Dollars, monsters and gangsters on 4K UHD from Arrow in May
This May, three 4K UHD titles have been announced for release by Arrow Video. First we have Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan’s rich and textured gangster tale starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine. Next is Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, three films that were previously released on UHD as stand-alone titles by Arrow that have now been brought together in a single box set. And finally, Clive Barker’s complete inversion of the monster horror sub-genre, Nightbreed, starring Craig Sheffer (Teen Wolf) and director David Cronenberg. Full details below.
MONA LISA (UK 1986)
Limited Edition 4K UHD | 11 May 2026 | £29.99 (£25 pre-order at the Arrow Video store)
Five years after The Long Good Friday, Bob Hoskins returned to the gangster genre, but his character George is a mere underling this time, a chauffeur hired by a mesmerisingly slimy gangland kingpin (Michael Caine) to transport a high-class prostitute (Cathy Tyson) from client to client. When she enlists his help in tracking down an old friend, George finds himself exploring a hellish underworld that he never imagined existed.
Hoskins’ immensely complex, subtle and moving performance hoovered up almost every Best Actor award going (Cannes, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe) and remains one of his greatest roles – a man sucked by circumstance into a life of crime but still righteous enough to seize the opportunity to do good when it presents itself.
Director Neil Jordan (The Company of Wolves, The Crying Game) and co-writer David Leland (Made in Britain) achieve a perfect blend of hard-edged realism and unexpected fantasy, with the regular appearance of the Nat King Cole title song turning seedy British locations (Soho, Brighton) into something far more romantically evocative.
Read our review of the Arrow Blu-ray
4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films and approved by director Neil Jordan
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Newly restored original lossless English mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by Bob Hoskins and Neil Jordan
- Interviews with director Neil Jordan, writer David Leland and producer Stephen Wooley
- Original trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Hannah Gillingham
- Collectors’ booklet featuring writing on the film by critic Mike Sutton
THE DOLLARS TRILOGY
8-disc Limited Edition 4K UHD | 18 May 2026 | £69.99 (£60 pre-order at the Arrow Video store)
A Fistful of Dollars wasn’t the first spaghetti western, but the genre was never the same again after Sergio Leone’s audacious breakthrough. Starring Clint Eastwood in the role that made him an international icon, the film introduces a nameless stranger who rides into a Mexican border town torn apart by a vicious power struggle between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. His only chance of escape is a standoff against the latter’s merciless leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).
With For a Few Dollars More, Leone expanded the canvas of his mythic, feverish vision and refined his unmistakable signature. Two rival bounty killers (Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) hunt the same target: the psychopathic bandit “El Indio” (Volonté). Forming an uneasy alliance, the pair infiltrate El Indio’s gang… but as greed begets violence, the hunters become the hunted, leading to a final showdown in a circle of death.
Leone’s trilogy concludes with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, a violent, picaresque epic of operatic scale. When Blondie (Eastwood) and the treacherous Tuco (Eli Wallach) learn of a buried cache of Confederate gold, they are drawn into a desperate race against Angel Eyes (Van Cleef), a ruthless mercenary with his own twisted code of honour. Set against the devastation of the American Civil War, their pursuit builds to one of cinema’s most iconic three-way standoffs, bringing Leone’s grand sense of dramatic scale to its apotheosis.
Arrow Films presents this landmark Western trilogy in the most comprehensive edition ever assembled, all meticulously restored in glorious 4K, with a wealth of new and archival bonus materials.
8-DISC 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- Limited Edition trilogy slipcase featuring newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
- Three double-sided fold-out posters featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
- Perfect-bound booklet featuring writing by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Priscilla Page, Glenn Kenny, Howard Hughes and James Flower
- 4K restorations of all three films from the original negatives, including the International and Extended Cuts of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 4K UHD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Newly restored lossless mono and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Newly restored lossless Italian mono, DTS-HD MA 5.1 and optional English subtitles on A Fistful of Dollars
- Audio commentaries on all three films by Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling and film historian Tim Lucas
- Audio commentary on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by film historian Richard Schickel
- Interviews with editor Eugenio Alabiso, guitarist Bruno Battisti D’Amario, filmmaker Paolo Bianchini, Ennio Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa, Stefano Delli Colli (son of cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli), singer Edda Dell’Orso, Lee Van Cleef biographer Mike Malloy, film historian Fabio Melelli, post-production supervisor Enzo Oconi, assistant cameraman Sergio Salvati, Giacomo Scarpelli (son of co-writer Furio Scarpelli), and Giuditta Simi (daughter of set/costume designer Carlo Simi)
- Visual essays exploring each film’s iconic soundtrack by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- Archival interviews with Frayling, Eastwood, co-star Marianne Koch, and Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi
- Hour-long interview with Leone, filmed in 1983
- A Fistful of Dollars US TV opening scene, and an archival interview with director Monte Hellman
- Archival featurettes on For a Few Dollars More’s remastering for DVD and original American release version
- Archival featurettes on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Leone’s West, The Leone Style, Reconstructing the Film, Il Maestro Parts One and Two, The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction
- Archival location featurettes
- Alternate credit sequences
- Comprehensive trailer and image galleries
- Sad Hill Unearthed, a feature-length 2017 documentary by filmmaker Guillermo de Oliveira, following fan efforts to restore the graveyard set, with accompanying extras Lost in the Editing Room, The Making of the Film, The Making of the Original Soundtrack, World Premiere Q&A and Sad Hill in January 2020
NIGHTBREED (UK / Canada / USA 1990)
Limited Edition 2-Disc 4K UHD | 18 May 2026 | £34.99 (£30 pre-order at the Arrow Video store)
From the mind of writer/director Clive Barker – the macabre visionary responsible for Hellraiser and Candyman – comes Nightbreed, a nightmare-induced fantasy set in a world like nothing you’ve ever experienced before… one which will leave you questioning who the real monsters are.
By night, Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer, Teen Wolf) dreams of Midian, a hidden subterranean world where monsters have created a haven from humanity. Under pressure from his girlfriend Lori (Anne Bobby, Born on the Fourth of July), he attends psychotherapy sessions, unaware that his shrink, Dr Decker (Videodrome director David Cronenberg), is setting him up to take the fall for a series of violent murders. Convinced he no longer belongs in the human world, Boone goes in search of Midian – not realising that the real killer has plans for both him and the colourful cast of outsiders who call it home…
The victim of studio interference and an unrepresentative marketing campaign, Nightbreed was poorly received by critics on its initial release and failed to ignite the box office, but has since undergone a radical reappraisal. Arrow Films presents two versions of this depraved cult classic: the studio-approved theatrical cut and the reconstructed, reinvigorated director’s cut, for the ultimate nightmarish viewing experience.
Read our review of the Arrow Blu-ray.
2-DISC 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
- 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and Director’s Cut
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of both cuts
- Original lossless 2.0 stereo audio and optional DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio for both cuts
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for both cuts
- Reversible sleeve feature original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
- Perfect-bound collectors’ booklet featuring writing on the film by Mark Salisbury, co-author of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Making of the Film, and Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes
- Double-sided fold-out poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
DISC 1 – THEATRICAL CUT:
- Audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
- Vintage introduction by writer/director Clive Barker
- Monsters, Maniacs and Midian: The Making of Nightbreed, a brand new feature-length documentary incorporating never-before-seen interviews and behind-the-scenes footage shot on location at Pinewood Studios for an Electronic Press Kit in 1989
- Memories of Midian, an interview with actor Nicholas Vince
- Walking the Line Between Heaven and Hell, an interview with critic Kat Ellinger
- Speaking up for the Monsters, an interview with critic Kim Newman
- Deleted and alternate scenes
- Extended torture scene
- Theatrical trailers and TV spots
- Extensive image galleries, including early sketches, set photos, poster and pre-production art, stills from the UK launch party at Tower Records, and more
- Original screenplay
DISC 2 – DIRECTOR’S CUT:
- Introduction by Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
- Audio commentary by Barker and Miller
- Brand new audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Stephen Jones, and Barker collaborator Peter Atkins
- Brand new audio commentary by Miller and director’s cut editor Andrew Furtado
- Tribes of the Moon: Making Nightbreed, an extensive documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors Craig Sheffer, Doug Bradley, Anne Bobby and many more
- Making Monsters, a documentary on the film’s creature designs, featuring special makeup designer Bob Keen
- Fire! Fights! Stunts!, an interview with second unit director Andy Armstrong
- Cutting Compromise, an interview with editor Mark Goldblatt
- The Painted Landscape, an exploration of the work of concept artist Ralph McQuarrie
- Monster Prosthetics Masterclass, an interview with Keen on the film’s incredible prosthetic effects
- Matte painting tests
- Makeup tests
- An exploration of the film’s abandoned stop motion animation tests, with special makeup designer Bob Keen
- Rehearsal test
- “Johnny Get Angry” music video