Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

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

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question...

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...

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

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

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...

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

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German...

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

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

A young man named Jürgen joins the military. As much as he tries to make a heroic career as a soldier in a rearmed West Germany, he fails...

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

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

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

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

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner...