Werner Herzog

A film about the tempestuous yet legendary working relationship berween two creative giants of the film industry - Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. --- Case cover. A chain of coincidences brings the 13-year-old schoolboy Werner Herzog together with Klaus Kinski to the same apartment in Munich. In an unabated, 48-hour fit of rage Kinski immediately proceeds to lay waste to all the furniture, only one of such fits to come. Herzog therefore knows what...

Director Werner Herzog documents his legendary and often volatile working relationship with actor, Klaus Kinski.

The residents of a tiny, pre-industrial Bavarian village are gripped by madness after the man who runs the local glassworks dies without revealing the secret of the magical Ruby Glass. In their desperation to discover the formula, the townspeople turn to murder and magic.

Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.

A sweeping overview that explores how tattoos were used in early Christian practices, how they were discovered halfway around the world during the voyages of Captain James Cook, and how they exploded in popularity in America beginning with artists like Ed Hardy.

Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: Gates of heaven uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry; Vernon, Florida travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged...

The film celebrates the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, it is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian.

Set in 18th century Bavaria, this film tells of a village that loses the formula for making its famous unique ruby glass after the master glass blower of the glassworks dies, taking the secret to his grave. The owner of the factory becomes obsessed with the lost formula and hires a clairvoyant shepherd (based on the legendary Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl) to unravel the mystery as the townspeople slide into a deep depression, growing increasingly unstable...

In Werner Herzogs Remake des Vampirklassikers von F.W. Murnau, Jonathan Harker erhält von Wismar den Auftrag, ins ferne Transsylvanien zu reisen. Dort interessiert sich Graf Dracula für den Kauf eines Hauses in der Hansestadt. Er ahnt nicht, welches Grauen ihn erwartet. In Herzog's hommage to F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Jonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to Transylvania in...

Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.