
Wim Wenders
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.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 7.687 |
Birthday | 1945-08-14 |
Place of Birth | Düsseldorf, Germany |
Also Known As | Vimu Vendâsu, 文溫德斯, 빔 벤더스, Вим Вендерс, Вім Вендерс, ویم وندرس, |

1985

King Kongs Faust
0/0
Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no a...
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2008

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
6.3/3
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German f...
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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

1976

Kings of the Road
7.5/131
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his...
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Kings of the Road

2008

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
6.7/2
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
8.6/5
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a su...
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

2003

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
8.3/2
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

1980

Lightning Over Water
6.7/28
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)...
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Lightning Over Water

2001

Janela da Alma
6.9/20
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they...
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Janela da Alma

2012

Close Up
9/1
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and...
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Close Up

2022

Everything Will Change
6.6/8
In a dystopian 2054, three young rebels go on a journey to find traces of the long lost beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their pl...
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Everything Will Change

2010

Snowblind
4.2/9
A lone gunman gets a last-minute pardon from death row, with the mission to deliver a woman of mysterious powers to an evil Governor. Against the back...
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Snowblind

2023

Room 999
5.8/5
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes...
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Room 999

1968

Candy Man
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Candy Man

1991

Dream Island
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Dream Island

1993

Without Me
0/0
An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However, a...
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Without Me

1997

Tango Berlin
0/0
A young Argentinean janitor, a famous German director, a song by Carlos Gardel, the streets of Berlin and a never-ending film on an old Steenbeck.
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Tango Berlin

2000

The Million Dollar Hotel
5.872/340
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
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The Million Dollar Hotel

2002

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
6.6/38
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2004

La torcedura
0/0
Jose is a young working-class man. Yet he finds himself buying a million dollar engagement ring from the town's finest jeweler. On leaving the store h...
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La torcedura

2010

Cronología
0/0
Chronology is a puzzle created by images taken from found footage material originated by "Neue Heimat", the architectural project in charge of the rec...
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Cronología

2011

Hitler in Hollywood
6.4/12
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller unc...
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Hitler in Hollywood

2011

Zwischen den Zeiten
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Zwischen den Zeiten

2023

Cannes Uncut
5.8/4
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over ei...
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Cannes Uncut

1989

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
6.6/13
Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and t...
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Notebook on Cities and Clothes

2013

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
6.563/40
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his rendit...
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

1985

Report from Hollywood
0/0
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Thin...
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Report from Hollywood

2011

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5/2
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mike...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

1993

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
6.2/7
“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 joine...
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Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring

1990

Pictures of Europe
0/0
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...
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Pictures of Europe

1995

The Night of the Filmmakers
5/3
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
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The Night of the Filmmakers

2021

Why Are We (Not) Creative?
6/1
In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and thinkers...
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Why Are We (Not) Creative?

2008

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
7/4
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundation...
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

2011

Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
0/0
Fellow actors and musicians, film critics, and his Kentucky relatives tell the story of noted character actor Harry Dean Stanton. Kris Kristofferson,...
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Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

2002

Fassbinder in Hollywood
5.9/8
Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio f...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood

1978

Cinématon
4.3/6
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...
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Cinématon

2022

From Our Side
5.5/2
History flows, the darkness wets our clothes. Inspired by the poem “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà” by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, the film condens...
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2004

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
6.8/4
Documentary on the life and work of B-movie filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer, spanning from his early life to his last film.
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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
0/0
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany...
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

2022

CAN and Me
6/1
In 1968, musician Irmin Schmidt and friends founded the avant-garde band "Can", which achieved worldwide fame. Schmidt also made a name for himself as...
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CAN and Me

2014

The Salt of the Earth
8.1/611
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing human...
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The Salt of the Earth

2012

BAM150
0/0
A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing a...
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BAM150

2019

Zeroville
5.1/90
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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Zeroville

2003

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
5/2
We are taken though the principal milestones of Hopper's biography, including his debut start in Hollywood, the meeting with James Dean and the influe...
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Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

2015

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
7/2
Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.
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Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

2022

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
7.9/8
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – inc...
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

1989

The Heart and the Legs
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The heart of the legs.
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The Heart and the Legs

1983

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
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In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film Out Of The Blue. But little known to anyone, othe...
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1982

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
0/0
Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences bet...
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Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

2004

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
7.5/2
The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequ...
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

2008

Back to Room 666
5.5/2
What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains,...
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Back to Room 666

2022

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
0/0
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Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

2017

Plankton Salesmen
0/0
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company a...
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Plankton Salesmen

2005

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
8.5/3
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

