The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
(1974) [M]

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he...  More

Fitzcarraldo
(1982) [PG]

Fitzcarraldo is a legendary film for many reasons - the background to the making of it, the battles between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterwork. These factors combined to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything seen before (or since). A driven Irish...  More

Where The Green Ants Dream
(1984)

The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream.  More

Cobra Verde
(1987) [PG]

Based on Bruce Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, the film stars Kinski as a farmer-turned- bandit in 19th-century Brazil who is exiled to West Africa to revive the slave trade. Herzog once again focuses on an outcast overwhelmed by a foreign environment, with grand visualizations of an...  More

Nosferatu (1979)
(1979) [PG]

In 1979, award-winning director Werner Herzog and his volatile star Klaus Kinski embarked on a milestone in international cinema: a dual-language remake of F.W. Murnau’s legendary 1922 horror classic NOSFERATU. The film starred Kinski in the performance of a lifetime as the predatory vampire...  More

Aguirre, Wrath Of God
(1972) [PG]

In the mid-16th century after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro (ALLEJANDRO REPULLES) leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the...  More

My Best Fiend
(1999) [PG]

In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast...  More

Woyzeck
(1978) [M]

A poor soldier Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) is tormented in private by visions of the apocalypse, and tormented in public by the unbearable weight of social pressure. He descends into madness and murder. A morality play with more than a nod toward Becket and Brecht, this adaptation of Georg Buchner's...  More

Grizzly Man
(2005) [M]

Werner Herzog's persistent inquiry into the motivations of human obsession focuses this time on the self-proclaimed kind warrior Timothy Treadwell. A passionate wildlife preservationist and grizzly bear devotee, Treadwell lived unarmed among the grizzlies in a remote section of Alaska for 13...  More

The White Diamond
(2004) [PG]

Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) follows enigmatic airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington as he embarks on a trip in the heart of Guyana to test his new helium-filled invention above the rainforest. Dubbed the "white diamond" on account of...  More