Search results for "Wim Wenders"
Anselm

Anselm

Anselm
IMDb: 7.2
93

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…

Genre: Documentary
Perfect Days

Perfect Days

Perfect Days
IMDb: 7.9
124

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…

Genre: Drama
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
IMDb: 6.6
96

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

Genre: Documentary
The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth
IMDb: 8.4
110

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…

Genre: Documentary
Submergence

Submergence

Submergence
IMDb: 5.4
112

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…

Every Thing Will Be Fine

Every Thing Will Be Fine

Every Thing Will Be Fine
IMDb: 5.4
118

One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move…

Genre: Drama
Pina

Pina

Pina
IMDb: 7.6
106

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died…

Genre: Documentary
Palermo Shooting

Palermo Shooting

Palermo Shooting
IMDb: 6.1
108

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…

Genre: Drama
8

8

8
IMDb: 5.8
100

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.

Genre: Drama
Land of Plenty

Land of Plenty

Land of Plenty
IMDb: 6.4
123

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

Genre: Drama
Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club
IMDb: 7.6
105

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…

The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel
IMDb: 5.7
122

The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The End of Violence

The End of Violence

The End of Violence
IMDb: 5.6
122

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story
IMDb: 7.1
100

Lisbon Story is 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….

Genre: Drama, Music
Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close!
IMDb: 7.2
146

Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World
IMDb: 6.8
158

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…

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire
IMDb: 7.9
128

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…

Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga
IMDb: 7.3
92

German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the…

Genre: Documentary
Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas
IMDb: 8.1
145

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…

Genre: Drama
Hammett

Hammett

Hammett
IMDb: 6.4
98

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The State of Things

The State of Things

The State of Things
IMDb: 6.9
121

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…

Genre: Drama
Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water
IMDb: 6.7
91

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…

Genre: Documentary
The American Friend

The American Friend

The American Friend
IMDb: 7.4
125

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…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities
IMDb: 7.9
110

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…

Genre: Drama
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
IMDb: 6.6
101

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 the city streets and…

Genre: Drama