Updated April 10, 2024
This is a list of films which were originally released in the spine-numbered 5" series of the Criterion Collection, but are no longer in print as of the June 2024 release announcement. Please note that a release may be out-of-print, but the film may still be available in another Criterion release. Once a film has been announced as coming back into print, it will be removed from this list.
THIS IS NOT A LIST OF OUT-OF-PRINT RELEASES. THIS IS A LIST OF OUT-OF-PRINT FILMS. PLEASE MAKE YOUR COMMENTS ACCORDINGLY. Thanks.
The DVD editions of these are "Out of Print", but the Blu-ray editions are available:
Taste of Cherry
Yojimbo
Rushmore
Hearts and Minds
The Royal Tenenbaums…
Updated April 10, 2024
This is a list of films which were originally released in the spine-numbered 5" series of the Criterion Collection, but are no longer in print as of the June 2024 release announcement. Please note that a release may be out-of-print, but the film may still be available in another Criterion release. Once a film has been announced as coming back into print, it will be removed from this list.
THIS IS NOT A LIST OF OUT-OF-PRINT RELEASES. THIS IS A LIST OF OUT-OF-PRINT FILMS. PLEASE MAKE YOUR COMMENTS ACCORDINGLY. Thanks.
The DVD editions of these are "Out of Print", but the Blu-ray editions are available:
Taste of Cherry
Yojimbo
Rushmore
Hearts and Minds
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Ratcatcher
Late Spring
Harakiri
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Weekend (Haigh, 2011)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The BRD Trilogy
By Brakhage, Volume II (BD is available in the Brakhage box set)
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer
Robert Rossellini's War Trilogy
3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (BD is available in the Bunuel box set)
That Obscure Object of Desire (BD is available in the Bunuel box set)
The Phantom of Liberty (BD is available in the Bunuel box set)
Chungking Express (BD is available in the Wong Kar Wai box set)
La strada (BD is available alone and in the Fellini box set)
Nights of Cabiria (BD is available in the Fellini box set)
Variety Lights (BD is available in the Fellini box set)
The White Sheik (BD is available in the Fellini box set)
La dolce vita (BD is available in the Fellini box set)
Juliet of the Spirits (BD is available in the Fellini box set)
Mamma Roma (BD is available in the Pasolini 101 set)
Persona
Frances Ha
King of the Hill
The Blu-ray version of this box set is "Out of Print", but releases of the individual titles are available in both formats:
Trilogia de Guillermo del Toro
These films are "Currently Unavailable", but not officially out of print. Unless noted, these films never had a Blu-ray edition on Criterion:
Shoot the Piano Player
Crazed Fruit
Kill! (Available only in the collector's set)
Sword of the Beast (Available only in the collector's set)
The Flowers of St. Francis
Hearts and Minds (Dual format release)
Sólo con tu pareja
Les enfants terribles
The Burmese Harp
Murmur of the Heart
La bete humaine
Bad Timing
The Horse's Mouth
The Lower Depths
White Dog
Le plaisir
Tout va bien
Death of a Cyclist
The Fire Within
The Only Son / There Was a Father
Under the Volcano
The King of Kings
Empire of Passion
Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura)
Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve
Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens (Available individually)
The DVD editions of these films are "Currently Unavailable" but the BD or UHD editions are still available:
Walkabout
Solaris
Metropolitan
The American Friend
Safety Last!
Letter Never Sent
Kes
Still Walking
High and Low
Pina (
The Mikado
Onibaba
Smiles of a Summer Night
Blow Out
The Night Porter
Bicycle Thieves
Until the End of the World
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Charulata
BD is "Currently Unavailable" but DVD is available
Babette's Feast
Riot in Cell Block 11 (Dual format release unavailable)
Here are the OOP non-spine numbered titles.
These three were on Eclipse series #6: Blood Wedding, Carmen, El Amor Brujo
These seven were in the Essential Art House series: The Great Chase, The Love Goddesses. Kapò, Gervaise, Mayerling, Le jour se lève, Last Holiday
This was in the AK 100 box set: Madadayo
This was in the Rialto Pictures box set: Murderous Maids
These Eclipse boxes are "Currently Unavailable"
Aki Kaurismaki's Proletariat Trilogy
Basil Dearden's London Underground
The Delirious Fictions of William Klein
The First Films of Samuel Fuller
Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu
Titles released on laserdisc and never released on 5" disc are listed here.
