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A parody of The Matrix comissioned by Microsoft featuring Steve Ballmer as Neo and Bill Gates as Morpheus was shown at Comdex 2003, then shelved. It was only licensed from the production company for one showing. The beginning is available as a camcorder recording, as well as some spoilers made by those attending the showing.
A lot of classic European movies from the 1930's through the 1950's have never been officially released on VHS or DVD in the United States. Case in point: Sara (Sarita) Montiel and Maria Felix; these two actresses are regarded worldwide as among the giants of Spanish-language cinema, but most of their classic films from the 1940's through the 1960's have never been released in the USA except by small labels which may or may not own the license to reproduce them commercially. Basically, the only way for an American fan to get ahold of these movies is to either order whatever DVD's may be available from foreign vendors (you'd better have a DVD player capable of playing discs from regions other than 1) or download them from more-or-less dodgy online sources as mentioned above.
- Very few of the films of Danielle Darrieux (one of the acknowledged grande dames of French cinema, who is still working today after a career spanning nearly 80 years) are legitimately available in the United States. The same goes for Martine Carol and Diana Dors (called, respectively, France's and Britain's answers to Marilyn Monroe during the 1950's) or the Italian bombshell Silvana Pampanini.
- Up until about three years ago, Romy Schneider's Sissi trilogy (which established her as an international star and contributed hugely to the postwar revival of German film) was unavailable on DVD or VHS in its full form in the United States; those wishing to see the movies had to order them from Canadian vendors, without any guarantee of getting a version dubbed or subtitled in English. Koch Lorber finally did fill the gap, however, with a box set containing not just the three full-length films but also the edited version released in America in the 1950's and Schneider's companion piece 'The Young Victoria', which had never before been released in the U.S. Several of her other 1950's Period Pieces are still unavailable in America, however.
- Many of the movies of Italian legend Gina Lollobrigida - La Donna Più Bella Del Mondo (The Most Beautiful Woman in the World), La morte ha fatto l'uovo (Death Lays An Egg, La Lollo's only excursion into the Giallo horror genre), Un Bellissimo Novembre (That Splendid November), Stuntman, Hotel Paradiso (with Alec Guinness), Woman of Straw (with Sean Connery), Anna di Brooklyn (Fast and Sexy), La Romana (Woman of Rome), Le Infedeli (The Unfaithfuls) and Les Belles de Nuit (with Gerard Philippe and the aforementioned Martine Carol) have never, ever been released on DVD in the U.S.
- A significant chunk of Peter Sellers' British/European-produced output still isn't available on DVD in Region 1, including these star vehicles: The Battle of the Sexes, Only Two Can Play, Waltz of the Toreadors, Ghost in the Noonday Sun, and Soft Beds, Hard Battles. The Millionairess was briefly available on DVD in 1999, but it's long out of print. To make matters worse, the VHS releases of these films were mostly on independent labels and date back to the 1980s. Turner Classic Movies has occasionally aired a few of the 1960s titles, but the downtime between airings can be years.

The notorious 1976 version of The Blue Bird, in spite of having George Cukor as director and an All-Star Cast headed up by Elizabeth Taylor, has never had a legit video release beyond Russia (the film was a U.S./U.S.S.R. coproduction). For a few years in The New '10s it occasionally turned up on FX Movies in off hours, but no more.
Cocksucker Blues, the infamous The Rolling Stones documentary about the band's 1972 U.S. tour supporting Exile On Main Street (featuring lots of language, sex, and general mayhem). The band sued over the content of the film, and so it can't be shown in public without the director being present. (The director does hold frequent screenings.) This hasn't stopped it from being a mainstay on the bootlegging scene for many years.
- Ten minutes of excerpts from Cocksucker Blues eventually found their way into 2010's Stones in Exile, but obviously it isn't anywhere near the same experience.
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder wasn't popular during its initial release and is relatively unknown to this day. As such, it's only available on VHS and in limited supply.
The Producer's Cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was this until 2014 when it was released as part of a new limited edition Halloween box set from Anchor Bay in association with Scream Factory. Lionsgate released it stand-alone in 2015 without the bonus features.
The Director's Cut of Hellraiser: Bloodline.
The Beatles' documentary film Let It Be has been out of print for decades, but fans have been distributing it themselves for almost as long. The film was commissioned as a documentary about the recording of what ended up being the band's final album, but it ended up putting a spotlight on the many personal conflicts that led to their breakup. Since showing such an ugly side of The Beatles is not in the best interest of Apple Corps, the movie will probably never be released in it original form again. (This makes it an unusual example of a film that won an Academy Award — 'Best Music, Original Song Score' for 1970 — going out of print.)
- If you get the chance to watch it via some bootleg, illegal download, or legal 1981 Magnetic Video tape or disc, you might wonder what the fuss is about. The little sniping argument between Harrison and McCartney aside—'Whatever it takes to please you, I'll do it'—it really isn't that bad.
- Paul McCartney is often asked about the film's reissue in interviews, and recent answers have him wondering himself why it hasn't been released. In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, he said that he has campaigned for the film's release to the Apple Corps board, but nothing ever comes to fruition. He has no objections to a re-release of the film, even though he admits he comes off poorly in it.
For decades, the Japanese versions of the Godzilla films were unavailable in the U.S. Thankfully, most have seen a release, but a few (mostly due to different companies holding the rights) have slipped through the cracks. Of those, most (King Kong vs. Godzilla, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah) are available on DVD, but dubbed into English. The Return of Godzilla has yet to see a DVD release in any form, and is only available dubbed on an old VHS tape that's been out-of-print since The '90s.
