Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

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

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

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left...

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

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 remains,...

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping p...

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

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and a...

Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to nav...

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.

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

Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through intervi...