1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t find out more...

A highly visual movie with three intersecting stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about a man in pursuit of eternal life. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life, a medical researcher, working with tree sap, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife and, finally, a space traveller with an aged tree in a bubble moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula. find out more...