Wim Wenders
Known for: Directing
Born: August 14, 1945
Place of birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018). Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wim Wenders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
230 movies · 38 TV shows, newest first
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From Inside Out - The Architecture of Peter Zumthor
2026
4.2
I'll Be Gone in June
2026NR
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
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Films to Die For
2025
7.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
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The Ozu Diaries
2025
6.0
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
6.0
The Keys to Freedom
2025
6.7
From Darkness to Light
2025NR
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024
7.8
Perfect Days
2023
5.2
Some Body Comes Into the Light
2023
5.9
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023
6.6
Anselm
2023
5.8
Room 999
2023
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Directors Talks
2023
6.5
An Endless Sunday
2023
7.3
Songs of Earth
2023
5.4
Cannes Uncut
2023
5.5
German Genius
2023
7.6
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
6.0
CAN and Me
2022
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Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022
5.7
From Our Side
2022
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Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
7.8
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
6.1
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
6.3
Roving Woman
2022NR
Présence
2022
6.0
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
5.8
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
6.6
Souad
2021
8.8
Now
2021
8.0
Reality Winner
2021
8.5
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
202110.0
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
6.4
High Maintenance
2020
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Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
8.0
A Black Jesus
2020
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
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Veränderung
2020
7.7
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020
5.0
Zeroville
2019
5.8
Waiting for the Miracle to Come
2019
6.0
Paul Auster: What If
2019
7.0
Beyond the Bolex
2018
6.7
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018
7.5
Why Are We Creative?
2018
7.5
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018NR
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
8.1
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018
7.2
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018
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Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018
7.0
Little Hands
2018
5.5
Submergence
2018
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Plankton Salesmen
2017
7.3
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
2017
5.2
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
3.4
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017
7.0
Along for the Ride
2016
4.4
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
6.7
National Bird
2016
5.8
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
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Three for the Road
2016
6.0
Our Last Tango
2015
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A Weekend at the Beach
2015
10.0
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
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Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015
5.2
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
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Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015
6.0
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
5.4
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
7.0
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015
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Restoring Time
2015
8.1
The Salt of the Earth
2014
5.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
5.7
Cathedrals of Culture
2014NR
Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison
2014NR
The Berlin Philharmonic
2014
6.9
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.6
A Fuller Life
2013
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Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
2013
5.8
Invisible World
2013NR
Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico
2013NR
Ver ou Não Ver
2012
7.1
Stories We Tell
2012
7.0
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012
9.5
Close Up
2012
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Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit
2012
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BAM150
2012
7.5
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011NR
Schawinski
2011
6.2
Hitler in Hollywood
2011NR
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011
7.0
Viaggio in Bergmania
2011
5.5
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
7.4
Pina
2011NR
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
4.4
Snowblind
2010NR
If Buildings Could Talk
2010NR
Cronología
2010
5.8
Au Revoir Taipei
2010
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Il Volo
2010NR
Westpol
2010
7.0
What Do You Know About Me
2009NR
Passage
2009
5.2
The Open Road
2009
6.1
Palermo Shooting
2008
6.0
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008
5.4
8
2008
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Person to Person
2008
5.9
The Clone Returns Home
20086.3
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008
6.0
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008
6.7
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
20085.5
Back to Room 666
2008
7.0
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008NR
Dickes B
2007
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
3.2
Cannes: All Access
2007
5.0
Invisibles
2007
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Invisible Crimes
2007
6.5
The House Is Burning
2006
5.8
The Way I Spent the End of the World
2006
4.8
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006
8.5
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006
6.2
Don't Come Knocking
2005
5.3
Egoshooter
2005
6.2
Land of Plenty
2004
6.5
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
6.0
Kulturplatz
2004
7.3
Música Cubana
2004NR
Im Palais
2004
8.3
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
7.0
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
4.5
Half the Rent
20047.0
La torcedura
20047.0
ZIBB
2003
7.4
The Blues
2003
5.7
Fools
2003
8.3
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
6.6
The Soul of a Man
2003
6.7
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
20039.0
Fools
2003
6.4
June Moon
2002
6.1
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
6.9
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
4.9
Three Days of Rain
2002
6.5
BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002
6.9
Janela da Alma
2001
5.9
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
4.0
FreeDogme
20008.0
In the Shadow of Hollywood
20004.4
Volle Kanne
1999
7.5
Buena Vista Social Club
1999
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Alekan le magnifique
19987.0
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1998
6.8
City of Angels
19987.5
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
199810.0
Sabine Christiansen
1998
10.0
Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1998
5.4
The End of Violence
1997NR
Nachtstudio
19978.0
Go for Gold!