- As of October 2016 Section 23 Films, under its Kraken Releasing sub-label, has released The Return of Godzilla on blu-ray and DVD in North America for the first time. This is also the first time ever that the original, unaltered Japanese version of the film is available to western fans. The movie still manages to invoke this trope though, as the original western re-cut titled Godzilla 1985 and featuring added scenes with Raymond Burr reprising his role from Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956) is not included on the DVD and still hasn't been available outside the aforementioned out-of-print VHS version.
- Italian Godzilla King Of The Monsters only got released in Italy (and reportedly Turkey as well) and is now rare there and practically nonexistent everywhere else.
David Bowie's second leading man effort, and subsequent Old Shame, Just a Gigolo (1978) has only had a Region 2 DVD release in Germany. There are legit VHS copies from the late 1980s floating around in Region 1, taken from the slightly shorter (from 105 to 98 minutes) 1981 cut United Artists Classics released in the U.S. In any case, it's unlikely that the original 147-minute cut (pulled after a disastrous premiere in Germany) will ever resurface.
Any version of Nightbreed in the UK.
The director's cut of Once Upon a Time in America is missing a controversial but important scene. For while, it could only be found on a special edition DVD set...in Brazil. And that STILL isn't the complete version of the movie, but the one that premiered at Cannes and was subsequently released in Europe. Sergio Leone's original version ran forty minutes longer. A restoration which includes about twenty minutes of additional footage premiered at Cannes and has been released on Blu-Ray (known as the Extended Director's Cut), but there's been no word about the rest of the footage.
- There also exists reports of a heavily-edited American network television version, based on the director's cut and the American theatrical cut, that was made and first aired in the early-mid 1990s. It ran for almost three hours long (without commercials), and while retaining the non-chronological order of the director's cut, had also removed many key scenes that had violence or graphic content, as well as having all profanity and references to drugs exiled from broadcast. This version was supposedly intended as a one-off showing, and despite apparently being re-aired by local stations (and according to one source, AMC) via syndication, no copies of this cut are known to exist.
The 1981 horror/slasher spoof Pandemonium, despite its cult status, has yet to be released. VHS copies are available and in high demand.
Toho's original cut of Prophecies of Nostradamus has never been released on home video, even in Japan, due to pressure from Hiroshima survivor's groups. Even the heavily edited American version (The Last Days of Planet Earth) is only available on long out-of-print VHS tapes from the turn of The '90s.
- Toho's Half Human also remains unreleased for a similar reason — Ainu rights groups considered the film's depiction of their culture offensive.
The full-length version of Toho's 1973 disaster epic Nippon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks), which was released in the U.S. in severely edited form as Tidal Wave, has never been released in America in any format. (Not even following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which, while making the movie Harsher in Hindsight, would certainly have made it of considerable topical interest). The 2006 remake has also never been released in America.
Bob Dylan's epic documentary/concert film/experimental drama Renaldo and Clara. After the original four hour version was lambasted by critics upon its 1978 release and a two hour recut failed to stir up interest, it's been more or less kept out of circulation by Dylan, who holds the distribution rights. It did slightly better business in Europe and has been shown on TV a few times there. A multi-generation dub of a British TV broadcast of the longer version circulates among Dylan fans. A bonus DVD with two songs from the movie was included with the Live 1975 Bootleg Series album, but there's never been any sign that Dylan will ever release the whole movie on DVD. It didn't help when some critics used their reviews of I'm Not There to retroactively bash Renaldo, including critics who had never seen 'Renaldo.'
- In a similar vein to Let It Be, the Dylan documentary called Eat The Document that's built from unused footage from the famous doc Don't Look Back. Dylan himself edited the excess footage together. The result was considered too surreal (read: incomprehensible) for mainstream audiences, and was thus never given official release. The film will likely never see a proper release, but bootlegs are handed around madly to this day.
The 1957 Civil War epic Raintree County (starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift)^note has never been released in a format other than VHS and LaserDisc, though it could be seen on Turner Classic Movies from time to time and is scheduled to be broadcast on some PBS stations in March 2018. A random check on Home Theater Forum (a website that major studios use to analyze demand for an older movie on video) shows that this film is very popular amongst the site's members. What Warner Bros. is arguing in terms of why they are holding an eventual release back is that a proper restoration is too costly, especially for a movie that only has niche appeal and would be relegated to a burn-on-demand Warner Archive Collection release.
David Cronenberg's feature film debut, Shivers (aka They Came From Within) has seen only scant and OOP video release over the years, despite Cronenberg's godlike status among horror fans and the general good success of his films (like The Fly (1986), Scanners, and A History of Violence). It's odd that Anchor Bay released a special edition VHS, but didn't re-release it on DVD. Strange and infuriating.
- British cult film label Arrow Films released a new Blu-Ray of the film in the fall of 2014. (As Criterion re-released Cronenberg's watershed film Scanners in July of 2014, that bodes well for this transfer to possibly be released by them later on in the US.)
The fondly-remembered 1995 TV movie Susie Q has never seen a VHS or DVD release. Contrary to popular belief, it was not a Disney Channel Original Movie, though it aired on the channel frequently from 1996-2000 and Disney still owns the rights to it today.^note It likely stopped airing because of its more mature themes, such as the title character dying in a drunk-driving car accident. It exists through torrents and bootleg DVD's of various VHS recordings of its Disney Channel broadcasts. These low-quality recordings can also be found on YouTube. It also aired on German network Super RTL in English in 2008. More bootleg DVD's were made from this broadcast which were much clearer in quality despite the movie's German title being displayed and a 'Super RTL' bug present throughout. The film is sometimes made available on Disney Family Movies On-Demand, usually once a year around Halloween.
The direct-to-video Muppet Classic Theater has never been released on DVD, or any format since the initial VHS release (which is of course long out of print). It can be found on the Internet, though.
The 1988 feature-length version of Mike Jittlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time. Fans have been distributing copies of the film online since it came out. The story of how Mike got nearly immediately screwed out of the rights to his own movie is depressing. Many of the tapes have been n-th hand VHS copies of an extremely-rare laserdisc copy owned by someone who was probably single-handedly keeping laserdisc repair shops in business. As of now, though, there are a couple of unofficial (but endorsed by Jittlov) high-quality DVD transfer 'releases' floating around the net in download-and-burnable formats, which will hopefully allow the owner of the laserdisc to finally retire and move up to newer technology.
This can extend to special features from special or collector's edition sets that aren't ported over when the movie is released on a new format. If you don't have the out-of-print older version, you'll miss out on (sometimes very important) footage and material related to the film. These include:
- Many laserdiscs from The Criterion Collection, which contain features which haven't been released on any other medium. Notable examples include:
  - Evita, which had a director commentary, TV spots, a music video, promotional footage, documentaries, interviews and archival footage of the real Evita that were never released again. It's easily the most complete package of the film. Some of those features (but not all) are on the newly released Blu-ray.
  - The Fisher King was last released on DVD in 2003 (sans extras). The Criterion laserdisc had a commentary track with Terry Gilliam, deleted scenes, costume tests and a scene-by-scene analysis of the entire film using storyboards, screenplay excerpts and behind-the-scenes photos. Though since then, Criterion rereleased the movie on Blu Ray with a majority of the laserdisc extras.
  - The first three James Bond films (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger), which had commentaries (featuring the producers and creators of the series) that were subsequently banned from every printing after their first releases because they contained an excessive number of disparaging and inflammatory remarks, and are pretty much the reason why all DVD and Blu-ray releases with a commentary track include a disclaimer regarding the commentaries featured on disc. (In other Bond news, MGM/UA's Ultimate Edition of Die Another Day doesn't have all the extras from the original 2-disc release.)
  - This also happens when a film's license holder takes a film away from Criterion to make their own (often inferior) DVD release. For example, Akira Kurosawa's Ran was set to receive a Criterion Blu-Ray release in 2010 with new features in addition to the features on the DVD. However, its license holder requested that the Blu-Ray release be nullified and the DVD set be discontinued. They then released a Blu Ray of Ran with only a few of the DVD's special features. Fan response to the quality of the Blu Ray transfer varies, with some claiming it is inferior to the DVD release. The new home video rights holder also didn't bother to release a new DVD, making Ran one of only a few films that only has a Blu-Ray release currently in print. Thankfully, rights holders asking Criterion to pull their set off the market is rare, but its happened at least a dozen times in the past decade.
  - Se7en, which has a multi-commentary exploration of the title sequence, outtakes, Canadian TV spots and an isolated score that weren't included on the subsequent New Line Platinum Series edition.
  - She's Gotta Have It, which has been released in barebones editions for years. The Criterion laserdisc version had an exclusive director's cut version, deleted scenes, commentary, outtakes, music videos, still photo galleries and tie-in TV ads. Criterion doesn't own the rights to the film, and its DVD distributor (MGM) doesn't see fit to release a special edition for it, so you'll have to hunt for anything more than the barebones release.
  - The current in-print DVD & Blu-Ray of This Is Spın̈al Tap was released by MGM in 2000, but the movie had originally been released first on home video by Criterion on LaserDisc in 1994, and then on DVD in 1998. The special features are substantially different in tone between the different releases - the two commentaries from the cast and crew on the Criterion version are as themselves, while on the single commentary on MGM version, the cast do the commentary while in character. The Criterion release also has several deleted scenes, performance footage and three short promotional films which were not included on the MGM release, including most notably, the Pilot Movie they shot when they were trying to secure a backer for the film.
  - The movie was also published on a pair of CD-ROMs in 1994 by Criterion's publisher, The Voyager Company, who also created enhanced CDs for other films like Comic Book Confidential, For All Mankind, and A Hard Day's Night, which Criterion recently released a restored print of in 2014.
  - Criterion's DVD edition of The Man Who Fell to Earth was apparently so popular that it was one of their first four Blu-Ray releases! Both versions of the set are out of print. A 2011 Region 2 release from another company did port over some Criterion features...but not the commentary track originally recorded for the 1992 laserdisc featuring lead actor David Bowie (along with director Nicholas Roeg and co-star Buck Henry), which was the only special feature he participated in. And the first-pressing of the Criterion Blu-Ray is particularly rare, as it was in paper packaging that was eventually replaced with the now-standard clear Amaray cases once fans complained. Unopened copies can fetch $150 or more.
- The Alien Anthology Blu-Ray set has pretty much everything and the kitchen sink in terms of extras from the previous DVD and VHS releases from the film...except for the Alternate Production Audio & Music track from the 1999 Alien Legacy DVD release of the original film, making it a valuable commodity. Also, the now-out-of-print Alien Saga DVD contains vintage featurettes from Aliens and uncensored screen test footage of Sigourney Weaver that weren't included on the Blu-Ray set.
Long Gone, the William Petersen Cult-Baseball Movie. Currently the film is unavailable in any format. Previously there was a DVD but it is now long out of print, and copies fetch about $200 on Amazon alone.
The Devil's Hairpin is a hard to find movie, not having a DVD release as of yet.
MGM's 1965 film Joy in the Morning starring Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux has never seen a release on VHS, DVD, Laserdisc or any other media, anywhere in the world. Hard to believe, as the film was heavily promoted, widely released, moderately successful, and stars Chamberlain, who, as Dr. Kildare, was one of TV's biggest stars at the time. Save for the occasional television airing, it has rarely been seen since. Warner Bros. once stated that the film is not cleared for distribution, so a chance for release in the near future is minimal. Some bootlegs of questionable quality and resources exist, however, your best bet is to try and catch it on Turner Classic Movies, where it is shown every once in a while.
