If you loved Paris, Texas, try Alice in the Cities

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Alice in the Cities has roughly 6.5× fewer votes than Paris, Texas — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Paris, Texas

1984 · dir. Wim Wenders

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Alice in the Cities

1974 · dir. Wim Wenders

What they share

Both films are directed by Wim Wenders, and they both carry the bittersweet, slow burn, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Paris, Texas, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Alice in the Cities is

German writer's block meets road movie when a stranded journalist inherits a nine-year-old girl with a Polaroid camera and no shared language. Their uneasy cross-country search for the girl's grandmother becomes a quiet portrait of responsibility. A deadpan West German road trip.

If you loved Paris, Texas, try Alice in the Cities

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What they share

What Alice in the Cities is

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