1994

Kleiner Mann ganz groß
0/0
Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994.
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Kleiner Mann ganz groß

2015

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
0/0
Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe a...
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Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

2012

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
7/2
The many references in contemporary film to Edward Hopper's works, as well as the widespread reproduction of some of his paintings have made his unive...
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Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

2015

French Cinema Mon Amour
0.5/1
French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their...
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French Cinema Mon Amour

2011

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
7.5/12
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beau...
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

1982

Room 666
6.4/49
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 a...
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Room 666

1995

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by...
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

2016

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
5.8/4
The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

1975

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
5.8/40
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through...
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

1969

3 American LPs
5/1
Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LP...
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3 American LPs

2013

A Fuller Life
6.6/12
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child...
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A Fuller Life

1993

Talking with Ozu
6.5/3
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurism...
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Talking with Ozu

2016

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
5.2/5
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest mo...
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life

2015

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
6/6
From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments...
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or

1972

Summer in the City
5.857/7
After an extensive prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality.
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Summer in the City

1990

Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
0/0
Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989.
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Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'

1976

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
0/0
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

2008

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
6/1
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Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

1978

Long Shot
0/0
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘...
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Long Shot

2016

Along for the Ride
7/11
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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Along for the Ride

2008

Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
6/1
In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The film follows him on a journey into the past that t...
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Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years

1982

The State of Things
6.5/73
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...
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The State of Things

1994

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
7/2
A 1993 portrait of rock singer and poet Nick Cave, a versatile artist who gained importance over the years. Jacobson also wrote the scenario that was...
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Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

2017

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
3.7/5
August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he...
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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

2018

Living the Light: Robby Müller
6.7/6
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diarie...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller

1990

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
0/0
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best o...
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

1988

Alekan, la lumière
0/0
An episode of the show "Océaniques " about the craft and lighting techniques of the legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan
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Alekan, la lumière

1968

Love and So Forth
0/0
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello playe...
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Love and So Forth

2011

Viaggio in Bergmania
7/1
This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration, Ingmar Bergman. Their desire to approach even fu...
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Viaggio in Bergmania

2007

Cannes: All Access
3.7/3
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...
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Cannes: All Access

2000

FreeDogme
4/1
Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital vide...
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FreeDogme

2015

Restoring Time
0/0
Documentary about the efforts to preserve and restore the films of German director Wim Wenders.
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Restoring Time

2019

Paul Auster: What If
6/1
A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, an exploration of human identity and the soul of Ne...
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Paul Auster: What If

1984

Tausend Augen
5/3
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Tausend Augen

1990

Wim Wenders in Tokyo
0/0
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and d...
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Wim Wenders in Tokyo

2015

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
0/0
A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.
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Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

2018

Beyond the Bolex
7/2
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that...
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Beyond the Bolex

1998

Alekan le magnifique
0/0
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Alekan le magnifique

2014

Henri Langlois vu par...
0/0
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
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Henri Langlois vu par...

2006

The Art of Football from A to Z
4.8/4
Funnyman John Cleese leads viewers through an exhaustive -- and hilarious -- tour of the world of soccer, complete with the sport's most memorable goa...
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The Art of Football from A to Z

2021

Now
8.8/8
A documentary that shows how young activists from around the globe such as Felix Finkbeiner (Plant for the Planet), Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg (Fr...
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2016

Three for the Road
0/0
Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
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Three for the Road

1995

A Trick of the Light
5.7/13
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on th...
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A Trick of the Light

2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado
7.7/3
"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...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020

Veränderung
0/0
Wim Wenders ponders about the future of our society and film making amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Veränderung

2018

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
7/75
Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

1982

Cinématon XXII
0/0
Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XXII

1996

Love in Hollywood
0/0
Various Hollywood people talk about love.
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Love in Hollywood

1974

Alice in the Cities
7.7/304
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,...
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Alice in the Cities

1975

Wrong Move
6.8/79
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. O...
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Wrong Move

1987

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
5.7/9
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 A...
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1977

The American Friend
7.2/375
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 ga...
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The American Friend

2021

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
8.5/2
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together wit...
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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

2020

Good Morning, the Wind Blows
0/0
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Good Morning, the Wind Blows


Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
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2009

What Do You Know About Me
7/2
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...
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What Do You Know About Me

2020

High Maintenance
6.2/9
A fascinating journey through the life of Israeli artist Dani Karavan, an irreverent and charismatic creator, recognized worldwide for radically trans...
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High Maintenance

2024

Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
0/0
Director Wim Wenders talks about the production process of his 2023 film ' Perfect Days'.
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Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'

1989

100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
6.8/9
On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.
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