Tom Schiller's only feature film, Nothing Lasts Forever, has assumed near-legendary status both for being extremely rare and extremely odd (it includes Bill Murray as the conductor on a bus ride to the moon, Lauren Tom as an alien, and a political coup by the Manhattan Port Authority - all rendered with pseudo-1930s stylings). For unclear reasons, it received only a limited cinema release and has never been available on video or DVD. However, Turner Classic Movies screened it in January 2015, and in light of that speculation about a legitimate release has picked up.
At the end of the 1980s, the home video market collapsed due to an overabundance of low-quality product, resulting in the collapse of many independent VHS companies along with their libraries, some substantial and hosting many sought-after cult items. While a few of these libraries have been purchased (such as Media Home Entertainment and Vestron Video), more often than not the new parent companies will simply clamp down on the rights and keep potentially successful cult films out of circulation for unknown reasons (looking at YOU, Lionsgate).
When a Director's Cut of a film is released, the older theatrical release of the film is taken out of circulation, regarded as inferior version by the distributor(s) and director. Sometimes this can anger fans, and only recently have DVD companies wised up and included both versions on new DVD releases. An awful lot of movies, though, still have theatrical versions that have been left in the dust without the consent of fans.
- George Lucas hasn't released the theatrical version of THX 1138, his debut feature, nor, reportedly, has he allowed any new official releases of the theatrical version.
- This was the case for many years with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as the theatrical version's VHS was steadily rising in price for collectors. With the 2007 release of the Final Cut box set, all the cuts of his masterpiece came together at last. However, it went out of print during The New '10s, in favor of releasing the Final Cut by itself. iTunes does carry the US Theatrical Cut as well as the Final Cut, and Amazon Video also sells the first Director's Cut, but neither carry any of the other versions.
- UK and Australian releases of Picnic at Hanging Rock have included both the director's cut and the theatrical version, but US releases from The Criterion Collection have only included the director's cut (to the frustration of some fans).
The 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess has not been in release since the early 1970s. Sam Goldwyn leased the film rights for only 15 years, and renegotiating them with the Gershwin and Heyward estates has proved impossible.
Arsène Lupin (2004), starring Kristin Scott Thomas as the Femme Fatale who interacts with the title character, has never been released in the U.S. for unknown reasons. However, Warner Brothers did release the movie on DVD in Canada with English subtitles.
This is not uncommon with silent films in general. Some films get poor-quality DVD distributions, others never see the light of day. Some of these films are also registered with the National Film Registry. Good luck finding The Wind (1928) or The Crowd on a format that isn't LaserDisc or VHS.
Infamous 1973 Turkish film 3 Dev Adam (Three Big Men), which features Spider-Man as a sadistic villain. It would be lost entirely were it not for someone who had the hindsight to record it when it was repeated on TV some time in the 80s. Unfortunately the video has degraded both visually and audibly as might be expected for a home recording of that vintage. There have been DVD releases, but they are all made from this recording.
Most prints of Bruce Lee's first film The Big Boss are missing several scenes that were in the original Mandarin version shown in theaters in 1971. Whilst some scenes were cut for being violent there are others which were removed strictly for pacing reasons, such as some which were featured in some of the film's trailers. Apparently the uncut version still exists, circulates amongst collectors and was even touted for an official release at one point, but nobody knows for sure.
The Surreal Horror film Paper House is another victim of Lionsgate's apathetic attitude towards 1980s films, but it is available on DVD in the UK.
A modern adaptation of Richard III, produced by and starring David Carradine, has its own wiki article and IMDb page ... but good luck finding anything else about it, let alone a copy, digital or not.
No DVD releases of That Lady in Ermine outside of Europe.
Dragonworld was only released on VHS by Paramount Home Video in the `90s and never released on DVD. It's so obscure, This Very Wiki didn't have a page for it for quite a while. The same goes for all of the Moonbeam titles; current rights holder Full Moon seems to reissue Puppet Master every few years but continues to screw their family-friendly Moonbeam line. It's especially daunting given that Courtland Mead (a.k.a. Gus Griswald) is a main character.
The 1981 Polish arthouse horror flick Possession is rather hard to find, having only been released on an out-of-print DVD by Anchor Bay and a Blu-Ray in the UK by Second Sight (a label that specializes in cult films) in the fall of 2013.
The 1996 HBO film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny has never been released on DVD in Region 1, although a fairly rare Region 2 DVD and an even rarer VHS version do exist. The film stars Alan Rickman in the wonderful scene-chewing titular role. It also features Ian McKellen and Greta Scacchi in solid performances as Nicholas II and Alexandra as well as some excellent cinematography.
Addams Family Reunion, the infamously terrible Pilot Movie for The New Addams Family that starred Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah as Gomez and Morticia (and features some of the most appalling CGI work to see commercial release) has never been released outside of VHS — which, admittedly, can be found for dirt cheap in thrift stores and bookstores that still stock VHS tapes. There was an unofficial release in Brazil, that even put in a box set with the two early-'90s The Addams Family films (which aren't related to Reunion; further, such a release could never happen officially, as the two theatrical movies were Paramount works while Reunion was distributed by Warner Bros.' Family Entertainment division).
The Thorn, formerly known as The Divine Mr. J, is only available as out-of-print videocassettes from Magnum Entertainment due to Bette Midler liking absolutely none of its titles, and we do indeed mean absolutely none.
The infamous 1982 Korean War movie Inchon is only available on bootlegs, another case of an All-Star Cast film going missing in action (it featured Laurence Olivier — this was the film that named the trope Money, Dear Boy when he was asked about why he signed on — as General Douglas MacArthur, shored up by Jacqueline Bisset, David Janssen, and others). A Box Office Bomb comparable to Heaven's Gate, it apparently sucked so much that it was pulled from theaters as fast as it came in, and the production company — which got most of its finances from religious leader Sun Myung Moon — won't even give it the dignity of a home video release. The now-defunct GoodLife TV, which was owned by Moon, played the film a few times, but it has not been seen since. Notably, it is the only Worst Picture Razzie winner to not be available outside of bootlegs.
