Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

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...

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...

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

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...

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

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

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 documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

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

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...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

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

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

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

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

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

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

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