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6.7

♡ 4

Documentary

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Gene Scott as Self

Jake Hess as Self - Singer

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...

1976

6.3

♡ 4

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Scott McKain as Self

Ralph Wade as Self

Steve Liptay as Self

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Behinderte Zukunft

1971

7.0

♡ 5

bodily disabled person

disabled child

Documentary

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Interviewer

Rolf Illig as Narrator

Adolf Ratzka as Self

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

7.6

♡ 5

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Walter Steiner as Self

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020

7.0

♡ 12

98%

Werner Herzog Director

Donna Rohrer as Self

Joanna Bulger as Self

Fátima Tec Pool as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

The White Diamond

2004

7.5

♡ 4

90%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Wilk as Self

Anthony Melville as Self

Marc Anthony Yhap as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Family Romance, LLC

2019

6.7

♡ 7

74%

Werner Herzog Director

Ishii Yuichi as

Mahiro Tanimoto as (as Mahiro)

Miki Fujimaki as Mahiro's Mother

Mayu Nakamura as Paparazzi

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

7.2

♡ 6

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Self

Denis Reichle as Self

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

6.9

♡ 4

80%

61%

environmental destruction

Drama

Werner Herzog Director

Norman Kaye as Baldwin Ferguson

Ray Barrett as Cole

Bruce Spence as Lance Hackett

Colleen Clifford as Miss Strehlow

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

Signs of Life

1968

7.0

♡ 8

92%

Werner Herzog Director

Heinz Usener as Doctor

Achmed Hafiz as Greek resident

Henry van Lyck as Lieutenant

Werner Herzog as Soldat

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.

Huie's Sermon

1981

5.9

♡ 4

brooklyn, new york city

church

Documentary

religion

Werner Herzog Director

Huie L. Rogers as Self

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.

Invincible

2001

6.4

♡ 8

28%

Werner Herzog Director

André Hennicke as Detective

Tim Roth as Herschel Steinschneider / Erik Jan Hanussen

Renate Krößner as Mother Breitbart

Jouko Ahola as Zishe Breitbart

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019

social & cultural documentary

6.9

♡ 1

89%

Werner Herzog Director

Shaun Angeles Penange as Self

Peter Bartlett as Self

Marcus Wheeler as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Interviewer and Narrator

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.

Wheel of Time

2003

7.1

♡ 6

94%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Self

Manfred Klell as Self

Ven. Geshe as Self

Madhureeta Anand as Self

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Heart of Glass

1976

6.8

♡ 4

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Martje Grohmann as

Clemens Scheitz as Adalbert

Werner Herzog as Glass Transporter

Volker Prechtel as Wudy

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009

6.1

♡ 12

51%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Shannon as Brad Macallam

Willem Dafoe as Detective Havenhurst

Michael Peña as Detective Vargas

Dave Bautista as Officer, San Diego Police Department S.W.A.T Team

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

Stroszek

1977

7.7

♡ 10

95%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Gahr as Prisoner Hoss

Burkhard Driest as Souteneur

Wilhelm von Homburg as Souteneur

Yuecsel Topcuguerler as Turk prisoner

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Lessons of Darkness

1992

8.0

♡ 14

100%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974