Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

  • 1970
    Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

    Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

    Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

    7.31970HD

    The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

    Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
  • 1978
    In a Year with 13 Moons

    In a Year with 13 Moons

    In a Year with 13 Moons

    6.71978HD

    Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...

    In a Year with 13 Moons
  • 1976
    Satan’s Brew

    Satan’s Brew

    Satan’s Brew

    6.41976HD

    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...

    Satan’s Brew
  • 1973
    Jail Bait

    Jail Bait

    Jail Bait

    6.21973HD

    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...

    Jail Bait
  • 1974
    Nora Helmer

    Nora Helmer

    Nora Helmer

    7.11974HD

    A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German...

    Nora Helmer
  • 1971
    Whity

    Whity

    Whity

    5.21971HD

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

    Whity
  • 1982
    Kamikaze 1989

    Kamikaze 1989

    Kamikaze 1989

    5.4051982HD

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

    Kamikaze 1989
  • 1975
    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    7.81975HD

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

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  • 1978
    Germany in Autumn

    Germany in Autumn

    Germany in Autumn

    6.21978HD

    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...

    Germany in Autumn
  • 1973
    Tenderness of the Wolves

    Tenderness of the Wolves

    Tenderness of the Wolves

    5.71973HD

    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,...

    Tenderness of the Wolves
  • 1970
    Love Is Colder Than Death

    Love Is Colder Than Death

    Love Is Colder Than Death

    6.21970HD

    Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

    Love Is Colder Than Death
  • 1970
    Gods of the Plague

    Gods of the Plague

    Gods of the Plague

    5.61970HD

    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...

    Gods of the Plague
  • 1982
    Room 666

    Room 666

    Room 666

    6.5191982HD

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

    Room 666
  • 1976
    I Only Want You to Love Me

    I Only Want You to Love Me

    I Only Want You to Love Me

    7.41976HD

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

    I Only Want You to Love Me
  • 1971
    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

    5.31971HD

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

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt
  • 1978
    Despair

    Despair

    Despair

    6.51978HD

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

    Despair
  • 1974
    1 Berlin-Harlem

    1 Berlin-Harlem

    1 Berlin-Harlem

    11974HD

    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....

    1 Berlin-Harlem
  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    01976HD

    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
  • 1970
    Baal

    Baal

    Baal

    61970HD

    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.

    Baal
  • 1975
    Fear of Fear

    Fear of Fear

    Fear of Fear

    6.31975HD

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

    Fear of Fear