20 Best Cult Movies Of The 1980s

German director Wim Wenders was one of the leading figures in the New German Cinema movement which began in the 1970s and continues to make films to this day. Perhaps his best known film from the 1980s is Paris, Texas, a movie which has been revisited and explored by cinephiles countless times in the years since its release.

Beginning with a lone figure (Harry Dean Stanton) emerging from the desert, it tells the story of a man with amnesia struggling to recover his memory and track down his brother and son. Wenders makes the most of his outsider status while filming in America, and his work with cinematographer Robby Müller (who also collaborated regularly with Jim Jarmusch) is outstanding, depicting America as a vast, mysterious space, as nebulous as the identity of Harry Dean Stanton's character.

Rumoured to have been the favourite movie of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, Paris, Texas is a film which continues to find new audiences who are impressed with its reserved kind of cool, it's laconic drive and the exceptional soundtrack from Ry Cooder.