Road Movies Filmproduktion is a German film production company formed by Wim Wenders in 1977.
Up until the 1990s, Road Movies acted as a producer of Wenders' own films. Well-known films of this time include Wings of Desire or Until the End of the World. Since the early 1990s, Road Movies has also co-produced many European productions. Under the leadership of Wenders' partner Ulrich Felsberg, many projects that are still well known today, such as Bread and Roses (2000 film) or Bend It Like Beckham, were co-financed. The expansion of activities led to Road Movies becoming the Road Movies Group, in which individual companies took care of rights exploitation, production and distribution of films.
During the Internet boom around the turn of the millennium, Wenders decided, together with his partner Ulrich Felsberg, to sell Road Movies to Das Werk AG, in return for which he received a twenty percent share in Das Werk.
After the insolvency of Das Werk in 2003, Wenders' entire rights library was stuck in the insolvency estate of Das Werk. Only after the conclusion of the insolvency proceedings were these rights acquired via a Hamburg production company that belonged to a friend of Wenders' and finally returned to Wenders.
Documentary films have always played an important role for Road Movies, including award-winning productions like Buena Vista Social Club, Pina, and most recently A Black Jesus by Luca Lucchesi. Furthermore, the company has become a leader in 3D technologies with the production of three feature-length films in this format. Wim Wenders' installation Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper at the Beyeler Foundation (Riehen/Basel) in 2020 demonstrated the effectiveness of this technology as a tool for storytelling within a museum setting.
Road Movies is located in Berlin Mitte, inside the building complex of the old "Königstadt Brewery". It shares its office space with the Wenders Images (the photo studio by Wim and Donata Wenders) and the Wim Wenders Stiftung, a foundation which is based in Düsseldorf. Part of its administrative work, the restoration and digitization of Wim Wenders' cinematic work, is carried out from Berlin.
Filmography 1977 - The American Friend 1978 - The Left-Handed Woman 1979 - ...als Diesel geboren 1980 - Lightning Over Water 1980 - Radio On 1980 - Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 1982 - The State of Things 1984 - Chinese Boxes 1984 - Paris, Texas 1984 - Flight to Berlin 1986 - 1986 - 1987 - Anita: Dances of Vice 1987 - Wings of Desire 1987 - Iron Earth, Copper Sky 1988 - The Passenger – Welcome to Germany 1989 - Notebook on Cities and Clothes 1991 - Until the End of the World 1993 - The Absence 1993 - Madregilda 1993 - Faraway, So Close! 1994 - Lisbon Story 1994 - Alta marea 1997 - The End of Violence 1997 - Forever and Ever 1998 - Ristiinnaulittu vapaus 1998 - Don Juan 1999 - Buena Vista Social Club 2000 - Princesa 2000 - My Generation 2000 - Liam 2000 - Gangster No. 1 2000 - Lista de espera 2000 - Bread and Roses 2000 - Nora 2000 - The Million Dollar Hotel 2001 - Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón 2001 - The Navigators 2001 - Me Without You 2001 - Dead by Monday 2002 - Junimond 2002 - 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman 2002 - Ten Minutes Older: The Cello 2002 - Sweet Sixteen 2002 - Two 2002 - Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002 - Bend It Like Beckham 2003 - The Blues 2003 - The Soul of a Man 2005 - Don't Come Knocking
Under the name Neue Road Movies 2008 – Palermo Shooting 2010 – If Buildings Could Talk 2011 – Pina 2011 – Ungerechte Welt 2012 – Notes From a Day in the Life of an Architect 2013 – Only Lovers Left Alive 2013 – Lupu 2014 – Cathedrals of Culture (Digital 3D) 2015 – Dirk Ohm 2015 – Every Thing Will Be Fine 2016 – The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez 2017 – Submergence 2016 – It Must Schwing - The Blue Note Story 2018 – Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Road Movies (2019-) 2020 – A Black Jesus 2020 – Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper 2021 – Souad 2022 – Rondo (short) 2023 – An Endless Sunday 2023 – Anselm 2026 – I'll Be Gone in June
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