Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

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

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...

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

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara...

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

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

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

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

A hitchhiker unsettles the ideologically colored lifestyle of a young architect and in doing so loses her own ideological distance from the maxim of...

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some...

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

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.

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

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

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

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