Werner Herzog Filmography

Weight lifting men who compete to achieve individual bodily perfection through muscle building.

Unreleased Werner Herzog short concerning children playing and a rooster that at some point is buried in sand up to its neck.

Four guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.

The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don't have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.

Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town. However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men.

Film about the doctors that fly all over central Africa to bring medical help to the people living in the bush.

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.

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.

Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.

Footage shot in and around the Algerian Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

En el siglo XVI, el loco y despiadado Don Lope de Aguirre encabeza la expedición española en busca de El Dorado.

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

Un joven llamado Kaspar Hauser aparece repentinamente en Nuremberg en 1828, apenas puede hablar o caminar. Él tiene una nota extraña.

A children with domestic issues and despised by his classmates develops a bond with one of them thanks to his speaking crow.

El capataz de la fábrica de vidrio de un pequeño pueblo muere sin revelar el secreto del famoso "cristal de Rubí".

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

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. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.

Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.

El Conde Drácula se mueve de Transilvania a Wismar, extendiendo la Peste Negra por toda la tierra. Solo una mujer puro de corazón puede poner fin a su reinado de terror.

Franz Woyzeck es un soldado desventurado y sin esperanza, solo e impotente en la sociedad, asaltado por todos lados por fuerzas que no puede controlar.

La historia de Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, un hombre extremadamente decidido que tiene la intención de construir un teatro de ópera en medio de la jungla.

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his uncharacteristic programs.

The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.