Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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...

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...

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...

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...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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

“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child...

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...

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

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

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