1997NR
Im Dialog
19977.0
Tango Berlin
1997
10.0
Love in Hollywood
1996
6.3
Lumière & Company
1995
7.3
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.2
A Trick of the Light
1995
6.2
Beyond the Clouds
1995
7.0
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
6.3
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
10.0
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995
7.2
Lisbon Story
1994
9.0
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994
7.0
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
6.6
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993
6.5
Talking with Ozu
19937.0
Adamski
1993
7.0
Faraway, So Close!
19939.0
Without Me
1993
6.5
The Absence
1993
5.3
Morgenmagazin
1992
5.2
Riverboat
1992
6.7
Until the End of the World
19918.0
Dream Island
1991
7.0
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
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Pictures of Europe
1990
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Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990
8.0
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
6.0
Speaking Parts
1990
6.3
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989NR
The Heart and the Legs
1989
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Alekan, la lumière
1988
6.9
Chocolat
1988
6.2
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988
7.5
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
1987
5.9
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987
7.8
Wings of Desire
1987
5.2
Iron Earth, Copper Sky
1987NR
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
4.7
Nachtcafé
19877.0
I Played It for You
1985
8.0
King Kongs Faust
1985
7.1
Tokyo-Ga
1985
6.6
Room 666
19857.0
Report from Hollywood
1985
8.1
Paris, Texas
1984
6.2
Tausend Augen
19845.7
Goldene Kamera
1984
10.0
De droomproducenten
1984
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Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983
7.0
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
6.2
Hammett
1982NR
Cinématon XXII
1982
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Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982
6.4
The State of Things
19826.5
Cinéma cinémas
19826.0
Menschen
1982NR
Wortwechsel
1982
6.6
Lightning Over Water
1980
7.5
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980NR
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
5.9
Radio On
1979
6.0
...als Diesel geboren
1979NR
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
1979
4.9
Cinématon
1978
9.0
Long Shot
1978
6.9
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
7.1
The American Friend
1977
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
7.4
Kings of the Road
1976
6.8
Kölner Treff
1976
5.9
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975
6.7
Wrong Move
1975
9.0
Midi Première
1975
8.0
Ein bißchen Liebe
1974
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
7.0
From the Family of Reptiles
1974
7.0
The Island
1974
7.7
Alice in the Cities
19744.5
Ein Haus für uns
1974
5.4
The Scarlet Letter
1973
6.1
Summer in the City
1972
5.3
3 American LPs
1969
5.8
Polizeifilm
1969NR
Am Spätnachmittag des folgenden Tages erwachte Joe in einem billigen Hotelzimmer - Andy schläft noch ...
1969
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Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei
19699.0
Ten Years After
1969
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Kaspar Hauser
19698.0
Der Fall Lena Christ
1969
5.8
Silver City Revisited
1969
6.2
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969
6.0
Same Player Shoots Again
1968
10.0
Love and So Forth
19687.0
Candy Man
196810.0
Klappenfilm
19688.0
Victor I.
1968
7.0
Schauplätze
19676.0
German Film Award
1951
9.0
Bambi
1948NR
Sound of Ice
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Return to Timbuktu
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Echoes of Light
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