Werner Herzog career
Werner Herzog averages 7.08 across 43 rated films as a director, with Little Dieter Needs to Fly on top at 8.0.
Average
7.08
43 rated films
Best rated
8.0
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Peak five
7.52
1971 to 1976
7+ run
4 films
1971 to 1974
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
| Bucking Fastard | 2026 | · | 203 |
 Ghost Elephants | 2025 | 7.0 | 1,878 |
| The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | 2022 | 7.6 | 3,109 |
| Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | 2020 | 6.9 | 4,268 |
| Family Romance, LLC | 2019 | 6.7 | 3,445 |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | 2019 | 6.9 | 1,533 |
| Meeting Gorbachev | 2018 | 7.2 | 3,031 |
 Queen of the Desert | 2015 | 5.7 | 13,776 |
 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | 2016 | 7.0 | 13,950 |
| Salt and Fire | 2016 | 4.2 | 3,263 |
 Into the Inferno | 2016 | 7.2 | 11,008 |
 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | 2010 | 7.7 | 9,648 |
 Into the Abyss | 2011 | 7.3 | 18,174 |
 Cave of Forgotten Dreams | 2010 | 7.4 | 19,041 |
 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | 2009 | 6.1 | 11,730 |
 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | 2009 | 6.6 | 85,416 |
 Encounters at the End of the World | 2007 | 7.7 | 20,554 |
 Rescue Dawn | 2006 | 7.2 | 118K |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | 2005 | 6.1 | 4,151 |
 Grizzly Man | 2005 | 7.7 | 68,651 |
 The White Diamond | 2004 | 7.5 | 5,313 |
| Wheel of Time | 2003 | 7.1 | 3,034 |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | 2002 | 7.1 | 3,792 |
| Invincible | 2001 | 6.4 | 4,777 |
 My Best Fiend | 1999 | 7.8 | 13,361 |
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