Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

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

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings...

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...

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

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

A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She wears only an orange jumpsuit and wants to go to...

In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers.

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...

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

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

In an attempt to escape 19th-century poverty, eight farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.

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

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

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...

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

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

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.