- Ghost Elephants
2026 Director
- Bucking Fastard
2026 Director
- Sirena
2025
- Reeling
2025 Executive Producer
- Felicidad
2025 Producer
- Mi casa amarilla
2025 Consulting Editor
- Orion and the Dark
2024 Narrator (voice)
- About a Hero
2024
- Theater of Thought
2024 Director
- The End
2024 Executive Producer
- The Arc of Oblivion
2023 Executive Producer
- Last Exit: Space
2022 Executive Producer
- El Poso
2022 Producer
- Flores del precipicio
2022 Producer
- Notes from a Dromedary
2022 Creative Consultant
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020 Director
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020 (archive footage)
- Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020 Narrator (voice)
- The Andinist
2020 The Painter (Narrator)
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 (archive footage)
- Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019 Director
- Meeting Gorbachev
2019 Director
- Love Birds
2019 Consulting Producer
- The Last Scene
2019 Executive Producer
- Family Romance, LLC
2019 Director
- Paradox Bullets
2018 Narrator (voice)
- The whole world is country
2018 Consulting Producer
- The Golden Gate
2018 Executive Producer
- The Empty Goal
2018 Thanks
- A Gray State
2017 Executive Producer
- Into the Inferno
2016 Director
- Salt and Fire
2016 Director
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016 Director
- The Blimp-Maker
2016 Thanks
- Freaks of Nature
2015 Perfect Being (voice)
- Queen of the Desert
2015 Director
- Red Army
2015 Executive Producer
- Penguins of Madagascar
2014 Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
- Lemonade War
2014 Neighborhood Hero
- The Look of Silence
2014 Executive Producer
- Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013 Alexander von Humboldt
- From One Second to the Next
2013 Director
- The Last Shepherd
2013 Thanks
- Strawberryfields
2012 Turnlehrer
- Jack Reacher
2012 Zec Chelovek
- Dinotasia
2012 Narrator (voice)
- The Killers: Unstaged
2012 Director
- The Act of Killing
2012 Executive Producer
- Into the Abyss
2011 Director
- Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011 Director
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 Director
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010 Director
- When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010 Narrator (voice)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 Director
- A Night Out
2010 Technical Advisor
- The Lonely
2009
- Plastic Bag
2009 Plastic Bag (voice)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 Director
- La Bohème
2009 Director
- Mister Lonely
2008 Father Umbrillo
- BLAST!
2008 Narrator (voice)
- Encounters at the End of the World
2008 Director
- Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
2008 Stage Director
- The Grand
2007 The German
- All In This Tea
2007
- Rescue Dawn
2007 Director
- The Devil's Muse
2007 Creative Consultant
- Grizzly Man
2005 Director
- The Wild Blue Yonder
2005 Director
- What Is It?
2005 Thanks
- The White Diamond
2004 Director
- Incident at Loch Ness
2004 Producer
- Wheel of Time
2003 Director
- Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 Director
- Ten Thousand Years Older
2002 Director
- Invincible
2001 Director
- Pilgrimage
2001 Director
- Tannhäuser
2000 Stage Director
- My Best Fiend
1999 Director
- Wings of Hope
1999 Director
- Julien Donkey-Boy
1999 Father
- What Dreams May Come
1998 Face
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 Director
- The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996 Director
- Burning Heart
1995
- Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995 Director
- Bells from the Deep
1993 Director
- Lessons of Darkness
1992 Director
- La Donna del Lago
1992 Director
- Scream of Stone
1991 Director
- Hard to Be a God
1990 Mita / Richard
- Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990 Director
- Bride of the Orient
1989 Businger
- Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989 Director
- Giovanna d'Arco
1989 Director
- The French as Seen by…
1988 Director
- The Gauls
1988 Director
- Location Africa
1987 Producer
- Cobra Verde
1987 Director
- Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986 Director
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985 Director
- Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984 Director
- Where the Green Ants Dream
1984 Director
- Man of Flowers
1983 The Father
- God's Angry Man
1983 Director
- Huie's Sermon
1983 Director
- Fitzcarraldo
1982 Director
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980 Writer
- Woyzeck
1979 Director
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 Director
- La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977 Director
- Stroszek
1977 Director
- Heart of Glass
1976 Director
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976 Director
- No One Will Play with Me
1976 Director
- The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974 Director
- Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974 Hurenmörder
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 Director
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 Director
- Fata Morgana
1972 Director
- Handicapped Future
1971 Director
- Even Dwarfs Started Small
1971 Director
- Land of Silence and Darkness
1971 Director
- The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970 Director
- Precautions Against Fanatics
1969 Director
- Signs of Life
1968 Director
- Last Words
1968 Director
- Herakles
1962 Director
- Ally
(voice)
- The Twilight World
Director
- Walk of Life
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