- However, Jerry Goldsmith's score to the film was popular enough to warrant a few releases (including a special edition CD from Intrada in 2006. This was the second release of the score from the label - the first was an expanded release, the second was a 2-CD set featuring the original album presentation on one disc and the complete score on the other).
Cult director Jim McBride's The Wrong Man, staring Rosanna Arquette and John Lithgow. It received a theatrical release in Europe, while it premiered on Showtime in America. Released once on VHS, never rereleased on dvd and not available on Netflix.
It Came from Hollywood (1982) was a sort of proto-MST3K, with popular comedians from the late '70s and early '80s (Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Cheech and Chong, Gilda Radner) paying tribute both mockingly and lovingly to old B-movies. The one VHS release goes for a minimum of $25 on Amazon, and laserdiscs go for $50. It had a VERY, VERY brief DVD release, the cover of which is easily found online, but finding an actual copy of it generally costs (literally) thousands of dollars.
The theatrical cut of Scary Movie contains some dialogue that makes fun of the relationship between Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow that was cut from all of the home video versions as producer Harvey Weinstein felt that the dialogue towards Paltrow was less humorous and more of an outright attack towards her (since the dialogue referred to her as a 'freak'). To date, the last time a version contained this dialogue was in a late 2000 theatrical reissue (though bootlegs of the rough cut do have the dialogue).
By the Sword, a film about fencing and revenge, and completed in 1991, wasn't released until 1993, where it bombed horribly to a box office of just above $6,000. The film was then released on a VERY limited VHS run, and never released on DVD in the United States. In order to have a copy today, you would have to pay over $45 for a VHS or DVD. It can be found on the internet, however.
The Substitute, a 1993 made for the USA Network film would have been likely forgotten...if not for the fact that it contains the acting debut of Mark Wahlberg (then known as Marky Mark). The film is so obscure that you can't even find it online.
X Games 3-D: The Movie, a film that holds the dubious distinction of having the worst opening^note in the history of Walt Disney Pictures, was never released on DVD or Blu-ray (though a Blu-ray 3-D release was planned) and outside of a few airings on Starz, has basically been MIA since its brief release in 2009. So if you like extreme sports, scour the pay cable listings.
The 2004 TV film Strip Search (starring Glenn Close and Maggie Gyllenhaal and directed by Sidney Lumet) ended up this way due to HBO wanting to avoid controversy over its scathing account of the U.S. post-9/11. Not only was the film heavily cut (Lumet's original cut ran two hours, HBO cut it down to under an hour) but HBO even went out of their way to pull future airings of the film (this stance was later reversed after subscribers complained and a few more airings were scheduled).
If for some insane reason you want to watch the infamous Rocky parody movie Ricky 1, look hard. The DVD release by Televista is actually a bootleg, and VHS copies are obscenely hard to find, though copies have been known to turn up with an even lower price tag than is usual for a hard-to-find title. However, it is on YouTube.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, despite being a box office success and getting Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, has never been released on DVD nor Blu-ray, due to music rights restrictions. Paramount only managed to get the rights for VHS and vinyl soundtrack, making a DVD and Blu-ray release unlikely.
The only way one can be able to view the original version of John Wayne's The Alamo is through the out-of-print VHS and Laserdisc releases from the early-90s and screenings on Turner Classic Movies. DVD and Blu-Ray releases contain the commonly-seen shorter version, which was edited by a half-hour by the film's producer (Wayne's son Michael) only a few weeks after initial release to correspond with city bus schedules. In the meantime, the uncut version has fallen into disrepair and MGM, which owns the negatives, has gone through so many debt issues that there are more important things to do than financing a restoration project.
Timothy Carey's infamous self-directed film The World's Greatest Sinner was never given an official release. The film has been broadcast a few times on TCM, from which bootlegs have circulated.
Sleuth, the original 1972 version starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine has been out of print on Region 1 for some quite time, used DVD's are very expensive
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died is a mild example. It was a film produced and starring Billy Zane based on a script Ed Wood (yes, that Ed Wood) wrote but never filmed. It only ever played at a few film festivals and was not released to the general public. Still, it's fairly easy to find it online now.
Any film starring Rolf Harris is very unlikely to get a home release or re-release after he was charged on child sex offenses.
The non-Three Stooges Columbia short subject comedies not starring Buster Keaton or solo members of The Three Stooges (which have seen DVD releases) are only available through private collectors (and even then, not all the shorts are available).
Karel Zeman's work has been stuck in circulate-the-tapes limbo for a long time, although the recent Czech DVD releases approved by the Zeman family and produced by Prague's Karel Zeman Museum are beginning to change matters some. The English-speaking world still hasn't gotten its own proper DVD releases of most of the films, however.
The House Of The Wolf Man doesn't seem to currently have any legal channels through which it can be watched, other than buying a $50 used DVD off Amazon.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, a George Pal superproduction that was one of only two non-documentary films shot in the specialty Cinerama format, has never had a DVD release. While Turner Classic Movies occasionally airs it, it is shown only in a letterbox format which distorts the wraparound imagery; while other Cinerama documentaries and How the West Was Won have had restorations that include special 'smilebox' formatting to correct this issue, Wonderful World hasn't been so lucky as yet. This is largely due to the original negatives having succumbed to water damage. While those issues could be fixed, it would be prohibitively expensive to do so.
3D films get this a lot in their original versions, unfortunately. For example, the left eye of Spacehunter: Adventure in the Forbidden Zone has never been officially released to the public by itself, only the right eye. Friday the 13th Part III was a bit luckier, though; both the left eye and the right eye have seen release individually in some form.
