Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 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: Ant...

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

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

The migrant worker Jorgos, joins a group of young people who are usually just hanging around. He incites hostility, jealousy and also curiosity among them. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play in a Serbian adaption....

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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 remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera....

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

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 arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to...

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 and ends up in a bizarre sanatorium....

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

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 parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES....

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

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Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical lan...

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

“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have worked with her say that what she does is true artistry. Barbara Sukowa, a star of Fassbinder’s film...