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1. Perfect Days (2023)

PG | 124 min | Drama

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Miyako Tanaka

Votes: 42,809

2. Paris, Texas (1984)

R | 145 min | Drama

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.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry

Votes: 119,868 | Gross: $2.18M

3. Tár (2022)

R | 158 min | Drama, Music

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.

Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer

Votes: 94,455

4. Wings of Desire (1987)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Votes: 77,396 | Gross: $3.33M

5. Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.

Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates

Votes: 94,915 | Gross: $24.01M

6. City of Angels (1998)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz

Votes: 128,036 | Gross: $78.69M

7. On the Road (2012)

R | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams

Votes: 43,344 | Gross: $0.72M

8. 60 Minutes (1968– )

TV-PG | 60 min | News

The classic long-running prime time TV investigative news magazine.

Stars: Andrew Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer

Votes: 4,359

9. Night on Earth (1991)

R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott

Votes: 66,218 | Gross: $2.02M

10. The American Friend (1977)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain

Votes: 18,703

11. Anselm (2023)

93 min | Documentary

Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Kiefer, Anton Wenders, Ingeborg Bachmann

Votes: 1,417

12. Until the End of the World (1991)

R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin

Votes: 11,378 | Gross: $0.75M

13. Songs of Earth (2023)

90 min | Documentary, Biography

Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.

Director: Margreth Olin | Stars: Jørgen Mykløen, Magnhild Mykløen

Votes: 601

14. The Salt of the Earth (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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

Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Votes: 23,539 | Gross: $1.34M

15. Zeroville (2019)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A young ex-communicated seminarian, Ike "Vikar" Jerome, arrives in Los Angeles on the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie ''family'' led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders.

Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Joey King

Votes: 3,572

16. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

G | 105 min | Documentary, Music

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 triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Octavio Calderon

Votes: 20,613 | Gross: $7.00M

17. Alice in the Cities (1974)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl

Votes: 13,362

18. The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits

Votes: 22,504 | Gross: $0.05M

19. Pina (2011)

PG | 103 min | Documentary, Music

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante

Votes: 15,979 | Gross: $3.52M

20. Submergence (2017)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

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.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Celyn Jones, Jannik Schümann, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Votes: 9,315

21. Faraway, So Close! (1993)

PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 9,149 | Gross: $0.81M

22. Kings of the Road (1976)

Not Rated | 175 min | Drama

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 together.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler

Votes: 6,479

23. Chocolat (1988)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin

Votes: 4,500 | Gross: $2.32M

24. Wrong Move (1975)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

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

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski

Votes: 3,927

25. Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

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?

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: James Franco, Peter Miller, Gilbert Wahiakeron, Claude Chamberlain

Votes: 6,464

26. Don't Come Knocking (2005)

R | 122 min | Drama, Music

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.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, James Roday Rodriguez

Votes: 7,928 | Gross: $0.44M

27. Stories We Tell (2012)

PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley

Votes: 14,139 | Gross: $1.60M

28. Beyond the Clouds (1995)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

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

Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob, John Malkovich

Votes: 6,242 | Gross: $0.03M

29. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

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

Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko

Votes: 5,471

30. Hammett (1982)

PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 3,707 | Gross: $0.04M

31. Lisbon Story (1994)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Music

The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks ... See full summary »

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco Sequeira, Canto e Castro

Votes: 5,443

32. The Open Road (2009)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A man embarks on a road trip with his girlfriend and estranged baseball legend dad.

Director: Michael Meredith | Stars: Justin Timberlake, Ted Danson, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 3,752 | Gross: $0.02M

33. 8 (2008)

100 min | Drama

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.

Directors: Jane Campion, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders | Stars: Nigist Anteneh, Tefera Gizaw, Fekadu Kebede, Ingvar Sigurdsson

Votes: 976

34. Tokyo-Ga (1985)

92 min | Documentary

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta, Chris Marker

Votes: 3,391

35. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History

A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.

Stars: Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto, Aleksandr Sokurov, Norman Lloyd

Votes: 4,838

36. Adios Buenos Aires (2023)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Argentina, 2001. A shoe salesman and avid bandoneon player is forced to emigrate to Germany, but then he meets a beautiful but foulmouthed taxi driver as his tango band gets a new singer.

Director: German Kral | Stars: Diego Cremonesi, Marina Bellati, Carlos Portaluppi, Manuel Vicente

Votes: 152

37. Century of Cinema (1995–1998)

60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.

Stars: Martin Scorsese, Michel Piccoli, Nagisa Ôshima, Allison Anders

Votes: 97

38. Run Boy Run (2013)

Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama

8-year-old Srulik flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then on a farm as a Christian orphan named Jurek. Throughout his ordeal, he... See full summary »

Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth Duda, Itay Tiran

Votes: 2,835

39. The End of Violence (1997)

R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

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.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell

Votes: 5,190 | Gross: $0.28M

40. Palermo Shooting (2008)

124 min | Drama

After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch

Votes: 3,199

41. Omnibus (1967–2003)

Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern

Votes: 296

42. Land of Plenty (2004)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War

A drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Wendell Pierce, Shaun Toub

Votes: 4,121

43. German Genius (2023– )

30 min | Comedy

After wrapping his critically acclaimed run as "Toni Hamady" in 4 Blocks, Kida Khodr Ramadan struggles to find his next big project - until unexpected praise from Ricky Gervais brings an opportunity to adapt Extras in Germany.

Stars: Tanju Bilir, Marwan Naji, Amy Dichter, Andrea Guo

Votes: 407

44. Chambre 666 (1982 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, ... See full summary »

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina

Votes: 1,560

45. Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

31 min | Documentary, Short

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Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Souleymane Cissé, Francis Ford Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Manoel de Oliveira, Stephen Frears, William Friedkin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Volker Schlöndorff, Agnès Varda, Wim Wenders | Stars: Bernardo Bertolucci, Souleymane Cissé, Francis Ford Coppola, Costa-Gavras

46. The State of Things (1982)

121 min | Drama

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly

Votes: 3,628 | Gross: $6.00M

47. Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)

102 min | Documentary

Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.

Director: Thomas von Steinaecker | Stars: Werner Herzog, Chloé Zhao, Joshua Oppenheimer, Patti Smith

Votes: 621

48. The Other Conquest (1998)

R | 105 min | Drama, History

It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ... See full summary »

Director: Salvador Carrasco | Stars: Damián Delgado, José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra

Votes: 1,204 | Gross: $0.89M

49. Lumière and Company (1995)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi

Votes: 3,356

50. Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

PG | 96 min | Documentary, Biography

Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Pope Francis, Ignazio Oliva, María Eufemia Goycoechea, Joe Biden

Votes: 2,384 | Gross: $1.82M