Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His film-making process involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working.
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Ghost Elephants
actor
2026
Ghost Elephants
writer
2026
Ghost Elephants
director
2026
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
director
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
writer
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
actor
2024
Orion and the Dark
actor
2024
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
actor
2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
actor
2021
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
director
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
writer
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
actor
2020
Family Romance, LLC
director
2019
Family Romance, LLC
writer
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
director
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
writer
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
actor
2019
The Great Buster: A Celebration
actor
2018
Salt and Fire
director
2016
Salt and Fire
writer
2016
Salt and Fire
actor
2016
Into the Inferno
writer
2016
Into the Inferno
director
2016
Into the Inferno
actor
2016
Freaks of Nature
actor
2015
Queen of the Desert
writer
2015
Queen of the Desert
director
2015
Penguins of Madagascar
actor
2014
Life Itself
actor
2014
Jack Reacher
actor
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
actor
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
director
2012
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
actor
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
director
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
writer
2010
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
actor
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
writer
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
director
2010
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
director
2009
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
actor
2008
Mister Lonely
actor
2008
Encounters at the End of the World
director
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
actor
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
writer
2007
Rescue Dawn
writer
2007
Rescue Dawn
director
2007
The Grand
actor
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
actor
2006
Grizzly Man
director
2005
Grizzly Man
actor
2005
Incident at Loch Ness
actor
2004
Wheel of Time
director
2003
Wheel of Time
actor
2003
Wheel of Time
writer
2003
Ten Thousand Years Older
writer
2002
Ten Thousand Years Older
director
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
director
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
writer
2002
Invincible
director
2001
Invincible
writer
2001
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
actor
2000
Julien Donkey-Boy
actor
1999
My Best Fiend
writer
1999
My Best Fiend
director
1999
My Best Fiend
actor
1999
What Dreams May Come
actor
1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
director
1997
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
actor
1997
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
writer
1997
Lessons of Darkness
actor
1992
Lessons of Darkness
director
1992
Lessons of Darkness
writer
1992
Hard to Be a God
actor
1990
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
writer
1988
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
actor
1988
Cobra Verde
writer
1987
Cobra Verde
director
1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
director
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
writer
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
actor
1986
Tokyo-Ga
actor
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
actor
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
director
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
writer
1985
Room 666
actor
1985
Where the Green Ants Dream
writer
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
director
1984
Burden of Dreams
actor
1982
Fitzcarraldo
director
1982
Fitzcarraldo
writer
1982
Woyzeck
writer
1979
Woyzeck
director
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
writer
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
director
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
director
1977
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
actor
1977
Stroszek
writer
1977
Stroszek
director
1977
Heart of Glass
writer
1976
Heart of Glass
director
1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
actor
1975
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
actor
1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
writer
1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
director
1974
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
writer
1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
director
1972
Fata Morgana
writer
1972
Fata Morgana
director
1972
Land of Silence and Darkness
writer
1971
Land of Silence and Darkness
director
1971
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
writer
1970
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
director
1970
Signs of Life
director
1968
Signs of Life
writer
1968
Signs of Life
actor
1968
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
director
1967
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
writer
1967
Ally
actor
Bucking Fastard
director
Bucking Fastard
writer