“There’s a film by John Ford called The Searchers,” Wim Wenders once said, “and sometimes I think that’s my main topic… people who are searching, trying to define what they live for, trying to find the meaning of their lives, trying to find their role in life, looking for love: searching, searching, searching.”

One of the most acclaimed and prolific filmmakers to emerge from the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s, Wenders knows a thing or two about searching himself. In a 50-year career that has encompassed both fiction and documentary, the itinerant Düsseldorf native has made films across the globe. Japan has always held a special place in Wenders’ heart, fostered by his profound love for the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. Returning to Tokyo to shoot his most recent picture Perfect Days (2023), Wenders added an Oscar® nomination—his fourth—to the film’s award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.

Wenders’ restless spirit is evident across a filmography invariably characterized by the possibilities of travel. Meditations on identity and displacement, his road movies began in Germany before taking to the freeways of the United States for some of cinema’s most profound explorations into the American condition. Burning rubber across continents, this collection brings together some of the legendary German filmmaker’s greatest works. So pack your bags and buckle your seatbelts for an adventure along cinema’s international highways with the one and only king of the road.