Werner Herzog Movies

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...

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his...

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not...

A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...

The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.

A stark look at one of Hollywood's darkest mysteries, The Black Dalia (Elizabeth Short) Murder.

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has...

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...

Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various...

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded.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...

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...

The story of two inseparable twin sisters, “Joan” and “Jean”, who live on the fringes of society. The film is inspired by the...

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other,...

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...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...