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Kanopy
84
7.8
/66764/
74
/1343/
75
/1185/
4.1
/122194/
96
/56/
90
/1589/

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
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, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
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Kanopy
84
7.7
/16278/
75
/282/
73
/280/
4.1
/24232/
95
/22/
92
/416/

Stroszek (1977)
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
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Kanopy
83
7.7
/19948/
73
/333/
73
/357/
3.9
/23828/
91
/23/
90
/330/

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, 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 hat who feeds him.
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Amazon Prime Video
83
7.9
/42051/
75
/919/
76
/839/
4.1
/74988/
77
/30/
92
/844/

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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 region of the rainforest.
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Amazon Prime Video
83
8.0
/7301/
76
/161/
75
/91/
4.0
/9768/
93
/14/
94
/247/

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
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 early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
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Amazon Prime Video
81
7.4
/48512/
71
/1182/
72
/1036/
3.8
/146829/
93
/71/
83
/988/
79
/19/

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
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 property in Wismar.
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Fandor
85
81
8.0
/7599/
79
/243/
78
/143/
4.1
/24716/
100
/11/
92
/150/

Lessons of Darkness (1992)
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 filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
poster
79
7.4
/18567/
73
/603/
71
/347/
3.9
/29111/
96
/136/
73
/731/
86
/34/
cc age 9+

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.8
/12944/
74
/221/
73
/209/
3.9
/19406/
78
/27/
92
/300/
70
/17/

My Best Fiend (1999)
A film that describes 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.
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Kanopy
76
6.8
/7085/
69
/89/
64
/124/
3.6
/9742/
93
/14/
72
/167/

Heart of Glass (1976)
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
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AMC+ Amazon Channel
76
7.3
/17891/
72
/584/
69
/275/
3.9
/20835/
92
/117/
76
/422/
74
/30/

Into the Abyss (2011)
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 life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
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Netflix
75
7.2
/10642/
71
/550/
70
/225/
3.8
/24276/
92
/49/
73
/36/
76
/17/
cc age 12+

Into the Inferno (2016)
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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Apple TV
72
6.9
/4089/
68
/353/
65
/94/
3.6
/7494/
98
/45/
64
/8/
72
/17/
cc age 10+

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
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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Kanopy
72
7.2
/2914/
73
/110/
66
/67/
3.5
/5104/
86
/77/
68
/26/
72
/22/

Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.
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Kanopy
70
6.9
/2847/
69
/58/
69
/54/
3.6
/3241/
80
/5/
61
/44/

Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
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 disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
69
7.9
/3438/
76
/77/
74
/71/
4.1
/6528/
86
/7/
88
/59/

Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
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Fandor
73
65
6.7
/6618/
62
/93/
64
/117/
3.4
/8390/
100
/8/
76
/288/

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.
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Kanopy
72
65
7.0
/11218/
64
/144/
65
/192/
3.5
/14065/
86
/14/
76
/224/

Woyzeck (1979)
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
poster
64
6.4
/4697/
59
/65/
61
/58/
3.3
/2491/
55
/51/
52
/122/
55
/19/

Invincible (2001)
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
63
7.6
/3141/
71
/62/
71
/64/
3.9
/7096/
90
/44/

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
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Kanopy
70
63
6.9
/8987/
67
/109/
69
/160/
3.6
/8764/
83
/18/
75
/190/
55
/5/

Cobra Verde (1987)
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
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The Roku Channel
72
62
7.1
/2886/
68
/50/
63
/44/
3.6
/3041/
94
/18/
77
/73/
65
/8/

Wheel of Time (2003)
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
60
7.0
/2693/
67
/47/
66
/46/
3.6
/2832/
92
/12/
71
/44/

Signs of Life (1968)
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
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Fandor
67
56
6.6
/4331/
64
/58/
66
/81/
3.5
/7020/
72
/1282/

Fata Morgana (1972)
Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.
poster
The Roku Channel
76
56
7.5
/2490/
75
/58/
73
/58/
3.9
/6885/
83
/29/

