Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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...

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...

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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...

"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...

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

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

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

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

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

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

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.

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

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