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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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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October 23rd, 2025 | Films to Die For | Self - Interviewee | TBD | |
September 11th, 2025 | La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione | TBD | 7 | |
September 2nd, 2025 | The Ozu Diaries | Self | TBD | |
August 11th, 2025 | Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende | Self | 8 | |
May 5th, 2025 | The Keys to Freedom | Wim Wenders | TBD | |
July 16th, 2024 | Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days' | Self | TBD | |
October 5th, 2023 | Room 999 | Self | 5.6 | |
June 12th, 2023 | Cannes Uncut | Self | 6.2 | |
October 27th, 2022 | Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | Self | 7.9 | |
September 28th, 2022 | CAN and Me | Self | 6 | |
September 25th, 2022 | Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary | Self | TBD | |
September 3rd, 2022 | From Our Side | TBD | 5.5 | |
September 1st, 2022 | Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors | Self | TBD | |
August 12th, 2022 | Film: The Living Record of Our Memory | Self | 7.8 | |
July 14th, 2022 | Die 2050er - Everything will change | TBD | 6.4 | |
October 20th, 2021 | Why Are We (Not) Creative? | Self | 6 | |
August 26th, 2021 | Now | Self | 8.8 | |
February 24th, 2021 | A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner | Self | 8.5 | |
December 12th, 2020 | High Maintenance | Self | 6.4 | |
December 10th, 2020 | Good Morning, the Wind Blows | Himself | TBD | |
July 16th, 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self | 7.7 | |
April 30th, 2020 | Veränderung | Self | TBD | |
September 19th, 2019 | Zeroville | Larry | 5.1 | |
February 12th, 2019 | Paul Auster: What If | Self - Filmmaker | 6 | |
November 8th, 2018 | Beyond the Bolex | Self | 7 | |
September 20th, 2018 | Living the Light: Robby Müller | Self | 6.7 | |
September 7th, 2018 | Why Are We Creative? | Self | 7.6 | |
May 18th, 2018 | Pope Francis: A Man of His Word | Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
April 17th, 2018 | Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders | Self - filmmaker | TBD | |
October 29th, 2017 | Plankton Salesmen | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
April 27th, 2017 | Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life | Self | 5.2 | |
April 6th, 2017 | The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov | Self | 3.4 | |
November 3rd, 2016 | Along for the Ride | Self | 7 | |
June 29th, 2016 | Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider | Self | 5.8 | |
May 31st, 2016 | Three for the Road | Self | TBD | |
December 1st, 2015 | A Weekend at the Beach | Self | TBD | |
October 21st, 2015 | Filmstudio, mon amour | Sé stesso | 10 | |
August 25th, 2015 | Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain | Self | TBD | |
July 6th, 2015 | French Cinema Mon Amour | Self | 5.2 | |
July 3rd, 2015 | Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany | Self | TBD | |
May 20th, 2015 | The Legend of the Palme d'Or | Self | 6 | |
February 13th, 2015 | Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen | Self | 7 | |
February 3rd, 2015 | Restoring Time | Self | TBD | |
August 29th, 2014 | The Salt of the Earth | Self | 8.1 | |
July 27th, 2014 | Henri Langlois vu par... | Self | 4 | |
September 11th, 2013 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Self | 6.9 | |
August 28th, 2013 | A Fuller Life | Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears") | 6.6 | |
October 10th, 2012 | Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas | Self | 7 | |
September 30th, 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 9.5 | |
April 27th, 2012 | BAM150 | Self | TBD | |
October 27th, 2011 | Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard | Self | 7.5 | |
May 4th, 2011 | Hitler in Hollywood | Wim Wenders | 6.2 | |
May 1st, 2011 | Zwischen den Zeiten | TBD | TBD | |
April 16th, 2011 | Viaggio in Bergmania | Self | 7 | |
April 7th, 2011 | Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter | Self | 5.5 | |
February 11th, 2011 | Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland | TBD | TBD | |
November 11th, 2010 | Snowblind | Gray Fox | 4.4 | |
May 1st, 2010 | Cronología | TBD | TBD | |
October 16th, 2009 | What Do You Know About Me | Self | 7 | |
October 29th, 2008 | Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada | Self | 6 | |
July 3rd, 2008 | Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte | Self | 6.3 | |
