Alice in the Cities

Alice in den Städten (original)

7.9

/10

1h 50mDrama Travel

The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and luminously shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the United States to research an article; it’s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer)—whom he has just met—leaves the child in his care. Though they initially find themselves at odds, the pair begin to form an unlikely friendship.

Spoken language: de

Starring Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm, Sam Presti, Lois Moran, Didi Petrikat, Hans Hirschmüller, Sibylle Baier

Watch "Alice in the Cities" from streaming services Vudu, Google Play, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1974. It's a drama and travel movie, and has a rating of 7.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.