Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972)
Klaus Kinski plays a mad conquistador searching for El Dorado.
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)
Re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's film, starring Nic Cage as a cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose moral compass slips after he is put in charge of a murder investigation.
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
An exploration of the Chauvet caves in Southern France where the oldest known human paintings can be found.
Death Row (2012)
Series of portraits of inmates on Death Row.
Encounters At The End Of The World (2007)
The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins.
Family Romance LLC
Docudrama about a company which hires out people to pretend to be family members.
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
A music lover is consumed with the idea of building an opera house in the South American jungle.
From One Second To The Next (2013)
A campaign film featuring interviews with people affected by car accidents caused by texting.
Grizzly Man (2005)
Werner Herzog examines the psyche of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived and died with bears.
Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life (2011)
Werner Herzog's powerful exploration of violence and its consequences, told through Death Row inmates and others close to their crimes.
Invincible (2001)
A Jewish blacksmith's son becomes a strongman in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997)
The life of an extraordinary Vietnam war hero.
Lo And Behold, Reveries Of The Connected World (2016)
A documentary about the internet and its impact on human experience.
Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Werner Herzog interviews Mikhail Gorbachev and captures the human side of a world leader as he recalls his relationships with Reagan and Thatcher, his beloved wife Raisa and his dashed dream of lasting change.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
Two detectives try to work out how a young man came to kill his mother with a sword.
Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
When writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979)
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Rescue Dawn (2006)
A US fighter pilot shot down in the Vietnamese jungle must go to extraordinary lengths to survive.
Salt And Fire (2016)
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
In a deserted town we meet a man who tells us he is from Andromeda and proceeds to reveal CIA secrets about space exploration.
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