What are your Top Five Werner Herzog Movies?

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See Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Werner Herzog for a complete listing of his films, but I have selected these for this thread:

  1. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  2. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
  3. Stroszek (1977)
  4. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
  5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
  6. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
  7. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
  8. My Best Fiend (1999)
  9. Grizzly Man (2005)
  10. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
  11. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
  12. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
  13. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
  14. The White Diamond (2004)
  15. Signs of Life (1968)
  16. Rescue Dawn (2006)
  17. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
  18. Bells from the Deep (1993)
  19. Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990)
  20. Into the Abyss (2011)
  21. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
  22. Woyzeck (1979)
  23. Wheel of Time (2003)
  24. Heart of Glass (1976)
  25. Cobra Verde (1987)
  26. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
  27. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
  28. Fata Morgana (1971)
  29. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
  30. Invincible (2001)
  31. Queen of the Desert (2015)
  32. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
  33. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
  34. Scream of Stone (1991)

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Pick your Top Five and post them here.

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I’ll have to sit this out; haven’t seen enough of his films.

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Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Cobra Verde
Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs … is my favourite. Although I’ve never met anyone else who’s seen it IRL (besides the people at the Uni film club I saw it with)

I really need to get around to seeing his documentaries.

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It would be a list of the documentaries I’ve seen, to wit:

Happy People
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Grizzly Man
Encounters at the End of the World
… ?

I do *love *these four documentaries, and watch them again and again and again.

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
Grizzly Man
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
My Best Fiend
*bonus runner up/non-director: Incident at Loch Ness

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  1. Grizzly Man
  2. Fitzcarraldo - a movie that’s making of is crazy interesting as well.
  3. Aguirre Wrath of God
  4. Wings of Hope
  5. Little Dieter Needs to Fly

I could pick another 10 to add to this list, but those 5 are huge.

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Grizzly Man
Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Lessons In Darkness
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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My best fiend
aguirre, the wrath of god
little dieter needs to fly
grizzly man
unsure of the fifth. Maybe fitzcarraldo or into the abyss.
I enjoyed the part in my best fiend where herzog talks about how the natives in one of his films offered to kill Klaus kinski for him and herzog had to think about it before declining.

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  1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  2. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  3. Nosferatu the Vampyre
  4. Encounters at the End of the World
  5. Little Dieter Needs to Fly

though my favorite film of his is Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, the brilliant documentary about Herzog & Kinski shooting Fitzcarraldo.

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Yeah, and he doesn’t think they were kidding. You can see the one that approached Herzog about the murder in the final cut of the murder. He is behind Klaus Kinski during a meal/meeting at one point.

Basically, the tribesman were all about not overreacting and exploding. Kinski was all about overreacting and exploding.

It was so embarrassing to see him in the making of.

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I was about to say:
A) Who?
B) Slow down a little dude
but then I spotted
Into the Abyss
so you get a pass this time :slight_smile:

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“Stroszek” is fantastic. So is “Into the Abyss”. However, I’ve found his travelogue docs disappointing.

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Try Wings of Hope, which is hardly a travelouge I guess. Still, it is exotic, very short, and free on Youtube. It’s about a lady who fell a mile in a plane crash(yes, she survived a mile fall) and her escape from the jungle.

Wings of Hope

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And if you only have 30 minutes, watch From One Moment To The Next.

I still tear up and get chills when I watch it.

Oddly, Herzog does not narrate or appear in this one. Kind of unusual for him.

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They kill 3 people over a red Camaro. What a pathetic crime with such huge impact. Terrible.