Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 19 films on Boxlist

Known for Grizzly Man, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

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Directed by Werner Herzog

  1. Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

    2005 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    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...

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  2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    1972 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    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...

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  3. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    2010 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    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.

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  4. Nosferatu the Vampyre

    Nosferatu the Vampyre

    1979 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the...

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  5. The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

    The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

    2024 · Film

    7.8/10 · TMDB

    Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.

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  6. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    1974 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top...

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  7. Into the Inferno

    Into the Inferno

    2016 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    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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  8. Rescue Dawn

    Rescue Dawn

    2006 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    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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  9. Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

    Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

    2020 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    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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  10. Fitzcarraldo

    Fitzcarraldo

    1982 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored...

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  11. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

    2009 · Film

    6.2/10 · TMDB

    Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain...

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  12. Ghost Elephants

    Ghost Elephants

    2026 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

  13. Family Romance, LLC

    Family Romance, LLC

    2019 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing...

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  14. Queen of the Desert

    Queen of the Desert

    2015 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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