The original version of Welcome to 18 may never see the light of day again due to JoAnn Willette using an ethnic slur at one point in the film, resulting in many of her scenes being removed from current prints by the copyright holder, Green Griffin, decades later. That she's presently entangled in a copyright dispute with Green Griffin over piracy of that very film only makes it a sure deal.
The original theatrical version of Million Dollar Mystery. Originally created as part of a contest on the part of Gladlock bags, the original cut supposedly featured direct allusions to said contest and clues to where the studio had hidden a cash prize (which turned out to be in the Statue of Liberty's nostrils), complete with rules and regulations at the very end. During the transition to home video, many of those allusions were cut and the ending was even revised. Good luck finding the theatrical version now (the soundtrack album at least came with contest clues).
The original theatrical cut of Highlander II: The Quickening (which featured the infamous origin that the eponymous Highlander was really an alien from the Planet Zeist) has never been released on DVD in the United States, though a Region 2 French DVD of this cut was released. A longer cut released in some foreign countries has never been available on DVD or Blu-Ray; it includes some key footage later reinstated in the Director's Cut, as well as an alternate ending not seen in any other version.
The 1998 film Conquest is nigh-impossible to find online.
Good luck trying to find a copy of Twilight: Los Angeles (a cinematic adaptation, produced for Great Performances, of not just a one-woman show about the Los Angeles Riots of '92 but also a work that caused a minor controversy involving custom titles on This Very Wiki—long story). It was only released once—on VHS, in 2001. With rebroadcasts in 2012 and 2015, you'd think PBS would have the sense to re-release it on DVD by now.
A handful of Robert Altman movies are very difficult to find on video, if not impossible. His extraordinary 1972 horror film Images never got proper theatrical distribution in the U.S. and was long thought lost until MGM printed a DVD of it in 2003 (which is now OOP and very expensive). That's a tremendous success, however, compared to his 1980 satire HEALTH which has never seen a video release of any kind in any country. Also, because of music licensing issues, California Split has never been released on video with its original soundtrack intact, meaning you have to seek out a bootleg of a cable TV airing for that.
Eyes of Fire, an amazing 1983 horror film set in colonial America about a religious splinter cell trekking into the wilderness only to encounter a powerful forest witch, was almost totally ignored during its theatrical run and didn't fare much better when released on VHS in the late 80's by Vestron Video. Aside from a suspicious Brazilian DVD there's been no reprint on video for over 25 years and Lionsgate, the company that bought out Vestron Video's library, has yet to reissue the film in any form.
A number of William Friedkin films have had minimal releases over the years, outside of VHS. His 1987 crime drama Rampage has only received a DVD release in Poland, and the director's cut of Jade only ever saw a VHS release (it is, however, available on Amazon Video and VUDU).
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (#14) is apparently not available on DVD (at least in region 1) because the rights are separate from the rest of the series.
We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll, a documentary by Penelope Spheeris, has never seen a home video release. The reason is entirely due to music rights clearances.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is a short biographical film directed by Todd Haynes unique in that all the people shown in the film are played by Barbie dolls. However, despite being a Cult Classic, it has not seen an official release on DVD or VHS, and was blacklisted from distribution by Richard Carpenter. He sued the creators over the film’s unlicensed usage of his group’s music, and was unflattered by claims the film made (among other things, the movie claimed he went gay). Fortunately, you can see it on YouTube and Vimeo.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba is not available on DVD, Blu-Ray, or any streaming services in most of the world since it's limited VHS release from the late 80s and an out of print MGM DVD release in Spain. But it is occasionally shown on FXM Retro and TCM.
Guest House Paradiso, the film semi-adaptation of Bottom, received a very limited release in America and was never released to home video there. This was likely due to the film being a Box Office Bomb in its native UK, and the series itself being relatively obscure in America (although the show saw an American DVD release in 2005).
Two films produced by Talia Shire's production company in 1986, RAD and Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star have been unavailable on video since at least the early-90s. Rad did pretty well on video and has a passionate fan base; despite a petition to get a DVD release of that film, no efforts have borne such fruit.
The 1986 horror curiosity Spookies has not been released since the days of VHS. Sadly, it looks like this won't change anytime soon, as its producer Michael Lee has apparently fallen off the face of the Earth, leaving the rights in limbo.
Unless it leaks online or is released by a different company or owner, Louis C.K.'s I Love You, Daddy probably won't be seeing the light of day after the New York Times published an article revealing his sexual misconduct allegations that occurred just before its New York premiere and its general release, leading to its distributor cancelling the premiere and ultimately wiping its rights to it altogether.
Flemish movie Misstoestanden was only ever shown in cinemas and has never gotten a home media release, likely due to it being considered one of the worst Flemish movies ever.
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss was released direct-to-video in 1990, and it hasn't been released unedited since. A DVD popped up in 2003 from Artisan as a double-feature with Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil, but only an edited-for-television cut was used for III, containing poorly-dubbed censorship for profanity, as well as cuts and alternate takes used for violence and nudity. The disc is now long out-of-print, not that anyone's really clamoring for that butchered version anyway. The rest of the series is on DVD from Echo Bridge (with Synapse releasing a Blu-ray for the original Prom Night), and can be streamed on Amazon Prime, but for some reason, III remains completely unavailable outside bootleg VHS rips.
The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) has been legally unavailable in English-speaking territories since around 2012. It's actually owned outright by producer Richard P. Rupinstein, who funded a $6 million 3D conversion in 2013 (which has, to date, never seen the light of day), and is reportedly asking any publisher that wants to show or release the film to pay up. It's telling when Scream Factory actually released a collector's edition for the 2004 remake, but not the original. Anchor Bay did release a (sub-par) Blu-ray in 2006, but it is long out-of-print, and going for high prices on eBay. Collectors are otherwise forced to buy one of the Region B releases (from Italy and Germany) or stick with the ancient DVD.
