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Werner Herzog Features

by Karl_Childers • Created 12 years ago • Modified 9 years ago
Werner Herzog directed films minus the shorts and documentaries.
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  • Peter Brogle in Signs of Life (1968)

    1. Signs of Life

    19681h 31mNot Rated
    7.0 (2.6K)
    Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town. However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPeter BrogleWolfgang ReichmannAthina Zacharopoulou
  • Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

    2. Even Dwarfs Started Small

    19701h 36mNot Rated
    6.7 (6.5K)
    A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHelmut DöringPaul GlauerGisela Hertwig
  • Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

    3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    19721h 35mNot Rated
    7.8 (65K)
    In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena Rojo
  • Bruno S. in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

    4. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    19741h 50mNot Rated
    7.7 (20K)
    A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruno S.Walter LadengastBrigitte Mira
  • Heart of Glass (1976)

    5. Heart of Glass

    19761h 34mNot Rated
    6.8 (6.9K)
    The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsJosef BierbichlerStefan GüttlerClemens Scheitz
  • Stroszek (1977)

    6. Stroszek

    19771h 55mNot Rated
    7.7 (16K)
    In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruno S.Eva MattesClemens Scheitz
  • Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

    7. Nosferatu the Vampyre

    19791h 47mPG79Metascore
    7.4 (47K)
    Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiIsabelle AdjaniBruno Ganz
  • Woyzeck (1979)

    8. Woyzeck

    19791h 22mNot Rated
    7.0 (11K)
    Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiEva MattesWolfgang Reichmann
  • Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo (1982)

    9. Fitzcarraldo

    19822h 38mPG
    7.9 (41K)
    The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé Lewgoy
  • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

    10. Where the Green Ants Dream

    19841h 40mR
    6.9 (2.8K)
    A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruce SpenceWandjuk MarikaRoy Marika
  • Cobra Verde (1987)

    11. Cobra Verde

    19871h 51mNot Rated55Metascore
    6.9 (8.8K)
    During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiKing AmpawJosé Lewgoy
  • Scream of Stone (1991)

    12. Scream of Stone

    19911h 45m
    6.2 (1.6K)
    Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsVittorio MezzogiornoStefan GlowaczMathilda May
  • Tim Roth in Invincible (2001)

    13. Invincible

    20012h 13mPG-1355Metascore
    6.4 (4.7K)
    A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsJouko AholaTim RothAnna Gourari
  • The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

    14. The Wild Blue Yonder

    20051h 20mNot Rated65Metascore
    6.1 (4K)
    An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBrad DourifDonald WilliamsEllen Baker
  • Rescue Dawn (2006)

    15. Rescue Dawn

    20062h 5mPG-1377Metascore
    7.3 (114K)
    A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsChristian BaleSteve ZahnJeremy Davies
  • Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

    16. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    20092h 2mR69Metascore
    6.6 (83K)
    Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsNicolas CageEva MendesRussell M. Haeuser
  • Michael Shannon in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

    17. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

    20091h 31mR59Metascore
    6.1 (11K)
    Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsMichael ShannonWillem DafoeChloë Sevigny
  • Queen of the Desert (2015)

    18. Queen of the Desert

    20152h 8mPG-1339Metascore
    5.7 (13K)
    A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsNicole KidmanJames FrancoRobert Pattinson
  • Veronica Ferres, Gael García Bernal, and Michael Shannon in Salt and Fire (2016)

    19. Salt and Fire

    20161h 38m44Metascore
    4.2 (3.1K)
    A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsVeronica FerresMichael ShannonGael García Bernal

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