Werner Herzog — Director (39)
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My Best Fiend (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mein liebster Feind
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski …
other title: Kinski, il mio nemico più caro / Min bedste uven …
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.
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) [Movie] TMDB Douban
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
director: Werner Herzog / Dmitry Vasyukov actor: Werner Herzog / Gennady Soloviev …
other title: Happy People: Ein Jahr in der Taiga / Happy People : un an dans la Taïga …
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.
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Rescue Dawn (2006) [Movie] TMDB
Rescue Dawn
director: Werner Herzog actor: Christian Bale / Steve Zahn …
other title: L'alba della libertà / Rescue Dawn - Espírito Indomável …
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
7.2 (8 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Klaus Kinski / Isabelle Adjani …
other title: Nosferatu - Il principe della notte / Nosferatu - vampyren …
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.
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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.
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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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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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Bucking Fastard [Movie] TMDB
Bucking Fastard
director: Werner Herzog actor: Kate Mara / Rooney Mara …
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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Bells from the Deep (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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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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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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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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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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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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.