10 Surprisingly Hard to Find Movies: Keep Your DVDs of These Gems

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The littlest outlaw

Night of the twisters

Wild America

Strangely. A walk to remember was never remaster
As well as the perfect score

Some that immediately come to mind are Lucas, True Lies and Dead Alive.

Mentioned in the video was the original Dawn of the Dead. Somehow I've never seen the original. I've seen the remake. I've seen Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead...come on already, give me a North American release for Dawn of the Dead.

Also mentioned in the video was Britney Spears' Crossroads....but what about Ralph Macchio's Crossroads? That's never gotten past a DVD release either

3D anything, but that's a format.

Let me check the old VHS pile. Although it's probably NOT surprising that these are hard to find.

Heathers director Michael Lehmann made a movie about giant insects disguised as a typical American family called The Applegates(aka Meet the Applegates) that I have always loved.

The recently deceased Albert Pyun(Cyborg) made what I think is his best movie, Brain Smasher: A Love Story that I recently had to import from Germany.

There's also a film called Lunatics: A Love Story starring Sam Raimi's brother Ted and directed by Raimi cohort Josh Becker(Intruder) that never got a release beyond VHS.

Midnight Ride is a film from 1990 where the American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff, chases a hitchhiking serial killer played with insane glee by Mark Hamill.

Song of the south was an excellent movie

Cocoon was good

I feel fortunate to have both DVD & BluRay copies of Cocoon. I have copies of many obscure movies such as "From The Hip". While working at a movie rental store during college, I wore out two VHS copies of Hip by renting it so much. It was my go to movie when asked what was good. After renting it 170 times only one viewer didn't like it. He was an idiot.

Walt Disney;s Song Of The South (1946) can be included on the list. The full-length film has been released in its entirety on VHS and LaserDisc in various European and Asian countries. In the United Kingdom, it was released on PAL VHS between 1982 and 2000. In Japan, it appeared on NTSC VHS and LaserDisc in 1985, 1990 and 1992, with Japanese subtitles during songs. (Under Japanese copyright law, the film is now in the public domain.)

I love Godzilla movies, but I can never find Godzilla vs. Biollante.

What, no 200 cigarettes?

Hmmm... interesting list.




Out of curiosity, I punched in 6 of these titles : Strange Days, Looking For Mr Goodbar, Showtime, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Heartbreak Kid, and Cocoon (plus the cocoon sequel, making it 7 titles) in a search for digital download (MP4), and found them all.
Wile looking for Heartbreak Kid, but could only find the 2007 version, and an unrelated 1993 version which shares only the title. The original 1972 was only available in a low-quality file of just over a half-gig (580 MB), but further digging, I found a file in 1.2 GB size (unknown if it's in 1080p or 720p, but it sounds like anything would be welcomed at this juncture), and after even more digging, I found an MKV which is about 1.6 GB (could be less once it's converted to MP4, depending on if unnecessary alt-language audio tracks are removed or retained).

As for Dawn Of The Dead, I've had that one for a while.

Although varying in their hi-quality formats - some are AVC while others a HEVC, some are ripped by various means (Bluray, DVDrips, Webrips), etc - all (or at least most) are of good quality file size (between 1.5 and 2.7 GB, depending on duration of the movie, which range from 95 minutes to 2½ hrs) and in 1080p, indicating a very decent reproduction in digital format. How the movie actually looks remains to be seen (literally), which I suppose depends on the source material used for these digital conversions, I reckon. I anticipate files that will be more than adequate to add to the ole movie collection.
You just gotta know where (and how) to look.

Angus is highly underrated and so is Psycho Beach Party

"Man Facing Southeast": great film, but good luck finding it.

I have dawn of hte dead, mind you on DVD not blueray

-You know Strange Days is underrated when you show it to a buddy and they instantly like the movie when typically they don't dig movies, of course Juliette Lewis sure helped :P

A film hard to find (and butchered by the studio) Michael Mann's The Keep 1993.

Looks like Europe has a better time finding these films, all except the John Woo films Amazon UK had for sale for mostly reasonable prices. Most of them were available on DVD and Bluray except for Something Wicked This Way Comes which was only available on DVD (at above average but not daft prices).

The Black Hole is entertaining? Only if you enjoy watching washed up actors giving their last performances and a robot jogging along on VERY visible wires.

Correcting the asterisk on Dawn of the Dead. It did get an official release in North America on Blu-Ray by Anchor Bay in 2007. I own a copy that I bought off of Amazon in 2008. Used copies now sell for about $100.

Some other hard to find films: Basketball Diaries, Song of the South, Vision Quest

I waited many of a year for Elaine May's A New Leaf, so glad I have a copy of it now.

