
Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Jim Jarmusch
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
A-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Scorsese's gangster film. The restaurant scene tracking shot benefits from every pixel.
Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Luc Besson
A-Tier Sony 4K. Luc Besson's hitman film with Jean Reno and a young Natalie Portman. Sony's steelbook artwork got some criticism. The disc scores well at 4.5 overall. Not a lot of dedicated collector energy around this specific release.
Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Elia Kazan
A-Tier Sony 4K with a perfect 5.0 score, part of the Columbia Classics Vol. 5 alongside Little Women and Age of Innocence. The Criterion Blu-ray was already pricy because of the extras, and people are debating whether to wait for a standalone 4K. The restoration was already done in 4K, so the disc should look good.
dir. Sergio Leone
A-Tier 20th Century Studios Blu-ray. Leone's epic crime saga, and the 4K announcement had people demanding a 100GB disc for a film this long. No one can decide if they love it or hate it, which is part of the appeal. People have been asking Criterion for a proper release for years. A new restored version was shown at a special screening that only De Niro got to see.
20th Century Studios · Blu-ray
A-Tier Eureka 4K. Jackie Chan's 1985 action classic, and the Eureka trilogy set was on sale for £23.99, shipping to the US for about $30 USD total. Eureka and Arrow both have releases. People wonder if the transfer is better than Criterion's scan of the first two films. The cars going down the hill in the first one still blows minds.
dir. John Irvin
A-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Arnold's underrated 1986 action film. The StudioCanal steelbook is nice-looking, and people keep asking for Commando, a T2 remaster, and more Arnold on 4K. The previous StudioCanal Blu-ray looked bad, so the 4K is a real step up.
People who have owned this on every format from VHS through 4K say each upgrade felt meaningful. Often discounted to $10-11 USD new, which makes it one of the cheapest high-quality 4K discs in Universal's catalog. The special edition with the "World is Yours" statue and the 1932 original is a collector's item in its own right. A-Tier transfer with the neon and white suits looking exactly how you'd hope in HDR.
dir. Stefano Sollima
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
dir. Joe Carnahan
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
dir. Guy Ritchie
Sony 4K from 2021 with a native 4K transfer and HDR10. Ritchie's second film and Statham's breakout role as Turkish. Reviewers praised the grain structure and the expanded UK English audio track that wasn't on the original Blu-ray.
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
dir. John Mackenzie
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.
dir. Bruce Lee
After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.
Arrow Video · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Michael Mann
Mann's neon-lit heist debut. The tangerine synth score and Caan's safecracking are why people buy this format.
dir. Tony Scott
Arrow Video A-Tier 4K. Tarantino-written and Tony Scott-directed, with an Arrow disc that does both of them justice. Hans Zimmer's 'You're So Cool' theme still hits.
First physical release after nearly three years of waiting. Criterion disc. Early rewatchers are calling it one of the best films of the decade, and the consensus is that it rewards a second and third viewing far more than the theatrical experience.
dir. Michael Winner
C-Tier Vinegar Syndrome 4K. Bronson sequel. Vinegar Syndrome picks up the titles nobody else will.
Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Lars von Trier
C-Tier Eagle Pictures 4K. Lars von Trier's stage play film.
Eagle Pictures · Blu-ray
dir. Richard Berry
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
dir. Andrew Dominik
The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.
Second Sight Films · Limited Edition
Kino Lorber announced a 4K but it may be cancelled according to insider reports from early 2025. The previous Blu-ray transfer was widely called garbage, so collectors have been waiting for a proper remaster of Ritchie's debut. If it actually comes out it will be an instant buy for most people.
dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Arrow Video 4K limited edition, part of the breakout hits set. This was one of the first DVDs a lot of people owned, and the nostalgia factor is real. The HK version with the original subtitles is the one people want.
dir. Peter Medak
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.
