Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

September 5, 1942 · 84 years old

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fie…

Known For

52 titles
1
Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher

2012 · 2h 10m · Movie

Jack Reacher, a homicide investigator, digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.

7.0
2
What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come

1998 · 1h 53m · Movie

Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her.

7.0
3
Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn

2007 · 2h 5m · Movie

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

7.3
4
Penguins of Madagascar

Penguins of Madagascar

2014 · 1h 32m · Movie

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private join forces with the secret organization North Wind in an effort to stop a terrible villain from wiping out all the penguins in the world.

6.6
5
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2009 · 2h 2m · Movie

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

6.6
6
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972 · 1h 35m · Movie

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

7.8
7
Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man

2005 · 1h 43m · Movie

A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

7.8
8
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979 · 1h 47m · Movie

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

7.4
9
The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing

2012 · 1h 57m · Movie

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

8.2
10
Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

1982 · 2h 38m · Movie

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

7.9
11
Into the Inferno

Into the Inferno

2016 · 1h 44m · Movie

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

7.5
12
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016 · 1h 38m · Movie

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

7.0
13
Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

2015 · 2h 8m · Movie

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

5.6
14
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974 · 1h 50m · Movie

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

7.7
15
Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World

2007 · 1h 39m · Movie

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

7.7
16
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 · 1h 30m · Movie

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.

7.4
17
Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss

2011 · 1h 47m · Movie

Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.

7.3
18
Life Itself

Life Itself

2014 · 2h 1m · Movie

The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.

7.8
19
Stroszek

Stroszek

1977 · 1h 55m · Movie

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

7.7
20
The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence

2014 · 1h 43m · Movie

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

8.2
21
My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend

1999 · 1h 35m · Movie

The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

7.8
22
Red Army

Red Army

2015 · 1h 24m · Movie

The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

7.6
23
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010 · 1h 31m · Movie

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.

6.1
24
Woyzeck

Woyzeck

1979 · 1h 22m · Movie

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

7.0
25
Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely

2008 · 1h 52m · Movie

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson look-alike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

6.4
26
Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

1987 · 1h 51m · Movie

During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.

6.9
27
Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

1992 · 54m · Movie

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.

8.0
28
The Unbelievers

The Unbelievers

2013 · 1h 17m · Movie

Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world.

6.9
29
Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass

1976 · 1h 34m · Movie

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

6.8
30
Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970 · 1h 36m · Movie

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.

6.7
31
Atari: Game Over

Atari: Game Over

2014 · 1h 6m · Movie

A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.

6.7
32
The Grand

The Grand

2007 · 1h 44m · Movie

An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament.

5.9
33
Mistaken for Strangers

Mistaken for Strangers

2013 · 1h 15m · Movie

Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent on the road as a member of the tour crew for The National, the rock and roll band fronted by his brother, Matt.

7.3
34
Invincible

Invincible

2001 · 2h 13m · Movie

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

6.4
35
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020 · 1h 37m · Movie

A documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.

6.9
36
The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder

2005 · 1h 20m · Movie

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

6.1