Perfect Days (2023)
Drama
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura, Yumi Asô
Director: Wim Wenders
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)
Biography | Documentary
Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.
Starring: Pope Francis, Ignazio Oliva, Sister María Eufemia Goycoechea
Director: Wim Wenders
Submergence (2017)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Starring: Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy, Celyn Jones, Alexander Siddig, Reda Kateb, Clémentine Baert
Director: Wim Wenders
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Faraway, So Close! / In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Starring: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Nastassja Kinski, Solveig Dommartin, Willem Dafoe, Lou Reed
Director: Wim Wenders
The American Friend / Der amerikanische Freund (1977)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Director: Wim Wenders
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
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?
Starring: Rachel McAdams, James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Josée Croze
Director: Wim Wenders
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Biography | Documentary
The discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
Starring: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Jacques Barthélémy, Lélia Wanick Salgado
Director: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Documentary | Music
A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.
Starring: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Ry Cooders, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo
Director: Wim Wenders
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The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The movie starts when a billionaire's son dies in a skid row hotel and a federal agent turns the lives of the miscreant residents upside down to find out if it was suicide or murder.
Starring: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson
Director: Wim Wenders
Pina (2011)
Documentary
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. Homage to late choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009), a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance. Bausch was the artistic head of Tanztheater Wuppertal, a German group that fuses modern dance with theatrical flourishes into a kind of hybrid art form.
Starring: Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Pina Bausch
Director: Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas (1984)
Drama
Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife.
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Wim Wenders
