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....
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 16-18) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 13-15) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 10-12) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 7-9) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
Detective Montalbano (Episodes 21-22) (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more
L'Humanite (Blu-ray) (1999)
6.8/10
Director: Bruno Dumont
Starring: Emmanuel Schotte, Severine Caneele
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because... Read more
Minette Walters: The Scold's Bridle (1998)
7.5/10
Director: David Thacker
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Bob Peck, Virginia McKenna
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle. Read more
Minette Walters: The Echo (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Joely Richardson, Clive Owen
Mike Deacon, a tough, lone-wolf reporter discovers that things are not quite what they seem when a tramp is found dead in the garage of a beautiful wo... Read more
What Dreams May Come (Blu-ray) (1998)
7/10
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr, Max von Sydow, Robin Williams
This stunning achievement in visual effects follows a man's literal journey through heaven and hell in an attempt to be reunited with his wife in the... Read more
Buffalo 66 (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Vincent Gallo
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Christina Ricci, Jan-Michael Vincent, Mickey Rourk...
Billy (Vincent Gallo) is released after five years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Hell-bent on convincing his dysfunctional parents (Angelica... Read more