Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

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

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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

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

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.

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...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

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

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.