Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend, Raoul, who gambles away what...

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine....

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

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...

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends...

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors)....

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...

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

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara...

Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time...

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

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.

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

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive...

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

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.

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

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

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...

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.

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in...

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...

Wolf Gremm's portrait shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also directed by Wolf...

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

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

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

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

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...

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 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 utterly...

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 from...

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...

In an attempt to escape 19th-century poverty, eight farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.

A hitchhiker unsettles the ideologically colored lifestyle of a young architect and in doing so loses her own ideological distance from the maxim of...

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982...

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

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...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is...

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

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the...

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to...

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

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

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

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

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

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to the club Atlètic Club Banyoles and authentic...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some...

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

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,...

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

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

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

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

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...

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...