Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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...

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

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...

A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She wears only an orange jumpsuit and wants to go to...

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

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

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women,...

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

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings...

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

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the...

Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to...

In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers.

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence,...