故事发生在葡萄牙的海边，一个电影剧组正在这里翻拍罗杰·柯曼的名作《世界末日》，新版本的电影在拍摄过程中却遇到了各种困难。导演不知道为何没有了资金来源，电影面临被迫停拍的命运。导演试图联系到在洛衫机的制片人，以便可以对所有人员有一个交代，但是不知为何却找不到人。他费劲心思希望可以改变不得不停拍的命运，然而，世事总不如人所料，他感到十分无奈。该片情节很简单，但是却耐人寻味，整个电影都沉迷在一种神秘的意蕴中。

本片是文德斯“公路电影三部曲”之一，在1975年荣获德国电影奖多个大奖（最佳导演、剧本、男女演员、摄影、剪辑及音乐等）。
立志成为作家的年轻人Wilhelm（Rüdiger Vogler）为了摆脱笼罩他的深深的虚无，听从母亲的话踏上旅程，以期找寻到写作灵感。六天的旅行里，他先后结识经过战争洗礼的老人、沉静恬美的“魔术”女孩Mignon（Nastassja Kinski）、漂亮女演员Therese Farner（Hanna Schygulla）、写诗的忧伤胖子等人，并与他们生出短暂友谊、爱情，然而莫名的忧伤和不安仍是紧紧将他跟随，以致走到每个关口时，他都给出错误的选择。

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 Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

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 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

1969 film by Wim Wenders

Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LPs. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Credence Clearwater Revival. It was mainly the music and some shots out of a car, landscapes out of the car window. And it had a little bit of commentary – dialogue between Peter and me about American music and about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds. That is to say, about a kind of phenomenon, that it was in a way a kind of film music, but without a moving picture. It was a 12-minute film and it was never shown. – Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

1970 German film by Wim Wenders

1969 film by Wim Wenders

1968 film by Wim Wenders

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.