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)
Werner 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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
55
6.1
/4027/
59
/88/
60
/87/
3.3
/4251/
69
/35/
56
/165/
65
/11/

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
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 astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
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Kanopy
76
44
7.5
/1686/
71
/56/
69
/34/
3.8
/3304/
89
/13/

Wings of Hope (1999)
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
poster
74
43
7.3
/1185/
70
/22/
69
/29/
3.8
/2086/
84
/16/

Bells from the Deep (1993)
A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.
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The Roku Channel
74
42
7.4
/1237/
71
/27/
76
/28/
3.9
/2774/

The Dark Glow of the Mountain (1985)
Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
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Fandor
69
36
7.2
/1113/
65
/25/
64
/30/
3.7
/1652/

Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
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The Roku Channel
63
36
6.3
/1418/
60
/26/
63
/26/
3.4
/2605/

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
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The Roku Channel
70
34
7.1
/810/
66
/16/
71
/19/
3.6
/973/
73
/77/

Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
poster
57
29
6.0
/1047/
53
/21/
53
/33/
3.2
/1475/

Last Words (1968)
Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".
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The Roku Channel
62
29
6.6
/983/
61
/26/
54
/21/
3.4
/1730/

God's Angry Man (1981)
The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.
poster
57
28
5.6
/943/
51
/25/
59
/27/
3.1
/1521/

Herakles (1962)
Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various body-builders flexing their biceps and triceps. Other images seen here are not macho in the literal sense, but are indirectly related to testosterone or cojones on some level: we see military aircraft making bombing raids, and footage of car crashes.
poster
53
27
5.8
/893/
58
/16/
51
/28/
3.1
/1280/
36
/72/

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
A satire on war and on the stupid things war inspires people to do. Four young men enter an abandoned fortress. Inside, they find military uniforms, which they immediately resolve to use to stage a bizarre war game. Their actions appear all the more senseless in relation to the peaceful everyday reality of the workers in the surrounding countryside.
poster
59
27
5.7
/916/
61
/20/
56
/27/
3.2
/1345/

Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.
poster
67
26
6.9
/805/
64
/15/
68
/14/
3.6
/968/
62
/24/

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995)
Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th century.
poster
62
22
6.4
/641/
59
/15/
57
/21/
3.4
/970/

No One Will Play with Me (1976)
A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested in his pet crow provides the link to social acceptance.
poster
68
20
7.0
/543/
64
/15/
68
/17/
3.5
/754/

Handicapped Future (1971)
A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.
poster
65
16
6.7
/427/
53
/6/
71
/12/
3.5
/713/

Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
poster
The Roku Channel
57
15
5.9
/498/
50
/14/
50
/16/
3.1
/734/

Huie's Sermon (1983)
Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.
poster
58
11
6.2
/358/
58
/7/
46
/15/
3.3
/457/

Pilgrimage (2001)
Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.
poster
67
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6.2
/194/
45
/5/
75
/4/
3.4
/233/

Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011)
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, celebrated German film director Werner Herzog gained exclusive access to film the 32,000 year old Chauvet caves, which contain the earliest known pictorial creations of humankind. In this follow-up film, Ode to the Dawn of Man, Herzog shows us an insight into the construction of the film’s score with footage and interviews with composer Ernst Reijseger and pianist Harmen Fraanje. Ode to the Dawn of Man draws us into the creation of the truly epic music used in Herzog’s awe-inspiring documentary and the magic created by all those involved including the musicians, composer and Herzog himself. –iTunes
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?
6.1
/8/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The End of Eternity (2018)
Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many stories and myths have been forgotten, but through dreams, the memory of the ancestors fight for remaining in the Ese Eja community.
poster
67
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7.1
/104/
45
/2/
85
/2/

The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.
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Felicidad (2025)
A gardener working at a resort on the island of La Palma decides to go to the top of the volcano to plant a garden amidst the ruins. Meanwhile, a young girl vacationing at the same hotel feels bored, reflects on utopia, and searches for happiness.


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