List of the best Werner Herzog movies: Fitzcarraldo(1982), Little Dieter Needs to Fly(1997), Stroszek(1977), Grizzly Man(2005), Encounters at the End of the World(2007), The White Diamond(2004), Nosferatu(1979), The Wild Blue Yonder(2005), Cave of Forgotten Dreams(2010), Into the Abyss(2011), Rescue Dawn(2006), Into the Inferno(2016) ... ...
8.1/10
Drama
West Germany|Peru
1982
160 Minutes
Director
Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale José Lewgoy Miguel Angel Fuentes Paul Hittscher Grande Otelo Peter Berling David Pérez Espinosa
entrepreneur madam native missionary creative fascinating gripping outlandish peru amazon mountain jungle insanity obsession ambition adventure quest pursuit 1890s
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
8.0/10
Documentary
Germany|UK|France
1997
80 Minutes
Director
pilot villager soldier filmmaker inspiring powerful quirky thailand laos jungle california household germany dieter dengler werner herzog aviation prisoners of war vietnam war escape underdog
German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
7.9/10
Drama
West Germany
1977
108 Minutes
Director
Bruno S. Eva Mattes Clemens Scheitz
busker prostitute pimp neighbor nephew waitress bleak amusing eerie melodramatic berlin prison bar apartment new york city wisconsin immigration displacement loneliness culture shock
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.
7.8/10
Documentary, Biography
USA
2005
103 Minutes
Director
Jewel Palovak Warren Queeney Carol Dexter Val Dexter Sam Egli
researcher bear girlfriend activist conservationist unrestrained tender powerful alaska wildlife preserve grizzly bears daunting task obsession death quest fall 2000s
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.
7.7/10
Documentary
USA
2007
99 Minutes
Director
scientist documentarian researcher fascinating antarctica isolation werner herzog wildlife survival penguins discovery 21st century
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
7.5/10
Documentary
Germany|Japan|UK
2004
Minutes
Director
About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Horror
West Germany|France
1979
107 Minutes
Director
Klaus Kinski Isabelle Adjani Bruno Ganz Roland Topor Walter Ladengast Dan van Husen Jan Groth Carsten Bodinus Martje Grohmann
vampire husband wife real estate broker creepy dark brooding castle transylvania death curse plagues immortality revenge quest love sacrifice 1970s
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.
7.5/10
Sci-Fi, Documentary
Germany|Japan|UK
2005
82 Minutes
Director
About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur ... See full summary »
7.4/10
Documentary
Canada|USA|France|Germany|UK
2010
90 Minutes
Director
werner herzog scientist archaeologist scholar filmmaker fascinating spectacular france cave river museum painting archaeology dreams research evolution chauvet cave discovery quest 2010s
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
7.3/10
Documentary, Crime, Drama
USA|UK|Germany
2011
107 Minutes
Director
werner herzog filmmaker candidate emotional texas cell capital punishment criminal justice system crime rivalry
Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
7.3/10
War, Drama, History
USA|Luxembourg
2006
125 Minutes
Director
Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies Galen Yuen Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul Chaiyan "Lek" Chunsuttiwat Teerawat "Ka-Ge" Mulvilai Yuttana Muenwaja Kriangsak Ming-Olo Pat Healy Toby Huss
pilot prisoner survivor military officer prisoner of war thrilling gritty laos prison camp jungle escape bombing mental illness hope violence torture escape quest 1960s
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
7.2/10
Documentary
UK|Germany|Canada
2016
104 Minutes
Director
Clive Oppenheimer
An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.
7.2/10
Documentary
UK|Germany|USA
2018
91 Minutes
Director
André Singer
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
7.2/10
Documentary
France|Germany
1990
91 Minutes
Director
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
7.2/10
Drama
Spain|UK|Germany|Finland|China|USA|Japan|Canada
2002
91 Minutes
Aki Kaurismäki Werner Herzog Spike Lee Markku Peltola Kati Outinen Marko Haavisto Frédérique Tirmont Ana Sofia Liaño
actress farmer husband elderly person sick person tribesman dense fascinating profound south america florida new york city rural community desert time fate illness scandal delusions humanity
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
7.1/10
Documentary
Germany|Austria|Italy
2003
80 Minutes
Director
The Dalai Lama Madhureeta Anand
werner herzog buddhist filmmaker emotional india tibet time ritual occupation temptation
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
7.1/10
Drama
West Germany|Australia
1984
100 Minutes
Director
Bruce Spence Norman Kaye Wandjuk Marika Roy Marika Ray Barrett Ralph Cotterill Nick Lathouris Basil Clarke Ray Marshall
geologist aborigine tribal leader lawyer businessman creative offbeat australia outback office courtroom culture clash mining business environmental consciousness beliefs rivalry quest 1980s
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
7.1/10
Drama
West Germany
1979
82 Minutes
Director
Klaus Kinski Eva Mattes Wolfgang Reichmann Willy Semmelrogge Josef Bierbichler Paul Burian Volker Prechtel Dieter Augustin Irm Hermann Wolfgang Bächler Herbert Fux
soldier mistress doctor drum major bleak brutal disheartening provincial town pond infidelity mental breakdown scientific experiments jealousy sacrifice underdog wretched excess 1820s
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
7.0/10
Documentary
USA
2020
97 Minutes
Director
Clive Oppenheimer
A new 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.
7.0/10
Drama
West Germany
1976
93 Minutes
Director
Josef Bierbichler Stefan Güttler Clemens Scheitz Sonja Skiba Wolf Albrecht Thomas Binkley Janos Fischer Wilhelm Friedrich
business owner artist tow truck driver prophet townsperson dreamy disturbing profound cheeky bavaria factory village countryside tavern art obsession secret madness prophecy self-destruction
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
7.0/10
Documentary
USA
2016
98 Minutes
Director
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
7.0/10
Drama
West Germany|Ghana
1987
110 Minutes
Director
Klaus Kinski King Ampaw José Lewgoy Salvatore Basile Peter Berling Pedro Oliveira Benito Stefanelli
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.
6.9/10
Documentary
UK
2019
89 Minutes
Director
A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was share with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
2019
89 Minutes
Director
Mahiro Tanimoto Ishii Yuichi Miki Fujimaki Takashi Nakatani Kumi Manda Yuka Watanabe Jin Kuroinu Airi Coats
A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
6.8/10
Documentary
West Germany
1971
78 Minutes
Director
Lotte Eisner
Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
6.6/10
Crime, Drama
USA
2009
121 Minutes
Director
Nicolas Cage Eva Mendes Val Kilmer Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner Fairuza Balk Shawn Hatosy Jennifer Coolidge Tom Bower Vondie Curtis-Hall Irma P. Hall Denzel Whitaker
lieutenant drug addict father police chief client prostitute disturbing intense gritty new orleans house apartment police station addiction moral dilemma hard times crime police work murder investigation fall
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
4.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
Germany|France|Mexico|Bolivia|USA
2016
98 Minutes
Director
Veronica Ferres Michael Shannon Gael García Bernal Volker Michalowski Lawrence Krauss Anita Briem Danner Ignacio Márquez Arancibia Lilly Krug
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
Biography, Drama, History
2015
128 Minutes
Director
Nicole Kidman James Franco Robert Pattinson Damian Lewis Jenny Agutter Holly Earl David Calder Mark Lewis Jones Sarah Crowden Christopher Fulford
archaeologist explorer writer engaging desert middle east life women time rivalry 20th century
Documentary
1971
81 Minutes
Director
Werner Herzog examines the world of Fini Straubinger, a woman who uses her own conditions of blindness and deafness to call attention to others who are similarly afflicted.
Drama
2001
131 Minutes
Director
Tim Roth Jouko Ahola Anna Gourari Max Raabe Jacob Wein Udo Kier Herbert Golder Tina Bordhin Alexander Duda Klaus Haindl Hark Bohm
blacksmith nazi strong man jew con artist fascinating creative disturbing poland village berlin stage anti-semitism secret identity nazism performance cabaret holocaust fall rise
A club owner (Tim Roth) who supports the Nazi Party hires a Jewish strongman (Jouko Ahola) as an entertainer.
Drama
1968
87 Minutes
Director
Peter Brogle Wolfgang Reichmann Wolfgang Stumpf Henry van Lyck Florian Fricke Athina Zacharopoulou Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg Julio Pinheiro
Three recovering German soldiers guard a munitions depot, until one goes mad and threatens to blow up the cache.
Adventure
1972
94 Minutes
Director
Klaus Kinski Ruy Guerra Helena Rojo Del Negro Cecilia Rivera Peter Berling Danny Ades Edward Roland
conquistador daughter soldier native intense brutal gripping amazon mountain jungle peru ambition expedition exploration madness rebellion obsession quest adventure rivalry
Power-mad Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) leads an ill-fated raft party from Pizarro's 16th-century Amazon expedition.
Drama
1970
96 Minutes
Director
Helmut Doring Gerd Gickel Paul Glauer Hertel Minkner Alfredo Piccini Gertrud Piccini Briggitte Saar Marianne Saar Erna Smolarz Lajos Zsarnoczay
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1999
101 Minutes
Father
Ewen Bremner Chloë Sevigny Werner Herzog Evan Neuman Joyce Korine Chrissy Kobylak Alvin Law
A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
7.0/10
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2012
130 Minutes
The Zec
Tom Cruise Rosamund Pike Robert Duvall Richard Jenkins Werner Herzog David Oyelowo Jai Courtney Joseph Sikora Michael Raymond-James Alexia Fast James Martin Kelly
investigator defense attorney sniper hit man police officer fiery suspenseful gripping pittsburgh police station street murder investigation cover-up russian mob military adventure pursuit rescue 2010s
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
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