Wim Wenders
Biography
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
Paris, Texas
Director
Perfect Days
Director
Wings of Desire
Director
City of Angels
Original Film Writer
The Salt of the Earth
Self
Alice in the Cities
Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
Buena Vista Social Club
Director
The American Friend
Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
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Filmography
Acting (154)
Movies (121)
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025as Self
Films to Die For
2025as Self - Interviewee
The Ozu Diaries
2025as Self
The Keys to Freedom
2025as Wim Wenders
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024as Self
Room 999
2023as Self
Cannes Uncut
2023as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022as Self
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022as Lui-même
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022as Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022as Self
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
From Our Side
2022
CAN and Me
2022as Self
Now
2021as Self
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021as Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020as Self
High Maintenance
2020as Self
Veränderung
2020as Self
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020as Himself
Paul Auster: What If
2019as Self - Filmmaker
Zeroville
2019as Larry
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Beyond the Bolex
2018as Self
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018as Self
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018as Self - filmmaker
Why Are We Creative?
2018as Self
Plankton Salesmen
2017as Self (archive footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017as Self
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017as Self
Three for the Road
2016as Self
Along for the Ride
2016as Self
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016as Self
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015as Self
A Weekend at the Beach
2015as Self
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015as Self
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015as Sé stesso
Restoring Time
2015as Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015as Self
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015as Self
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015as Self
The Salt of the Earth
2014as Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014as Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013as Self
A Fuller Life
2013as Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
BAM150
2012as Self
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012as Self
Close Up
2012as Self (archive footage)
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
Viaggio in Bergmania
2011as Self
Hitler in Hollywood
2011as Wim Wenders
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011as Self
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011as Self
Snowblind
2010as Gray Fox
Cronología
2010
What Do You Know About Me
2009as Self
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008as Self
Back to Room 666
2008as Self
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008as Self
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008as Self
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008as Self
Cannes: All Access
2007as Self
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006as Self
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006as Self
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004as Self
La torcedura
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004as Self
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003as Self
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003as Self
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002as Self
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002as Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
Janela da Alma
2001as Self
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
FreeDogme
2000as himself
Alekan le magnifique
1998as Self
Tango Berlin
1997
Love in Hollywood
1996as Self
A Trick of the Light
1995as Regisseur / Milchmann
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995as Self
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995as Self (uncredited)
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995as Self
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994as Self
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994as Self
Talking with Ozu
1993as Self
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993as Santa Claus
Without Me
1993as Himself
Dream Island
1991
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990as Self
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990as Self
Pictures of Europe
1990as Self
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990as Self
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989as Self
The Heart and the Legs
1989as Self
Alekan, la lumière
1988as Self
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987as Gas Station Attendant
Report from Hollywood
1985 King Kongs Faust
1985as Regisseur
Tausend Augen
1984as Dieb im Videoladen
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983as Himself
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982as Self
The State of Things
1982as Tram Passenger (uncredited)
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982
Room 666
1982as Self
Cinématon XXII
1982as N°212
Lightning Over Water
1980as Self
Cinématon
1978as N°212
Long Shot
1978as Another Director
The American Friend
1977as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
Kings of the Road
1976as Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976as Self
