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Arthur Penn's haunting neonoir Night Moves reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s.

In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress's missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp.

Bolstered by Alan Sharp's genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen's elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema-a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.

With a new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, Night Moves is released on Blu-ray and 4K UHD 28th April 2025 from Spirit Entertainment as part of the Criterion Collection.

Special Features

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential
  • New audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren
  • Interview with director Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase
  • Interview with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
  • The Day of the Director, a behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • An essay by critic Mark Harris
  • New cover by Greg Manchess