Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in...

Wolf Gremm's portrait shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also directed by...

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

A hitchhiker unsettles the ideologically colored lifestyle of a young architect and in doing so loses her own ideological distance from the maxim of...

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers...

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some...

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man....

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends...

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...

An interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four years before his untimely death, the interview shows...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.