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....
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
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma
A popular actress (perennial Almodovar favourite, Carmen Maura) is driven to distraction when her lover leaves for another woman. She's certain she ca... Read more
The Princess Bride (1987)
8.1/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Wal...
A very special, engaging fairy-tale comedy which mixes romance, magic and swashbuckling action as told to a young boy by his grandfather (Peter Falk).... Read more
Monte Carlo (1986)
5.5/10
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton, Robert Carradine,...
A two-part mini-series set on the eve of World War II in Monte Carlo and focusing on the adventures and love-life of Katrina Petrovna (Dame Joan Colli... Read more
The Green Ray ( aka Summer ) (1986)
7.9/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand
A sensitive young woman searches for companionship and her ideal man on her summer holiday. Perfectly capturing the season - charming, intelligent and... Read more
Labyrinth ( Blu-ray ) (1986)
7.4/10
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Thompson, Toby Froud
Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) wished her baby brother would be taken away by goblins, and now her wish has come true. Jareth (David Bowie), the Goblin Kin... Read more