Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1972
Bremen Freedom (1972)
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A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She def...
- 1974
1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)
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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...
- 2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)
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- 1973
Jail Bait (1973)
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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 girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose inces...
- 1970
The Coffee House (1970)
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Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems....
- 1976
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
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BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
- 1970
The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
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Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Bla...
- 1971
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
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Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
- 2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
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Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....
- 1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
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A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
- 1966
The Little Chaos (1966)
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Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery....
- 1971
The Ancestress (1971)
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- 1976
Shadow of Angels (1976)
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Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she...
- 1978
Spiel der Verlierer (1978)
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The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting...
- 2008
Back to Room 666 (2008)
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What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera....
- 1971
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
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Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was...
- 1971
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
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An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry ...
- 1966
The City Tramp (1966)
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A tramp finds a gun lying in the street....
- 1975
Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)
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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....
- 2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
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After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film....