
August 14, 1945 · 80 years old
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 A…

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

An angel meets Peter Falk, and loves a French trapeze artist in Berlin.

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.

Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in trium...

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Claire and Eugene's relationship is falling apart, while a nuclear satellite threatens to fall out of orbit and destroy Earth. Claire travels the world when she meets Sam, a man with connections to technology that could change eve...

James and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.

A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel toget...

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 on?

Four stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.

Mike is a successful Hollywood producer of violent movies. Then he himself experiences extreme violence, goes missing, joins some Latino gardeners and reviews his life.

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.