Movie Database

Movies by Director - Werner Herzog (71 [Missing: 47])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
HeraklesNA1962 Short,Sport Not Available
Game in the SandNA1964 Documentary,Short Not Available
Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz, TheFour guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.1967Werner HerzogShort5.8 (767 votes)1520211228
Last WordsNA1968 Short Not Available
Signs of Life [Lebenszeichen]A wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet island of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. The1968Werner HerzogDrama7.2 (2.1K votes)9120211228
The Flying Doctors of East AfricaNA1970 Documentary Not Available
Precautions Against FanaticsThe film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recu1969Werner HerzogDrama,Short5.8 (792 votes)1220211228
Even Dwarfs Started SmallA group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.1970Werner HerzogComedy,Drama6.9 (5.8K votes)9620211228
Handicapped FutureNA1971 Documentary Not Available
Fata MorganaNA1971 Documentary,Drama Not Available
Land of Silence and DarknessNA1971 Documentary Not Available
Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.1972Werner HerzogAction,Adventure,Biography7.9 (55.7K votes)9520211228
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver SteinerNA1974 Biography,Documentary,Sport Not Available
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle]A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.1974Werner HerzogBiography,Drama,History7.8 (17.4K votes)11020211228
Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas]The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".1976Werner HerzogDrama7.0 (6K votes)9420211228
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...NA1976 Documentary Not Available
No One Will Play with MeNA1976 Drama,Short Not Available
StroszekIn 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.1977Werner HerzogComedy,Drama7.8 (14K votes)11520211228
La SoufrièreNA1977 Biography,Documentary,Short Not Available
Nosferatu the VampyreCount 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.1979Werner HerzogDrama,Horror7.5 (35.1K votes)10720211228
WoyzeckFranz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.1979Werner HerzogDrama7.1 (9.6K votes)8220211228
God's Angry ManNA1981 Documentary Not Available
Huie's SermonNA1981 Documentary Not Available
FitzcarraldoThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.1982Werner HerzogAdventure,Drama8.1 (34K votes)15820211228
Ballad of the Little SoldierNA1984 Documentary,War Not Available
The Dark Glow of the MountainsNA1984 Adventure,Documentary Not Available
Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen]A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.1984Werner HerzogDrama7.0 (2.3K votes)10020220315
Cobra VerdeDuring 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.1987Werner HerzogAdventure,Drama7.0 (7.7K votes)11120211228
Herdsmen of the SunNA1989 Documentary Not Available
Jag MandirNA1991 Documentary Not Available
Scream of Stone [Cerro Torre - Schrei aus Stein]Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.1991Werner HerzogDrama6.2 (1.5K votes)10520240625
Lessons of DarknessNA1992 Documentary,War Not Available
Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in RussiaNA1993 Documentary Not Available
The Transformation of the World Into MusicNA1996 Documentary,Music Not Available
Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices [Tod für fünf Stimmen]Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.1995Werner HerzogBiography,Crime,Documentary6.9 (724 votes)5920211228
Little Dieter Needs to FlyNA1997 Biography,Documentary,Drama Not Available
Echoes From a Somber EmpireNA1990 Documentary Not Available
La donna del lagoNA1992 Drama,Music Not Available
My Best FiendNA1999 Biography,Documentary Not Available
InvincibleA Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.2001Werner HerzogDrama,War6.4 (4.3K votes)13320211228
Wings of HopeNA1999 Adventure,Biography,Documentary Not Available
Joan of ArcNA1990 Drama,Music Not Available
LohengrinNA1991 Drama,Fantasy,Musical Not Available
PilgrimageNA2001 Documentary,Short Not Available
Ten Minutes Older - The TrumpetThis 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.2002Kaige Chen, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Aki KaurismäkiDrama7.1 (3.6K votes)9220240116
Wheel of TimeNA2003 Documentary Not Available
Grizzly ManNA2005 Biography,Documentary Not Available
The White DiamondNA2004 Documentary Not Available
The Wild Blue YonderNA2005 Sci-Fi Not Available
Rescue DawnA U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.2006Werner HerzogAdventure,Biography,War7.3 (104.6K votes)12020211228
Portrait Werner HerzogNA1986 Documentary,Short Not Available
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce ChatwinNA2019 Biography,Documentary Not Available
Family Romance, LLCA man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.2019Werner HerzogDrama6.7 (3K votes)8920240715
Encounters at the End of the WorldNA2007 Documentary Not Available
Bad Lieutenant, The - Port of Call - New OrleansTerence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.2009Werner HerzogCrime,Drama,Mystery6.6 (76.3K votes)12220211228
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneInspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.2009Werner HerzogDrama,Thriller6.2 (10K votes)9120211228
La BohèmeNA2009 Documentary,Music,Short Not Available
Cave of Forgotten DreamsNA2010 Documentary,History Not Available
Happy People: A Year in the TaigaNA2010 Documentary Not Available
Queen of the DesertA 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.2015Werner HerzogAdventure,Biography,Drama5.7 (11.4K votes)12820220415
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice KrafftNA2022 Documentary,History Not Available
Into the AbyssNA2011 Crime,Documentary,Drama Not Available
Ode to the Dawn of ManNA2011 Documentary,Short Not Available
Theatre of ThoughtNA2022 Documentary Not Available
FordlandiaNATBA Drama Not Available
From One Second to the NextNA2013 Documentary,Short Not Available
Salt and FireA 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.2016Werner HerzogAction,Adventure,Drama4.2 (2.7K votes)9820211228
Salt and FireNA2016 Not Available
Into the InfernoAn exploration of active volcanoes around the world.2016Werner HerzogDocumentary7.2 (8.5K votes)10420220415
Lo and BeholdWerner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.2016Werner HerzogDocumentary7.0 (12.8K votes)9820220415
Meeting GorbachevNA2018 Biography,Documentary,History Not Available
Fireball: Visitors from Darker WorldsNA2020 Documentary Not Available