Titles released on BluRay OVERSEA'S FIRST

[BlurayBascom]

Being the absolute huge movie buff that I am, (that WE ALL are) I'm anxious to own my favorite movies on BLU RAY! Even when I have to take steps to collect movies on BluRay from overseas markets...with the titles not yet released in the US. I purchased a REGION-FREE bluray player just so I can watch and re-enjoy these titles. I've noticed many movies getting a bluray release just ahead of the USA, while others are still not available here at all. (Yet...!) I guess I'm too impatient to wait around for US studios to release movies, so I go ahead and obtain from overseas...via Amazon.com. Here is just an example of movies in MY collection from other regions...!

TITLES RELEASED OVERSEAS first...but NOW available in the USA:
(As of 1/29/15)
AFTER THE SUNSET / THE CHINA SYNDROME / PSYCHO (1960)
TOOTSIE

TITLES RELEASED IN OVERSEAS MARKETS...BUT NOT IN THE U.S.A.:
(As of 1/29/15)
BANDIDAS / BEVERLY HILLS COP II / ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
FIREFOX / THE MOSQUITO COAST / RUNAWAY TRAIN
A SIMPLE PLAN / STREETS OF FIRE / WITNESS

I own each one of the films listed above on BluRay, and most of them are REGION B locked!

Does anybody know WHY movies are released overseas FIRST (sometimes)???

[floridaswamprat]

While You Were Sleeping - It was announced, but I've been waiting for the US release for a couple of years now.

[Jobla]

TELSTAR and ONE CHANCE (James Cordon).

[HD Goofnut]

I have this thread if it helps you: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=252156

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by BlurayBascom

Does anybody know WHY movies are released overseas FIRST (sometimes)???

Why wouldn't they be?? Seems a bit odd to expect all films to first arrive in America only.

[DMRI2006]

FIREFOX is on Blu-Ray in the US

[OneWayFilms]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Seems a bit odd to expect all films to first arrive in America only.

Not all, just the ones that were MADE in America.

[Seymour]

Some others: Hot Shots 1+2, Virtuosity, The Net, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Karate Kid Part III, Match Point, Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider...

[SolidBlu]

The Pianist
Hamburger Hill
King Kong (1976)
A Walk to Remember

[CinemaScope]

A couple more still awaiting an American release:

55 Days At Peking 1963 - UK, France & Germany
The War Lord - 1965 - UK & Germany
Open Range 2003 - France & Germany
A Good Year - 2006 - Germany (out next week)

And quite a few more.

[KeithVK]

I know it's not a masterpiece or a film for the ages by any stretch of the imagination... but anyone know why there's no US release of Borat and numerous other editions out there? It's not like it wasn't popular here and I think (regardless of personal opinion of the movie) it would sell in the states just fine. Is this a legal tie-up or something?

[HD Goofnut]

Here's #s through B:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8 Women
11:14
The 13th Warrior
14 Blades
1492: The Conquest of Paradise
The Accidental Spy
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Agora
Alexander the Great
All Ladies Do It
Alone in the Dark
Along Came a Spider
An American Haunting
Amores Perros
Andrei Rublev
Angel-A
Anne of the Thousand Days
Anthony Zimmer
Army of Darkness (Director's Cut)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
As God Commands
Assassination
Atlantis (1991)
Bagdad Cafe
The Ballad of Narayama
Banana Joe
Bandidas
Bang Boom Bang
Barton Fink
Basic
Basket Case 2
Basket Case 3
Battlefield Earth
Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie
The Beastmaster
Beat Street
Bed & Board
The Beguiled
Bel Ami
Benny & Joon
The Best Offer
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
The Beyond
Beyond the Hills
Bicycle Thieves
The Big Clock
A Bittersweet Life
Black Eagle
Black Mask II
Black Moon Rising
Black Robe
Blade: Trinity (Theatrical Cut)
Blind Woman's Curse
Blood and Bone
Blood for Dracula
The Blood on Satan's Claw
Boca
Bodyguards and Assassins
Boogeyman
Boogeyman 2
Boogeyman 3
Borat
Braddock: Missing in Action III
Breakin'
Breezy
Brick
Bride of Re-Animator
A Bronx Tale
The Brood
Brother (2000)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Brute Force
Bubba Ho-Tep
Bugsy Malone
Bullet in the Head
Bullets Over Broadway
The Burbs
Burden of Dreams
The Burmese Harp
The Burrowers

[Mose Harper]

Paradise Alley (It)
Broken Arrow (It+)
Ox Bow Incident (De)
Pretty Poison (De)
Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (UK+)
Arabian Nights (De)
The Golden Blade (De)
Cobra Woman (De)
Tarantula (De)
The Monolith Monsters (De)
The Mole People (De)
The Wanderers (De)
Anne Of The Indies (De)
The Russia House (De)
The Way West (De)
Vigilante Force (De)
Prime Cut (De)
Monte Walsh (De)
Gilda (DE+)
The War Lord (UK+)
Two For The Road (UK)
Romeo And Juliet (UK+)

[Mose Harper]

a few more off the top of my head...

Lifeboat
The Lost Weekend
Diary Of A Lost Girl
The Naked City
Pit Stop
Foxy Brown
Sisters
The Killers ('46 & '64)
The Sorcerers
Bad Timing
Day The Earth Caught Fire
Orca

[HD Goofnut]

Candyman
Capone
The Car
Cargo
Cashback
Cassandra's Dream
The Castle of Cagliostro
Casualties of War
The Cat Returns
The Cave
Celebrity
Cemetery Man
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chicken Run
Children of Dune
A Chinese Ghost Story
A Chinese Ghost Story II
A Chinese Ghost Story III
Chris Ryan's Strike Back (TV Series)
Christiane F.
Chrysalis
El Cid
City Girl
City of Ember
The City of Lost Children
City of War: The Story of John Rabe
City of Women
Cleaner
Clockers
Cold Chisel: The Live Tapes - Vol. 1
Cold War
The Colossus of Rhodes
Columbo (TV Series)
Confessions
Control
Convoy
Coogan's Bluff
The Core
Crime Busters
The Crimson Rivers
Cross of Iron
The Cry of the Owl
Crying Freeman
The Crying Game
Cube
Cube Zero
Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Cypher

[HD Goofnut]

D-Tox
Dagon
Dancer in the Dark
Darkman 2
Darkman 3
Dawn of the Dead (1978 - European and Extended Cuts)
Day of the Triffids (2009)
Days of Glory
Dead of Night
Dead Silence
The Dead Zone (1983)
Death Becomes Her
Death Rides a Horse
Death Sentence
Deepstar Six
Derailed (2002)
Deranged
Detachment
The Devil Rides Out
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Dobermann
Double Trouble
Downfall
Dr. Phibes Rides Again
Dracula II: Ascension
The Dreamers
Drugstore Cowboy
Drunken Angel
Drunken Master
Dune (Extended TV Cut)
Early Summer
The Eiger Sanction
Election (2005)
Election 2
Elephant
The Elephant Man
Elite Squad
Escape from Alcatraz
Everyone Says I Love You
Exodus (1960)
Extreme Prejudice

[KeithVK]

Originally Posted by KeithVK

I know it's not a masterpiece or a film for the ages by any stretch of the imagination... but anyone know why there's no US release of Borat and numerous other editions out there? It's not like it wasn't popular here and I think (regardless of personal opinion of the movie) it would sell in the states just fine. Is this a legal tie-up or something?

oh... and I'm hoping for La Vie en Rose (for the wife). Anyone aware of a region A/region free version with English subtitles? Would be willing to make it my first import just to keep the wife of my back about my purchasing habit.

[HD Goofnut]

F/X (Announced for 6/9/15)
Failan
Faithful Heart
Fahrenheit 451
Farewell My Concubine
Fatal Move
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Firestorm
Firewalker
A Fistful of Dynamite
Fitzcarraldo
Flesh for Frankenstein
Flight of the Navigator
The Flu
Forbidden Games
Forever Enthralled
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Four Rooms
Foxy Brown
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gaslight
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost World
The Gift
Gilda
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Go Fast
Go For It (1983)
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
A Good Year
Gosford Park
El Gringo
The Guard Post
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

[HD Goofnut]

Hamburger Hill
Hamlet (1948)
Hands Over the City
Happy Family (2010)
Hard Luck
Hard Target
Heart of Dragon
Hide and Seek (2013)
Hitch Hike
The Hitcher (2007)
Hollywood Ending
Holy Rollers
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Hot Shots
Hot Shots! Part Deux
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Howard the Duck
The Hunted (2003)
I Come With the Rain
I Wish
Ikiru
Il Mare
In the Fog
In Hell
In Her Shoes
The Indian Tomb
Infernal Affairs II
Infernal Affairs III
Inferno (1999)
Inside
The Interpreter
Invaders from Mars (1986 - Announced for 4/7/15)
The Ipcress File
It Happened in Broad Daylight
The Italian Job (1969)
The Jacket
Joey
Johnny Mad Dog
Julia's Eyes
Junior
Just Friends
Kaboom
Kamikaze Girls
The Karate Kid Part III
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killers (1964)
Killers (2014)
King Kong (1976)
Kiss the Girls

[StatenMan18]

Slither was released in Canada but I don't think the US has one.