An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visitations to Earth and Earth’s self-made demise, while human ...

Genre: Comedy,Documentary,Science Fiction

Actors:Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Martin Lo, Michael McCulley, Roger Diehl, Shannon Lucid, Ted Sweetser

Werner Herzog’s exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Adrien Treuille, Bob Kahn, Danny Hillis, Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Kleinrock, Lucianne Walkowicz, Raj Rajkumar, Ted Nelson

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Clive Oppenheimer, Isaac Wan, Kampiro Kayrento, Katia Krafft, Mael Moses, Maurice Krafft, Sri Sumarti, Tim D. White, Yonatan Sahle

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Alfred Edel, Bruno S., Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski, Clemens Scheitz, Ely Rodriguez, Eva Mattes, Pitt Bedewitz, Scott McKain, Wilhelm von Homburg

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Basil Clarke, Bruce Spence, Gary Williams, Nico Lathouris, Norman Kaye, Ralph Cotterill, Ray Barrett, Ray Marshall, Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Soloviev, Gennady Tiganov, Mikhail Tarkovsky

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell’s life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British ...

Genre: Adventure,Drama,History

Actors:Christopher Fulford, Damian Lewis, David Calder, Holly Earl, Jay Abdo, Jenny Agutter, Nick Waring, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Abe Diffenbach, Ralph Wade, Scott McKain, Steve Liptay

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Adrian de Schryver, Annette Scheurich, Anthony Melville, Dieter Plage, Graham Dorrington, Jan-Peter Meewes, Jason Gibson, Marc Anthony Yhap, Michael Wilk

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about ...

Genre: Crime,Documentary

Actors:Amanda West, Charles Richardson, Damon Hall, Delbert Burkett, Jared Talbert, Jason Burkett, Lisa Stolter-Balloun, Melyssa Burkett, Richard Lopez

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:George H. W. Bush, George Shultz, Horst Teltschik, James Baker III, Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Németh

A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Genre: Adventure,Drama,War

Actors:Brad Carr, Christian Bale, François Chau, James Aaron Oliver, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, Saichia Wongwirot, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its “Ruby Glass” glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Brunhilde Klöckner, Clemens Scheitz, Janos Fischer, Josef Bierbichler, Sonja Skiba, Stefan Güttler, Thomas Binkley, Volker Prechtel, Wilhelm Friedrich, Wolf Albrecht

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 ...

Genre: Adventure,Drama

Actors:Claudia Cardinale, David Pérez Espinosa, Grande Otelo, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Milton Nascimento, Paul Hittscher, Peter Berling

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Brad Dourif, Chloë Sevigny, Grace Zabriskie, Irma P. Hall, Jenn Liu, Loretta Devine, Michael Peña, Michael Shannon, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Gene Scott

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 ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Brigitte Mira, Bruno S., Enno Patalas, Hans Musäus, Henry van Lyck, Michael Kroecher, Volker Elis Pilgrim, Walter Ladengast, Willy Semmelrogge

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog ...

Genre: Documentary,War

Actors:

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Dieter Augustin, Eva Mattes, Irm Hermann, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian, Volker Prechtel, Willy Semmelrogge, Wolfgang Bächler, Wolfgang Reichmann

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Bruce Chatwin, Elizabeth Chatwin, Glenn Morrison, Karin Eberhard, Marcus Wheeler, Michael Liddle Pula, Nicholas Shakespeare, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Shaun Angeles Penange

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Baron van der Recke, Baronin van der Recke, Beat Presser, Bill Pence, Claudia Cardinale, Eva Mattes, Guillermo Ríos, José Koechlin von Stein

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Airi Coats, Jin Kuroinu, Mahiro Tanimoto, Miki Fujimaki, Shun Ishigaki, Takashi Nakatani, Tatsuaki Hôjô, Tetsuro Mori, Yuichi Ishii, Yuka Watanabe

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Walter Steiner

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Clive Oppenheimer, David R. Pacheco Jr., Doug MacAyeal, Kevin Emery, Olav T. Oftedal, Regina Eisert, Ryan Andrew Evans, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Carole Fritz, Dominique Baffier, Gilles Tosello, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Maria Malina, Michel Philippe, Nicholas Conard, Valerie Feruglio

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Chungdak D. Koren, Lama Lhundup Woeser, Manfred Klell, Matthieu Ricard, Takna Jigme Sangpo, Tenzin Dhargye, Tenzin Gyatso, Thupten Tsering Mukhimsar, Ven. Geshe

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Genre: Drama,War

Actors:Alexander Duda, André Hennicke, Anna Gourari, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Hark Bohm, Jouko Ahola, Max Raabe, Renate Krößner, Udo Kier

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a ...

Genre: Drama,Horror

Actors:Beverly Walker, Bruno Ganz, Carsten Bodinus, Clemens Scheitz, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dufilho, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast