The best Wim Wenders’s movies

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

14/08/1945 (78 años)
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The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth
8.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/08/2014
  • Character: Self
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 our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/05/1974
  • Character: Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice’s grandmother.

Zeroville

Zeroville
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/09/2019
  • Character: Larry
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.

The American Friend

The American Friend
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 24/06/1977
  • Character: Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

Wrong Move

Wrong Move
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/06/1975
  • Character: Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1976
  • Character: Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/05/2018
  • Character: Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.

The State of Things

The State of Things
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1982
  • Character: Tram Passenger
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
8.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/09/2011
  • Character: Self
The story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Covering six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other.

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Wim Wenders, Desperado
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/07/2020
  • Character: Self
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.

Room 666

Room 666
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/06/1982
  • Character: Self
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/09/2004
  • Character: Self
Documentary on the life and work of B-movie filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer, spanning from his early life to his last film.

Cannes: All Access

Cannes: All Access
6.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 27/10/2007
  • Character: Self
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red carpet event of the year. Filmmaker Richard Schickel's fascinating documentary captures the glitz and glamour of the festival's incredible 60-year run with archival footage and unforgettable moments. Hollywood's biggest names including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein talk about the politics, madness, and thrills of competing for one of the industry's highest honors - the coveted Palme d'Or - and what it's like to be at the most fabulous festival by the sea.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/09/2012
  • Character: Self
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

Helsinki Napoli - All Night Long

Helsinki Napoli - All Night Long
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 13/11/1987
  • Character: Gas Station Attendant
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver. "Helsinki Napoli All Night Long" is Mika Kaurismäki's first major European production. The film features a host of famous names in the cast: The legendary film director Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One), actor Eddie Constantine (Alphaville, Europe), cult directors Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man).

Living the Light: Robby Muller

Living the Light: Robby Muller
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/09/2018
  • Character: Self
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
6.1/10
  • Release: 30/12/1993
  • Character: Santa Claus
“The bear leaves Berlin. It is fed up with its city. On the way two Russian ladies, Anna and her daughter Arisha, hire him as a driver. They are joined by a Santa Claus who despises Christmas and a Vietnamese family who are on their way to the sea. They sing a song together, The Weeping Song by Nick Cave. And they are out to find a stone ring that is buried on the beach. The film was commissioned by a Japanese car museum. There you could see the film with six smells (!), sitting on car seats that would tilt in corners and shake on cobble stone pavement. This small film saved a big one’s life: FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! could not have been finished for financial reasons if this opportunity to make a short film with the same team had not arisen. That is how we financed the last week of shooting FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!.”

Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/10/1980
  • Character: Self
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 to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride
6.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/11/2016
  • Character: Self
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.

Notebook on Cities and Clothes

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
6.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/12/1989
  • Character: Self
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.

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