Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 1 (Herakles; Last Words; The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreutz; Huie's Sermon; The Flying Doctors of East Africa; Wings of Hope; Precautions Against Fanatics) (1962-1999): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Herakles (1962) Last Words (1967) The…
Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Peter Brogle; An early descent into madness for dir. Werner Herzog, in which a soldier charged with guarding a remote island fortress must overcome the boredom of…
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer; A group of dwarfs run riot and take over their penal colony on a bleak volcanic island. Bizarre and unsettling parable will leave an indelible mark…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Short - Part 2 (Land of Silence and Darkness; Handicapped Future; Fata Morgana) (1970-1971): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Land of Silence and Darkness…
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 5 (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner; The Dark Glow of the Mountains; No One Will Play With Me; Ballad of the Little Soldier) (1973-1984): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner…
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira; The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
Stroszek (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Eva Mattes; Powerful tragi–comedy follows a simple–minded Bruno S to America with a prostitute trying to escape her unsavoury past. The film's…
Woyzeck (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; A version of Georg Buchner's play, matching Herzog to another gloomy Germanic visionary, with Klaus Kinski as the soldier tormented by visions and…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 3 (God's Angry Man; Echoes From a Sombre Evening; How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck) (1976-1990): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. God's Angry Man (1980) Echoes From a…
Heart of Glass (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Clemens Scheitz; Werner Herzog committed his cast to six months of hypnosis, before embarking on a spellbinding tale of an 18th Century Bavarian glassblower whose…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 4 (La Soufriere; I Am My Films; Jag Mandir) (1977-1991): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. La Soufriere (1977) I Am My Films…
Nosferatu (1979): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani; Werner Herzog's remake is a surreal and truly sinister experience, embellished with a haunting soundtrack and a terrific Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu.
Fitzcarraldo (1982): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale; Colonialist visionary Klaus Kinski attempts to haul a huge riverboat over a hill in 19th century S. America with the help of Indian…
Burden of Dreams (1982): Dir. Les Blank
Feat. Werner Herzog; Les Blank's most famous film sticks with Werner Herzog through the thick and thin of the Amazon jungle during the notoriously troubled shooting of…
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett; Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 6 (Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun; Lessons of Darkness; Bells From the Deep; Portrait Werner Herzog) (1986-1993): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun…
Cobra Verde (1988): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; Klaus Kinski stars for the last time for Herzog as another doomed outcast in an alien environment. West Africa is portrayed as a cruel, highly…
Scream of Stone (Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein) (1991): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Mathilda May, Brad Dourif; Solid and steady climbing adventure set around an attempt on the incredibly difficult Patagonian peak of Cerro Torre. Despite some absolutely…
Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana (1992/1969): Dir. Werner Herzog; Two of dir. Herzog’s impressionistic documentaries on a double DVD. LESSONS OF DARKNESS investigates the aftermath of the Gulf War, with…
Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices (1995): Dir. Werner Herzog; A sharp, sometimes unflattering profile of 16th century composer Don Carol Gesualdo, with dir. Herzog dividing his time between the artist's sexual…
Transformation of the World Into Music (1996): Dir. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog, indulging in a love of opera, turns his documentary eye on the Richard Wagner Festival, capturing the pulse of the annual event, and…
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997): Dir. Werner Herzog; Another quirky yet significant doco from Werner Herzog, whose remarkable subject here is expatriot German Dieter Dengler, who returns to the Vietnam…
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999): Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Ewen Bremner, Chloe Sevigny, Werner Herzog…; Experimental melodrama from notorious indie film–maker Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following a man with schizophrenia and his dysfunctional family.…
Invincible (2002): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Tim Roth, Udo Kier; An interesting treatment of the lives of the (secretly) Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart and nightclub impressario Erik Jan Hanussen (Roth), who…
Wheel of Time (2003): Dir. Werner Herzog; Completing Werner Herzog's recent documentary trinity (together with THE WHITE DIAMOND and GRIZZLY MAN), the German iconoclast lucidly absorbs the…
Incident At Loch Ness (2004): Dir. Zak Penn
Feat. Werner Herzog; Droll and rather odd filmbiz comedy follows the efforts of German auteur Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN) and an inept Hollywood producer, Zak Penn, to…
White Diamond, The (2004): Dir. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog finds another slightly insane alter–ego for himself in Dr Graham Dorrington, here documenting the engineer's wild ambition to…
Grizzly Man (2005): Dir. Werner Herzog; One of dir. Herzog's (AGUIRRE) true classics, this is a devastating glimpse into the life of a self–styled naturalist, whose obsession with…
Wild Blue Yonder, The (2005): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Brad Dourif; Moody 'science fiction fantasy' depicting an alternate reality where an alien species try to colonise a now inhospitable Earth. Dir. Herzog…
Rescue Dawn (2006): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies; In dramatizing the unforgettable true story of Dieter Dengler – heroic subject matter of doco LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY – Werner Herzog…
Encounters at the End of the World (2007): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog ventures forth to Antarctica, hounding a team of scientists based at McMurdo Station in this stunning, eccentric nature…
Mister Lonely (2008): Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Samantha Morton, Diego Luna, Werner Herzog; Surreal drama from the king of skewed cinema Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following two parallel plots about identity: a couple of celeb impersonators…
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer…; Werner Herzog's spin on the 1992 bad–boy classic delights in seeing a pasty, middle–aged Nicolas Cage cracking up (in all three meanings…
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny…; Dir. Werner Herzog and David Lynch as producer team up for this bizarre tale of an actor driven to murder his mother in sunny, suburban San Diego…
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010): Dir. Werner Herzog; Although intended to be viewed in 3–D, this extraordinary trip inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France – home to the oldest known…
Into the Abyss (Death Row Portraits) (2011): Dir. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog sits down with the perpetrators of a triple homicide in this darkly lucid investigation into the paradoxes of human nature. Probing…
Jack Reacher (2012): Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins…; Tom Cruise assumes the coveted role of Lee Child's best–selling anti–hero in this violent, no–nonsense action vehicle.
Queen of the Desert (2015): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson…; Werner Herzog directs this worthy biopic of British explorer and adventurer Gertrude Bell focusing on her time in the Middle East.
Salt and Fire (2016): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres, Gael Garcia Bernal; Two ecologists posted in the remote Bolivian wilderness are kidnapped by a local businessman with mysterious intentions, but find they must unite…
Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016): Dir. Werner Herzog; Acclaimed Documentarian Werner Herzog approaches the internet as a curious outsider on an exotic vacation. Meeting the digital natives, getting…
Meeting Gorbachev (2018): Dir. Werner Herzog, André Singer; Werner Herzog directs this candid documentary based on three interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union. With…

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