Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen, Alfred Lutter III. A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Alice Hyatt (played by Ellen Burstyn, who won an Oscar for her performance) is a widowed mother trying to start a singing career while raising a growing son ...

Alice Hyatt is a widowed mother with a growing son. Left penniless after her husband's death, Alice and her son head for Monterrey, where Alice hopes to launch a singing career. After a horrific liaison with her brutish boyfriend, Alice is afforded better treatment by a kindly rancher.

Overview of Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, 1974, directed by Martin Scorsese, with Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, at Turner Classic Movies

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most important representatives of the New German Movement as he was known to film at a frenetic pace. In a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years, Fassbinder completed 40 feature-length films, three short films, two television film series, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, four radio plays and 36 acting roles in his own and others’ films. And yet Fassbinder's most appreciative and respected film was Ali: Fear Eats the Soul which tells the simple story on two people who love one another, and are completely different in age and race. The bigotry and hate that

Cleaner Emmi loves immigrant Ali, 20 years her junior – to the chagrin of 1970s Munich – in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-rending and extremely prescient drama