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6.6

♡ 6

41%

Wim Wenders Director

Emy Coligado as Desk Clerk

Tim Matheson as Producer 1

Julia Sweeney as Producer 2

Tim Roth as Sutter

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Lisbon Story

1994

7.1

♡ 7

86%

Wim Wenders Director

João Canijo as Crook

Patrick Bauchau as Friedrich Monroe

Rüdiger Vogler as Phillip Winter

Teresa Salgueiro as Self

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

The End of Violence

1997

5.6

♡ 20

29%

Wim Wenders Director

Nicole Ari Parker as Ade

Michael Massee as Guy in Bar

Bill Pullman as Mike Max

Marshall Bell as Sheriff Call

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

Submergence

2017

5.4

♡ 57

22%

31%

africa

based on novel or book

Wim Wenders Director

Alicia Vikander as Danielle Flinders

James McAvoy as James More

Thibaut Evrard as René

Godehard Giese as Wolfgang

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

Palermo Shooting

2008

6.1

♡ 1

63%

Drama

Wim Wenders Director Campino

Campino as Finn

Anna Orso as Mother

Milla Jovovich as Self

Jana Pallaske as Student

After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?

The State of Things

1982

6.9

♡ 8

40%

Wim Wenders Director

Isabelle Weingarten as Anna

Allen Garfield as Gordon

Rebecca Pauly as Joan

Samuel Fuller as Joe

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.

Tokyo-Ga

1985

7.3

♡ 7

60%

78%

Documentary

Wim Wenders Director

Chishû Ryû as Self

Werner Herzog as Self

Chris Marker as Self

Yûharu Atsuta as Self

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

The American Friend

1977

7.4

♡ 26

88%

80%

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

Wim Wenders Director

Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner

Wim Wenders as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

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.

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

2018

6.7

♡ 22

81%

Wim Wenders Director

Angela Merkel as Herself

Donald Trump as Himself

Vladimir Putin as Himself

Joe Biden as Himself

Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.

Anselm

2023

7.2

♡ 6

98%

81%

Documentary

Wim Wenders Director

Anselm Kiefer as Anselm

Daniel Kiefer as Anselm

Joseph Beuys as Self

Martin Heidegger as Self

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

Perfect Days

2023

Japanese

7.9

♡ 78

96%

Wim Wenders Director

Yoneko Matsukane as Parking Officer

Tamae Andô as Sato

Tokio Emoto as Takashi

Tomokazu Miura as Tomoyama

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Alice in the Cities

1974

7.8

♡ 24

100%

amsterdam, netherlands

Drama

man

man woman relationship

new york city

Wim Wenders Director

Edda Köchl as Angela - Friend in New York

Lisa Kreuzer as Lisa van Damm

Wim Wenders as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe

Rüdiger Vogler as Philip Winter

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.

Until the End of the World

1991

6.8

♡ 21

89%

Wim Wenders Director

Michael Winters as

Sam Neill as Eugene Fitzpatrick

Allen Garfield as Gebrauchtwagenhändler

David Byrne as Self in music video

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

Kings of the Road

1976

7.6

♡ 6

100%

87%

german democratic republic

Drama

Wim Wenders Director

Rüdiger Vogler as Bruno Winter

Lisa Kreuzer as Pauline - Cashier

Hanns Zischler as Robert Lander

Wim Wenders as Spectator at Pauline's Theater

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.

Wings of Desire

1987

7.9

♡ 60

95%

Wim Wenders Director

Bruno Ganz as Damiel

Otto Kuhnle as Im Zirkus - Die Jongleure

Teresa Harder as In der Bibliothek - Die Engel

Peter Falk as Peter Falk

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Paris, Texas

1984

8.1

♡ 92

95%

Wim Wenders Director

Hunter Carson as Hunter Henderson

Nastassja Kinski as Jane Henderson

Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson

Dean Stockwell as Walt Henderson

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Buena Vista Social Club

1999

7.6

♡ 5

92%

Wim Wenders Director

Ry Cooder as Self

Joachim Cooder as Self

Juan de Marcos González as Self

Heitor Goldflus as Self - Man at a Manhattan Street

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

Every Thing Will Be Fine

2015