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Best Werner Herzog Movies Ranked

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Werner Herzog Directed Filmography (73)

Ghost Elephants
2026·Director
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024·Director
Theater of Thought
2024·Director
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020·Director
Meeting Gorbachev
2019·Director
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019·Director
Family Romance, LLC
2019·Director
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016·Director
Into the Inferno
2016·Director
Salt and Fire
2016·Director
Queen of the Desert
2015·Director
From One Second to the Next
2013·Director
The Killers: Unstaged
2012·Director
Into the Abyss
2011·Director
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011·Director
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010·Director
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010·Director
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010·Director
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009·Director
La Bohème
2009·Director
Encounters at the End of the World
2007·Director
Rescue Dawn
2007·Director
Grizzly Man
2005·Director
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005·Director
The White Diamond
2004·Director
Wheel of Time
2003·Director
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002·Director
Ten Thousand Years Older
2002·Director
Invincible
2001·Director
Pilgrimage
2001·Director
My Best Fiend
1999·Director
Wings of Hope
1999·Director
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997·Director
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996·Director
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995·Director
Bells from the Deep
1993·Director
Lessons of Darkness
1992·Director
La Donna del Lago
1992·Director
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991·Director
Scream of Stone
1991·Director
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990·Director
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989·Director
Giovanna d'Arco
1989·Director
The French as Seen by…
1988·Director
The Gauls
1988·Director
Cobra Verde
1987·Director
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986·Director
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985·Director
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984·Director
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984·Director
God's Angry Man
1983·Director
Huie's Sermon
1983·Director
Fitzcarraldo
1982·Director
Woyzeck
1979·Director
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979·Director
Stroszek
1977·Director
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977·Director
Heart of Glass
1976·Director
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976·Director
No One Will Play with Me
1976·Director
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974·Director
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974·Director
Land of Silence and Darkness
1973·Director
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972·Director
Fata Morgana
1972·Director
Handicapped Future
1971·Director
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970·Director
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970·Director
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969·Director
Signs of Life
1968·Director
Last Words
1968·Director
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967·Director
Herakles
1962·Director