Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.