Wim Wenders
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.
73 directing credits · 156 acting credits
Directing · 73
Perfect Days
2023
Paris, Texas
1984
The Blues
2003
Wings of Desire
1987
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Until the End of the World
1991
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002
The Salt of the Earth
2014
The American Friend
1977
Submergence
2018
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
Alice in the Cities
1974
Lumière & Company
1995
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Pina
2011
The End of Violence
1997
Buena Vista Social Club
1999
Wrong Move
1975
Faraway, So Close!
1993
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
8
2008
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018
Ein Haus für uns
1974
Lisbon Story
1994
Tokyo-Ga
1985
Kings of the Road
1976
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
Anselm
2023
Room 666
1985
Hammett
1982
Land of Plenty
2004
Palermo Shooting
2008
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989
One Morning All Over the World
2000
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Some Body Comes Into the Light
2023
The Scarlet Letter
1973
A Trick of the Light
1995
The Soul of a Man
2003
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975
Cathedrals of Culture
2014
Cinéma cinémas
1982
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969
The State of Things
1982
Lightning Over Water
1980
Same Player Shoots Again
1968
Silver City Revisited
1969
Invisible World
2013
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020
Summer in the City
1972
Il Volo
2010
Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1998
Invisibles
2007
From the Family of Reptiles
1974
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Das Geheimnis der Orte
—
Invisible Crimes
2007
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993
The Island
1974
Kaspar Hauser
1969
Klappenfilm
1968
The Keys to Freedom
2025
3 American LPs
1969
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
Présence
2022
Victor I.
1968
Polizeifilm
1969
The Berlin Philharmonic
2014
Veränderung
2020
Ver ou Não Ver
2012
Schauplätze
1967
If Buildings Could Talk
2010
Acting · 156
ZIBB
2003
Volle Kanne
1999
Morgenmagazin
1992
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
Kölner Treff
1976
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Riverboat
1992
Bambi
1948
Nachtcafé
1987
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
German Film Award
1951
Goldene Kamera
1984
Kulturplatz
2004
Sabine Christiansen
1998
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Im Dialog
1997
Wortwechsel
1982
Nachtstudio
1997
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Westpol
2010
Menschen
1982
Schawinski
2011
Im Palais
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
German Genius
2023
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1998
Dickes B
2007
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
Close Up
2012
The Salt of the Earth
2014
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
The American Friend
1977
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Zeroville
2019
Janela da Alma
2001
Plankton Salesmen
2017
Alice in the Cities
1974
Wrong Move
1975
Directors Talks
2023
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Kings of the Road
1976
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006
Cannes: All Access
2007
Why Are We Creative?
2018
Room 666
1985
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008
Room 999
2023
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Cinématon
1978
Cannes Uncut
2023
Talking with Ozu
1993
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989
What Do You Know About Me
2009
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
A Fuller Life
2013
FreeDogme
2000
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Pictures of Europe
1990
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015
A Trick of the Light
1995
Long Shot
1978
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Along for the Ride
2016
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Paul Auster: What If
2019
King Kongs Faust
1985
Tausend Augen
1984
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The State of Things
1982
Back to Room 666
2008
Lightning Over Water
1980
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Now
2021
De droomproducenten
1984
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
BAM150
2012
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018
Summer in the City
1972
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022
CAN and Me
2022
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
Without Me
1993
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
Snowblind
2010
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Love and So Forth
1968
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
Viaggio in Bergmania
2011
Love in Hollywood
1996
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024
High Maintenance
2020
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012
Alekan, la lumière
1988
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015
Films to Die For
2025
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
The Keys to Freedom
2025
3 American LPs
1969
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
La torcedura
2004
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
Three for the Road
2016
The Heart and the Legs
1989
Dream Island
1991
Report from Hollywood
1985
Veränderung
2020
A Weekend at the Beach
2015
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015
Cronología
2010
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008
Restoring Time
2015
Alekan le magnifique
1998
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
Candy Man
1968
Tango Berlin
1997
From Our Side
2022
Cinématon XXII
1982
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982