Werner Herzog Movie Reviews
Werner Herzog's legendary film, based on a true story, recreates the crazed, frightening voyage taken by Spanish conquistadors in search of the mythical golden city of El Dorado. Aguirre is a Spanish nobleman driven by ambition and greed, whose ... more about Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973)
Dieter Dengler was a fighter pilot who was gunned down and captured during the Vietnam war; he then staged a remarkable break-out from the camp in which he was interned. RESCUE DAWN finds Christian Bale playing ... more about Rescue Dawn (2007)
Environmentalist and animal rights activist Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers living and studying grizzly bears. In 2003, his body and that of his girlfriend were found in the park he frequented, apparently attacked by the very animals he swore to p ... more about Grizzly Man (2005)
Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film. ... more about Encounters at the End of the World (2008)
Werner Herzog's documentary profiles his turbulent relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski over the course of the five feature films they made together. ... more about My Best Fiend -- Klaus Kinski (1999)
The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. His employer Hanussen dreams of establishing an all-powerful Ministry of the Occult ... more about Invincible (2001)
The true story of a simple man who is transported from his humble village roots to the giddy excesses of the 1930s Berlin and finds himself becoming the new Samson to protect the Jewish people. (Fine Line ... more about Invincible (2002)
This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler, to be played by Bale, organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Dua ... more about Rescue Dawn (2006)
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 ... more about Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (1984)
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one is an experienced mountaineer the other a free climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the free climb ... more about Scream of Stone (1991)