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland only scrounged up a DVD release in Australia, with the only video release in America being the 1995 GoodTimes Entertainment VHS, possibly due to the fact that the film wasn't distributed by a big movie company, but rather a movie theater chain, in this case the Canadian Cineplex Odeon Films. It is available on YouTube, particularly due to Nostalgia Critic reviewing it.
The Oscar, a campy melodrama from 1966 co-written by Harlan Ellison and featuring the only acting performance of Tony Bennett, had a VHS release in the mid-1980s...and that's it. TCM plays the film occasionally, but is forced to use an older pan-and-scan master (unusual for the network). This is very telling of the film's current demand, because for a time, it was included in many 'Worst Films of All Time' lists as well as the Medved brothers' Golden Turkey Awards, but appears to have been overshadowed by more recent films that are a lot worse and more infamous.
Erich von Stroheim's Greed. While the long-lost nine-hour Director's Cut has disappeared from the face of the Earth, so has any home video release of the currently existing versions. A four-hour reconstruction was released on VHS in 1999; this is the last known release on video outside of a possibly legal Region 2 DVD from Spain.
In 1993, actress Susan Hart inherited the rights to 11 films released in the 1950s and 1960s by American International Pictures because she was the widow of AIP co-founder James Nicholson. Most notably, this includes I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, Terror from the Year 5000, The Amazing Colossal Man, and Attack of the The Eye Creatures, and none of them have seen the light of day since. Attempts have been made to license them for television broadcast and DVD/Blu-ray, but Hart notoriously asks for exuberant amounts of money when anyone is interested in utilizing the films for any purpose. They haven't even received new transfers since the late 80s/early 90s, meaning they can't even be bootlegged in decent quality. Some of these films were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 before Hart claimed the rights, and they're among the few episodes from that series not available on DVD because the footage can't be cleared.
The indie film Maradonia and the Shadow Empire was never re-released — neither on DVD nor digitally — after its premiere. Presumably, the creators couldn't find anyone willing to distribute it, and couldn't afford to self-publish it after sinking a lot of money into the film itself and renting out a theater for its premiere. As a result, the only way to watch it is a bootleg screener (complete with a watermark) that someone put online.
The Bigfoot vs. Snake Bite direct-to-video movies released free with some Hot Wheels toys in the early 90's are this. Only Volume 2, The Snake Bites Back, has been uploaded to YouTube (via a very bad transfer from a VHS release) and Volume 1, The Ultimate Battle, is unaccounted for. Then again, it might be an Old Shame for Bigfoot 4x4x4 given how cheesy and terrible they are.
In general, the sooner after theatrical release a film is released on VHS with certain tracks altered for copyright issues, the less likely they are to see a DVD, let alone Blu-ray, release any time soon.
U2 3D is only available for screening at 3D theatres and, even over a decade after its release, is not expected to be released anywhere else any time soon.

Disney Examples

Disney has quite the significant track record of alternative scenes, alternative cuts of films, or entire films never seeing the light of day following their initial release:

Aladdin's original theatrical version remains exclusive to theatrical prints from the original run. The 1993 Walt Disney Classics VHS and 1994 laserdisc dubbed over a body mutilation reference in 'Arabian Nights' that sounded offensive to Arab viewers, so that both the lyrics and the voice sound completely different. Plus, the 2004 Platinum Edition DVD and VHS, and 2015 Diamond Edition Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD versions use a master for a cancelled IMAX re-release. While none of the visual alterations look as distracting as those made for Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King (see below), it does retain the dubbed-over version of 'Arabian Nights'; the Platinum Edition also removed some dialogue that sounded like a Mondegreen asking teenagers to take off their clothes, but it came back for the Diamond Edition.^note
Beauty and the Beast's original theatrical cut has only received an official home video release in 1992, as part of the Walt Disney Classics line, in either Letterbox or Pan and Scan on Laserdisc, and P&S only on VHS. The reissue in 2002 on VHS and DVD under the Platinum Edition series restored the Cut Song 'Human Again' —with the VHS release re-integrating it into the film, and the DVD release provided the option to either add it or keep it cut— and lightened the colors to match the 2002 IMAX rerelease. Among other detractions, this made the Beast visible in shadow when he first appears (the original 1991 cut has the Beast completely concealed in the darkness until he has to reveal himself to Belle at the close of the first act). The Platinum Edition also worked some tweaks made for the IMAX version's soundtrack into both cuts (among other changes, the addition of the sound of the Beast destroying furniture after Belle leaves the castle). The Diamond Edition 2010 Blu-Ray and DVD undid the changes to the original cut's soundtrack, but used a darker version of the new color scheme instead of that from the premiere, and also suffered from a glitch that temporarily shows a bit of the extended version's animation in the 'original' cut. The 3D version has also only come to home video only one time, as a 3D Blu-Ray^* included with some 2011 repackagings of the Diamond Edition combo pack.
- The 1998 direct-to-video sequel Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World consisted originally of three episodes of an unaired Beauty and the Beast animated series. The 2003 'Special Edition' DVD added another episode (previously included on Belle's Tales of Friendship, a direct-to-VHS spinoff of the edutainment show Sing Me a Story With Belle). To the dismay of viewers who'd think Belle's Magical World runs too long with four stories, the shorter version has never received another release since the '98 VHS went out of print. The Special Edition has also become a rarity; its second DVD went out of print in 2012, and Disney hasn't re-released Belle's Magical World since then.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks' 25th Anniversary Edition Recut received a high-definition release as an iTunes digital copy, but it disappeared from the iTunes Store when the US theatrical cut came to Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD. Since the Blu-Ray only presents the movie in its US theatrical cut, the only way to watch the 25th Anniversary Edition in HD would involve contacting someone fortunate enough to have downloaded it from iTunes in time. Fans who can't contact such a person have to settle for one of the Recut's 2000s DVD releases. The Blu-Ray does include the scenes added to the Recut as bonus features, as well as, strangely, a Disney Channel documentary^* about their restoration back into the film.
