Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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...

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....

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

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...

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

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

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...

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...

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

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...

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

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

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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...

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...

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...

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