Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

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....

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

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...

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

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...

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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...

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...

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

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

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at...

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

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