Wim Wenders Stiftung Popular Movie

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mel Gibson

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Compay Segundo

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hurt

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yûharu Atsuta

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur Brauss

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Udo Kier

Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wim Wenders

New times have come for the way demonstrations are handled by the police. No more crude repression... "Policemen come from the people, just as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kasimir Esser

After an extensive prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanns Zischler

Documentary about the efforts to preserve and restore the films of German director Wim Wenders.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wim Wenders

"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Schroeter

Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanns Zischler

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Handke