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

Stroszek
(1977) [M]

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. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have...  More

Heart Of Glass
(1976) [PG]

An allegoric tale told through some of the most intense performances seen on film, Heart Of Glass is a bizarre and compelling story told in a unique way by a master film-maker. The cast were put into a hypnotic trance each day to try and re-create a felling of mass hysteria. This film is crammed...  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

Four Shorts From Werner Herzog
(1977) [PG]

List of shorts: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck. La Soufriere. The Great ecstacy of the woodcarver Steiner. The Flying doctors of East Africa.  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