Buena Vista Social Club (1999) RT 91% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Dec 1999
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary • Music
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Ry Cooder • Compay Segundo • Eliades Ochoa • Juan de Marcos González
Don't Come Knocking (2005) RT 42% / Audience 60%
DVD release: Aug 2006
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Sam Shepard • Jessica Lange • Sarah Polley • Tim Roth
Hammett (1982) RT 80% / Audience 63%
DVD release: Nov 2005
"This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Frederic Forrest • Peter Boyle • Marilu Henner • Roy Kinnear
Lisbon Story (1994) RT Audience 86%
DVD release: Nov 2007
Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Rüdiger Vogler • Patrick Bauchau • Vasco Sequeira • Teresa Salgueiro
Paris, Texas (1984) RT 100% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Dec 2004
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Harry Dean Stanton • Nastassja Kinski • Dean Stockwell • Hunter Carson
Soul of a Man (2003) RT Audience 80%
DVD release: May 2004
In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary • Music
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Laurence Fishburne
The American Friend (1977)
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Dennis Hopper • Bruno Ganz • Lisa Kreuzer • Gérard Blain
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) RT 26% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Jun 2001
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 strange people had been living. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Mel Gibson • Milla Jovovich • Jeremy Davies • Amanda Plummer
Tokyo-Ga (1985) RT 60% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Apr 2004
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Yûharu Atsuta • Werner Herzog • Chishû Ryû • Chris Marker
Until the End of the World (1991)
Until The End of the World is an odyssey for the modern age. As with Homer's Odyssey, the purpose of the journey is to restore sight -- a spiritual reconciliation between an ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Solveig Dommartin • William Hurt • Tom Waits • Chick Ortega
Wings of Desire (1987) RT 98% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Jul 2003
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • Romance
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Bruno Ganz • Otto Sander • Solveig Dommartin • Curt Bois
Land of Plenty (2004) RT 62% / Audience 62%
DVD release: Oct 2006
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. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Michelle Williams • John Diehl • Shaun Toub • Burt Young
Lumière and Company (1995)
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Comedy • Documentary • Drama
DIRECTION: David Lynch • Spike Lee • James Ivory • Andrei Konchalovsky • Liv Ullmann • Peter Greenaway • Lasse Hallström • Bigas Luna • Gabriel Axel • Merzak Allouache • Patrice Leconte • Cédric Klapisch • Costa-Gavras • Michael Haneke • Theo Angelopoulos • Wim Wenders • Fernando Trueba • John Boorman • Claude Miller • Raymond Depardon • Abbas Kiarostami • Alain Corneau • Zhang Yimou • Claude Lelouch • Lucian Pintilie • Arthur Penn • Vicente Aranda • Jacques Rivette • Helma Sanders-Brahms • Youssef Chahine • Régis Wargnier • Francis Girod • Idrissa Ouedraogo • Jerry Schatzberg • Hugh Hudson • Ismail Merchant • Gaston Kaboré • Jaco Van Dormael • Sarah Moon • Nadine Trintignant • Yoshishige Yoshida
CAST: Jeffe Alperi • Romane Bohringer • Bruno Ganz • Ticky Holgado
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • History
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Otto Sander • Bruno Ganz • Nastassja Kinski • Peter Falk
Pina (2011) RT 95% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Jan 2013
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, ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Wim Wenders
CAST: Regina Advento • Malou Airaudo • Ruth Amarante • Pina Bausch
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary • Drama
DIRECTION: Spike Lee • Werner Herzog • Jim Jarmusch • Víctor Erice • Aki Kaurismäki • Wim Wenders • Chen Kaige
CAST: Markku Peltola • Kati Outinen • Marko Haavisto • Ana Sofia Liaño
Cathedrals of Culture (2014) RT Audience 75%
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Robert Redford • Wim Wenders • Michael Glawogger • Karim Ainouz • Micheal Madsen • Margreth Olin
CAST:
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) RT 26% / Audience 20%
DVD release: Jun 2016
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? (more)