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

Plankton Salesmen

2017

Kleiner Mann ganz groß

19949.0

The Million Dollar Hotel

20005.9

Wrong Move

19756.7

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

20165.8

The Salt of the Earth

20148.1

The American Friend

19777.1

Alice in the Cities

19747.7

Viaggio in Bergmania

20117.0

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

19947.0

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

20227.9

Now

20218.8

Cannes Uncut

20235.3

Why Are We Creative?

20187.5

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

20187.2

Love and So Forth

196810.0

Kings of the Road

19767.4

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

20156.0

From Our Side

20225.5

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

20175.2

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

19755.9

A Trick of the Light

19956.2

The Art of Football from A to Z

20064.8

A Weekend at the Beach

2015

Snowblind

20104.4

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

20117.5

Henri Langlois vu par...

20144.0

Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders

2018

A Fuller Life

20136.6

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

20026.9

Three for the Road

2016

Room 999

20235.6

Close Up

20129.5

Room 666

19856.6

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

19875.9

Wim Wenders, Desperado

20207.7

High Maintenance

20206.4

French Cinema Mon Amour

20155.2

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

20068.5

The State of Things

19826.4

Tango Berlin

19977.0

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

20046.5

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring

19936.6

Cannes: All Access

20073.2

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

20086.7

Pictures of Europe

1990

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

20136.9

Restoring Time

2015

Filmstudio, mon amour

201510.0

King Kongs Faust

19858.0

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

19957.0

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

20127.0

Cronología

2010

Alekan le magnifique

1998

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

20227.8

Die 2050er - Everything will change

20226.4

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

20115.5

The Keys to Freedom

2025

Along for the Ride

20167.0

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

20216.0

Cinématon

19784.9

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

20218.5

Paul Auster: What If

20196.0

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

20087.0

Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

2011

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

20256.0

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

20086.3

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

20086.0

Living the Light: Robby Müller

20186.7

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

19907.0

Zwischen den Zeiten

2011

Veränderung

2020

What Do You Know About Me

20097.0

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

2022

3 American LPs

19695.3

FreeDogme

20004.0

Lightning Over Water

19806.7

Love in Hollywood

199610.0

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

2020

Films to Die For

2025

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

20038.3

Long Shot

19789.0

The Heart and the Legs

1989

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

19908.0

Tausend Augen

19846.2

The Night of the Filmmakers

19956.3

Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

1982

The Ozu Diaries

2025

Notebook on Cities and Clothes

19896.4

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

2022

Report from Hollywood

19857.0

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

20173.4

Talking with Ozu

19936.5

Summer in the City

19726.1

Janela da Alma

20016.9

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

20257.0

BAM150

2012

Fassbinder in Hollywood

20026.1

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

1990

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

1983

Back to Room 666

20085.5

Beyond the Bolex

20187.0

Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years

20086.0

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

2015

La torcedura

20047.0

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

19827.0

Alekan, la lumière

1988

De droomproducenten

198410.0

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

2015

In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders

199510.0

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

20157.0

CAN and Me

20226.0

Candy Man

19687.0

Dream Island

19918.0

Without Me

19939.0

Cinématon XXII

1982

Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'

2024