Wim Wenders films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 11 films on Boxlist

Known for Perfect Days, Paris, Texas and The Salt of the Earth.

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Perfect Days
2023 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of...
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Paris, Texas
1984 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
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 disappeared four years earlier.
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The Salt of the Earth
2014 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
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 recent history: international conflicts...
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Wings of Desire
1987 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
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 falls in love with lonely trapeze...
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Alice in the Cities
1974 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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 book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old...
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Anselm
2023 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
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 are interwoven to diffuse the line between...
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Buena Vista Social Club
1999 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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 city of Havana. The result is a...
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The American Friend
1977 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
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 kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting...
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Until the End of the World
1991 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American...
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The Million Dollar Hotel
2000 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
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.
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Wim Wenders films, ranked by your taste

Starring Wim Wenders

Directed by Wim Wenders