Paris, Texas

Name: Paris, Texas
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984
Duration: 2 h 25 min
Rating: 8.1

A place for dreams. A place for heartbreak. A place to pick up the pieces.

1984·Directed by Wim Wenders·4.3·2h 25m

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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Recommended by 6 People

“An early film-education movie that changed the way that I could see cinema and the way I could see storytelling and direction.”

Rose Byrne

Actor

“This is a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton performance. It's just a marvelous, marvelous, marvelous performance.”

Carrie Coon

Actor

“I think Paris, Texas is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I think there's not a lot of movies that can portray loneliness as good as this one.”