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