Blu-ray Discs
Immerse yourself in a world in which dreams come true and imagination comes to life with razor-sharp clarity. You're experiencing the wonder of Blu-ray, the High Definition entertainment format that will change the movies as you know them. Many of your favourite films are already available on Blu-ray discs, along with incredible interactive features and unprecedented online connectivity. Experience Blu-ray on Playstation 3 or a Blu-ray player - they'll both play your existing DVDs, too. Once you've lived inside your favourite movies on Blu-ray you may never look back...
Below are the rapidly growing line-up of selected titles Alice stocks to showcase this exciting format.
Hamlet (Olivier) ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
7.8/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Eileen Herlie, Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney
A brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare's play about the Danish prince 'who just couldn't make up his mind'. Hauntingly photographed in Elsinore, Denmar... Read more
Bicycle Thieves ( aka The Bicycle Thief ) ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Enzo Staiola, Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell
Aka 'The Bicycle Thief.' Vittorio De Sica's remarkable 1948 drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Oscar fo... Read more
The Red Shoes ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
The Naked City (Blu-ray) (1948)
7.6/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
When a beautiful young model is found dead in her apartment, the police initially suspect it was suicide. But after the coroner discovers it was murde... Read more
Sorry, Wrong Number (Blu-ray) (1948)
7.6/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Ann Richards
Based on the acclaimed radio program this stylized thriller features Barbara Stanwyck in her Oscar nominated performance as the young, rich, bedridden... Read more
La Fuerza Del Destion/Force Of Evil (Blu-ray) (1948)
7.3/10
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Starring: Beatrice Pearson, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Film Noir featuring John Garfield as an attorney who works for a mobster and finds himself caught in a numbers racket scheme that could bankrupt New Y... Read more
Boomerang (Blu-ray + DVD) (1947)
7.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt
The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Read more
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( Blu-ray ) (1947)
8.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Pauline Kael calls this 'one of the strongest of all American movies'. Three Americans strike it rich and greed takes over. With Bogart, Walter Huston... Read more
Black Narcissus ( Blu-ray ) (1947)
8/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: David Farrar, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Sabu
Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in... Read more
Odd Man Out (Blu-ray) (1947)
7.7/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
Atmospheric and suspenseful Carol Reed film with James Mason as an idealistic IRA leader shot and left for dead during a hold-up. From then on he is h... Read more