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Heart of Glass (1976)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Guttler, Clemens Scheitz

Werner Herzog each day put the cast into a hypnotic trance in an attempt to achieve an effect of collective hysteria in this tale of a glassblower who... Read more

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1969)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer

Strange, disturbing and truly unsettling parable about dwarfs and midgets confined to a barren correctional institution who literally take over the as... Read more

Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1998)

8.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler

A fascinating documentary about Dieter Dengler, born in the Black Forest of Germany. As a child, he watched his village destroyed by American warplane... Read more

Stroszek (1976)

8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno S, Clemens Scheitz, Eva Mattes, Pitt Bedewitz

Bruno S (Discovered by Herzog while working as a Toilet Attendant) gives a remarkable performance as a simple minded jailbird who abandons Berlin with... Read more

Grizzly Man (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Timothy Treadwell, Narrated by, Werner Herzog

Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled crusader for the Grizzly Bears of Alaska. After spending 13 summers living with and recording the animals he love... Read more

My Best Fiend (1999)

7.9/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale, Eva Mattes, Beat Presser

This wonderfully incisive documentary tells of the bizarre collaberation between actor Klaus Kinski and filmmaker Werner Herzog. This strange actor-di... Read more

Scream of Stone (1991)

6.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mathilda May, Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Based on an idea by Reinhold Messner about the first succesful attempt on Cerro Torre, a forbidding needle-like peak in Patagonia, Argentina. It only... Read more

Encounters at the End of the World ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Werner Herzog

Award-winning iconoclastic filmmaker Werner Herzog offers his unique perspective on the South Pole in this film profiling the Antarctic community of M... Read more

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin 'Xzibit'...

Neither a strict remake of nor a sequel to Abel Ferrara's lurid 1992 crime drama, Werner Herzog's outrageous, blackly comic procedural is its own odd... Read more

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)

6.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon

In this allegedly true story, Michael Shannon plays Brad, a mummy's boy and aspiring actor, who returns home to San Diego after an unsettling experien... Read more

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (Blu-ray) (1972)

7.9/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Helena Rojo

Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, and tells a hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary cit... Read more

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

8.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Herzog's saga of an impressario's obsession to bring his own opera boat up the Amazon River and over a mountain into Peru where he will have Caruso si... Read more

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1972)

8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Helena Rojo

Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, and tells a hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary cit... Read more

Where The Green Ants Dream (1984)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruce Spence, Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika

Another fascinating . . sometimes maddening chapter in director Werner Herzog's continuing obsession with the fate of the earth and the fate of himsel... Read more

The White Diamond (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Dr. Graham Dorrington

Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog follows enigmatic airship engineer Dr Graham Dorrington, as he embarks on a trip, in the heart of the Guyanian rainf... Read more

Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana (1992)

Director: Werner Herzog

In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno. True to form as perhaps the world's most d... Read more

Gesualdo: Death For Five Voices (1995)

7/10
Director: Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog's chilling and atmospheric chronicle of sixteenth century composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613), Prince of Venosa, whose life embraced... Read more

The Transformation of the World into Music (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog

This elegant and adroitly executed Werner Herzog documentary captures the annual excitement surrounding the Bayreuth Festival. Celebrating the operati... Read more

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

7.4/10
Director: Werner Herzog

From the incomparable Werner Herzog ("Encounters at the End of the World", "Grizzly Man"), "Cave Of Forgotten Dreams" provides a breathtaking cinemati... Read more

Rescue Dawn (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Pat Healy

Revisiting the subject he covered in the engrossing documentary 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly', director Werner Herzog's compelling drama boasts a stirr... Read more

Rescue Dawn (Blu-ray) (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Steve Zahn

During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a U.S. fighter pilot, is shot down over Laos and taken captive by enemy soldiers. Interned in... Read more

Queen of the Desert (Blu-ray) (2015)

5.7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, Queen Of The Desert chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle... Read more

Cobra Verde (1987)

7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, Jose Lewgoy

Herzog's last collaboration with his regular lead Klaus Kinski finds the wrinkled demon playing once again a misunderstood crazy. Loosely adapted from... Read more

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

7.9/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno S, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira

About a young man who in the 1820's suddenly appeared in a small German town, full-grown but seemingly a new born child, unable to speak and stand. Br... Read more

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

7.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus Kinski

A reverential remake of Murnau's classic by the perversely talented Herzog. Klaus Kinski's Count cannot match Schreck's original for sheer terrifying... Read more

Woyzeck (1978)

7.2/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Wolfgang Reichmann, Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes

The tragedy of a simple soldier who is humiliated by everyone around him and is finally driven to murder; fashioned into a brilliant, compelling piece... Read more

Invincible (2001)

6.5/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari, Jacob Wein, Udo Kier

Based on a true story, this is an extraordinary tale of a simple Jewish man who rises from a life of obscurity to defend his heritage. With Hitler on... Read more

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Werner Herzog

Award-winning iconoclastic filmmaker Werner Herzog offers his unique perspective on the South Pole in this film profiling the Antarctic community of M... Read more

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin 'Xzibit'...

Neither a strict remake of nor a sequel to Abel Ferrara's lurid 1992 crime drama, Werner Herzog's outrageous, blackly comic procedural is its own odd... Read more

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

6.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif

Earth has been decimated and as humans search for a new planet to inhabit, a race of aliens attempt to make a new home on our inhospitable, abandoned... Read more

Queen of the Desert (2015)

5.7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, Queen Of The Desert chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle... Read more

Salt and Fire (2016)

4.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Michael Shannon, Gael Garcia Bernal, Veronica Ferres

Polarizing eco-thriller from writer/director Werner Herzog, from a short story by Tom Bissell. Two ecologists working for the UN (Veronica Ferres and... Read more

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

7.7/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Werner Herzog

A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed littl... Read more