Movies directed by Werner Herzog

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Aguirre, The Wrath of God

A ragtag column of men, many dressed in full armor and others lugging an enclosed sedan chair, wend their way down a treacherous mountainside path. This is the first image we see in Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God. He holds it for n...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 1977-04-03
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, ...
Into the Abyss

Watching Into the Abyss, I had the overwhelming sense that, somewhere along the way, Werner Herzog lost his way. It happens to the best filmmakers, and that's one of the perils of making a documentary - events don't always go where the man behind t...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Jason Burkett, Michael Perry, Fred Allen
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

When artistic and marketing impulses collide, you end up with an unwieldy title like Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Director Werner Herzog's preferred name, Port of Call New Orleans, was deemed unsuitable by producer Edward R. Pressman,...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, ...
Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn, which transpires in southeast Asia during 1965, makes three things perfectly clear. First, director Werner Herzog is obsessed with the story of Dieter Dengler. Second, Herzog loves making movies about men with a tenuous grasp on sanity...

Run Time: 2:06
U.S. Release Date: 2007-07-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
Grizzly Man

2005 has been an uncommonly a good year for documentaries, and Grizzly Man, the latest from acclaimed German director Werner Herzog, does nothing to weaken the field. Grizzly Man is actually three movies in one: a wildlife film about how grizzly b...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Timothy Treadwell
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Like Shakespeare's Hamlet and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those stories that is re-made on a fairly consistent basis. If you don't like the latest incarnation of the count, wait a few years and there will be anothe...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Mature Themes)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, ...