The Entity with Barbara Hershey from 1982 or 83 is another hard to find. It has been OOP since 2008. It cost me 30 dollars for a used copy, but glad I purchased it.

There are several movies from the 1930's, especially the early 30's, that are very highly rated but are impossible to find even though they are not lost films. I've been looking for some of them for over 20 years.

I believe "Space Camp"is stuck on dvd.

The two films I searched for for years are finally available. The first was Howard Hughes' Jet Pilot with John Wayne which was only available on DVD in a low quality 480i letterboxed version. Thankfully there is now a beautiful Blu-ray release but it was a long time coming. The other was an obscure film that should be well-remembered by anyone who had HBO back in 1977, 1976's Drive-in directed by Rod Amateau which was finally made available as a print-to-order DVD a couple of years ago.

Rueben and Ed...

Try foreign films from the 70s and 80s available in the U.S. DVDs and Blu-rays are region coded, and old foreign films aren't commercially viable in the U.S., so they don't make copies for the U.S. market. The only way to get a copy is by getting VHS. Most foreign films had a somewhat limited run on VHS for the video rental market, just a few thousand made with English subtitles. When VHS died and was replaced by DVDs, most ended up in the dump, and the rest ended in the dump when rental stores died out. Most VHS tapes from the U.S. are worthless, but the only way to get most old European movies is on VHS, and they fetch good prices if you can find them. There are exceptions, such as Das Boot and Europa Europa, which are in DVD and Blu-ray, but the majority are really hard to find.

Been waiting years for Pink Floyd's The Wall to be reissued. I'm not sure it was even released on DVD at any point. Way too good of a film to not be available.

There's nothing worse than seeing streaming films with the sides chopped off to match the 16:9 AR.

Legends of the Fall and street of fire!!

In the UK, all but one were available on Amazon, when I checked directly after watching this, didn't even bother checking eBay

I challenge you to find "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" with Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah and Aiden Quinn.

Blood of Hero's I borrowed a DVD copy from the library but have never found a copy for sales.

I would like to find Leviathan from 1989 on DVD, have a copy on VHS, also The Hitcher from 1986 have a copy on VHS and Fright Night from 1986 I have a VHS copy. I have lots of movies on VHS but have never been able to find the DVD.

"Looking for Mr Goodbar" 1977 is available on DVD from Amazon.

My girlfriend and I have been trying to find "Heartbreak Kid" for years! I feel so seen!

We did watch "Mikey and Nicky", though, and it's a real gem!

I have the Dawn of the Dead Blu Ray...

R Kelly's sex tape and Epstein's collection.

A few years ago I found a DVD of David Cronenberg's cult movies Squirm and The Brood. not great copies but better then some I have see.
I also found a copy of the 1958 It the Terror from Beyond Space , the movie that both Squirm and Alien is a Retelling /Remake of. 
Foot Note :Squirm was Called a Rip off of Alien back in the Day except by those who Knew Squirm was Released a full year before Alien. (no it dose not take place in space but all in One Apartment building (like an Isolated space ship))

The reason why you won't find Dawn of the dead so much is because Evil Dead is a way better Film. As for the rest of the films on the list they are just Crap 😂

Years ago I have the naive hope of digital distribution/streaming services solving the problem of getting access to any movie you really want to watch. It's now almost worse than ever. Physical media doesn't have the volume it once had, and streaming services don't offer movies permanently. (because they feel like it, or because they only have the rights for a certain period.)
Or it might be on a service you're not subscribed to, so you don't know where to look for it. (If you're lucky IMDb will tell you where it streams.)

Also, KEEP YOUR BLANKS. Making copies of your own DVD’s for repeat viewing purposes whilst keeping the originals under lock & key isn’t such a bad idea.

I believe dogma won't get a blue ray treatment, as Kevin smith said, got weinsteined.

Did anyone mention "The Chase" (1994) with Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson?

I mean, if we're going this route, you forgot the biggest ones. Star Wars, the original, theatrical release. You can get the Despecialized edition that fans have put together but you'll have to go sailing to get it. And Muppet Babies, the real ones with the scenes from all sorts of stuff and music. Another licensing hell. But they finally got Moonlighting on Hulu so all hope isn't lost. Physical media is cute but unless you're getting M-discs/archival discs, they don't always last too long. There are many things I would love on archival discs so it can't be changed or taken away.

Crossroads is available on Ebay for like 10 bucks. There were tons of copies available. Wtf

Totally agree on Strange Days - one of my favorite movies. Also has a fantastic score by Graeme Revell which was never released - although I have it, lol.

Watcher in the Woods original. Near Dark. Beatles Yellow Submarine. The Other 1972.