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.

KNOWN FOR

ZIBB
2011
Volle Kanne
2004
Morgenmagazin
2015
Die Harald Schmidt Show
2000
NDR Talk Show
2005
Kölner Treff
2018
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
2005
Riverboat
2005
Midi Première
1976
Spécial cinéma
1977
Nachtcafé
2008
Bambi
1977

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
157
Directing
76
Writing
51
Producing
84
Camera
14
Editing
10
Sound
3
Crew
5
2026
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
as Self
2025
The Keys to Freedom
as Wim Wenders
2025
The Ozu Diaries
as Self
2025
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
as Self
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Films to Die For
as Self - Interviewee
2024
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
as Self
2023
Room 999
as Self
2023
Cannes Uncut
as Self
2023
Directors Talks
as Self
2023
German Genius
as Wim Wenders
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
as Self
2022
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
From Our Side
2022
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022
CAN and Me
as Self
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
as Self
2021
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
as Self
2021
Now
as Self
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
Veränderung
as Self
2020
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
as Self
2020
High Maintenance
as Self
2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self
2019
Zeroville
as Larry
2019
Paul Auster: What If
as Self - Filmmaker
2019
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
as Self
2018
Living the Light: Robby Müller
as Self
2018
Beyond the Bolex
as Self
2018
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2018
Why Are We Creative?
as Self
2018
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
as Self - filmmaker
2018
Leçon de Cinéma
as Self
2018
Schawinski
as Self
2018
Kölner Treff
as Self
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
2017
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
as Self
2017
Plankton Salesmen
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
as Self
2016
Along for the Ride
as Self
2016
Three for the Road
as Self
2015
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
as Self
2015
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
as Self
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
as Self
2015
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
as Self
2015
Restoring Time
as Self
2015
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
as Self
2015
A Weekend at the Beach
as Self
2015
Filmstudio, mon amour
as Sé stesso
2015
Morgenmagazin
as Self
2014
The Salt of the Earth
as Self
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self
2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
2013
A Fuller Life
as Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
BAM150
as Self
2012
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
as Self
2011
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
as Wim Wenders
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as Self
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
as Self
2011
Viaggio in Bergmania
as Self
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
2011
Nachtstudio
as Self
2011
Westpol
as self
2011
ZIBB
as Self
2010
Snowblind
as Gray Fox
2010
Cronología
2009
What Do You Know About Me
as Self
2008
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
as Self
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
2008
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
as Self
2008
Back to Room 666
as Self
2008
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
as Self
2008
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
as Self
2008
Nachtcafé
as Self
2008
Dickes B
as Self
2007
Cannes: All Access
as Self
2006
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
as Self
2006
The Art of Football from A to Z
as Self
2005
Riverboat
as Self
2005
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
2005
NDR Talk Show
as Self
2005
Kulturplatz
as Self
2005
Im Palais
as Self
2004
La torcedura
2004
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
as Self
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
2004
Volle Kanne
as Self
2004
Sabine Christiansen
as Self
2003
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as Self
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
as Self
2003
Im Dialog
as self
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
as Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood
as Self
2002
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
as Self
2001
Window of the Soul
as Self
2000
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
FreeDogme
as himself
2000
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
2000
Goldene Kamera
as Self
2000
Wortwechsel
as Self
1998
Alekan le magnifique
as Self
1997
Tango Berlin
1996
Love in Hollywood
as Self
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
as Self
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
1995
A Trick of the Light
as Regisseur / Milchmann
1995
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
as Self
1994
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
as Self
1994
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
as Self
1993
Without Me
as Himself
1993
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
as Santa Claus
1993
Talking with Ozu
as Self
1991
Dream Island
1990
Pictures of Europe
as Self
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
as Self
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
as Self
1990
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
as Self
1989
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
as Self
1989
The Heart and the Legs
as Self
1988
Alekan, la lumière
as Self
1988
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
1988
Menschen
as Self
1987
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
as Gas Station Attendant
1987
live - die ZDF-talkshow
as Self
1985
King Kongs Faust
as Regisseur
1985
Report from Hollywood
1985
Room 666
as Self
1984
Tausend Augen
as Dieb im Videoladen
1984
De droomproducenten
as Self
1983
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
as Himself
1983
German Film Award
as Self
1982
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
as Self
1982
The State of Things
as Tram Passenger (uncredited)
1982
Cinématon XXII
as N°212
1982
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1980
Lightning Over Water
as Self
1978
Cinématon
as N°212
1978
Long Shot
as Another Director
1977
The American Friend
as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
1977
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1977
Bambi
as Self
1976
Kings of the Road
as Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
1976
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
1976
Midi Première
as Self
1975
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
1975
Wrong Move
as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
1974
Alice in the Cities
as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
1972
Summer in the City
as Billardspieler (uncredited)
1969
3 American LPs
1968
Candy Man
1968
Love and So Forth
as Student