Werner Herzog — Director (46)
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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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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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My Best Fiend (1999) [Movie]
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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God's Angry Man (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Gene Scott
other title: Fede e denaro / Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger …
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.
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Heart of Glass (1976) [Movie]
Herz aus Glas
director: Werner Herzog actor: Josef Bierbichler / Stefan Güttler …
other title: Cuore di vetro / Coração de Gelo …
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.
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Into the Abyss (2011) [Movie]
Into the Abyss
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Jason Burkett …
other title: Ned i afgrunden / Tod in Texas …
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.
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Into the Inferno (2016) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge
Into the Inferno
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Clive Oppenheimer …
other title: Dentro l'inferno / Visita ao Inferno …
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) [Movie]
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
8.2 (10 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Klaus Kinski / Helena Rojo …
other title: Aguirre, furore di Dio / Aguirre, den gale erobrer …
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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Lessons of Darkness (1992) [Movie]
Lektionen in Finsternis
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog
other title: Apocalisse nel deserto / Lektionen in Finsternis …
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.
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Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) [Movie]
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
director: Werner Herzog actor: Fini Straubinger / Heinrich Fleischmann …
other title: Il paese del silenzio e dell'oscurità / Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit …
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.
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) [Movie]
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Dieter Dengler …
other title: Flucht aus Laos / Petit Dieter doit voler
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.
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Grizzly Man (2005) [Movie]
Grizzly Man
8.3 (10 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Warren Queeney / Willy Fulton …
other title: Grizzly man
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.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Dominique Baffier …
other title: Cave Of Forgotten Dreams / A Caverna dos Sonhos Esquecidos …
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.