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.
122 movies · 34 shows
Films to Die For
2025·0.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025·7.0
The Ozu Diaries
2025·0.0
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025·6.0
The Keys to Freedom
2025·0.0
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024·0.0
Room 999
2023·5.6
Cannes Uncut
2023·5.3
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022·7.9
CAN and Me
2022·6.0
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022·0.0
From Our Side
2022·5.5
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022·0.0
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022·7.8
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022·6.4
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021·6.0
Now
2021·8.8
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021·8.5
High Maintenance
2020·6.4
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020·0.0
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020·7.7
Veränderung
2020·0.0
Zeroville
2019·5.0
Paul Auster: What If
2019·6.0
Beyond the Bolex
2018·7.0
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018·6.7
Why Are We Creative?
2018·7.5
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018·7.2
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018·0.0
Plankton Salesmen
2017·0.0
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017·5.2
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017·3.4
Along for the Ride
2016·7.0
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016·5.8
Three for the Road
2016·0.0
A Weekend at the Beach
2015·0.0
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015·10.0
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015·0.0
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015·5.2
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015·0.0
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015·6.0
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015·7.0
Restoring Time
2015·0.0
The Salt of the Earth
2014·8.1
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014·4.0
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013·6.9
A Fuller Life
2013·6.6
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012·7.0
Close Up
2012·9.5
BAM150
2012·0.0
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011·7.5
Hitler in Hollywood
2011·6.2
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011·0.0
Viaggio in Bergmania
2011·7.0
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011·5.5
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011·0.0
Snowblind
2010·4.4
Cronología
2010·0.0
What Do You Know About Me
2009·7.0
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008·6.0
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008·6.3
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008·6.0
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008·6.7
Back to Room 666
2008·5.5
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008·7.0
Cannes: All Access
2007·3.2
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006·4.8
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006·8.5
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004·6.5
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004·8.3
La torcedura
2004·7.0
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003·8.3
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003·6.7
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002·6.1
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002·6.9
Janela da Alma
2001·6.9
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000·5.9
FreeDogme
2000·4.0
Alekan le magnifique
1998·0.0
Tango Berlin
1997·7.0
Love in Hollywood
1996·10.0
A Trick of the Light
1995·6.2
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995·7.0
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995·6.3
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995·10.0
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994·9.0
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994·7.0
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993·6.6
Talking with Ozu
1993·6.5
Without Me
1993·9.0
Dream Island
1991·8.0
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990·7.0
Pictures of Europe
1990·0.0
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990·0.0
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990·8.0
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989·6.4
The Heart and the Legs
1989·0.0
Alekan, la lumière
1988·0.0
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987·5.9
King Kongs Faust
1985·8.0
Room 666
1985·6.6
Report from Hollywood
1985·7.0
Tausend Augen
1984·6.2
De droomproducenten
1984·10.0
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983·0.0
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982·7.0
Cinématon XXII
1982·0.0
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982·0.0
The State of Things
1982·6.4
Lightning Over Water
1980·6.7
Cinématon
1978·4.9
Long Shot
1978·9.0
The American Friend
1977·7.1
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976·0.0
Kings of the Road
1976·7.4
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975·5.9
Wrong Move
1975·6.7
Alice in the Cities
1974·7.7
Summer in the City
1972·6.1
3 American LPs
1969·5.3
Love and So Forth
1968·10.0
Candy Man
1968·7.0