Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Burden of Dreams (1982), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), Into the Abyss (2011), Meeting Gorbachev (2018), Wheel of Time (2003), Incident at Loch Ness (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Werner Herzog movies.
Storyline: In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: pilot, villager, soldier, filmmaker, inspiring, powerful, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Robards (health) and Mick Jagger (other commitments) halfway through shooting, but the crew gets caught up in a war between Peru and Ecuador, there are problems with the weather and the morale of cast and crew is falling rapidly.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, actor, native, mick jagger, cinematographer, shocking, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Werner Herzog' takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them! (1954). And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making another film about penguins" -- we meet a penguin researcher who answers the filmmaker's questions about homosexuality and insanity in his subjects. We also meet an individualist penguin, who breaks away from the other birds to run toward the mountains, facing certain death.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: scientist, documentarian, researcher, fascinating, antarctica, isolation, werner herzog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and containing the earliest known human paintings. Knowing the cultural significance that the Chauvet Cave holds, the French government immediately cut-off all access to it, save a few archaeologists and paleontologists. But documentary filmmaker, Werner Herzog, has been given limited access, and now we get to go inside examining beautiful artwork created by our ancient ancestors around 32,000 years ago. He asks questions to various historians and scientists about what these humans would have been like and trying to build a bridge from the past to the present.—napierslogs
Plot Keywords: werner herzog, scientist, archaeologist, scholar, filmmaker, fascinating, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Into the abyss explores a triple murder which occurred in the small Texas City of Conroe in 2001. Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, murdered a middle-aged housewife; they then gunned down her stepson and his friend. The film features Conversations with the two inmates and those affected by their crime. Unlike many of the films that deal with crimes, into the abyss isn't concerned with figuring out exactly what happened, but rather serves as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.—Brad
Plot Keywords: werner herzog, filmmaker, candidate, emotional, texas, cell, capital punishment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Plot Keywords: mikhail gorbachev, werner herzog, fascinating, intricate, spirited, russia, interview ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
Plot Keywords: werner herzog, buddhist, filmmaker, emotional, india, tibet, time ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is a mockumentary within a mockumentary. The ensemble cast is a Who's Who of modern filmmaking, from Werner Herzog, independent director (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue Dawn (2006)) playing himself directing a documentary, to cinematographer Gabriel Beristain (of the Blade movies) playing himself, to Sound Recorder/Mixer extraordinaire Russell Williams II (of Independent Lens (1999), Moesha (1996), Training Day (2001)) playing himself, to.. well you get the idea. Throw in the legend of Nessie and you've got a totally hilarious thriller mockumentary directed by Zak Penn. Make sure you watch the commentary with the Director and cast members, which continues the fiction of the movie. It's brilliant.—Kathy Leigh
Plot Keywords: director, producer, actor, actress, cinematographer, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man experiences mystifying events that cause him to kill his mother with a sword.
Plot Keywords: werner herzog, hostage, detective, partner, murder victim, neighbor, bleak ...
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