Movie | Drama, Horror | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog, Tom Shachtman, Martje Grohmann
Cast
Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
Plot
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Movie | Documentary, Biography | Germany, UK | German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
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.
A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
Movie | Documentary, War | Germany, France | German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
Movie | Documentary, Biography | Germany, UK | English, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick
Plot
German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany, Ghana | English, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Bruce Chatwin, Werner Herzog
Cast
Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, Jose Lewgoy
Plot
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a worl...
Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou
Plot
Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town. However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men.
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
Movie | Documentary | Germany, Japan | English, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog, Rudolph Herzog, Annette Scheurich
Cast
Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage
Plot
Engineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype. Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically. This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air.
Movie | Documentary, Short | Germany | French, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog, Jaarg Schmidt-Reitwein, Edward Lachman
Plot
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city,...
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander, Werner Herzog
Plot
Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
