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Werner Herzog

Directing Born 5 Sep 1942 — 83.877532880947 years old Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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...

Latest credit Soccer Meets America (2026)

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Ghost Elephants

2026 · 99 min

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About a Hero

2024 · 84 min

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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

2024 · 85 min

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Celebrating the Rice Media Center

2024 · 45 min

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Orion and the Dark

2024 · 90 min

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The Arc of Oblivion

2023 · 98 min

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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

2022 · 90 min

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Tegoyo

2022 · 8 min

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Last Exit: Space

2022 · 80 min

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Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

2022 · 75 min

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The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

2021 · 54 min

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Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

2021 · 60 min

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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

2021 · 55 min

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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

2021 · 76 min

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The Andinist

2020 · 4 min

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Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

2020 · 80 min

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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020 · 98 min

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Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020 · 120 min

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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

2020 · 59 min

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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020 · 505 min

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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

2019 · 12 min

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Tattoo Uprising

2019 · 75 min

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Meeting Gorbachev

2019 · 95 min

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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019 · 89 min

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Jihad in Hollywood

2019 · 45 min

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Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

2018 · 118 min

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Paradox Bullets

2018 · 25 min

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The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018 · 102 min

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I'm a Soldier

2018 · 32 min

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Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

2018 · 90 min

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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

2017 · 150 min

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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2017 · 62 min

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The Man Who Killed John Wayne

2017 · 66 min

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Salt and Fire

2016 · 98 min

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Into the Inferno

2016 · 107 min

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016 · 99 min

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Jihad in Hollywood

2016 · 26 min

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Freaks of Nature

2015 · 92 min

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Penguins of Madagascar

2014 · 92 min

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Atari: Game Over

2014 · 66 min

Lemonade War MOVIE Watched In progress

Lemonade War

2014 · 8 min

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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014 · 58 min

Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director DOC Watched In progress

Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

2014 · 95 min

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Life Itself

2014 · 121 min

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The Unbelievers

2013 · 77 min

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Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

2013 · 12 min

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An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

2013 · 10 min

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Mistaken for Strangers

2013 · 75 min

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Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

2013 · 27 min

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Jack Reacher

2012 · 130 min

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Strawberryfields

2012 · 32 min

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Close Up

2012 · 500 min

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10 Questions for Werner Herzog

2012 · 5 min

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The Killers: Unstaged

2012 · 95 min

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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

2012 · 71 min

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Dinotasia

2012 · 83 min

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No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

2012 · 4 min

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I, I, I José Lewgoy

2011 · 95 min

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Into the Abyss

2011 · 105 min

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On Borrowed Time

2011 · 85 min

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Champions: A Comic Tale

2011 · 67 min

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Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

2011 · 52 min

Werner Herzog Defends Dade MOVIE Watched In progress

Werner Herzog Defends Dade

2010 · 1 min

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 · 90 min

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Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

2010 · 160 min

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix DOC Watched In progress

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

2010 · 3 min

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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010 · 94 min

Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son DOC Watched In progress

Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

2010 · 28 min

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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

2010 · 98 min

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The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2010 · 31 min

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Plastic Bag

2009 · 18 min

The Lonely DOC Watched In progress

The Lonely

2009

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Capturing Reality

2008 · 90 min

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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

2008 · 90 min

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BLAST!

2008 · 78 min

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Bierbichler

2008 · 90 min

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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

2008 · 120 min

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Mister Lonely

2008 · 112 min

Back to Room 666 DOC Watched In progress

Back to Room 666

2008 · 15 min

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Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

2007 · 53 min

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Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

2007 · 110 min

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Encounters at the End of the World

2007 · 99 min

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest DOC Watched In progress

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

2007 · 60 min

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The Grand

2007 · 104 min

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All In This Tea

2007 · 70 min

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50 Films to See Before You Die

2006 · 195 min

Walking to Werner DOC Watched In progress

Walking to Werner

2006 · 93 min

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In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005 · 54 min

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog DOC Watched In progress

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

2005 · 14 min

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space MOVIE Watched In progress

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

2005 · 30 min

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Grizzly Man

2005 · 103 min

Dreams and Burdens DOC Watched In progress

Dreams and Burdens

2005 · 38 min

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Incident at Loch Ness

2004 · 94 min

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The White Diamond

2004 · 90 min

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The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

2004 · 180 min

Dribble MOVIE Watched In progress

Dribble

2004 · 32 min

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Wheel of Time

2003 · 83 min

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The Boxing Prince

2002 · 100 min

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The 100 Greatest Films

2001

The Last Documentary MOVIE Watched In progress

The Last Documentary

2000 · 65 min

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor DOC Watched In progress

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000 · 45 min

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The Ball Is a Scumbag

2000 · 43 min

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Wings of Hope

1999 · 65 min

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Julien Donkey-Boy

1999 · 100 min

A Brief History of Errol Morris DOC Watched In progress

A Brief History of Errol Morris

1999 · 48 min

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My Best Fiend

1999 · 99 min

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin MOVIE Watched In progress

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

1999 · 120 min

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What Dreams May Come

1998 · 113 min

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997 · 77 min

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Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

1996 · 70 min

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The Transformation of the World Into Music

1996 · 90 min

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Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995 · 60 min

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Burning Heart

1995 · 129 min

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Bells from the Deep

1993 · 60 min

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Lessons of Darkness

1992 · 54 min

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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

1991 · 82 min

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SnowwhiteRosered

1991 · 80 min

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Scream of Stone

1991 · 105 min

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" DOC Watched In progress

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

1990

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Bride of the Orient

1989 · 94 min

The Heart and the Legs DOC Watched In progress

The Heart and the Legs

1989 · 53 min

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The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979 · 13 min

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Journey Through History

1977 · 60 min

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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976 · 32 min

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Lost in the Garden of the World

1975 · 57 min

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Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1974

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Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968 · 27 min

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Neuer Deutscher Film Report

1967 · 48 min

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Soccer Meets America

2026 · 141 min

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen SERIES Watched In progress

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

2020

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On Death Row

2012 · 49 min

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Film Lesson

1991

Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog MOVIE Watched In progress

Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

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Shards of Cinema and Philosophy MOVIE Watched In progress

Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

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