Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as… Read more
Known for Rescue Dawn 2007 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 2009 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Features 67 ★ 5.9 Bucking Fastard 2026
★ 7.6 Ghost Elephants 2026
★ 7.7 The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2024
★ 6.5 Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds 2020
★ 6.5 Meeting Gorbachev 2019
★ 6.9 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2019
★ 6.2 Family Romance, LLC 2019
★ 6.6 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
★ 6.9 Into the Inferno 2016
★ 4.9 Salt and Fire 2016
★ 5.8 Queen of the Desert 2015
★ 3 The Killers: Unstaged 2012
Series ★ 6.8 On Death Row 2012
★ 6.9 Into the Abyss 2011
★ 6.1 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2010
★ 7.3 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
★ 7.1 Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
★ 6.2 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 2009
★ 7.5 Encounters at the End of the World 2007
★ 7 Rescue Dawn 2007
★ 7.5 Grizzly Man 2005
★ 6 The Wild Blue Yonder 2005
★ 7 The White Diamond 2004
★ 6.4 Wheel of Time 2003
★ 6.9 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Ten Thousand Years Older 2002
★ 6.2 Invincible 2001
★ 7.3 My Best Fiend 1999
★ 7 Wings of Hope 1999
Series ★ 7 2000 Years of Christianity 1999
★ 7.5 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
★ 8.3 The Transformation of the World Into Music 1996
★ 6.8 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995
★ 7.1 Bells from the Deep 1993
★ 7.9 Lessons of Darkness 1992
★ 6.4 Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur 1991
★ 6.3 Scream of Stone 1991
Series Film Lesson 1991
★ 7.2 Echoes from a Sombre Empire 1990
★ 7.3 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989
★ 7.5 Giovanna d'Arco 1989
★ 6.9 The French as Seen by… 1988
★ 6.9 Cobra Verde 1987
★ 7.6 The Dark Glow of the Mountains 1985
★ 6.9 Where the Green Ants Dream 1984
★ 6.6 Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
★ 5.7 God's Angry Man 1983
★ 5.2 Huie's Sermon 1983
★ 7.6 Fitzcarraldo 1982
★ 6.6 Woyzeck 1979
★ 7.3 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
★ 7.3 Stroszek 1977
★ 6.5 Heart of Glass 1976
★ 6.4 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976
★ 7.3 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
★ 7.2 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974
★ 7.4 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
★ 6.5 Fata Morgana 1972
★ 6.4 Even Dwarfs Started Small 1971
★ 7.5 Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
★ 6.8 Handicapped Future 1971
★ 7.2 The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970
★ 6.6 Signs of Life 1968
Short films 12 ★ 7 From One Second to the Next 2013
★ 7.1 Ode to the Dawn of Man 2011
★ 4.9 La Bohème 2009
★ 4.8 Pilgrimage 2001
★ 8 The Gauls 1988
★ 7.1 Portrait: Werner Herzog 1986
★ 7.3 La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe 1977
★ 5.7 No One Will Play with Me 1976
★ 5.9 Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
★ 5.5 Last Words 1968
★ 5.2 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967
★ 6 Herakles 1962
