Director: Wim Wenders

Alice in the Cities
Directed by Wim Wenders
Alice in the Cities is technically Wenders’ fourth film, but he often refers to it as his first, because it …

Buena Vista Social Club
Directed by Wim Wenders
In 1998, Wenders embarked on a trip to Havana with his old friend and collaborator Ry Cooder, who wanted to …

Kings of the Road
Directed by Wim Wenders
Wenders began shooting Kings of the Road in an era of mass cinematic extinction, relying not on a script but …

Notebooks on Cities and Clothes
Directed by Wim Wenders
This “diary film,” as Wenders calls it, investigates the similarities of the filmmaking craft to that of the Tokyo-based fashion …

Paris, Texas
Directed by Wim Wenders
This unconventional road movie is based on a script by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Sam Shepard and tells the story of …

Reverse Angle
Directed by Wim Wenders
“Reverse Angle was my first diary film. It is about “new wave music” (among others Jim Jarmusch’s Del Byzanteens), about …

The American Friend
Directed by Wim Wenders
Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) believes that he will soon die of leukemia. An unscrupulous American named Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) …

The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Directed by Wim Wenders
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) is sent off after committing a foul during an away game; a seemingly simple act …

The Salt of the Earth
Directed by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
For the last 40 years, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, witnessing some of the major …

The State of Things
Directed by Wim Wenders
The State of Things is a highly personal film about filmmaking in Europe and America. A film crew finds itself …

Tokyo-Ga
Directed by Wim Wenders
Seeking to recover the past from the tide of time, Wenders travels to Tokyo in order to find traces of …

Until the End of the World
Directed by Wim Wenders
In order to enable his blind wife (Jeanne Moreau) to see, Dr. Farber (Max von Sydow) invents a process that …

Wim Wenders’ Short Films
Directed by Wim Wenders
Before delving into the world of feature filmmaking, Wenders got his start with several short films made in the last …

Wings of Desire
Directed by Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire marked Wenders’ homecoming and was his first German film after eight years in America. The main characters …

Wrong Move
Directed by Wim Wenders
Glückstadt in northern Germany, a palace along the Rhine, a housing project on the outskirts of Frankfurt, and finally the …