Featured Acquisitions
Here you will be exposed to many films that are new or unique to Alice, or are the notable re-releases of VHS catalogue films. To earn their shelfspace, they must have demonstrated cinematic longevity, be exceptionally rare, of great interest to central control or have outstanding production values. All may be hired on a weekly basis.
Woman of the world (1963)
Starring: Belinda Lee, Peter Ustinov
From love in the streets of Paris to death on the African plain, the acclaimed MONDO CANE masters turn their unflinching eye on all the things never b... Read more
Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
Director: Jindrich Polak
Starring: Zdenek Stepanek, Frantisek Smolik, Radovan Lukavsky
The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the universe to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri. Read more
Judex (DVD & Blu-ray Zone A) (1963)
7.1/10
Director: Georges Franju
Starring: Edith Scob, Sylva Koscina
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, an... Read more
Edge Of Eternity (Blu-ray) (1959)
6.4/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam
In the 1950s, Arizona Deputy Sheriff Les Martin is pressured by his community to solve a string of mysterious murders around a mining ghost town in th... Read more
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (Blu-ray) (1956)
6.4/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Michael Pate
Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii... Read more
The Rains Of Ranchipur (Blu-ray) (1955)
5.8/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from... Read more
Conquest Of Space (Blu-ray) (1955)
5.6/10
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Redfield, William Hoppe...
An American-led team of International astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get i... Read more
The Conquest Of Everest (1953)
7.1/10
Director: George Lowe
Starring: Meredith Edwards
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach... Read more
Five (Blu-ray) (1951)
6.3/10
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. Read more
The Queen of Spades (1949)
7.3/10
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fan... Read more