Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

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...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

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

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...

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

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

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of...

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

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

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where...

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

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...

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