Search results for "Werner Herzog"
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
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
On Death Row

On Death Row

On Death Row
TMDb: 7.8
49 min

A two part series on an inside look at a maximum security prison in Texas featuring interviews with death row inmates.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Invincible

Invincible

Invincible
IMDb: 6.4
133

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

Genre: Drama, War
The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder
IMDb: 6.2
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…

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream
IMDb: 7
100

Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and…

Genre: Drama
Signs of Life

Signs of Life

Signs of Life
IMDb: 7.2
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During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded.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
Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
IMDb: 8
80

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living…

Genre: Documentary
Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier
IMDb: 7.3
46

Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
IMDb: 6.9
89

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out…

Genre: Documentary
Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness
IMDb: 8
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
Huie’s Sermon

Huie’s Sermon

Huie’s Sermon
IMDb: 6.1
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
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
God’s Angry Man

God’s Angry Man

God’s Angry Man
IMDb: 6.8
44

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and even argues with…

Genre: Documentary
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
IMDb: 7.7
44

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

Genre: Documentary
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
IMDb: 6.4
44

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

Genre: Documentary
Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness
IMDb: 8
54

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been…

Genre: Documentary, War
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
Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass
IMDb: 7.1
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: Comedy, Drama
Meeting Gorbachev

Meeting Gorbachev

Meeting Gorbachev
IMDb: 7.2
95

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of…

Genre: Documentary
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
IMDb: 7.3
97

This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

Genre: Documentary
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
IMDb: 7.9
93

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…

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
IMDb: 7.8
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
Stroszek

Stroszek

Stroszek
IMDb: 7.9
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: Comedy, Drama
Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Woyzeck
IMDb: 7.1
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
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
Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC
IMDb: 6.8
89 min

Enjoy is actually a venture in Family Romance, an company which promotes individual stand ins for every function. Creator Yuichi Ishii tends to make his consumers’ fantasies be realized. But…

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Genre: Drama
Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo
IMDb: 8.1
158 min

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who intends to construct an opera house from Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, therefore, so as to fund his job, he embarks on a heroic adventure…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
IMDb: 7.5
107 min

Jonathan Harker, an actual state agent, goes to Transylvania to go to the mysterious Rely Dracula and formalize the buy of a property in Wismar. As soon as Jonathan is…

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Genre: Drama, Horror
Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde
IMDb: 7.0
111 min

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil till he arrives in the sugar farm of Don Octávio Countinho. Not understanding that his brand new guest…

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Genre: Drama
Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man
IMDb: 7.8
103 min

Werner Herzog’s documentary film concerning the “Grizzly Man” Timothy Treadwell and that which exactly the thirteen summers at a National Park in Alaska were similar to at 1 individual’s effort…

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Genre: Documentary
Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn
IMDb: 7.3
120 min

A US Fighter pilot’s epic wrestle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos in the course of the Vietnam Warfare.

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Genre: Drama, War
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 min

Herzog along with cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger goto Antarctica to meet those who live and operate, and also to catch footage of the continent’s specific locations. Herzog’s voice over narration explains…

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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: 6.3
91 min

Brad has dedicated homicide and barricaded himself inside his home. With the assistance of his buddies and neighbours, the cops piece collectively the unusual story of how this good younger…

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

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

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

Terrence McDonagh is just a New Orleans Authorities sergeant, who receives a trophy and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism throughout Hurricane Katrina. Owing to his epic action, McDonagh injures…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
IMDb: 7.4
90 min

Werner Herzog profits exclusive use of picture in the Chauvet caves of Southern France, getting the earliest known pictorial creations of humanity within their astonishing all-natural setting.

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Genre: Family
Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss
IMDb: 7.3
107 min

In romantic conversations with individuals included, for example 28-yearold deathrow inmate Michael Perry (who had been advised to perish eight days after his interview by Herzog), legendary film maker Werner…

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Genre: Documentary
Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert
IMDb: 5.7
128 min

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell’s lifetime, a traveller, author, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and also governmental attaché for the British Empire in the sunrise of the twentiethcentury .

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Salt and Fire

Salt and Fire

Salt and Fire
IMDb: 4.1
98 min

An scientist blames the mind of a massive company to get a ecological tragedy in South America. However, if a volcano starts to reveal symptoms of erupting, they must combine…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
IMDb: 7.0
98 min

Werner Herzog’s investigation of the Web and the connected environment.

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Genre: Documentary