Wrong Move
1975as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
Alice in the Cities
1974as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
Summer in the City
1972as Billardspieler (uncredited)
3 American LPs
1969
Love and So Forth
1968as Student
Candy Man
1968Television (33)
German Genius
2023as Wim Wenders
Directors Talks
2023as Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020as Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018as Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011as Self
Schawinski
2011as Self
Westpol: Eins zu eins
2010as self
Dickes B
2007as Self
Kulturplatz
2004as Self
Im Palais
2004as Self
Leçon de Cinéma
2004as Self
ZIBB
2003as Self
Volle Kanne
1999as Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998as Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998as Self
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1998as Self
Im Dialog
1997as self
Nachtstudio
1997as Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995as Self
Morgenmagazin
1992as Self
Riverboat
1992as Self
Nachtcafé
1987as Self
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984as Self
Wortwechsel
1982as Self
Menschen
1982as Self
NDR Talk Show
1979as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979as Self
Kölner Treff
1976as Self
Midi Première
1975as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974as Self
German Film Award
1951as Self
Bambi
1948as Self
Crew (228)
Movies (224)
From Darkness to Light
2025Executive Producer
The Keys to Freedom
2025Director
The Keys to Freedom
2025Writer
Perfect Days
2023Director
Perfect Days
2023Producer
Perfect Days
2023Screenplay
Anselm
2023Director
Anselm
2023Producer
Anselm
2023Writer
Songs of Earth
2023Executive Producer
Some Body Comes Into the Light
2023Director
Some Body Comes Into the Light
2023Producer
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023Producer
An Endless Sunday
2023Co-Producer
Roving Woman
2022Executive Producer
Présence
2022Director
Souad
2021Co-Producer
A Future Together
2021Director
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021Executive Producer
Reality Winner
2021Executive Producer
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020Director
A Black Jesus
2020Producer
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020Director
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020Executive Producer
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020Producer
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020Writer
Veränderung
2020Director
Veränderung
2020Writer
Waiting for the Miracle to Come
2019Executive Producer
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018Director
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018Producer
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018Writer
Submergence
2018Director
Little Hands
2018Executive Producer
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018Executive Producer
Jil Sander: Spring/Summer 2018 Campaign
2017Director
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
2017Executive Producer
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016Director
National Bird
2016Executive Producer
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015Director
Our Last Tango
2015Executive Producer
Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison
2014Executive Producer
The Salt of the Earth
2014Director
Magnum - Feiere den Moment
2014Writer
Cathedrals of Culture
2014Director
Cathedrals of Culture
2014Executive Producer
Cathedrals of Culture
2014Writer
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014Director
The Berlin Philharmonic
2014Director
Invisible World
2013Director
Invisible World
2013Writer
Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico
2013Producer
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
2013Executive Producer
Stories We Tell
2012Thanks
Ver ou Não Ver
2012Director
Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit
2012Script Supervisor
Pina
2011Director
Pina
2011Producer
Pina
2011Screenplay
Au Revoir Taipei
2010Executive Producer
Il Volo
2010Director
Il Volo
2010Writer
If Buildings Could Talk
2010Director
If Buildings Could Talk
2010Writer
The Open Road
2009Executive Producer
Passage
2009Thanks
8
2008Director
8
2008Writer
Palermo Shooting
2008Director
Palermo Shooting
2008Producer
Palermo Shooting
2008Writer
The Clone Returns Home
2008Executive Producer
Person to Person
2008Director
To Each His Own Cinema
2007Director
Invisibles
2007Director
Invisibles
2007Writer
Invisible Crimes
2007Director
The Way I Spent the End of the World
2006Associate Producer
The House Is Burning
2006Executive Producer
Don't Come Knocking
2005Director
Egoshooter
2005Producer
Half the Rent
2004Producer
Land of Plenty
2004Director
La torcedura
2004Producer
Música Cubana
2004Producer
Fools
2003Producer
The Other Side of the Road
2003Director
The Soul of a Man
2003Director
Fools
2003Producer
Three Days of Rain
2002Presenter
June Moon
2002Producer
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002Director
BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002Director
BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002Writer
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000Director
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000Producer
One Morning All Over the World
2000Director
In the Shadow of Hollywood
2000Archival Footage Research
Buena Vista Social Club
1999Director
Buena Vista Social Club
1999Screenplay
Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1998Director
Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1998Writer
City of Angels
1998Original Film Writer
The End of Violence
1997Director
The End of Violence
1997Producer
The End of Violence
1997Story
Go for Gold!
