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Werner Herzog

Actor · 211 credits · 108 in highly-rated films

Best known for Jack Reacher (2012)

Frequent collaborators: Klaus Kinski, Wim Wenders, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard

Movies (136 total, ranked by score)

  1. Incident at Loch Ness

    2004 · ★ 5.9 (97 votes)

    Comedy, Adventure, Horror

    61

  2. SnowwhiteRosered

    1991 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    62

  3. Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

    2007

    Documentary

    63

  4. Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

    1995 · ★ 6.8 (16 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie, Music

    64

  5. Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

    2000

    Documentary

    65

  6. I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

    2010

    Documentary

    66

  7. The Boxing Prince

    2002 · ★ 5.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    67

  8. A Brief History of Errol Morris

    1999 · ★ 6.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    68

  9. The Man Who Killed John Wayne

    2017 · ★ 7.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    69

  10. About a Hero

    2024 · ★ 5.5 (1 votes)

    Crime, Documentary, Mystery

    70

  11. All In This Tea

    2007 · ★ 7.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    71

  12. The Last Documentary

    2000

    72

  13. Jihad in Hollywood

    2016

    Documentary

    73

  14. Walking to Werner

    2006

    Documentary

    74

  15. Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

    1996

    Documentary

    75

  16. Capturing Reality

    2008 · ★ 6.1 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    76

  17. Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    2008 · ★ 6.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    77

  18. Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

    2018 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    78

  19. A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    2021 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    79

  20. Dribble

    2004 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    80

  21. Werner We Love You

    2017 · ★ 8.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    81

  22. I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

    1979 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    82

  23. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    1976

    Documentary

    83

  24. Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

    2007 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    84

  25. The Making of 'Nosferatu'

    1979 · ★ 6.3 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    85

  26. Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

    1979

    Documentary

    86

  27. Bierbichler

    2008

    Documentary

    87

  28. When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

    2010 · ★ 5.0 (2 votes)

    Animation, Documentary

    88

  29. The 100 Greatest Films

    2001 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    89

  30. Dreams and Burdens

    2005 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    90

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Sep 1, 2026.