Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan 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.
Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Laawitsch, Ivan Desny
Plot
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 and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Daniel F. Galouye (novel), Fritz Maller-Scherz (teleplay), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (teleplay)
Cast
Klaus Laawitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben
Plot
In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer
Cast
Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
Plot
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 jo...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Baahm
Plot
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany | German, English
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Plot
A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.
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 impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.
Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Plot
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...
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany, France | German
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
Plot
Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family's country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette."
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany | German, Italian
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Cornell Woolrich
Cast
Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Baahm, Barbara Valentin
Plot
After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.
Manfred Purzer, Joshua Sinclair, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
Plot
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Heinrich Zille
Cast
Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen
Plot
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husba...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Antes, Christiane Erhardt
Cast
Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson
Plot
A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house. Instead of offering their flat t...
Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler
Plot
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira
Plot
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law a...
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 hi...
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, Italy | Italian, German
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm
Plot
On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...
