* AssPull: When Inez walks away into the jungle, she suddenly wears a beautiful white and yellow dress we have never seen before. It seems rather implausible that she had it in her luggage all the time, but it has no bearing on the plot anyway.
* AwardSnub: It won several prestigious film awards, but it wasn't nominated for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Foreign Language Film.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first collaboration between Creator/WernerHerzog and Popol Vuh.
* CrazyIsCool: Creator/WernerHerzog, just for having the guts to do the movie from beginning to end.
%%* CultClassic
* HarsherInHindsight: At the end of the film, Aguirre rants about wanting to marry his daughter, with him even treating her almost like a lover much beforehand. Years after Creator/KlausKinski died, his daughter Pola revealed that he sexually abused her.
%%* IronWoobie: Inez.
* MainstreamObscurity: Although highly regarded by movie critics and cinephiles, ''Aguirre'' is not widely known among mass audiences.
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The film repeatedly twists real history to insert tropes and motifs from the Spanish Black Legend, but even if pointing this out, few Spaniards or Panhispanists will not acknowledge it as a true CultClassic by its own merits.
* SignatureScene: Aguirre lecturing the monkeys on his plans to build a continental empire.
* SpiritualAdaptation: Although not officially an adaptation of ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', the film's story of an insanity-inducing boat ride through a hostile jungle borrows considerably from Joseph Conrad's novella.
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