Body Heat, Five Easy Pieces & Charade on Criterion UHD/Blu-ray in June
Spirit Entertainment has revealed that the Criterion Collection UK releases for June 2026 will be Lawrence Kasdan’s influential erotic thriller Body Heat, Jack Nicholson’s breakout film for director Bob Rafelson Five Easy Pieces, and director Stanley Donen’s comedic thriller Charade. All three films will be released as 4K UHD/Blu-ray editions. Full details below.
BODY HEAT (USA 1981)
4K UHD & Blu-ray | 1 June 2026
With his debut feature, acclaimed writer-director Lawrence Kasdan brilliantly updated the conventions of 1940s film noir for the 1980s, resulting in one of the steamiest and most influential erotic thrillers ever made.
On the sultry South Florida coast, lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) is drawn into a torrid affair with unhappily married housewife Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner, in a star-making performance) – and it’s not long before they’ve hatched a scheme to murder her wealthy husband.
Featuring ingenious plot twists, memorable hard-boiled dialogue, and an atmosphere so evocative you can practically feel the humidity, Body Heat is a languorously seductive tale of greed and desire, one that paved a new path for American crime cinema.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by editor Carol Littleton and approved by director Lawrence Kasdan, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New interview with Kasdan
- New conversation between Littleton and film historian Bobbie O’Steen
- Archival programs featuring Kasdan; Littleton; actors William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Ted Danson; cinematographer Richard H. Kline; and composer John Barry
- Deleted scenes
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott
FIVE EASY PIECES (USA 2015)
4K UHD & Blu-ray | 8 June 2026
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces.
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father.
Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
- Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 program featuring Bob Rafelson
- BBStory, a documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others
- Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
- Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson
- Trailer and teasers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones
CHARADE (USA 1963)
4K UHD & Blu-ray | 22 June 2026
In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is Cary Grant’s suave, mysterious stranger.
Director Stanley Donen goes deliciously dark for Charade, a glittering emblem of 1960s style and macabre wit.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary from 1999 featuring director Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film historian Bruce Eder