Director
Werner Herzog
1942 Munich, Bavaria, Germany74 Films3 TV Episodes
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 disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
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Ghost Elephants
2026
7.8
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Theater of Thought
2022
6.5
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
6.2
Family Romance, LLC
2019
6.6
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
7.0
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
4.9
Salt and Fire
2016
7.0
Into the Inferno
2016
6.6
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
5.9
Queen of the Desert
2015
7.0
From One Second to the Next
2013
3.0
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
6.9
Into the Abyss
2011
7.5
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
7.3
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
6.2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
4.9
La Bohème
2009
7.5
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
7.0
Rescue Dawn
2007
6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
7.5
Grizzly Man
2005
6.9
The White Diamond
2004
6.4
Wheel of Time
2003
Ten Thousand Years Older
2002
6.7
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
6.2
Invincible
2001
4.6
Pilgrimage
2001
7.0
Wings of Hope
1999
7.3
My Best Fiend
1999
7.5
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
8.5
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
6.8
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
7.0
Bells from the Deep
1993
7.8
Lessons of Darkness
1992
5.8
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
6.2
Scream of Stone
1991
7.1
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
7.2
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
5.0
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
6.9
The French as Seen by…
1988
8.0
The Gauls
1988
6.9
Cobra Verde
1987
7.1
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
7.6
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
6.5
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
6.9
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
5.6
God's Angry Man
1983
5.1
Huie's Sermon
1983
7.6
Fitzcarraldo
1982
6.6
Woyzeck
1979
7.3
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
7.3
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
7.3
Stroszek
1977
6.5
Heart of Glass
1976
6.3
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
5.7
No One Will Play with Me
1976
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
7.2
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
7.4
Land of Silence and Darkness
1973
7.4
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
6.6
Fata Morgana
1972
6.8
Handicapped Future
1971
6.4
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
7.2
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
5.7
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
6.6
Signs of Life
1968
5.4
Last Words
1968
5.2
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
5.9
Herakles
1962
The Twilight World
Bucking Fastard
Television
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