Search results for "Rainer Werner Fassbinder"
Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher
IMDb: 6.8
90

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless…

Genre: Drama
Despair

Despair

Despair
IMDb: 6.9
117

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore
IMDb: 6.7
103

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
IMDb: 7.5
108

After her husband kills his boss and himself, Mother Kusters becomes drawn into the activities of the German Communist party and then a group of anarchists.

Genre: Drama
Satan’s Brew

Satan’s Brew

Satan’s Brew
IMDb: 6.7
113

This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rio das Mortes

Rio das Mortes

Rio das Mortes
IMDb: 6.3
84

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel’s girlfriend, Hanna, humors their…

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear
IMDb: 7.5
88

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

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Gods of the Plague

Gods of the Plague

Gods of the Plague
IMDb: 6.4
91

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 out…

Genre: Drama
Veronika Voss

Veronika Voss

Veronika Voss
IMDb: 7.8
105

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer…

Genre: Drama
Lola

Lola

Lola
IMDb: 7.5
113

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn
IMDb: 6.9
123

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 during the late…

The Third Generation

The Third Generation

The Third Generation
IMDb: 6.8
110

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after…

Genre: Crime, Drama
In a Year with 13 Moons

In a Year with 13 Moons

In a Year with 13 Moons
IMDb: 7.5
124

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

Genre: Drama
Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends
IMDb: 7.7
123

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Martha

Martha

Martha
IMDb: 7.6
116

After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman – Helmut.

Chinese Roulette

Chinese Roulette

Chinese Roulette
IMDb: 7.3
86

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family’s country house with their lovers.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun
IMDb: 7.8
120

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…

Genre: Drama
Querelle

Querelle

Querelle
IMDb: 6.7
108

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery…

Genre: Drama
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
IMDb: 8.1
93

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
IMDb: 7.7
125

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer — arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be…

Genre: Drama