Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

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...

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

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

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....

A documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle," features an interview with Fassbinder only ten...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

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...

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

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...

A short documentary about Günter, who is handicapped.

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...

The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to the club Atlètic Club Banyoles and...

Romi, a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German...

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

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