Cast: Wim Wenders

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Wim Wenders. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2012 · Documentary · 77 min. · Switzerland

Direction Sophie Huber

Cast Harry Dean Stanton · David Lynch · Sam Shepard · Kris Kristofferson

Plot HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking...

7.5

314 votes

7.5

314 votes

Janela da Alma

2001 · Documentary · 73 min. · Brazil

Direction João Jardim · Walter Carvalho

Cast Evgen Bavcar · Raimunda da Conceição Filha · Felipe · Gabriel

Plot Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment - from mild nearsightedness to total blindness - discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the...

7.3

33 votes

7.3

33 votes

Living the Light: Robby Müller

2018 · Documentary · 86 min. · Netherlands

Direction M. Claire Pijman

Cast Jim Jarmusch · Steve McQueen · Robby Müller · Lars von Trier

Plot DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with...

7.1

50 votes

7.1

50 votes

Notebook on Cities and Clothes

1989 · Documentary · 79 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Wim Wenders · Yohji Yamamoto

Plot Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.

6.8

144 votes

6.8

144 votes

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders · Víctor Erice · Werner Herzog · Chen Kaige

Cast Chloë Sevigny · Amber Tamblyn · Ana Sofía Liaño · Pelayo Suárez

Plot Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Lightning Over Water

1980 · Documentary · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wim Wenders · Nicholas Ray

Cast Nicholas Ray · Wim Wenders · Susan Ray · Tim Ray

Plot Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film "Hammett" (1983) in Hollywood, but flies...

6.7

996 votes

6.7

996 votes

Along for the Ride

2016 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Nick Ebeling

Cast Dennis Hopper · Satya De La Manitou · Wim Wenders · David Lynch

Plot A tribute to Dennis Hopper. Method actor, filmmaker, photographer, fine artist, art collector, and all-American madman?the many sides of Dennis Hopper are explored in Nick Ebeling's remarkable documentary confirming Hopper...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Krzysztof Kieslowski - Still alive

2006 · Documentary · 80 min. · Poland

Direction Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Cast Wim Wenders · Agnieszka Holland · Slawomir Idziak · Jacek Petrycki

Plot Cinema is about drudgery, it is about getting up early, about not sleeping at night, about fretting about rain... This is cinema, this is real cinema. And the moments of...

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Wim Wenders: Desperado

2020 · Documentary · 120 min. · Germany

Direction Eric Friedler · Campino

Cast Wim Wenders · Francis Ford Coppola · Patti Smith · Willem Dafoe

Plot 'Paris', 'Texas', 'Wings of Desire', 'The American Friend', and so many more. Eric Friedler and Campino take us behind the scenes of these and other classics in their documentary that...

6.6

25 votes

6.6

25 votes

Fassbinder in Hollywood

2002 · Documentary · 57 min. · Germany

6.5

26 votes

6.5

26 votes

Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen

2004 · Documentary · 77 min. · United States

Direction Michael Palm

Cast Peter Bogdanovich · Roger Corman · Joe Dante · Wim Wenders

Plot A documentary about the "King of B-Movies", Edgar G. Ulmer. It includes interviews with well-known filmmakers Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, and Ulmers's daughter, Arianne Ulmer.

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1987 · Movie · 96 min. · Finland

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Kari Väänänen · Roberta Manfredi · Jean-Pierre Castaldi · Margi Clarke

Plot Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches. With two dead men and a suitcase filled with...

6.2

145 votes

6.2

145 votes

Room 666 (TV)

1982 · Documentary · 45 min. · France

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Wim Wenders · Jean-Luc Godard · Werner Herzog · Yilmaz Güney

Plot During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room -number 666-,...

6.1

421 votes

6.1

421 votes

The Legend of the Palme D'Or

2015 · Documentary · 70 min. · Switzerland

5.6

60 votes

5.6

60 votes

German Genius (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 30 min. · Germany

Direction Detlev Buck · Cüneyt Kaya

Cast Mark Naji · Tanju Bilir · Andrea Guo · Seumas F. Sargent

Plot Ramadan convinces Gervais to give him the rights for a German adaptation of Extras. However, as he attempts to progress the show to production, he comes up against the fact...

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5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

A Fuller Life

2013 · Documentary · 80 min. · United States

Direction Samantha Fuller

Cast Samantha Fuller · Constance Towers · Tim Roth · Wim Wenders

Plot Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.

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Di me cosa ne sai

2009 · Documentary · 78 min. · Italy

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Hitler in Hollywood

2010 · Movie · 87 min. · Belgium

Direction Frédéric Sojcher

Cast María de Medeiros · Micheline Presle · Wim Willaert · Hans Meyer

Plot A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture...

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Now

2020 · Documentary · 74 min. · Germany

Direction Jim Rakete

Cast Greta Thunberg · Wim Wenders

Plot NOW shows how young activists from around the globe such as Felix Finkbeiner (Plant for the Planet), Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg (Fridays for Future) and Vic Barrett (Youth v. Gov)...

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