Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...

A documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle," features an interview with Fassbinder only ten...

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

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.

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...

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

Romi, a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to...

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

What tends to be forgotten behind Fassbinder's immense cinematic oeuvre is that he wrote and directed plays with almost equal intensity and success...

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...

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....

An interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four years before his untimely death, the interview shows...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's...

Based on the French play Copain, Clopant. The plot revolves around the gangster Mallard, who wants to blackmail the rising singing star Tony. Tony...

A short documentary about Günter, who is handicapped.

A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eise). He photographed for over 50...