Theo's Favourites
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We all love cinema, that's why we're here at Alice. Here are some of my favourites you'll find on our shelves.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
8.2/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann...
Epic story of British prisoners of war held by the Japanese, combines psychological battles of will with gripping action. Winner of seven Oscars inclu... Read more
Psycho (1960)
8.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Hitchcock's most famous movie, the shocker that still keeps people away from showers. Janet Leigh is a woman on the run who befriends mother's boy mot... Read more
When We Were Kings (1996)
8/10
Director: Leon Gast
Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown
Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 heavyweight championship fight that suddenly turned Zaire into the temporary sports a... Read more
Three Colours: Blue (1993)
8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Florence Pernel, Benoit Regent
After losing her family in a tragic accident Juliette Binoche decides to radically change her life; she leaves behind any memories of her husband, a r... Read more
Dunkirk (2017)
8/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy
In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces... Read more
Groundhog Day (1993)
8/10
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Pittsburgh weatherman Bill Murray finds that his worst nightmare has become a reality when he joins producer Andie McDowell and cameraman Chris Elliot... Read more
Sunrise (1927)
8.2/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Aka "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". This exquisite silent film is just as powerful today as when it was made, telling the simple story of a farmer wh... Read more
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
8.3/10
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idl...
King Arthur meets Monty Python in this irreverent, insane, funny film with Graham Chapman as King Arthur convening his knights to seek the Holy Grail.... Read more
Goldfinger (1964)
7.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Honor Blackman, Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton, Gert Frobe, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwe...
In one of the most popular Bond adventures, 007 must foil Goldfinger - the man with the plan to irradiate Fort Knox and corner the world's gold market... Read more
Die Hard (1988)
8.2/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
Terrorists seize an L.A. skyscraper and hold everyone inside prisoner...except for New York cop Bruce Willis, whose estranged wife is among the hostag... Read more