Showgirls (1995)
Drama • 2h 8m
Overview
Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, Gina Ravera, Lin Tucci, Greg Travis, Al Ruscio, Patrick Bristow, William Shockley, Michelle Johnston, Dewey Weber, Rena Riffel, Melissa Williams, Ungela Brockman, Melinda Songer, Lance Davis, Jack McGee, Jim Ishida, Bobbie Phillips, Danté McCarthy, Caroline Key Johnson, Joan Foley, Terry Beeman, Kevin Alexander Stea, Sebastian La Cause, Lisa Boyle, Alexander Folk, Matt Battaglia, Teo, Melanie Jeffcoat, Alexander Zale, Irene Olga López, Julie Pop, Pamela Anderson, Jacob Witkin, Jana Walker, Christina Robinette, Jim Wise, Michael Shure, Geoff Callan, Rick Marotta, Paul Bates, Michael Cooke, Jean Barrett, Gary Devaney, Gene Ellison-Jones, Fernando Celis, Bob Dunn, Ashley Nation, Cory Melander, Sean Breen, Elizabeth Kennedy, Katherine Manning, Warren Reno, Ken Enomoto, Y. Hero Abe, Rodney Ueno, Kathleen McTeague, Kristen Knittle, Sage Peart, Michael Washington, Debbie Ables, Lindsley Allen, Bryan Anthony, Christopher D. Childers, Tyce Diorio, Eric L. Ellis, Carrie Ann Inaba, Deena Grassia, John Jacquet Jr., Laurie Kanyok, Caitlin McLean, Suzi McDonald, Lisa Ratzin, Salvatore Vassallo, Kim Wolfe, Jamy Woodbury, Jason Yribar, Judette Warren, Lonetta Pugh, María Díaz, Madison Clark, Bethany Chesser, Kelly St. Romaine, Danielle Burgio, Micki Duran, Michelle Elkin, Neisha Folkes-LeMelle, Andrea Moen, Nancy O'Meara, Sandra Plazinic, Laurie Sposit, Tonya Tovias, Michelle Zeitlin, Chris Tedesco, Patrick Seymour, Larry Washington, Robb Vallier, Anne Gaybis, Mike Anderson, Justin Armao, Richard Atchley, Stephen Austin-Skordiles, Anthony Backman, JoAnn Bush, Trevor Coppola, David Garry, Amber Herrel, Tyler Keegan, Gorja Max, Joe Everett Michaels, Matty J Murillo, Christy Oldenkamp, Bruce Pobanz, Timothy Scott Ralston, Eric Ritter, Lisa Robinson, Richard Roraback, Andreanna Veith, Lenny Wilson, Mason Marconi
Director: Gordon Douglas
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps
SF is in 1.66 aspect ratio. Whether this is the intended ratio or a compromise isn't clear.
American Film Institute's catalog and Variety's contemporary review list it as 1.66, but other sources disagree.
Exhibitor's contemporary review lists it as 1.85, IMDB and an internal pre-production note from Warner Bros. list it as 1.75.
Director: Gordon Douglas
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps
SF is in 1.66 aspect ratio. Whether this is the intended ratio or a compromise isn't clear.
American Film Institute's catalog and Variety's contemporary review list it as 1.66, but other sources disagree.
Exhibitor's contemporary review lists it as 1.85, IMDB and an internal pre-production note from Warner Bros. list it as 1.75.
Director: Joel Schumacher
US/UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray has both the original Dolby Stereo 2.0 mix in its best quailty and the original Dolby Stereo 4-track discrete stems in 4.0.
Director: Joel Schumacher
US/UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray has both the original Dolby Stereo 2.0 mix in its best quailty and the original Dolby Stereo 4-track discrete stems in 4.0.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
70mm 6-Track: Paramount US 4K Blu-ray
35mm matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1995 Live Home Video US LaserDisc
Although the provenance of Paramount's 5.1 track is not confirmed, the fidelity is outstanding and speaks for itself.
The 7.1 track on the Capelight/old Lionsgate release is just an upmix with nothing gained over the 5.1.
The original stereo mix is only present on older DVDs and LaserDiscs; all Blu-ray 2.0 tracks are downmixes.
