Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

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

This is a 45 minute 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...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio...

Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The...

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of...

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...

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

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...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

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

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

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.