The Criterion Collection and Warner - NTSC aside, Japan and France produce some of the best quality DVDs in the world. It seems the deeper you look, the more you will find that almost every country has something to offer in terms of a definitive edition of at least one great film transferred to the digital versatile disc medium. The major studios would prefer to divide up the world into 'region codes'. This is to help them improve profits by controlling, or price fixing, one specific market. In general terms it amounts to gouging regions where they feel they can obtain the most money or infrequently selling off copyrights to alternate, and often inferior, DVD production houses where they deem it less profitable.

Being 'region-locked' you are limited by what you can watch and are certainly forced to accept quality standards of the DVD copyright owner/production company of a specific film in the region that you live (unless, of course, it is Public Domain). This is essentially disregarding your potential enjoyment as a cinema fan. With Multi-Region players readily available in both PAL and NTSC standard countries, our options continue to expand. With the ability to order online from every corner of the world, it almost seems prejudicial not to take advantage of the global village that you live in. We are attempting to document many examples on this website and this webpage (we are being exclusionary for only DVDs with English subtitles available). If you have more examples, we would love to hear from you to expand this page. This is a work in progress...

France DVD production is far ahead of any other country in transferring Classic Film Noir to DVD. Some of the most prominent examples presently unreleased in NTSC are:

NOTE: These examples all have English audio and removable French subtitles.

Experiment Perilous Macao Journey Into Fear Angel Face On Dangerous Ground The Big Steal

 

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