New @ Alice
To try to do justice to the avalanche of interesting finds, documentaries, curios and plain old good and great films arriving daily, Alice has split new additions into Recent Arrivals (3 Day Hire), Featured Acquisitions (7 Day Hire) , New TV to DVD (7 Day Hire) . This is designed to spotlight these offerings before they find their final resting place among Alice's eclectic permanent collection.
We trust these features be some help in your quest to ferret out a gem or three - and ultimately guide you towards expansion of your cinematic horizons and filmic enlightenment....
Dances With Wolves (Blu-Ray) (1990)
8/10
Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Graham Greene, Jimmy Herman, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Tantoo Cardinal, Wes...
A Civil War soldier develops a relationship with a band of Lakota Indians. Attracted by the simplicity of their lifestyle, he chooses to leave his for... Read more
The Magistrate (1989)
5.9/10
Starring: Franco Nero, Catherine Wilkin, Steve Bastoni, Andy Anderson
Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crim... Read more
Paganini (1989)
5.1/10
Director: Klaus Kinski
Starring: Klaus Kinski
A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini. Read more
My Twentieth Century (1989)
7.1/10
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of... Read more
For All Mankind (1989)
8.2/10
Director: Al Reinert
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of 'landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to th... Read more
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Aleksei German
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-... Read more
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.2/10
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Dominique Pinon
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the ca... Read more
Willow (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, Jean Marsh
From a story by George Lucas comes this epic fantasy-adventure in which Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a little person, is entrusted with delivering a... Read more
The Serpent and the Rainbow (Blu-Ray) (1988)
6.5/10
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Michael Gough, Paul Winfield, Zakes Mokae, Dey Young,...
In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used i... Read more
Working Girl (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver
Melanie Griffith shines as a Staten Island secretary looking to better her position in a Manhattan brokerage firm. When her snooty boss Sigourney Weav... Read more