Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

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

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

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

A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eise). He photographed for over 50 years and was doing well in prewar Germany until he had to leave. This is him returning to Germany in 1...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater:...

In Thomas Ostermeier's stage version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film, Maria marries German soldier Hermann Braun during World War II. The couple spend over a decade apart due to forces largely beyond Maria's control. To survive in postwar Germany,...

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street....

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 quite relaxed and patient Fassbinder who answers all kinds of (often contrafactual or at least unin...

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 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi...

This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm— and as a director working on "Querelle", his adaptation of the work by Jean Genet....

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk....

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in a manner that is at times shockingly laconic. Excerpts from his film "Beware of a Holy Whore" documen...

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. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series....

What tends to be forgotten behind Fassbinder's immense cinematic oeuvre is that he wrote and directed plays with almost equal intensity and success directed plays. Many of these theatrical works subsequently became the basis for his films....

The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost....

A short documentary about Günter, who is handicapped....