Direction: Wim Wenders
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Wim Wenders. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Salt of the Earth
2014 · Documentary · 100 min. · France
Direction Wim Wenders · Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Cast Sebastião Salgado
Plot During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of...
8.1
9K votes
8.1
9K votes
Paris, Texas
1984 · Movie · 144 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Harry Dean Stanton · Nastassja Kinski · Dean Stockwell · Aurore Clément
Plot A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he...
7.8
33K votes
7.8
33K votes
Buena Vista Social Club
1999 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Ry Cooder · Ibrahim Ferrer · Rubén González · Elíades Ochoa
Plot A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some...
7.7
7K votes
7.7
7K votes
Alice in the Cities
1974 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Yella Rottländer · Lisa Kreuzer · Edda Köchl
Plot Felix, a German journalist travels around United States trying to find inspiration for his next book. The trip, paid for by his editor, proves fruitles: not one idea, not one...
7.7
4K votes
7.7
4K votes
Pina
2011 · Documentary · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Pina Bausch
Plot A Wim Wenders documentary about legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch using the testimony of her collaborators.
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Perfect Days
2023 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Kôji Yakusho · Arisa Nakano · Tokio Emoto · Yumi Asou
Plot Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for...
7.5
6K votes
7.5
6K votes
Kings of the Road
1976 · Movie · 176 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Hanns Zischler · Lisa Kreuzer · Rudolf Schündler
Plot In this road movie drama, Vogler and Zischler travel along the desolate towns of the east-west German border.
7.5
1K votes
7.5
1K votes
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - The Soul of a Man
2003 · Documentary · 103 min. · United States
Direction Wim Wenders
Plot Director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club; Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas ) explores the lives of his favorite blues artists — Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J. B....
7.5
817 votes
7.5
817 votes
Wings of Desire
1987 · Movie · 128 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Bruno Ganz · Peter Falk · Solveig Dommartin · Otto Sander
Plot The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), wishes...
7.4
14K votes
7.4
14K votes
The American Friend
1977 · Movie · 121 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Bruno Ganz · Dennis Hopper · Lisa Kreuzer · Gérard Blain
Plot Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer in Hamburg is diagnosed as having leu leukemia. Ripley, an American art dealer dealing in forgeries, uses this fact to arrange for a mob associate...
7.2
9K votes
7.2
9K votes
Tokyo-Ga
1985 · Documentary · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Chishu Ryu · Werner Herzog · Yuuharu Atsuta · Chris Marker
Plot Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu's own "Tokyo monogatari (1953)" is a helpful pre-requisite to seeing Tokyo-Ga (1985).
7.2
849 votes
7.2
849 votes
A Trick of Light
1995 · Documentary · 76 min. · Germany
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Udo Kier · Otto Kuhnle · Nadine Buettner · Lucie Hürtgen-Skladanowsky
Plot A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the...
7.0
115 votes
7.0
115 votes
Lisbon Story
1995 · Movie · 100 min. · Portugal
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Patrick Bauchau · Teresa Salgueiro · Vasco Sequeira
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Invisibles
2007 · Documentary · 100 min. · Spain
Direction Isabel Coixet · Wim Wenders · Fernando León de Aranoa · Mariano Barroso
Plot The 'invisibles' are all those we refuse to see - people who seldom garner the attention of the West's media - as well as those who nevertheless refuse to stop...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · Movie · 140 min. · Germany
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Otto Sander · Bruno Ganz · Nastassja Kinski · Martin Olbert
Plot A sequel to Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire), it again follows a group of angels in the German capital who look longingly upon the life of humans....
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K 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
Anselm
2023 · Documentary · 93 min. · Germany
Direction Wim Wenders
Plot Anselm Kiefer one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting thus giving unique cinematic experience dives deep into...
6.6
56 votes
6.6
56 votes
The State of Things
1982 · Movie · 117 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wim Wenders
Cast Patrick Bauchau · Allen Garfield · Isabelle Weingarten · Geoffrey Carey
Plot A story about a group of film producers making a science fiction movie in the exteriors of Portugal.The black and white movie talks about a world-wide nuclear catastrophe, and instead...
6.6
627 votes
6.6
627 votes