Werner Herzog
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.
79 directing credits · 188 acting credits
Directing · 79
Under the Sun
1989
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Rescue Dawn
2007
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
Ghost Elephants
2026
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Grizzly Man
2005
On Death Row
2012
Stroszek
1977
Queen of the Desert
2015
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
2000 Years of Christianity
1999
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
My Best Fiend
1999
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Into the Abyss
2011
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Salt and Fire
2016
Invincible
2001
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Scream of Stone
1991
Woyzeck
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Film Lesson
1991
Fata Morgana
1972
Into the Inferno
2016
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Heart of Glass
1976
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Cobra Verde
1987
Herakles
1962
The French as Seen by…
1988
Bucking Fastard
—
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
La Donna del Lago
1992
Signs of Life
1968
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
God's Angry Man
1983
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Theater of Thought
2024
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Handicapped Future
1971
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
The White Diamond
2004
From One Second to the Next
2013
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Last Words
1968
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Wheel of Time
2003
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Wings of Hope
1999
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
The Twilight World
—
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
The Gauls
1988
Pilgrimage
2001
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
La Bohème
2009
Bells from the Deep
1993
No One Will Play with Me
1976
Huie's Sermon
1983
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Ten Thousand Years Older
2002
Acting · 188
The Simpsons
1989
Rick and Morty
2013
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Mandalorian
2019
The Colbert Report
2005
Parks and Recreation
2009
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
60 Minutes
1968
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Boondocks
2005
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
German Film Award
1951
Grimme Award
1964
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Kulturplatz
2004
Metalocalypse
2006
Jack Reacher
2012
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
What Dreams May Come
1998
Okay
1979
Orion and the Dark
2024
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
Ghost Elephants
2026
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998
Grizzly Man
2005
On Death Row
2012
Freaks of Nature
2015
Close Up
2012
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
The Grand
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Ally
—
Tokyo-Ga
1985
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Sonntagsgespräch
1985
My Best Fiend
1999
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Life Itself
2014
Dangerous Game
1993
Room 666
1985
Into the Abyss
2011
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Salt and Fire
2016
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Mister Lonely
2008
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
Scream of Stone
1991
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Atari: Game Over
2014
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
Film Lesson
1991
Hard to Be a God
1990
Into the Inferno
2016
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Heart of Glass
1976
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
The Unbelievers
2013
Burden of Dreams
1982
Sirena
2025
Lemonade War
2014
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
Dinotasia
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
All In This Tea
2007
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Signs of Life
1968
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
God's Angry Man
1983
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Capturing Reality
2008
Bride of the Orient
1989
The Andinist
2020
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Handicapped Future
1971
About a Hero
2024
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
Burning Heart
1995
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
Back to Room 666
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
The White Diamond
2004
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
BLAST!
2008
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Plastic Bag
2009
Man of Flowers
1983
Last Exit: Space
2022
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
Location Africa
1987
Wheel of Time
2003
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Wings of Hope
1999
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
On Borrowed Time
2011
The Boxing Prince
2002
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Tegoyo
2022
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
Strawberryfields
2012
The Last Documentary
2000
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
The Lonely
2009
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
Bells from the Deep
1993
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
—
Dribble
2004
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Tattoo Uprising
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
Paradox Bullets
2018
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
Bierbichler
2008
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
The Heart and the Legs
1989
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
Dreams and Burdens
2005
Walking to Werner
2006
I'm a Soldier
2018
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Journey Through History
1977
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
—
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
Mistaken for Strangers
2013