| 2026 | Bucking Fastard | director | |
| 2020 | Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | director | |
| 2020 | Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | actor | |
| 2019 | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | director | |
| 2019 | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | actor | |
| 2018 | Meeting Gorbachev | actor | $252,203 |
| 2018 | Meeting Gorbachev | director | $252,203 |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | director | |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | actor | |
| 2016 | Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World | director | |
| 2016 | Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World | actor | |
| 2015 | Freaks of Nature | actor | $70,958 |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | director | $2 million |
| 2014 | Atari: Game Over | actor | |
| 2014 | Life Itself | actor | $815,645 |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | actor | $374 million |
| 2013 | From One Second to the Next | director | |
| 2013 | Mistaken for Strangers | actor | $137,460 |
| 2013 | The Unbelievers | actor | $14,400 |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher | actor | $218.3 million |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | actor | $393,714 |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | director | $393,714 |
| 2011 | Wrath | director | |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | director | $8 million |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | actor | $8 million |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | actor | $338,987 |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | director | $338,987 |
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | director | $10.6 million |
| 2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? | director | |
| 2008 | BLAST! | actor | |
| 2007 | All in This Tea | actor | |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | director | $1.2 million |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | actor | $1.2 million |
| 2007 | Mister Lonely | actor | $407,674 |
| 2007 | The Grand | actor | $114,669 |
| 2006 | Rescue Dawn | director | $7.2 million |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | director | $4.1 million |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | actor | $4.1 million |
| 2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | director | |
| 2004 | Incident at Loch Ness | actor | $37,493 |
| 2004 | The White Diamond | director | |
| 2004 | The White Diamond | actor | |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | actor | |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | director | |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | director | |
| 2001 | Invincible | director | |
| 2001 | Invincible | actor | |
| 2001 | Pilgrimage | director | |
| 1999 | Julien Donkey-Boy | actor | $92,442 |
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come | actor | $75.4 million |
| 1995 | Death for Five Voices | director | |
| 1995 | Death for Five Voices | actor | |
| 1993 | Bells from the Deep | actor | |
| 1993 | Bells from the Deep | director | |
| 1993 | Dangerous Game | actor | $1.2 million |
| 1991 | Scream of Stone | director | |
| 1991 | Scream of Stone | actor | |
| 1987 | Cobra Verde | director | |
| 1987 | Location Africa | actor | |
| 1985 | Tokyo-Ga | actor | |
| 1984 | Ballad of the Little Soldier | director | |
| 1984 | Ballad of the Little Soldier | actor | |
| 1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream | director | |
| 1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream | actor | |
| 1983 | Man of Flowers | actor | $396,041 |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | actor | |
| 1982 | Fitzcarraldo | director | |
| 1982 | Room 666 | actor | |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | director | $1 million |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | actor | $1 million |
| 1979 | Woyzeck | director | |
| 1977 | Stroszek | director | |
| 1976 | How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | director | |
| 1976 | How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | actor | |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | director | |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | director | |
| 1972 | The Wrath of God | director | |
| 1970 | Even Dwarfs Started Small | director | |
| 1970 | Fata Morgana | director | |
Werner Herzog: 59 films, 1970–2026, English and Mandarin cinema, total box office $706.1 million across 23 films. Filmography with box office, frequent collaborators and collaboration network on TinyFalcon.