Wim Wenders

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Age

Movies

122

Born: August 14, 1945
From: Düsseldorf, Germany
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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.

Works

122 films

Hitler in Hollywood

20116.2

Zeroville

20195.0

The Salt of the Earth

20148.1

The Million Dollar Hotel

20005.9

Plankton Salesmen

2017

Kleiner Mann ganz groß

19949.0

Cannes Uncut

20235.3

Now

20218.8

Wrong Move

19756.7

Why Are We Creative?

20187.5

The American Friend

19777.1

Alice in the Cities

19747.7

Viaggio in Bergmania

20117.0

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

20227.9

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

20165.8

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

20187.2

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

19947.0

Love and So Forth

196810.0

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

20156.0

Snowblind

20104.4

A Weekend at the Beach

2015

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

20175.2

From Our Side

20225.5

Three for the Road

2016

Kings of the Road

19767.4

Close Up

20129.5

Cannes: All Access

20073.2

The State of Things

19826.4

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

19755.9

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

20046.5

High Maintenance

20206.4

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

20026.9

A Trick of the Light

19956.2

Henri Langlois vu par...

20144.0

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

19875.9

Filmstudio, mon amour

201510.0

FreeDogme

20004.0

Room 666

19856.6

A Fuller Life

20136.6

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

20117.5

Room 999

20235.6

Tango Berlin

19977.0

Wim Wenders, Desperado

20207.7

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

20068.5

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

19957.0

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

20038.3

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring

19936.6

Die 2050er - Everything will change

20226.4

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

20218.5

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

20127.0

French Cinema Mon Amour

20155.2

Pictures of Europe

1990

Paul Auster: What If

20196.0

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

20227.8

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

2022

The Art of Football from A to Z

20064.8

Love in Hollywood

199610.0

Along for the Ride

20167.0

Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders

2018

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

20136.9

King Kongs Faust

19858.0

Alekan le magnifique

1998

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

Restoring Time

2015

Cronología

2010

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

20086.7

Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

2011

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

20256.0

Films to Die For

2025

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

1983

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

20087.0

Cinématon

19784.9

Tausend Augen

19846.2

The Keys to Freedom

2025

Notebook on Cities and Clothes

19896.4

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

20086.3

Long Shot

19789.0

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

19907.0

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

20086.0

What Do You Know About Me

20097.0

Lightning Over Water

19806.7

Zwischen den Zeiten

2011

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

20216.0

Janela da Alma

20016.9

The Heart and the Legs

1989

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

20115.5

Veränderung

2020

The Night of the Filmmakers

19956.3

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

BAM150

2012

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

20257.0

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

20173.4

The Ozu Diaries

2025

Fassbinder in Hollywood

20026.1

Back to Room 666

20085.5

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

2020

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

19908.0

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

19827.0

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

1990

Summer in the City

19726.1

Living the Light: Robby Müller

20186.7

Talking with Ozu

19936.5

Beyond the Bolex

20187.0

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

2015

Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

1982

De droomproducenten

198410.0

3 American LPs

19695.3

CAN and Me

20226.0

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

2015

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

2022

Report from Hollywood

19857.0

Alekan, la lumière

1988

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

20157.0

Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years

20086.0

Candy Man

19687.0

La torcedura

20047.0

Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'

2024

Cinématon XXII

1982

Without Me

19939.0

In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders

199510.0

Dream Island

19918.0