Steffen Gerlach and Stephan Selms founded this independent distributor near Berlin in 2004. It licenses international genre, arthouse, cult and Hollywood catalogue films for the German-speaking market, often as limited Mediabooks and steelbooks with 4K UHD discs built on new scans or restored masters, some sourced from Arrow, the BFI and Criterion. Selected titles have also been issued in North America and the UK since 2019.

Capelight
34 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 26 in 4K8 in HD4 more for audio only4 more announced
- Excellent14
- Solid6
- Superior Imports1
Films where Capelight's release is the pick. How picks are made
26 of 34 films match · Page 2 of 2
Films where Capelight's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: John Milius
US Shout! Factory or Germany/UK Capelight 4K Blu-ray?
Director: Michael Mohan
US Decal 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray?
Directors: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
4K Streaming
OOP Capelight 4K Blu-ray
The Capelight 4K Blu-ray has both German and English audio, defaulting to the former, but only has German subtitles
3 for audio only
The best audio is Capelight's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Director: Newt Arnold
Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · hdnumerique.com (opens in a new tab)
(the ESC 4K Blu-ray have no original 2.0 and a different Atmos mix. More about the ESC mix in this review)
Better than Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray.
3 announced
Capelight's release is announced; until it is out, the picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: John G. Avildsen
Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc
> Knockout collection original.
The Mono mix on the initial release of the Knockout Collection is a stereo fold-down of the 5.1, it also has a missing piano cue. The replacement disc and the ultimate knockout version fixed the error.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition is the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Capelight 4K Blu-ray releasing on 8th October 2026
Sources: capelight.de (opens in a new tab)
> Paramount US, same black crush as the US disc but encoded by FiM and very good new supplements
Paramount US 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray has MEL Dolby Vision
Director: Martin Scorsese
Capelight 4K announced for 2026
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab) · facebook.com (opens in a new tab)
Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has slightly better compression than Criterion 4K Blu-ray.
The master in DV looks all but identical to the Criterion’s HDR grade. Detail-wise, FiM’s encode looks like it uncovered a tiny bit of extra high-frequency information that got filtered on the Criterion. See nicolas review
1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1993 MGM LaserDisc/2002 R2 MGM DVD are the best. See blah-ray https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/2018/01/raging-bull-1980.html
Imprint Australia 4K Blu-ray has better audio than Criterion 4K Blu-ray, from nicolas:
I believe that what’s on Imprint’s 4K is one of the good mixes MGM and Criterion released during the LaserDisc days. Music is powerful and detailed, dialogues have excellent fidelity and ambient sounds have perceptible depth. I compared the "new" 2.0 with the anemic 5.1 as well as the Criterion 4K mix and could clearly hear the improvements.
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