Wim Wenders
Directing • Born 1945-08-14
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 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.
Filmography
155 credits
King Kongs Faust
Movie • 1985
Regisseur
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Movie • 2008
Self
Kings of the Road
Movie • 1976
Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Movie • 2008
Self
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Movie • 2022
Self
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Movie • 2003
Self
Lightning Over Water
Movie • 1980
Self
Janela da Alma
Movie • 2001
Self
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Die 2050er - Everything will change
Movie • 2022
Snowblind
Movie • 2010
Gray Fox
Room 999
Movie • 2023
Self
Candy Man
Movie • 1968
Dream Island
Movie • 1991
Zwischen den Zeiten
Movie • 2011
Cronología
Movie • 2010
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Movie • 2002
Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
Without Me
Movie • 1993
Himself
Tango Berlin
Movie • 1997
The Million Dollar Hotel
Movie • 2000
Hitler in Hollywood
Movie • 2011
Wim Wenders
La torcedura
Movie • 2004
Cannes Uncut
Movie • 2023
Self
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Movie • 1989
Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Movie • 2013
Self
Report from Hollywood
Movie • 1985
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Movie • 2011
Self
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
Movie • 1993
Santa Claus
Pictures of Europe
Movie • 1990
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
Movie • 1995
Self
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Movie • 2021
Self
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Movie • 2008
Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Movie • 2011
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Movie • 2002
Self
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°212
From Our Side
Movie • 2022
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Movie • 2004
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Movie • 2022
Self
CAN and Me
Movie • 2022
Self
The Salt of the Earth
Movie • 2014
Self
BAM150
Movie • 2012
Self
Zeroville
Movie • 2019
Larry
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Movie • 2003
Self
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Movie • 2015
Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Self
The Heart and the Legs
Movie • 1989
Self
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Movie • 1983
Himself
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Movie • 1982
Self
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Movie • 2004
Self
Back to Room 666
Movie • 2008
Self
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Movie • 2022
Lui-même
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Movie • 2005
Self
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Movie • 1994
Self
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Movie • 2015
Self
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
Movie • 2012
Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
Movie • 2015
Self
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie • 2011
Self
Room 666
Movie • 1982
Self
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Movie • 1995
Self (uncredited)
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Movie • 2016
Self
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Movie • 1975
Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
3 American LPs
Movie • 1969
A Fuller Life
Movie • 2013
Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
Talking with Ozu
Movie • 1993
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Movie • 2017
Self
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Movie • 2015
Self
Summer in the City
Movie • 1972
Billardspieler (uncredited)
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Movie • 1990
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Movie • 1976
Self
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
Movie • 2008
Self
Long Shot
Movie • 1978
Another Director
Along for the Ride
Movie • 2016
Self
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
Movie • 2008
Self
The State of Things
Movie • 1982
Tram Passenger (uncredited)
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Movie • 1994
Self
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Movie • 2017
Self
Living the Light: Robby Müller
Movie • 2018
Self
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Movie • 1990
Self
Alekan, la lumière
Movie • 1988
Self
Love and So Forth
Movie • 1968
Student
Viaggio in Bergmania
Movie • 2011
Self
Cannes: All Access
Movie • 2007
Self
FreeDogme
Movie • 2000
himself
Restoring Time
Movie • 2015
Self
Paul Auster: What If
Movie • 2019
Self - Filmmaker
Tausend Augen
Movie • 1984
Dieb im Videoladen
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Movie • 1990
Self
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Movie • 2015
Self
Beyond the Bolex
Movie • 2018
Self
Alekan le magnifique
Movie • 1998
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie • 2014
Self
The Art of Football from A to Z
Movie • 2006
Self
Now
Movie • 2021
Self
Three for the Road
Movie • 2016
Self
A Trick of the Light
Movie • 1995
Regisseur / Milchmann
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie • 2020
Self
Veränderung
Movie • 2020
Self
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Movie • 2018
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Cinématon XXII
Movie • 1982
N°212
Love in Hollywood
Movie • 1996
Self
Alice in the Cities
Movie • 1974
Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
Wrong Move
Movie • 1975
Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Movie • 1987
Gas Station Attendant
The American Friend
Movie • 1977
Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Movie • 2021
Self
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Movie • 2020
Himself
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
Movie • 1982
What Do You Know About Me
Movie • 2009
Self
High Maintenance
Movie • 2020
Self
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
Movie • 2024
Self
Why Are We Creative?
Movie • 2018
Self
The Keys to Freedom
Movie • 2025
Wim Wenders
A Weekend at the Beach
Movie • 2015
Self
The Ozu Diaries
Movie • 2025
Self
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
Movie • 2025
Self
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
Movie • 1995
Self
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
Movie • 2018
Self - filmmaker
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Movie • 2025
Films to Die For
Movie • 2025
Self - Interviewee
Plankton Salesmen
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Filmstudio, mon amour
Movie • 2015
Sé stesso
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
TV • 1998
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV • 2011
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Schawinski
TV • 2011
Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
TV • 2018
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Volle Kanne
TV • 1999
Self
Riverboat
TV • 1992
Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
Nachtcafé
TV • 1987
Self
Sabine Christiansen
TV • 1998
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Wortwechsel
TV • 1982
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
live - die ZDF-talkshow
TV • 1987
Self
Nachtstudio
TV • 1997
Self
Directors Talks
TV • 2023
Self
Menschen
TV • 1982
Self
Im Palais
TV • 2004
Self
Dickes B
TV • 2007
Self
Im Dialog
TV • 1997
self
Westpol: Eins zu eins
TV • 2010
self
ZIBB
TV • 2003
Self
German Genius
TV • 2023
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
TV • 2020
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
TV • 2026
Self