Directing • AGE 80
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 ...


I'll Be Gone in June
Producer
2026

Films to Die For
Self - Interviewee
2025

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025

The Ozu Diaries
Self
2025

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
Self
2025

The Keys to Freedom
Wim Wenders
2025

From Darkness to Light
Executive Producer
2025

Perfect Days
Producer
2023

Some Body Comes Into the Light
Director
2023

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
Producer
2023

Anselm
Director
2023

Room 999
Self
2023

Directors Talks
Self
2023

An Endless Sunday
Co-Producer
2023

Songs of Earth
Executive Producer
2023

Cannes Uncut
Self
2023

German Genius
Wim Wenders
2023

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022

CAN and Me
Self
2022

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Self
2022

From Our Side
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022

Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022

Roving Woman
Executive Producer
2022

Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Self
2021

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Executive Producer
2021

Souad
Co-Producer
2021

Now
Self
2021

Reality Winner
Executive Producer
2021

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
2021

High Maintenance
Self
2020

Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Self
2020

A Black Jesus
Producer
2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
2020

Veränderung
Self
2020

Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
Writer
2020

Zeroville
Larry
2019

Waiting for the Miracle to Come
Executive Producer
2019

Paul Auster: What If
Self - Filmmaker
2019

Beyond the Bolex
Self
2018

Living the Light: Robby Müller
Self
2018

Why Are We Creative?
Self
2018

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Executive Producer
2018

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2018

Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
Self - filmmaker
2018

Little Hands
Executive Producer
2018

Submergence
Director
2018

Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
2017

Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Executive Producer
2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Self
2017

Along for the Ride
Self
2016

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Director
2016

National Bird
Executive Producer
2016

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Self
2016

Three for the Road
Self
2016

Our Last Tango
Executive Producer
2015

A Weekend at the Beach
Self
2015

Filmstudio, mon amour
Sé stesso
2015

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Self
2015

French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Self
2015

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
2015

Every Thing Will Be Fine
Director
2015

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Self
2015

Restoring Time
Self
2015

The Salt of the Earth
Self
2014

Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014

Cathedrals of Culture
Director
2014

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
2013

A Fuller Life
Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
2013

Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
Executive Producer
2013

Invisible World
Director
2013

Stories We Tell
Thanks
2012

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
Self
2012

Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012

Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit
Script Supervisor
2012

BAM150
Self
2012

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Self
2011

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
2011

Hitler in Hollywood
Wim Wenders
2011

Viaggio in Bergmania
Self
2011

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
2011

Pina
Screenplay
2011

Snowblind
Gray Fox
2010

Au Revoir Taipei
Executive Producer
2010

Il Volo
Director
2010

What Do You Know About Me
Self
2009

The Open Road
Executive Producer
2009

Palermo Shooting
Director
2008

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
Self
2008

8
Director
2008

The Clone Returns Home
Executive Producer
2008

Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
Self
2008

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
2008

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Self
2008

To Each His Own Cinema
Director
2007

Cannes: All Access
Self
2007

Invisibles
Director
2007

Invisible Crimes
Director
2007

The House Is Burning
Executive Producer
2006

The Way I Spent the End of the World
Associate Producer
2006

The Art of Football from A to Z
Self
2006

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Self
2006

Don't Come Knocking
Director
2005

Egoshooter
Producer
2005

Land of Plenty
Screenplay
2004

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Self
2004

Kulturplatz
Self
2004

Música Cubana
Producer
2004

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Self
2004

Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004

Half the Rent
Producer
2004

The Blues
Writer
2003

Fools
Producer
2003

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Self
2003

The Soul of a Man
Director
2003

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Self
2003

June Moon
Producer
2002

Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self
2002

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
2002

Three Days of Rain
Presenter
2002

BAP - Ode to Cologne
Director
2002

Janela da Alma
Self
2001

The Million Dollar Hotel
2000

FreeDogme
himself
2000

One Morning All Over the World
Director
2000

Buena Vista Social Club
Director
1999

Alekan le magnifique
Self
1998

City of Angels
Original Film Writer
1998

Willie Nelson at the Teatro
Director
1998

The End of Violence
Producer
1997

Love in Hollywood
Self
1996

Lumière & Company
Director
1995

Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995

A Trick of the Light
Regisseur / Milchmann
1995

Beyond the Clouds
Screenplay
1995

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
1995

The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
1995

In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
Self
1995

Lisbon Story
Director
1994

Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Self
1994

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Self
1994

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
Santa Claus
1993

Talking with Ozu
Self
1993

Faraway, So Close!
Producer
1993

The Absence
Producer
1993

Morgenmagazin
Self
1992

Riverboat
Self
1992

Until the End of the World
Director
1991

Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Self
1990

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Director
1990

Pictures of Europe
Self
1990

Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Self
1990

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
1990

Speaking Parts
Thanks
1990

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Self
1989

Alekan, la lumière
Self
1988

Chocolat
Co-Producer
1988

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Consulting Producer
1988

Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
Sound Mix Technician
1987

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Gas Station Attendant
1987

Wings of Desire
Director
1987

Iron Earth, Copper Sky
Producer
1987

Nachtcafé
Self
1987

King Kongs Faust
Regisseur
1985

Tokyo-Ga
Director
1985

Room 666
Self
1985

Paris, Texas
Director
1984

Tausend Augen
Dieb im Videoladen
1984

De droomproducenten
Self
1984

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Himself
1983

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Self
1982

Hammett
Director
1982

Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982

The State of Things
Tram Passenger (uncredited)
1982

Lightning Over Water
Self
1980

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Additional Camera
1980

Radio On
Associate Producer
1979

...als Diesel geboren
Producer
1979

NDR Talk Show
Self
1979

Cinématon
N°212
1978

Long Shot
Another Director
1978

The Left-Handed Woman
Producer
1978

The American Friend
Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
1977

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976

Kings of the Road
Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
1976

Kölner Treff
Self
1976

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
1975

Wrong Move
Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
1975

Midi Première
Self
1975

Ein bißchen Liebe
Producer
1974

Spécial cinéma
Self
1974

The Island
Director
1974

From the Family of Reptiles
Director
1974

Alice in the Cities
Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
1974

Ein Haus für uns
Director
1974

The Scarlet Letter
Director
1973

Summer in the City
Billardspieler (uncredited)
1972

3 American LPs
1969

Polizeifilm
Editor
1969

Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei
Director of Photography
1969

Kaspar Hauser
Director
1969

Silver City Revisited
Writer
1969

Alabama (2000 Light Years)
Director
1969

Same Player Shoots Again
Director
1968

Love and So Forth
Student
1968

Schauplätze
Director
1967

Bambi
Self
1948