Werner Herzog

Director · Born 5 September 1942 in Munich, Allemagne · 64 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

25 of Werner Herzog’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 14 on Cineasterna, 3 on Max, 3 on Prime Video, 2 on Disney+ and 5 more services. Highest rated available: Rick and Morty (2013) ★ 9.0.

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.

Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.

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Acting

• Rick and Morty (2013)
• The Mandalorian (2019)
• Metalocalypse (2006)
• Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
• Jack Reacher (2012)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• Ghost Elephants (2026)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
• Mister Lonely (2008)

Directing

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
• Ghost Elephants (2026)
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
• Rescue Dawn (2007)
• Queen of the Desert (2015)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Cobra Verde (1987)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Writing

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Ghost Elephants (2026)
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
• Rescue Dawn (2007)
• Queen of the Desert (2015)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Cobra Verde (1987)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

Producing

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
• Ghost Elephants (2026)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
• Heart of Glass (1976)

As self

• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2020)
• Hulk Hogan: Real American (2026)
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
• The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
• Room 666 (1985)
• Lessons of Darkness (1992)
• Into the Inferno (2016)
• Tokyo-Ga (1985)
• Meeting Gorbachev (2019)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Grizzly Man (2005)
• Freaks of Nature (2015)
• The Boondocks (2005)
• Life Itself (2014)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
• The Colbert Report (2005)
• Stroszek (1977)
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
• Into the Abyss (2011)
• Atari: Game Over (2014)
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)