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Ghost Elephants
2026 • Documentary
In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost b…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
2007 • Documentary
Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceov…
Matched on: Herzog
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020 • Documentary
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink ou…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 • Documentary
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natura…
Matched on: Herzog
Plastic Bag
2009 • Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Why matched: genres Drama
Into the Abyss
2011 • Crime • Documentary
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep int…
Matched on: Herzog
Incident at Loch Ness
2004 • Adventure • Comedy • Horror
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for.…
Matched on: Herzog
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010 • Documentary
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the vil…
Why matched: genres Documentary
The White Diamond
2004 • Documentary
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.
Matched on: Herzog
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019 • Documentary
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his…
Matched on: Herzog
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988 • Comedy • Documentary
Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of…
Matched on: Herzog
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 • Documentary
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War.…
Matched on: Herzog
Into the Inferno
2016 • Documentary
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
Matched on: Herzog
The Grand
2007 • Comedy
The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players w…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Burden of Dreams
1982 • Documentary
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal strug…
Matched on: Herzog
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980 • Documentary
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose fe…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Meeting Gorbachev
2019 • Documentary
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weap…
Matched on: Herzog
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999 • Drama
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and sev…
Why matched: genres Drama
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016 • Documentary
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
Matched on: Herzog
Jack Reacher
2012 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought in…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller