Rainer Werner Fassbinder Filmography

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been at...

Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Things are turned on their head when Franz and Bruno becom...

Händler der vier Jahreszeiten is a movie starring Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, and Hanna Schygulla. Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack......

A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies....

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires...

Faustrecht der Freiheit is a movie starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, and Karlheinz Böhm. A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and......

Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt is a TV movie starring Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, and Alexander Allerson. A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a......

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette"...

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 Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 whe...

In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden is a movie starring Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, and Gottfried John. A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping......

Die Ehe der Maria Braun is a movie starring Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, and Ivan Desny. Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty......

Die dritte Generation is a movie starring Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, and Volker Spengler. Peter Lenz, a mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980,......

Lola is a movie starring Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Mario Adorf. A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous......

Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journ...

A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality....