Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2023 | Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (2023) | Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Anselm (2023) | Director, Writer |
| 2023 | Perfect Days (2024) | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2023 | Songs of Earth (2024) | Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Film, the Living Record of Our Memory | Self |
| 2020 | Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2021) | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Pope Francis - A Man of His Word | Director, Producer, Self, Writer |
| 2017 | Buena Vista Social Club: Adios | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Submergence | Director |
| 2016 | National Bird | Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Director |
| 2015 | Our Last Tango | Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Salt of the Earth | Director, Executive Producer, Narrator, Screenwriter |
| 2014 | Cathedrals of Culture 3D | Director |
| 2012 | Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle | Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Actor |
| 2011 | Pina | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2011 | The Story of Film: An Odyssey Episode 1-8 | Actor |
| 2010 | Au Revoir Lnine! | Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Palermo Shooting | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2007 | Invisible Crimes | Director |
| 2005 | Don't Come Knocking | Director, Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Land of Plenty | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Musica Cubana | Executive Producer |
| 2003 | The Soul of a Man | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | Ode to Cologne (Viel Passiert-Der BAP Film) | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Director |
| 2000 | The Million Dollar Hotel | Director, Producer |
| 1999 | Buena Vista Social Club (1999) | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | City of Angels | Screenwriter |
| 1997 | The End of Violence | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1995 | Beyond the Clouds (1995) | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | A Trick of the Light | Director, Producer |
| 1994 | Lisbon Story | Director, Producer |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1991 | Until the End of the World | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | Notebook on Cities and Clothes | Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1987 | Wings of Desire | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1984 | Paris, Texas | Director |
| 1982 | Hammett | Director |
| 1982 | The State of Things | Director |
| 1982 | Reverse Angle: A Letter From New York | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1980 | Lightning Over Water | Director, Film Editing, Self |
| 1977 | The Lefthanded Woman | Producer |
| 1977 | The American Friend | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1976 | Kings of the Road | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1975 | The Wrong Move | Director |
| 1974 | Alice in the Cities | Director |
| 1971 | The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | Summer in the City | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1969 | Silver City Revisited | Cinematographer, Director, Film Editing, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1969 | 3 American LPs | Director, Film Editing |
| 1969 | Alabama: 2000 Light Years From Home | Director, Film Editing, Screenwriter |
| 1969 | Polizeifilm | Cinematographer, Director, Film Editing, Screenwriter |
| 1968 | Same Player Shoots Again | Cinematographer, Director, Film Editing, Producer, Screenwriter |
