Werner Herzog

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 its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog

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

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

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog, Warren Queeney

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

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira

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 a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

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

Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica, where he finds a desolate, beautiful landscape, largely untouched by human hands, and a group of truly unique people who risk their lives to study it. Centered at McMurdo Station, the United States' largest Antarctic research center, Herzog explores the minds of the scientists willing to abandon civilization and endure volatile conditions to learn more about the continent's wildlife and awe-inspiring natural wonders.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Scott Rowland

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

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 in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

Dir. Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov · With Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei

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

Dir. Harmony Korine · With Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant

Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.

Dir. Harmony Korine · With Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog

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

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Dir. Wim Wenders · With Chishū Ryū, Yûharu Atsuta, Werner Herzog

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.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes

One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'. Reacher, an enigmatic ex-Army investigator, believes the authorities have the right man but agrees to help the sniper's defense attorney. However, the more Reacher delves into the case, the less clear-cut it appears. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Mael Moses

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

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 town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz

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 and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Werner Herzog, Jason Burkett, Richard Lopez

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

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Werner Herzog

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 man arrived at such a dark place.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.

Dir. Gus Holwerda · With Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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 back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Dir. Werner Herzog · With Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson