Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

English

7.7

♡ 6

88%

Werner Herzog Director

Gennadi Solovyov as Self

Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev as Self

Anatoly Tarkovsky as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970

German

6.7

♡ 5

100%

Werner Herzog Director

Alfredo Piccini as Anselmo

Erna Gschwendtner as Azucar

Gerd Gickel as Pepe

Gerhard Maerz as Territory

A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.

Cobra Verde

1987

German

6.9

♡ 9

83%

Werner Herzog Director

Peter Berling as Bernabé

Benito Stefanelli as Captain Pedro Vicente

José Lewgoy as Don Octavio Coutinho

Klaus Kinski as Francisco Manoel da Silva 'Cobra Verde'

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.

Rescue Dawn

2006

English

7.2

♡ 122

90%

Werner Herzog Director

Marshall Bell as Admiral

Christian Bale as Dieter Dengler

Steve Zahn as Duane

François Chau as Province Governor

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Woyzeck

1979

German

7.0

♡ 14

86%

Werner Herzog Director

Wolfgang Bächler as Jew

Irm Hermann as Margret

Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier

Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Grizzly Man

2005

English

7.8

♡ 19

93%

Werner Herzog Director

David Letterman as Self

Jewel Palovak as Self

Sven Haakanson Jr. as Self - Alutiiq Museum Director

Werner Herzog as Self / Narrator / Interviewer

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

Fitzcarraldo

1982

German

7.9

♡ 36

77%

Werner Herzog Director

José Lewgoy as Don Aquilino

Claudia Cardinale as Molly

Peter Berling as Opera Manager

Mick Jagger as Wilbur

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

German

7.9

♡ 14

86%

observational documentary

social acceptance

struggle for independence

Werner Herzog Director

M. Baaske as

Rolf Illig as Narrator

Fini Straubinger as Self

Elsa Fehrer as Self

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

German

7.4

♡ 64

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker

Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker

Dan van Husen as Warden

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Into the Abyss

2011

English

7.3

♡ 4

92%

Werner Herzog Director

Jared Talbert as Self - Citizen of Conroe Texas

Amanda West as Self - Former Bartender

Delbert Burkett as Self - Jason Burkett's Father

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

2022

English

7.6

♡ 7

88%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Harry Glicken as Self

Katia Krafft as Self

Maurice Krafft as Self

Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010

English

7.4

♡ 26

96%

Werner Herzog Director

Maria Malina as Herself

Valerie Feruglio as Herself

Nicholas Conard as Himself

Werner Herzog as Himself / Narrator

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

Into the Inferno

2016

English

7.2

♡ 11

92%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Self

German Qoheleth as Self Sarmin

Sarmin as Self - Carpenter

Kwon Sung An as Self - Historian

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2009

English

6.6

♡ 59

86%

new orleans, louisiana

police brutality

Werner Herzog Director

Eva Mendes as Frankie Donnenfield

Jennifer Coolidge as Genevieve

Kerry Cahill as Second Narcotics Detective

Nicolas Cage as Terence McDonagh

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

English

7.7

♡ 12

94%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Ashrita Furman as Self - Multiple World Record Holder

Karen Joyce as Self - Traveler, Computer Expert

Libor Zicha as Self - Utility Mechanic

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.

My Best Fiend

1999

German

7.8

♡ 10

78%

92%

Action

Biography

central and south america

complex relationship

Documentary

employee boss relationship

famous actor

film director

student mentor relationship

Werner Herzog Director

Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo

Claudia Cardinale as Self

Thomas Mauch as Self

Mick Jagger as Self - Wilbur

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

English

8.0

♡ 2

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Dieter Dengler as Self

Eugene Deatrick as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

German

7.8

♡ 39

96%

Werner Herzog Director

Christian Brückner as Balthasar

Peter Berling as Don Fernando de Guzman

Ruy Guerra as Don Pedro de Ursua

Helena Rojo as Inez

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Meeting Gorbachev

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Cobra Verde

Rescue Dawn

Woyzeck

Grizzly Man

Fitzcarraldo

Land of Silence and Darkness

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Into the Abyss

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Into the Inferno

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Encounters at the End of the World

My Best Fiend

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Aguirre, the Wrath of God