Fantasia's first VHS and laserdisc release, as a 1991 addition to the Walt Disney Classics collection, marks the only time an official home video release had any of Deems Taylor's original narration for the interstitials intact. For the 60th Anniversary Edition DVD, Disney attempted to restore the interstitials to their original length. However, since they could not find all of Deems Taylor's vocals, they ended up bringing in Corey Burton to dub over him. The documentary included on the Classics release's Special Edition sets, Fantasia: The Making of a Masterpiece, has also never appeared on any other format, due to Disney replacing it with a new documentary on the 60th Anniversary DVD. (This has also become the case for most of the documentaries Disney included on their A-list movies' Laserdiscs and VHS tapes.)
Lady and the Tramp premiered in two different versions: One animated in widescreen (a first for the Disney Animated Canon), for theaters equipped to show movies in CinemaScope, and one animated in 4:3, for theaters that still only showed movies in the Academy Ratio. For the second home video release, as a 1998 addition to the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, some copies contained the Academy version, while others presented the movie in Letterbox. Later reissues offered the movie in either widescreen only, or with a choice between widescreen and Pan and Scan, apparently keeping the Academy version in the Vault for good.
The Lion King also underwent some alterations for its IMAX rerelease and home video reissues. The most easily explainable concerns a sequence where Simba flops down onto some grass, which upon impact emitted dust particles that spelled 'SFX' in the night sky. Some viewers saw the text asa certain other word and decried Disney for what they perceived them to be sneaking subliminal messages past the censors. The IMAX version removed the letters, and made many other changes (such as re-designing some crocodiles and birds in 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King', and re-animating the waterfalls in 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight'). All later home media releases retained these modifications, meaning the only way to see the original scenes is through an original theatrical print or a 1995 Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection laserdisc.^note Additionally, if any kids of the 2000s introduced to TLK through the 2003 Platinum Edition VHS or DVD considered 'The Morning Report' — a number that didn't exist until after Sirs Elton John and Tim Rice added it to the Broadway version — their favorite song, they'd feel disappointed to know that copies from the 2011 Diamond Edition onwards cut it back out of the movie.
Northern Lights, the Disney Channel's first Original Movie back in 1997. Don't expect it to be reaired anytime soon, as they seem to have a low opinion of the film.^note It did get a VHS release...in Canada (from Alliance Communications), but that's long out of print and nigh impossible to track down (it fetches a pretty penny on Amazon). It was up on YouTube for a while, but the channel that posted it was terminated. Still, you can find it elsewhere online but that will require some digging.
Pocahontas had the deleted Final Love Duet 'If I Never Knew You', and a reprise of it, reinstated on its 2005 10th Anniversary Edition DVD. While most reviews, and the directors, praised the emotional resonance these scenes added, the 2012 2-Movie Collection Blu-Ray and DVD cut them out again. Worse, while the Blu-Ray includes 'If I Never Knew You' as a bonus feature, the reprise remains exclusive to the 10th Anniversary Edition DVD. The audio for both scenes did make it onto the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection's 2015 re-release of the Pocahontas soundtrack (timed with the movie's 20th anniversary).
The Rescuers, while otherwise largely complete, has had a minor alteration on most of its home video releases. During Bianca and Bernard's flight across New York City, a topless woman once appeared in the background for a few frames. It was difficult to catch the woman in the theatrical release due to the film's 30-frames-per-second running time, which allowed it to slip by on the big screen. The 1992 VHS and LaserDisc used a censored print of the movie, but somehow the woman re-appeared in copies released in January 1999. After an uproar from eagle-eyed viewers, Disney recalled over three million tapes in a matter of days, and subsequently put out an issue that again removed the woman. This version has appeared in all DVD and Blu-ray releases, meaning the version with the topless woman can only be found in some videotapes and LaserDiscs put out after its 1999 return to stores, but before the recall.
The Santa Clause has a scene in the beginning of the film in which Scott Calvin sarcastically responds to a phone number given to him with the remark '1-800-SPANK-ME', which was actually being used for a phone sex hotline at the time. This scene survives only on the original 1995 VHS and LaserDisc release; following complaints from parents about their children dialing the number and discovering the hotline, Disney changed the phrase in network TV airings to '1-800-POUND', and removed the scene completely in the following DVD/Blu-Ray releases.
Song of the South, since its last theater reissue in 1986, has canonically become Old Shame, so the only recordings you're likely to see are rips of scratchy, faded videocassettes or the Japanese LaserDisc release (possibly with Japanese subtitles on the songs in the case of the former). You can also find British VHS cassettes from when it was on sale in the UK, though it's less likely that A) you'll find one that's in good condition and B) you'll have something to play it on. Some people have seen a bootleg DVD of the film at video game stores that also sell DVDs, typically with a white case and not much of a blurb on the back. It's available online somewhere if you look closely enough. The closest Disney has come to releasing the movie themselves on DVD involves burying some clips on other programs' discs. How dire is the film's situation? The American Experience's two-part biography of Walt Disney, first broadcast in 2015, used clips that had been pre-subjected to PAL speedup, when all other film footage featured was presented at the usual 24 frames per second.
Despite having critical acclaim, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in Richard Farnsworth and directed by David Lynch, The Straight Story has been not seen a Blu-Ray release in the U.S. and Europe, aside from a Japanese release by Paramount, since it's Disney release is out of print on DVD for unknown reasons.
Take Down, the studio's first PG-rated film.^note The copies that are seen on internet stores tend to be obscenely expensive, but that's your only hope of seeing this unknown film. It's quite possible that the situation isn't Disney's fault; it was an independent film that was released on video by another company.

Non Disney Animated Films