The best Werner Herzog’s drama movies

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

05/09/1942 (81 años)
We present our ranking of the best Werner Herzog’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Werner Herzog.
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Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher
7/10
When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come
7/10
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 17/01/1979
  • Character: Gravedigger (uncredited)
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/12/2008
  • Character: Father Umbrillo
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

Salt and Fire

Salt and Fire
4.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 07/12/2016
  • Character: Man with One Story (uncredited)
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.

Dangerous Game

Dangerous Game
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/10/1993
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/08/1984
  • Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

Signs of Life

Signs of Life
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/07/1968
  • Character: Soldier (uncredited)
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.

Scream of Stone

Scream of Stone
6.2/10
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport 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 sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/10/2013
  • Character: Alexander von Humboldt
Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Julien Donkey-Boy

Julien Donkey-Boy
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/09/1999
  • Character: Father
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.

Hard to Be a God

Hard to Be a God
6.4/10
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Bride of the Orient

Bride of the Orient
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/03/1989
  • Character: Gemeindeschreiber Businger

Brennendes Herz

Brennendes Herz
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1995

Manaslu - Berg der Seelen

Manaslu - Berg der Seelen
7.2/10
The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.

Man of Flowers

Man of Flowers
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1983
  • Character: The Father
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

Tales of the Dumpster Kid
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/04/1971
  • Character: Hurenmörder
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?

Killing Klaus Kinski

Killing Klaus Kinski
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/03/2016
  • Character: Werner Herzog

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