Date of birth: 1926-10-18
Place of birth:
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski, Klaus Kinsky

Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Klaus Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

1965-12-22
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli

1975-02-12
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadi

1979-05-25
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od

1962-03-01
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

1964-03-28
A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.

1972-12-29
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu

2008-05-15
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu

1964-09-17
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the whi
1963-04-02

1975-12-16
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Ind

1973-07-11
Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her il

1965-08-11
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the ki

1970-04-03
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever

1987-12-03
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga

1979-01-17
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious C

1973-12-28
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel mas

1963-07-05
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search

1962-09-28
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and the

1981-11-28
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev

1999-05-17
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep tr

1984-10-19
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intellige

1968-11-22
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a

1976-10-01
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and

1982-03-02
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so,

1977-06-06
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land

1963-09-13
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However,

1965-06-04
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was l

1971-08-02
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.

1988-09-10
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampi

1969-08-19
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to ta

1981-04-02
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel r

1982-10-01
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We
2014-01-01
Peter Baumgartner talks about his life and work as a DoP for Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco.
2017-01-01
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage f

1966-04-29
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

1962-04-13
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil

1967-01-13
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries.

1965-05-01
When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discov

1990-05-25
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

1967-04-28
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his vi

1967-05-05
Sumuru is a beautiful but evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army e

1981-06-03
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experi

1969-11-20
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.

1982-10-15
Eccentric scientist Dr. Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, c

2022-03-09
From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic

2021-09-25
Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cine

2021-04-25

1976-09-23
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back h

1971-08-13
Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch

1981-08-28
An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open

1968-07-13
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic

1971-08-26
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for

1979-05-09
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approac

1966-05-05
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million t

1964-04-23
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is

1963-09-20
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabus

1961-07-20
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The dru

1961-11-08
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.

1964-12-18
A wealthy businessman schemes to steal the valuable Crown Jewels from the heavily guarded Tower of L

1977-12-07
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with dist

1987-03-10
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West

1964-04-30
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

1975-02-01
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she

1971-11-01
A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up wi

1969-04-03
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop

1985-12-20
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flyi

1971-11-27
The town of Tombstone is overrun by Ramon, Pedro, Miguel, Ryan and Slide -- five outlaw brothers who

1971-08-13
After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bri

1972-12-14
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the

1968-08-14
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise atta

1969-01-18
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission

1971-09-17
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black

1958-07-09
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

1986-05-21
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house

1962-06-18
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold

1967-08-03
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal n

1968-02-09
After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everyth

1967-09-28
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro.

1982-06-01
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A sp

1970-02-05
An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jai

1969-08-10
A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow

1985-05-08
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. T

1980-09-01
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown b

1974-04-29
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since

1968-10-29
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals hi

1968-08-30
Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his

1973-03-11
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate c

1970-09-12
Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young h

1963-12-31
Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early,

1970-08-06
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British p

1975-09-05
Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the myste

1971-04-17
Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironh

1967-12-22
A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a myste

1971-04-01
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by N

1971-05-18
The Benson brothers, who are smuggling guns across the Mexican border, kill King's brother and rape

1985-10-24
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present ev

1960-08-05
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

1962-05-23
A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her chi

1968-01-01
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the
2005-03-31

1975-02-28
A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succ

1991-01-01
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

1999-01-01
In 1986, director David Schmoeller worked with notoriously eccentric and tantrum-prone actor Klaus K
2003-01-03
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Klaus Kinski's "Paganini".

1969-07-04
After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several un

1984-10-05
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asi

1978-10-04
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-centur

1986-01-31
Klaus kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the

1966-09-29
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.

1975-12-25
The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are bar

1955-01-14
Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

2019-05-07
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i

1977-05-11
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of

1968-04-15
The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for his servi

1964-10-09
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he

1970-01-15
Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader

1970-08-14
A British commando team heads into France to blow up a German-held dam in preparation for D-Day, whi

1980-09-24
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a v

1980-01-09
Klaus Kinski plays the role of a drifter on a motorcycle who happens to be passing through town imme

1963-11-06
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number

1956-03-27

1970-06-03
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage dram

1961-03-28
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-d

1963-11-28
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison dar

1955-03-04
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusia

1956-12-22
Out of love, young Corinna follows the plantation owner Mannsfeld to the Far East - where she has to

1948-09-24
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of conce

2002-05-04
After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has r

1965-06-23
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

1969-08-08
A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.

2024-09-05
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreakin

1963-05-16
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to pr

1961-07-20
Cliff is down on his luck when he decides to become a gangster. In order to get rich and impress his

1968-09-10
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1955-09-14
In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.

1966-07-28
A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him

1955-09-13
The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.
2000-05-21
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines.

1979-04-18
Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

1954-11-05
Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an

1974-09-12
In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.

1990-01-01
After a man's wife is killed by a panther, his only reason to live becomes revenge, which slowly con

1979-10-06
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

2024-02-27
Insults, humiliation, violence, sexual assault - the world behind the camera and the scenes can be a

1984-08-13
The beautiful daughter of a merchant sacrifices her freedom to save her father from the punishment o

1986-03-27
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life an

1963-04-26
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

2016-05-21
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obses

1983-06-11
A film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these

1984-05-12
Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories.

1987-02-28
Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's deat

2015-04-13
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fif

1965-12-18
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on h

1963-11-20
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of
1961-07-22

1951-12-21
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial

1974-04-28
Anijeska, the Rassimov's heir, moves with her husband, Dr. Alex Nijinski, to her father's mansion. I

2020-04-22
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2:

2007-02-27
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Chr

2005-09-01
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.

2024-04-15
Documentary film about the turbulent life and career of actor Klaus Kinski, a man whose genius was o

2021-11-15
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta

2020-04-08
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH

2014-10-06
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa