Werner Herzog — Director (45)
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Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Werner Herzog: Filmemacher
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Reinhold Messner …
other title: Werner Herzog: Filmemacher / Retrato de Herzog …
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
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Ghost Elephants (2026) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ghost Elephants
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Steve Boyes …
other title: Elefantes Fantasma / Ghost Elephants - Die Geister im Hochland Angolas …
In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.
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Theater of Thought (2024) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Theater of Thought
director: Werner Herzog actor: Rafael Yuste / Christof Koch …
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Bruce Chatwin …
other title: Nomad - In cammino con Bruce Chatwin / Der Nomade - Auf den Spuren von Bruce Chatwin …
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.
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The Dark Glow of the Mountain (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Reinhold Messner …
other title: Gasherbrum - La montagna lucente / Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg …
Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
director: Werner Herzog actor: Wandjuk Marika / Roy Marika …
other title: Dove sognano le formiche verdi / Onde Sonham as Formigas Verdes …
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.
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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / André Heller
other title: Jag Mandir. L'eccentrico teatro privato del Marajiah di Udaipur / Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur …
Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between may well fail to immediately realize that it is his country that is being shown and these are figures from the mythology of various sections of his nation. The bulk of the film consists of footage of an elaborate theatrical performance for the Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar at the City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan staged by André Heller.
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Steve Liptay …
other title: How much wood would a Woodchuck Chuck / How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache …
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
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The French as Seen by… (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Les Français vus par
director: Werner Herzog / Jean-Luc Godard … actor: Ève Ruggieri / Jean Clemente …
other title: Les Français vus par
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.
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Bells from the Deep (1993) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Glocken aus der Tiefe
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Vissarion …
other title: Rintocchi dal profondo / Glocken aus der Tiefe …
A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.
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Bucking Fastard (2026) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
Bucking Fastard
director: Werner Herzog actor: Kate Mara / Rooney Mara …
other title: 버킹 파스터드 / 魂淡 …
The story of two inseparable twin sisters, “Joan” and “Jean”, who live on the fringes of society. The film is inspired by the British identical twins Freda and Greta Chaplin, who had brief tabloid notoriety in the early 1980s when they became sexually infatuated with their nextdoor neighbour, a lorry driver, who eventually took out a restraining order against them. The Chaplins were the only known twins who spoke synchronously, and the film is titled after a verbal slip the twins made simultaneously when they were in court.
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Echos aus einem düsteren Reich
director: Werner Herzog actor: Michael Goldsmith / Werner Herzog …
other title: Bokassa - Echi da un regno oscuro / Echos aus einem düsteren Reich …
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
director: Clive Oppenheimer / Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Clive Oppenheimer …
other title: Fireball: messaggeri dalle stelle / Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds …
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.
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La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Edward Lachman …
other title: La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe / La Soufrière
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.