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Germany

185 films on Best Blurays

Also known as: GER, DE, German

Type: Region

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Films where Germany is in a pick or an upcoming release.

Director: Peter Hyams

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best Video & Audio:

StudioCanal Germany (Plaion) 4K

Video Notes:

StudioCanal Germany 4K is better than Shout! Factory. Plaion are StudioCanal’s distributor in Germany and one of their representatives revealed in a Germany forum that StudioCanal hired LSP to do the encode.

Audio Notes:

StudioCanal Germany 4K got a proper 5.1 mix instead of the Shout! Factory upmix

Director: Roland Emmerich

Best Video:

US Lionsgate 15th Anniversary Blu-ray, Australia Via Vision Blu-ray, UK Optimum Ultimate Edition Blu-ray, or Germany Koch Media Blu-ray?

Director: Richard Linklater

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray/Germany Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Germany Blu-ray and Criterion Paramount

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray has English audio 

Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal 

Director: Kevin Reynolds

4K · Solid
Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Ulysses Cut: Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Ulysses Cut: Arrow Blu-ray included in 4K Blu-ray

Director: Iain Softley

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH

Best Audio:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Best English-Friendly:

Germany Plaion Ultrabit 20th Anni. Blu-ray

Additional Info:

UK Blu-ray is censored

Director: Dario Argento

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Plaion GER 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Plaion GER 4K Blu-ray caps

Additional Info:

German release from Plaion has better grading and encode than the US Vinegar Syndrome releases.

Both UHDs come with Italian and English audio, as well as English subtitles.

Director: David Hogan

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray is disappointing review

Director: Peter Jackson

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Arrow US/UK 4K Blu-ray or Turbine Germany 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Both will look identical in motion but the Turbine looks marginally better due to a higher bitrate allocation by each cut being given its own disc, whereas Arrow had FiM seamlessly branch the two onto one. However, Arrow has both cuts in Open Matte (on Blu-Ray) and corrected the opening Universal logo's aspect ratio. https://slow.pics/c/McvVcYDG

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Director: Tony Scott

Best Video:

Germany Turbine Blu-ray or Australia Imprint Blu-ray?

Director: Scott Hicks

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

4K · Excellent

Director: Rob Cohen

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Germany Turbine 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany Turbine 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

comparison between the Turbine and Kino grades. The former is director-supervised.

Best Audio:

(The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray DTS HD5.1 seems to have stronger bass, but it's yet unclear which one has the original 5.1) Also see thread.

Additional Info:

The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray was recalled shortly after inital releases for unknown reasons.

Director: Wes Craven

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Uncut Director's Cut: Either the Germany Kinowelt DVD, the Japan DVD, the Scandinavian DVD, or the US LaserDisc.

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Fan preservation is likely better quality.

Best Audio:

2011 Blu-ray/2021 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The 2011 Lionsgate Blu-ray is incredibly poor for every Original Trilogy film; older processed older DVD-era masters with heavy use of DNR, sharpening and edge enhancement with a really dull color grade. The 4K Blu-ray is miles better. The DTS-HD 5.1 across all three films appears to be the same on both the Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray, and they appear to be the untouched theatrical 5.1 mixes. 

The Uncut version has more violence: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=256325

Director: David Lynch

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray slightly better

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has best encoding. France Potemkine and Criterion UHDs slightly worse.

Best Audio:

?

Director: Roger Donaldson

4K · Solid
Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray?

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray? see caps by The HDR Dissector

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Best English-Friendly:

Film Movement Blu-ray vs Third Window Blu-ray?

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Not sure about US Film Movement Blu-ray The Germany Capelight and UK Third Window releases both use the same transfer. The Japan Bandai Visual release appears to be the same transfer but has more information on the sides. https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=16038&d2=7573&s1=170548&s2=71994&i=0&l=0

Director: Marshall Herskovitz

Best Video:

Germany Blu-ray, maybe a bootleg?

Or the US DVD/HD Streaming

Best Audio:

DVD 5.1

Director: John Frankenheimer

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Arrow Blu-ray has the most extras

Director: Roman Polanski

4K · Solid
Best Video:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.

Lionsgate and the upcoming Imprint have the same discs.

Best Audio:

Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD.  This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track.  FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.

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