Paramount 4K Blu-ray has no extras, Capelight 4K Blu-ray has most of the extras, Olive Films Blu-ray has a exclusive commentary
70mm 6-Track: Paramount US 4K Blu-ray
35mm matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1995 Live Home Video US LaserDisc
Although the provenance of Paramount's 5.1 track is not confirmed, the fidelity is outstanding and speaks for itself.
The 7.1 track on the Capelight/old Lionsgate release is just an upmix with nothing gained over the 5.1.
The original stereo mix is only present on older DVDs and LaserDiscs; all Blu-ray 2.0 tracks are downmixes.
Paramount 4K Blu-ray has no extras, Capelight 4K Blu-ray has most of the extras, Olive Films Blu-ray has a exclusive commentary
Director: Ken Russell
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Includes original quintaphonic (5.0) mix as well as a modernized 5.1 remix.
Director: Ken Russell
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Includes original quintaphonic (5.0) mix as well as a modernized 5.1 remix.
Director: Arthur Penn
Criterion 4K Blu-ray. caps by BR user Donald McDonald. The encode looks absolutely spotless even in the highlights and without Dolby Vision filling anything in.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Criterion is entirely unfiltered and sounds significantly more detailed than previous tracks, see Blah-ray.
Director: Arthur Penn
Criterion 4K Blu-ray. caps by BR user Donald McDonald. The encode looks absolutely spotless even in the highlights and without Dolby Vision filling anything in.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Criterion is entirely unfiltered and sounds significantly more detailed than previous tracks, see Blah-ray.
Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
Director: Charles Walters
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray
The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.
Director: Mario Bava
Original Italian/English dubs: UK Masters of Cinema 4K Blu-ray
Export English dub: Paramount LaserDisc
MoC ported the export dub from LaserDisc, but used a low quality transfer, with poor lossy encoding.
MST3K version: Vol XXXIX DVD / episode 1013: series finale of the original show.
Director: Mario Bava
Original Italian/English dubs: UK Masters of Cinema 4K Blu-ray
Export English dub: Paramount LaserDisc
MoC ported the export dub from LaserDisc, but used a low quality transfer, with poor lossy encoding.
MST3K version: Vol XXXIX DVD / episode 1013: series finale of the original show.
Director: John Waters
Criterion 4K is in director's preferred aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
Director: John Waters
Criterion 4K is in director's preferred aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
88 Films Blu-Ray
88 Films Blu-Ray
Director: Paul Verhoeven
88 Films Blu-Ray
88 Films Blu-Ray
Director: Paul Verhoeven
OOP Arrow LE has Theatrical Cut not on the standard release
Director: Paul Verhoeven
OOP Arrow LE has Theatrical Cut not on the standard release
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Lionsgate and StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray share the same video master: both have considerable improvement over the old awful Blu-ray but marred by teal grading and DNR. Lionsgate is additionally better compressed than StudioCanal.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has the original theatrical 2.0 track, sourced from LaserDisc (absent on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray), but the 5.1 track has issues which are not present on their new Blu-ray (LFE channel is missing, and instead it's the back left surround duplicated)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Lionsgate and StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray share the same video master: both have considerable improvement over the old awful Blu-ray but marred by teal grading and DNR. Lionsgate is additionally better compressed than StudioCanal.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has the original theatrical 2.0 track, sourced from LaserDisc (absent on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray), but the 5.1 track has issues which are not present on their new Blu-ray (LFE channel is missing, and instead it's the back left surround duplicated)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Director: Paul Verhoeven
2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Paul Verhoeven
2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Simon Wincer
Director: Simon Wincer
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Olive Films Blu-ray / Masters of Cinema Blu-ray
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Olive Films Blu-ray / Masters of Cinema Blu-ray
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray see caps
For Blu-ray, UK Second Sight is better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray see caps
For Blu-ray, UK Second Sight is better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Joe Dante
Director: Joe Dante
Director: Abel Ferrara
Director: Abel Ferrara
88 Films 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 17, 2026 release
88 Films 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 17, 2026 release
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Director: William Friedkin
Director: William Friedkin
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