Rainer Werner Fassbinder
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1945-05-31
Locus Natus: Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Et ut: Rainer W. Fassbinder, R. W. Fassbinder, 라이너 베르너 파스빈더, Franz Walsch, Ра́йнер Ве́рнер Фасби́ндер, راينر فاسبيندر, Ράινερ Βέρνερ Φασμπίντερ, 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德, რაინერ უერნერ ფასბინდერი, ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...
release : 1974.03.05popularis : 6.587
Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...
release : 1976.09.03popularis : 3.514
Veronika Voss
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine....
release : 1982.05.13popularis : 6.386
Gods of the Plague
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...
release : 1970.07.24popularis : 6.901
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
This is a 45 minute 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...
release : 1978.07.18popularis : 0.906
Katzelmacher
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...
release : 1969.10.07popularis : 2.638
The Wizard of Babylon
Documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle." Features an interview with Fassbinder only ten...
release : 1982.08.13popularis : 0.703
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck,...
release : 1980.04.29popularis : 0.677
Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
release : 1971.08.28popularis : 3.721
Kamikaze 1989
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...
release : 1982.07.16popularis : 3.112
Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
release : 1970.01.16popularis : 4.322
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.
release : 1984.10.08popularis : 0.475
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany
release : 2005.06.26popularis : 3.9
Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...
release : 1975.06.06popularis : 5.87
Germany in Autumn
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...
release : 1978.03.03popularis : 3.638
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...
release : 1972.02.10popularis : 8.572
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
release : 2014.09.10popularis : 0.952
Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
release : 1981.04.27popularis : 0.367
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
release : 1992.06.11popularis : 3.531
The City Tramp
A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.
release : 1966.01.01popularis : 3.955
Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...
release : 1973.07.12popularis : 4.729
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
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...
release : 1968.10.10popularis : 1.679
The Little Chaos
Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.
release : 1966.12.02popularis : 2.016
The American Soldier
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
release : 1970.10.09popularis : 1.655
Bremen Freedom
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...
release : 1972.11.12popularis : 1.515
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor - taking the leading role in the film "KAMIKAZE 1989", also...
release : 1982.07.25popularis : 0.401
Bourbon Street Blues
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner...
release : 1979.02.22popularis : 3.629
Baal
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
release : 1970.01.07popularis : 3.323
Fassbinder in Hollywood
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...
release : 2002.07.02popularis : 1.26
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
release : 1971.01.27popularis : 1.014
Little Godard
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at...
release : 1978.06.08popularis : 0.786
The Niklashausen Journey
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...
release : 1970.10.26popularis : 1.386
1 Berlin-Harlem
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....
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.598
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
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...
release : 1968.01.05popularis : 1.725
Mathias Kneißl
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...
release : 1971.05.27popularis : 1.524
Supergirl
In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where...
release : 1971.05.14popularis : 0.904
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of...
release : 1971.04.14popularis : 2.498
Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...
release : 1971.06.02popularis : 4.621
Haytabo
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 0.744
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in...
release : 2015.02.07popularis : 0.677
Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
release : 2015.04.30popularis : 1.712
Back to Room 666
What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question...
release : 2008.02.02popularis : 1.906
Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping...
release : 1981.01.14popularis : 5.131
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 0.542
Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...
release : 1982.06.01popularis : 4.255
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 0.301
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.
release : 1987.01.18popularis : 0.895
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to...
release : 1979.03.23popularis : 9.418
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
release : 1976.12.02popularis : 1.162
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 0.916
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".
release : 2012.06.12popularis : 0.742
My Name Is Not Ali
Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...
release : 2011.11.07popularis : 1.43
Rio das Mortes
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...
release : 1971.02.15popularis : 1.397
Atlètic Club Banyoles
The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to the club Atlètic Club Banyoles and...
release : 2007.05.01popularis : 0.515
Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...
release : 1974.06.20popularis : 3.753
End of the Commune?
"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...
release : 1970.06.05popularis : 0.648
Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...
release : 2020.07.16popularis : 4.131
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
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...
release : 2010.09.02popularis : 0.856
Photographer "Eise"
A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eise). He photographed for over 50...
release : 2019.12.21popularis : 0.626