Werner Herzog
Known for: Directing
Born: September 5, 1942
Place of birth: Munich, Allemagne
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. Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
222 movies · 33 TV shows, newest first
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Celebrity Caregiver
2026
7.5
Bucking Fastard
2026
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Soccer Meets America
2026
7.4
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
7.6
Ghost Elephants
2026
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Felicidad
2025
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Mi casa amarilla
2025
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Sirena
2025
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Reeling
2025
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Theater of Thought
2024
5.2
The End
2024
5.5
About a Hero
2024
7.7
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
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Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
6.5
Orion and the Dark
2024
2.0
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
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Notes from a Dromedary
2022
7.6
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
6.0
Tegoyo
2022
5.0
Flores del precipicio
2022
6.8
Last Exit: Space
2022
5.0
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
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El Poso
2022
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The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
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Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
8.5
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
202110.0
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
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The Andinist
2020
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Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
6.5
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
7.4
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
8.4
The Mandalorian
2019
6.2
Family Romance, LLC
2019
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
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Tattoo Uprising
2019
6.5
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
6.9
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
1.0
Jihad in Hollywood
2019NR
Love Birds
2019
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The Last Scene
2019
8.3
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
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Paradox Bullets
2018
7.2
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
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I'm a Soldier
2018
10.0
The Empty Goal
2018
5.5
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018NR
The whole world is country
2018NR
The Golden Gate
2018
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
8.5
Werner We Love You
2017
6.4
A Gray State
2017
2.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
7.5
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
4.9
Salt and Fire
2016
6.9
Into the Inferno
2016
6.6
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
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The Blimp-Maker
2016NR
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
6.1
Freaks of Nature
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
5.8
Queen of the Desert
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.3
Red Army
2015
6.5
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
6.6
Atari: Game Over
20145.0
Lemonade War
2014
7.8
The Look of Silence
2014
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014NR
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
7.5
Life Itself
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
6.4
The Unbelievers
2013
8.7
Rick and Morty
2013
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Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
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An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
7.7
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
7.2
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
7.0
From One Second to the Next
2013
7.4
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
9.4
The Last Shepherd
2013
6.7
Jack Reacher
2012
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Strawberryfields
2012
7.7
The Act of Killing
2012
9.5
Close Up
2012
9.5
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
3.0
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
5.3
Dinotasia
2012
6.8
On Death Row
2012
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No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
7.0
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
6.9
Into the Abyss
2011
5.3
On Borrowed Time
2011
7.1
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
6.0
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
3.5
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011NR
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
20105.0
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010NR
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
7.3
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010NR
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
10.0
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010NR
A Night Out
2010
6.2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
7.4
Plastic Bag
2009
4.9
La Bohème
2009NR
The Lonely
2009
8.0
Parks and Recreation
2009
6.1
Capturing Reality
2008
5.0
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
7.0
BLAST!
2008
7.0
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
2008
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Bierbichler
2008
6.7
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
6.5
Mister Lonely
20085.5
Back to Room 666
2008
8.0
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
4.0
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
7.5
Encounters at the End of the World
2007NR
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
7.0
Rescue Dawn
2007
5.8
The Grand
2007
7.4
All In This Tea
2007
2.7
The Devil's Muse
2007
7.6
Metalocalypse
2006
8.4
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006NR
Walking to Werner
2006
6.0
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
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In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005NR
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
8.3
The Boondocks
2005
7.0
The Colbert Report
200510.0
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
7.5
Grizzly Man
20056.0
Dreams and Burdens
2005
7.0
American Dad!
2005
5.5
What Is It?
2005
5.9
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
7.0
The White Diamond
2004
6.0
Kulturplatz
2004
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The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
20046.8
Dribble
2004
6.4
Wheel of Time
2003
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Ten Thousand Years Older
2002
6.9
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
6.5
The Boxing Prince
2002
6.2
Invincible
2001
5.5
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
4.8
Pilgrimage
200110.0
The Last Documentary
2000
7.0
Tannhäuser
2000
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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
8.5
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
7.0
2000 Years of Christianity
1999
7.0
Wings of Hope
1999
6.9
Julien Donkey-Boy
19996.8
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
7.3
My Best Fiend
19998.0
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
7.2
What Dreams May Come
1998NR
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998
7.5
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
9.0
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
8.3
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
7.3
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.8
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
9.0
Burning Heart
19959.0
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994
5.7
Dangerous Game
1993
7.1
Bells from the Deep
19938.0
La Donna del Lago
1992
7.9
Lessons of Darkness
1992
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Film Lesson
1991
6.4
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
6.0
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
6.3
Scream of Stone
1991
7.2
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
6.0
Hard to Be a God
1990NR
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
7.3
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989NR
Under the Sun
1989
9.5
Bride of the Orient
1989NR
The Heart and the Legs
1989
8.5
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
7.5
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
6.9
The French as Seen by…
1988
8.0
The Gauls
1988
7.0
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
6.9
Cobra Verde
1987
7.0
Location Africa
1987
7.1
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
7.1
Tokyo-Ga
1985
7.6
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
6.6
Room 666
1985NR
Sonntagsgespräch
1985
6.6
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
6.9
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
5.2
Man of Flowers
1983
5.7
God's Angry Man
1983
5.2
Huie's Sermon
1983
7.6
Burden of Dreams
1982
7.6
Fitzcarraldo
1982
7.5
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980NR
Bavarian Film Awards
1979NR
Okay
1979
6.3
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
6.6
Woyzeck
1979
8.0
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
7.0
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
7.3
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
7.3
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
7.3
Stroszek
1977
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Journey Through History
1977
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
6.5
Heart of Glass
1976
6.4
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
5.7
No One Will Play with Me
1976
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Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
9.0
Midi Première
1975
4.3
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
7.2
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
7.4
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
6.5
Fata Morgana
1972
7.5
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
6.4
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1971
6.8
Handicapped Future
1971
7.2
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
5.9
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
6.5
60 Minutes
1968
6.6
Signs of Life
1968
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Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
5.5
Last Words
1968
5.2
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
9.0
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967NR
Grimme Award
1964
6.0
Herakles
19626.0
German Film Award
1951NR
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
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Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
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Ally
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The hunger in the world explained to my son
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The Twilight World
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