
Wim Wenders
Known for: Directing
Born: August 14, 1945
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…
Known for

Lightning Over Water
1980

Room 999
2023
Dream Island
1991
Tango Berlin
1997
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989
Report from Hollywood
1985

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008

From Our Side
2022

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Back to Room 666
2008

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015

Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976

Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008

Restoring Time
2015

Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990

Three for the Road
2016

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Veränderung
2020

Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024

The Keys to Freedom
2025

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025

In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995

Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018

Films to Die For
2025
Candy Man
1968
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011

Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002

The Salt of the Earth
2014

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022

3 American LPs
1969

Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018

Viaggio in Bergmania
2011

Beyond the Bolex
2018

The Ozu Diaries
2025

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Cronología
2010

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983
Cinématon XXII
1982

Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020

A Weekend at the Beach
2015

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004

CAN and Me
2022

BAM150
2012

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
The Heart and the Legs
1989

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990

Alekan, la lumière
1988

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021

High Maintenance
2020

Janela da Alma
2001
La torcedura
2004

Cannes Uncut
2023

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015

A Fuller Life
2013

FreeDogme
2000

Alekan le magnifique
1998

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011

Talking with Ozu
1993

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003

Snowblind
2010

Long Shot
1978

Pictures of Europe
1990

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008

Paul Auster: What If
2019

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008

Kings of the Road
1976
Without Me
1993

Hitler in Hollywood
2011

Summer in the City
1972

A Trick of the Light
1995

De droomproducenten
1984

The Night of the Filmmakers
1995

Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021

Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994

Love and So Forth
1968

Wrong Move
1975

Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011

Now
2021

What Do You Know About Me
2009

Tausend Augen
1984

Why Are We Creative?
2018

King Kongs Faust
1985

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002

French Cinema Mon Amour
2015

Room 666
1985

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995

Cannes: All Access
2007

Love in Hollywood
1996

Filmstudio, mon amour
2015

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008

Alice in the Cities
1974

Along for the Ride
2016

The State of Things
1982

The Art of Football from A to Z
2006

The American Friend
1977

The Million Dollar Hotel
2000

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975

Zeroville
2019

Close Up
2012

Plankton Salesmen
2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

Cinématon
1978
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1998

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995

Leçon de Cinéma
2004

Spécial cinéma
1974
German Film Award
1951
Goldene Kamera
1984

Bambi
1948
Schawinski
2011
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Volle Kanne
1999

Riverboat
1992
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998

Kölner Treff
1976

Midi Première
1975

Nachtcafé
1987
Sabine Christiansen
1998

NDR Talk Show
1979
Wortwechsel
1982

Kulturplatz
2004
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
Nachtstudio
1997

Directors Talks
2023
Menschen
1982
Im Palais
2004
Dickes B
2007
Im Dialog
1997
Westpol
2010
ZIBB
2003

German Genius
2023
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020

Morgenmagazin
1992
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026