133 Klaus Kinski Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Inspired from events of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzgerald’s life. Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, is passionate about opera and determined to build an opera house, for which he decides to earn through rubber industry. Thinking up a plan, he enlists the natives of Peruvian jungle to haul a 180-ton steamboat over a mountain to facilitate rubber transportation. 

In the second movie in the Dollars Trilogy, a cruel bank robber, El Indio is rescued by his gang after a bloody slaughter in the prison. Two bounty hunters Manco and Mortimer join hands to capture El Indio and share the reward equally. However, one of them has an altogether different motive for catching the outlaw.

This biographical adventure film tells the story of Don Lope de Aguirre, a ruthless and power-hungry Spanish conqueror, who is on an expedition to find El Dorado, the seven cities of gold. 

The age-old tale of romance is set against the backdrop of World War I, the 1917 Russian revolution, and the Russian Civil War. Yuri Zhivago is in love with Lara, who ends up marrying Pasha Antipov. Zhivago marries Tonya. Years later, fate brings Yuri and Lara back together again only to cruelly tear them apart. 

Jonathan Harker, estate agent from Wismar, travels to Count Dracula’s castle to sell him a property in Wismar. Encouraged by a portrait of Jonathan’s wife, Lucy, Dracula agrees and reaches Wismar bringing along death and plague. As he longs to end his loneliness with Lucy’s love, she realizes that only a pure-heart woman like her can put an end to Dracula’s horror.

After having an illegitimate child with his lover Marie, a soldier named Franz struggles to earn money in his small town, hoping that he can provide for them. He is eventually forced to volunteer for a local doctor, who puts him in a pea-only diet. This drives him to madness, and things only get worse when he realizes Marie is having an affair with another man.

Also known as the Grand Slam, the crime thriller follows Professor James Anders who forms a team for a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival in Brazil. Unfortunately, the building’s security, where the diamonds are stored is not the only problem the team faces as double-crosses and betrayals ensure an unhappy ending. 

During the latter part of the Second World War, several young boys decide to fight for the German army, due to their enthusiasm of doing something for the country. When they learn that their sons are about to be sent to the Russian front, their mothers attempt to get their sons back.

In order to maintain a ‘Perfect marriage’ façade, Irene Wagner doesn’t divulge her extra-marital affair with Erich Baumann to her well-known scientist-professor husband Albert Wagner. Baumann’s ex-girlfriend Johann learns about the affair and starts blackmailing Irene, proving her worst trepidations true. When she learns that the plan was designed as an experiment in ‘fear,’ it results in a dangerous and violent fury. 

A flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens is hijacked by a terrorist named the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They release the non-Jewish passengers, but they keep the Jewish ones as hostages, and try to use them to negotiate for the release of several political prisoners held by Israel. Eventually, a group of Israeli commandos are sent on a rescue mission.

Along with his two companions, Joe Thanks, a brilliant scammer, plans to steal a fortune in cash from Major Cabot, a corrupt cavalry officer.

Jason and Adam are brothers specializing in jewel heists. However, Jason is forced to seek vengeance from Adam, when the latter leaves him for dead, and also steals his girlfriend.

A devoted soldier turns killer and bandit after he falls obsessively in love with a free-spirited woman named Carmen. The Spaghetti Western film is adapted from Carmen, a novella, and is one of the few to be filmed and set in Europe.

Sally is a beautiful young woman who moves to London to pursue a career in modeling. She moves in with two other young women, and starts living a carefree life of parties and romantic encounters.

Due to his long absences from home, a secret agent’s wife suspects that he might be having an affair. Out of jealousy, she decides to eventually murder him.  

The Dirty Game is a drama thriller film which tells us the story of a US intelligence officer who remembers three different spy missions that he was a part of.

Target for Killing is a crime thriller drama film which tells the story of a young heiress, who is targeted for assassination by a crime syndicate. Meanwhile, a secret agent is assigned to prevent the assassination.  

Aurelio Morelli is a well-known author, but he is unhappy because although his books are well-received by critics, they are not read much by the public. Meanwhile, due to their depraved moral sense, he develops a hatred for the youths of his society, and eventually murders a call girl. The only person suspecting him is a journalist and instead of informing the police, he asks Aurelio to write about his murder.

Trevor Adams is a young sixteen year old who is attending an American high school, where he is constantly harassed and bullied. In order to fit into normal life, he joins a theatre group and is chosen to star in a play about school shootings, and also chosen to play the main character. However, when parents and the community hear about the play, they demand that it is cancelled.

Gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. In order to arrest them, the Scotland Yard joins hands with the FBI. 

In order to crack the mystery behind an international drug smuggling circuit, the Scotland Yard takes the help of a Chinese detective, who is also trying to find the ‘Daffodil Killer`. 

While passing through a town, a motorcycle rider sees a young girl who has been run over and killed by another person on a motorbike.

After an armored car heist on Tower Bridge ends with the death of a guard, suspicion falls on the members of the traveling Barberini's Circus. Detective Jim Elliott starts investigating a web of lies, deceit, blackmail, and murder that reveals a much darker conspiracy. 

During the end of the 19th century, at the time of Colonial Rule in India, a doctor is accused of murder. He is aided by a native woman named Amrita, and he sets off against a dangerous cult.

A murderer who is being hunted by the police, takes refuge in the home of a psychiatrist. In order to convince him that crime doesn’t pay, the doctor tells him three different stories.

Also referred to as Arcobaleno selvaggio or Geheimcode: Wildgänse, the action movie finds DEA agent Fletcher, aligning with American businessman, Brenner, to destroy the opium factories in the Golden Triangle. They form a team of mercenaries from both sides of the law to finish the dangerous job.  

Also known as Murder by Mail, this psychological slasher film focuses on an advice columnist, undergoing divorce proceedings. She has begun to receive death threats through anonymous letter. Meanwhile, members of her therapy sessions are being stabbed to death one by one. The police officer, who is her ex-husband, thinks there is no link between the two.  

The comedy action film follows Bob Mitchell, an American playboy who is vacationing in Hong Kong. When he finds a mysterious note on a dead body that only reads ‘Five Golden Dragons,’ he inadvertently gets drawn into dangerous operations of an international crime organization and the local gangsters. Can Mitchell uncover the secret syndicate that controls the illicit trafficking of world’s gold?

This comedy film tells the story of a small town girl who leaves her home, hoping to find a suitable husband. However, things don’t go as expected, when she begins to attract the attention of lascivious men.  

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud is a fictional account revolving around the early life of the famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Freud drops out of medical school and develops his own theories of psychoanalysis, and eventually he finds a patient on whom he can test his innovative ideas.

A billionaire businessman hires a man in order to influence a South American dictator. Soon, the man starts having an affair with the wife of the billionaire after being infatuated with her, which turns the situation complicated.

A pretty yet evil woman, Sumuru, conspires to rule the world and replace all the male leaders with her all-female sexy brigade. While investigating the killing of the security chief of Sinonesian president, secret agents, Nick West and Tommy Carter, discover Sumuru’s deadly organization. How do they deal with the lethal vixen and her army, known as ‘The Million Eyes of Sumuru'?