1997Producer
Beyond the Clouds
1995Co-Director
Beyond the Clouds
1995Screenplay
Beyond the Clouds
1995Still Photographer
Lumière & Company
1995Director
A Trick of the Light
1995Director
Lisbon Story
1994Director
Faraway, So Close!
1993Director
Faraway, So Close!
1993Producer
Faraway, So Close!
1993Screenplay
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993Director
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993Editor
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993Producer
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993Writer
The Absence
1993Producer
Adamski
1993Thanks
Until the End of the World
1991Co-Producer
Until the End of the World
1991Director
Until the End of the World
1991Screenplay
Until the End of the World
1991Story
Dream Island
1991Producer
Speaking Parts
1990Thanks
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990Director
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989Director
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989Director of Photography
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989Producer
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989Writer
Chocolat
1988Co-Producer
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988Consulting Producer
Wings of Desire
1987Director
Wings of Desire
1987Producer
Wings of Desire
1987Screenplay
Iron Earth, Copper Sky
1987Producer
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
1987Sound Mix Technician
Tokyo-Ga
1985Director
Tokyo-Ga
1985Editor
Tokyo-Ga
1985Producer
Tokyo-Ga
1985Writer
I Played It for You
1985Additional Photography
Paris, Texas
1984Director
Paris, Texas
1984Producer
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982Director
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982Producer
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982Writer
Hammett
1982Director
The State of Things
1982Director
The State of Things
1982Producer
The State of Things
1982Writer
Room 666
1982Director
Room 666
1982Producer
Room 666
1982Writer
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980Additional Camera
Lightning Over Water
1980Director
Lightning Over Water
1980Editor
Lightning Over Water
1980Producer
Lightning Over Water
1980Writer
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979Camera Operator
Radio On
1979Associate Producer
...als Diesel geboren
1979Producer
The Left-Handed Woman
1978Producer
The American Friend
1977Director
The American Friend
1977Producer
The American Friend
1977Screenplay
Kings of the Road
1976Director
Wrong Move
1975Director
Wrong Move
1975Producer
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975Director
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975Producer
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975Writer
Alice in the Cities
1974Director
Alice in the Cities
1974Producer
Alice in the Cities
1974Screenplay
Ein bißchen Liebe
1974Producer
From the Family of Reptiles
1974Director
The Island
1974Director
The Scarlet Letter
1973Director
The Scarlet Letter
1973Producer
The Scarlet Letter
1973Writer
Summer in the City
1972Director
Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei
1969Director of Photography
Am Spätnachmittag des folgenden Tages erwachte Joe in einem billigen Hotelzimmer - Andy schläft noch ...
1969Producer
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969Director
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969Editor
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969Sound
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969Writer
Ten Years After
1969Director of Photography
3 American LPs
1969Director
3 American LPs
1969Editor
Polizeifilm
1969Director
Polizeifilm
1969Director of Photography
Polizeifilm
1969Editor
Polizeifilm
1969Writer
Silver City Revisited
1969Director
Silver City Revisited
1969Director of Photography
Silver City Revisited
1969Editor
Silver City Revisited
1969Producer
Silver City Revisited
1969Writer
Kaspar Hauser
1969Director
Der Fall Lena Christ
1969Unit Manager
Same Player Shoots Again
1968Director
Same Player Shoots Again
1968Director of Photography
Same Player Shoots Again
1968Editor
Same Player Shoots Again
1968Producer
Same Player Shoots Again
1968Writer
Klappenfilm
1968Director
Klappenfilm
1968Producer
Victor I.
1968Director
Schauplätze
1967Director
Schauplätze
1967Director of Photography
Schauplätze
1967Editor
Schauplätze
1967Producer
Schauplätze
1967Writer
Return to Timbuktu
Executive Producer
I'll Be Gone in June
Producer
Echoes of Light
Executive Producer
Das Geheimnis der Orte
Director
Das Geheimnis der Orte
Writer
Sound of Ice
Executive Producer
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