10.0
10.0
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
as Himself
Werner Herzog
Also known as: Werner Herzog Stipetić, Werner Stipetić
Directing
Born:September 5, 1942(age 84)
Birthplace:Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality:Germany
Education:Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn
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Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films. Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (207 movies)
9.6
9.6
Bride of the Orient
1989
as Businger
9.5
9.5
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
9.5
9.5
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
as Self
8.5
8.5
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
as Self
8.5
8.5
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
8.5
8.5
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
8.5
8.5
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Executive Producer
8.3
8.3
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
as Self
8.0
8.0
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
as Self
8.0
8.0
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
as Self
8.0
8.0
The Gauls
1988
Director
7.8
7.8
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Director
7.8
7.8
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Director
7.8
7.8
The Look of Silence
2014
Executive Producer
7.7
7.7
Ghost Elephants
2026
Writer
7.7
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
7.7
7.7
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
7.7
7.7
The Act of Killing
2012
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Director
7.6
7.6
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
Writer
7.5
7.5
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Self - Filmmaker
7.5
7.5
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
7.5
7.5
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
7.5
7.5
Grizzly Man
2005
Director
7.5
7.5
Plastic Bag
2009
as Plastic Bag (voice)
7.5
7.5
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
Director
7.5
7.5
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
7.5
7.5
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Director
7.4
7.4
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Writer
7.4
7.4
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Director
7.4
7.4
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Director
7.4
7.4
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
Red Army
2014
Executive Producer
7.3
7.3
Stroszek
1977
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
My Best Fiend
1999
Director
7.3
7.3
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Director
7.3
7.3
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Producer
7.3
7.3
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Writer
7.2
7.2
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
7.2
7.2
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Director
7.2
7.2
What Dreams May Come
1998
as Face
7.2
7.2
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Director
7.1
7.1
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
as Self (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Director
7.1
7.1
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Director
7.1
7.1
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Writer
7.1
7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
BLAST!
2008
as Narrator (voice)
7.0
7.0
Tokyo-Ga
1985
as Self
7.0
7.0
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
as Self
7.0
7.0
Kinski
2024
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
All In This Tea
2007
7.0
7.0
From One Second to the Next
2013
Director
7.0
7.0
Wings of Hope
1999
Writer
7.0
7.0
Into the Inferno
2016
Director
7.0
7.0
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Father
7.0
7.0
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Director
7.0
7.0
Rescue Dawn
2007
Director
6.9
6.9
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
Writer
6.9
6.9
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Writer
6.9
6.9
Bells from the Deep
1993
Writer
6.9
6.9
The French as Seen by…
1988
Director
6.9
6.9
Into the Abyss
2011
Writer
6.9
6.9
Cobra Verde
1987
Director
6.9
6.9
The White Diamond
2004
Director
6.8
6.8
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Director
6.8
6.8
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
as Self
6.8
6.8
Handicapped Future
1971
Director
6.7
6.7
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self
6.7
6.7
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Director
6.6
6.6
Jack Reacher
2012
as Zec Chelovek
6.6
6.6
Signs of Life
1968
Director
6.6
6.6
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Writer
6.6
6.6
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Writer
6.6
6.6
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Director
6.6
6.6
Fata Morgana
1972
Producer
6.6
6.6
Woyzeck
1979
Director
6.6
6.6
Atari: Game Over
2014
as Self (archival)
6.5
6.5
Orion and the Dark
2024
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
Mister Lonely
2008
as Father Umbrillo
6.5
6.5
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
6.5
6.5
Room 666
1982
as Self
6.5
6.5
Heart of Glass
1976
Director
6.5
6.5
The Unbelievers
2013
as Self
6.4
6.4
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Screenplay
6.4
6.4
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Producer
6.4
6.4
A Gray State
2017
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Wheel of Time
2003
Writer
6.4
6.4
Last Exit: Space
2022
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
6.3
6.3
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Producer
6.2
6.2
Invincible
2001
Producer
6.2
6.2
Scream of Stone
1991
Director
6.2
6.2
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Director
6.2
6.2
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Director
6.1
6.1
Freaks of Nature
2015
as Perfect Being (voice)
6.1
6.1
Capturing Reality
2008
as Self
6.1
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Tegoyo
2022
as Self (Voice)
6.0
6.0
Dreams and Burdens
2005
as Self
6.0
6.0
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
as Self
5.9
5.9
Hard to Be a God
1990
as Mita / Richard
5.9
5.9
Herakles
1962
Director
5.9
5.9
Queen of the Desert
2015
Writer
5.8
5.8
The Grand
2007
as The German
5.8
5.8
The Boxing Prince
2002
as Self
5.8
5.8
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Director
5.8
5.8
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
Producer
5.7
5.7
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
5.7
5.7
Dribble
2004
as Self (voice)
5.7
5.7
No One Will Play with Me
1976
Writer
5.6
5.6
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Writer
5.5
5.5
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
5.5
5.5
Film Hour
1991
Director
5.5
5.5
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
as Self
5.5
5.5
Dinotasia
2012
as Narrator (voice)
5.5
5.5
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
5.4
5.4
God's Angry Man
1981
Director
5.3
5.3
On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
5.3
5.3
Last Words
1968
Producer
5.3
5.3
The End
2024
Executive Producer
5.1
5.1
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
Lemonade War
2014
as Neighborhood Hero
5.0
5.0
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
as Narrator (voice)
5.0
5.0
Huie's Sermon
1983
Director
5.0
5.0
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
Director
5.0
5.0
Flores del precipicio
2022
Producer
4.9
4.9
Salt and Fire
2016
Director
4.9
4.9
La Bohème
2009
Director
4.8
4.8
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
4.8
4.8
Man of Flowers
1983
as The Father
4.6
4.6
Pilgrimage
2001
Director
4.0
4.0
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
as Self
3.2
3.2
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1971
as Hurenmörder
3.0
3.0
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Director
2.0
2.0
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Executive Producer
2.0
2.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
1.0
1.0
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
as Self
Bierbichler
2008
as Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019
as Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
as Self
The Andinist
2020
as The Painter (Narrator)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Valley
2027
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
as Self
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Lonely
2009
Burning Heart
1995
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
as Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
as Self
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
Journey Through History
1977
as Self
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
TBA
as Self
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
Tales from the Opera
TBA
as Director
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
as Self
The Last Documentary
2000
as Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
TBA
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
I'm a Soldier
2018
as Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
as Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
as Self
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
as Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
as Self
Strawberryland
2012
as Turnlehrer
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
as Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
as Self
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
as Self (archival footage)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
as Self
About a Hero
2024
Walking to Werner
2006
as Self (voice)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
as (archive footage)
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Location Africa
1987
Producer
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
as Self
Paradox Bullets
2018
as Narrator (voice)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
as Self
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as (archive footage)
Theater of Thought
2022
Screenplay
El Poso
2022
Producer
La Donna del Lago
1992
Director
The hunger in the world explained to my son
TBA
Writer
The Golden Gate
2018
Executive Producer
Reeling
2025
Executive Producer
The Twilight World
TBA
Director
Bucking Fastard
TBA
Director
Felicidad
2025
Producer
Ten Thousand Years Older
TBA
Screenplay
The Last Scene
2019
Executive Producer
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