Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  • 1977
    Women in New York

    Women in New York (1977)

    Women in New York

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    The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist, the governess, the teacher, the tailor etc. – who work for them. Naturally, the wives th...

    Women in New York
  • 1979
    Bourbon Street Blues

    Bourbon Street Blues (1979)

    Bourbon Street Blues

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    An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical lan...

    Bourbon Street Blues
  • 1969
    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969)

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

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    Al Capone im deutschen Wald
  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

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

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
  • 1984
    The Last Trip to Harrisburg

    The Last Trip to Harrisburg (1984)

    The Last Trip to Harrisburg

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

    The Last Trip to Harrisburg
  • 1981
    Polnischer Sommer

    Polnischer Sommer (1981)

    Polnischer Sommer

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    Polnischer Sommer
  • 1975
    Like a Bird on a Wire

    Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)

    Like a Bird on a Wire

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    A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on an series of artificial sets....

    Like a Bird on a Wire
  • 1981
    Theater in Trance

    Theater in Trance (1981)

    Theater in Trance

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Ant...

    Theater in Trance
  • 1971
    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

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

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt
  • 1980
    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980)

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

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

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
  • 2012
    Garbage, the City and Death

    Garbage, the City and Death (2012)

    Garbage, the City and Death

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    Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete bre...

    Garbage, the City and Death
  • 1980
    Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

    Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (1980)

    Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

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    Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series....

    Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
  • 1987
    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

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    Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES....

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
  • 1974
    1 Berlin-Harlem

    1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

    1 Berlin-Harlem

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    An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to li...

    1 Berlin-Harlem
  • 1971
    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

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

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
  • 1966
    The Little Chaos

    The Little Chaos (1966)

    The Little Chaos

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

    The Little Chaos
  • 2010
    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense (2010)

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

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    When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, amon...

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
  • 1976
    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me (1976)

    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

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    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
  • 1970
    End of the Commune?

    End of the Commune? (1970)

    End of the Commune?

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    "End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his m...

    End of the Commune?
  • 1977
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 (1977)

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

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

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977