Klaus Kinski’s Typical Vibe
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Klaus Kinski has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including For a Few Dollars More.
Recurring themes

Pretty Baby
1978
Drama

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
Drama

Vengeance Is Mine
1979
Crime · Drama

Martin
1978
Horror · Drama

The Ages of Lulu
1990
Drama

Magic
1978
Drama · Horror

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
1985
Adventure · Drama

Countess Dracula
1971
Drama · Horror

For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Great Silence
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Mubi · Included

Fitzcarraldo
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Cobra Verde
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté

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 search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro

A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff

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 to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy

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.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Dir. Les Blank · With Candace Laughlin, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski

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 the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy

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 murder one another.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
Dir. Andrzej Żuławski · With Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
Dir. Harald Reinl · With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Dir. Damiano Damiani · With Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
Dir. Jesús Franco · With Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Herbert Lom
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Dir. Georges Lautner · With Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran

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 job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
Dir. David Schmoeller · With Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery

A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
Dir. William Malone · With Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward
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