Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Director & Actor (b. 1942)
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The ThumbScore for Werner Herzog (72.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 28 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Werner's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

28
Movies
72.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Werner Herzog’s films higher than 60% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Nosferatu the Vampyre (YouTube, Philo, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Little Dieter Needs to Fly (YouTube, Roku Channel, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy) · The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Shout! TV, Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy) · Aguirre, the Wrath of God (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Stroszek (Roku Channel, Shout! TV, Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy) · Fitzcarraldo (YouTube, Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Shout! TV, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) and 14 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Klaus Kinski (4)Zak Penn (3)Peter Berling (2)Clive Oppenheimer (2)Simon Schaffer (2)

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1942-09-05 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

On ThumbScore, Werner Herzog appears in 28 films with an average audience score of 72.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Werner Herzog movie, ranked by audience score

Nosferatu the Vampyre
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
👍 88%
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
👍 87%
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
👍 85%
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
👍 84%
Stroszek
Stroszek
1977
👍 83%
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo
1982
👍 82%
My Best Fiend
My Best Fiend
1999
👍 81%
Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams
1982
👍 81%
Tokyo-Ga
Tokyo-Ga
1985
👍 81%
Cobra Verde
Cobra Verde
1987
👍 77%
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1971
👍 77%
Encounters at the End of the World
Encounters at the End of the World
2008
👍 76%
Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass
1976
👍 76%
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
👍 74%
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
2012
👍 73%
Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn
2007
👍 73%
Into the Abyss
Into the Abyss
2011
👍 73%
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
👍 72%
Julien Donkey-Boy
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
👍 72%
Ghost Elephants
Ghost Elephants
2026
👍 70%
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
👍 68%
Queen of the Desert
Queen of the Desert
2015
👍 64%
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
👍 64%
Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man
2005
👍 61%
Incident at Loch Ness
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
👍 59%
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
👍 54%
Woyzeck
Woyzeck
1979
👍 50%
The Grand
The Grand
2007
👍 47%