
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Biography
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays. He had tortured personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.
Acting (53 movies)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974

Shadow of Angels
1976

Veronika Voss
1982

Gods of the Plague
1970

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008

Katzelmacher
1969

The Wizard of Babylon
1982

Beware of a Holy Whore
1971

Kamikaze '89
1982

Love Is Colder Than Death
1970

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984

Fox and His Friends
1975

Germany in Autumn
1978

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992

The City Tramp
1966

Tenderness of the Wolves
1973

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968

The Little Chaos
1966

The American Soldier
1970

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976

Bremen Freedom
1972

Bourbon Street Blues
1979

Baal
1970

The Ancestress
1971

Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002

The Niklashausen Journey
1970

1 Berlin-Harlem
1974

Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
1968

Mathias Kneißl
1971

Supergirl
1971

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971

Whity
1971

Haytabo
1971

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015

Fassbinder
2015

Lili Marleen
1981

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005

Room 666
1982

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976

Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
1980

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012

My Name Is Not Ali
2011

Rio das Mortes
1971

Effi Briest
1974

End of the Commune?
1970

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010

Photographer "Eise"
2019

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Directing (41 movies)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974

Lili Marleen
1981

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979

Effi Briest
1974

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972

Martha
1974

Veronika Voss
1982

Lola
1981

Gods of the Plague
1970

Katzelmacher
1969

Love Is Colder Than Death
1970

Beware of a Holy Whore
1971

Germany in Autumn
1978

Chinese Roulette
1977

Despair
1978

In a Year with 13 Moons
1978

Fox and His Friends
1975

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975

Satan’s Brew
1976

Fear of Fear
1975

The American Soldier
1970

Nora Helmer
1974

I Only Want You to Love Me
1976

Whity
1971

The Niklashausen Journey
1970

The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977

The Third Generation
1979

The City Tramp
1966

The Little Chaos
1966

Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971

Rio das Mortes
1971

Like a Bird on a Wire
1975

The Coffee House
1970

Bremen Freedom
1972

Women in New York
1977

Theater in Trance
1981

Jail Bait
1973

This Night
1966

Querelle
1982