Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

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

The migrant worker Jorgos joins a group of young people who are usually just hanging around. He incites hostility, jealousy, and also curiosity among...

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

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

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in...

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

An interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four years before his untimely death, the interview shows...

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,...

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their...

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends...

This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the leading role in the film "Kamikaze 1989", also...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eise). He photographed for over 50...

The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost.

What tends to be forgotten behind Fassbinder's immense cinematic oeuvre is that he wrote and directed plays with almost equal intensity and success...

A short documentary about Günter, who is handicapped.