Search results for "Werner Herzog"
Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss
IMDb: 7.3
105

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death…

Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert
IMDb: 5.7
128

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.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
IMDb: 7.7
94

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists…

Genre: Documentary
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
IMDb: 7.4
90

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

Genre: Documentary
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
IMDb: 6.1
91

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
IMDb: 6.6
122

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World
IMDb: 7.7
99

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent’s unique locations. Herzog’s voiceover narration explains that…

Genre: Documentary
Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn
IMDb: 7.3
125

A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder
IMDb: 6.1
81

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visitations to Earth and Earth’s self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an…

The White Diamond

The White Diamond

The White Diamond
IMDb: 7.5
90

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Genre: Documentary
Wheel of Time

Wheel of Time

Wheel of Time
IMDb: 7.1
83

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Genre: Documentary
Invincible

Invincible

Invincible
IMDb: 6.4
133

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

Genre: Drama, War
My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend
IMDb: 7.8
95

A film that describes 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…

Genre: Documentary
Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
IMDb: 8
80

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War….

Genre: Documentary
Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness
IMDb: 8
54

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with…

Genre: Documentary, War
Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde
IMDb: 6.9
111

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream
IMDb: 6.9
100

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring…

Genre: Drama
Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier
IMDb: 7.2
46

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Genre: Documentary
Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo
IMDb: 8
157

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Huie’s Sermon

Huie’s Sermon

Huie’s Sermon
IMDb: 6
42

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into…

Genre: Documentary
God’s Angry Man

God’s Angry Man

God’s Angry Man
IMDb: 6.7
44

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and ’80s, and even argues with…

Genre: Documentary
Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Woyzeck
IMDb: 7
82

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them…

Genre: Drama
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
IMDb: 7.4
107

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Genre: Drama, Horror
Stroszek

Stroszek

Stroszek
IMDb: 7.7
107

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as…

Genre: Drama
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
IMDb: 6.3
44

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Genre: Documentary
Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass
IMDb: 6.8
94

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its “Ruby Glass” glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the…

Genre: Drama
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
IMDb: 7.7
109

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time,…

Genre: Drama, History
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
IMDb: 7.6
45

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Genre: Documentary
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
IMDb: 7.8
95

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in…

Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness
IMDb: 7.9
85

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the…

Genre: Documentary
Handicapped Future

Handicapped Future

Handicapped Future
IMDb: 7
43

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Genre: Documentary
Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small
IMDb: 6.7
96

A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they’re not allowed out on an excursion.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Signs of Life

Signs of Life

Signs of Life
IMDb: 7
91

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island…

Genre: Drama, War