March 1st, 2008 | Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years | Self | 6 | |
February 14th, 2008 | Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers | Self | 6.7 | |
February 2nd, 2008 | Back to Room 666 | Self | 5.5 | |
January 24th, 2008 | One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years | Self | 7 | |
October 27th, 2007 | Cannes: All Access | Self | 3.8 | |
May 25th, 2006 | The Art of Football from A to Z | Self | 4.8 | |
March 14th, 2006 | Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski | Self | 8.5 | |
September 4th, 2004 | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen | Self | 6.5 | |
May 1st, 2004 | Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments | Self | 8.3 | |
January 1st, 2004 | La torcedura | TBD | 7 | |
July 1st, 2003 | Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us | Self | 8.3 | |
February 10th, 2003 | Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) | Self | 6.7 | |
July 2nd, 2002 | Fassbinder in Hollywood | Self | 6.1 | |
May 18th, 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona") | 6.9 | |
October 20th, 2001 | Janela da Alma | Self | 6.9 | |
February 9th, 2000 | The Million Dollar Hotel | TBD | 5.9 | |
January 1st, 2000 | FreeDogme | himself | 4 | |
December 31st, 1998 | Alekan le magnifique | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 1997 | Tango Berlin | TBD | 7 | |
December 8th, 1996 | Love in Hollywood | Self | 10 | |
November 28th, 1995 | A Trick of the Light | Regisseur / Milchmann | 6.1 | |
September 2nd, 1995 | To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited) | 7 | |
February 12th, 1995 | The Night of the Filmmakers | Self | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1995 | In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders | Self | 10 | |
November 11th, 1994 | Kleiner Mann ganz groß | Self | 9 | |
January 1st, 1994 | Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait | Self | 7 | |
December 30th, 1993 | Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring | Santa Claus | 6.6 | |
November 27th, 1993 | Talking with Ozu | Self | 6.5 | |
August 10th, 1993 | Without Me | Himself | 9 | |
May 1st, 1991 | Dream Island | TBD | 8 | |
December 31st, 1990 | Wim Wenders in Tokyo | Self | TBD | |
April 25th, 1990 | Pictures of Europe | Self | TBD | |
April 25th, 1990 | Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' | Self | TBD | |
April 25th, 1990 | Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders | Self | 8 | |
December 20th, 1989 | Notebook on Cities and Clothes | Self | 6.4 | |
March 1st, 1989 | The Heart and the Legs | Self | TBD | |
August 4th, 1988 | Alekan, la lumière | Self | TBD | |
November 13th, 1987 | Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Gas Station Attendant | 5.9 | |
April 26th, 1985 | King Kongs Faust | Regisseur | 8 | |
February 24th, 1985 | Room 666 | Self | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1985 | Report from Hollywood | TBD | 7 | |
May 13th, 1984 | Tausend Augen | Dieb im Videoladen | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1984 | De droomproducenten | Self | 10 | |
January 1st, 1983 | Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act | Himself | TBD | |
September 15th, 1982 | Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 | Self | 7 | |
June 7th, 1982 | Cinématon XXII | N°212 | TBD | |
June 7th, 1982 | Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders | TBD | TBD | |
March 22nd, 1982 | The State of Things | Tram Passenger (uncredited) | 6.4 | |
October 1st, 1980 | Lightning Over Water | Self | 6.7 | |
December 20th, 1978 | Cinématon | N°212 | 4.9 | |
November 17th, 1978 | Long Shot | Another Director | 9 | |
June 24th, 1977 | The American Friend | Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited) | 7.1 | |
December 2nd, 1976 | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self | TBD | |
March 4th, 1976 | Kings of the Road | Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited) | 7.4 | |
November 5th, 1975 | The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick | Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited) | 5.9 | |
March 14th, 1975 | Wrong Move | Man in Dining Car (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
May 17th, 1974 | Alice in the Cities | Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited) | 7.7 | |
June 2nd, 1972 | Summer in the City | Billardspieler (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
November 17th, 1969 | 3 American LPs | TBD | 5.3 | |
September 29th, 1968 | Love and So Forth | Student | 10 | |
May 1st, 1968 | Candy Man | TBD | 7 |