Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  • 1972
    Bremen Freedom

    Bremen Freedom (1972)

    Bremen Freedom

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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...

    Bremen Freedom
  • 1974
    1 Berlin-Harlem

    1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

    1 Berlin-Harlem

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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...

    1 Berlin-Harlem
  • 2008
    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

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    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
  • 1973
    Jail Bait

    Jail Bait (1973)

    Jail Bait

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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...

    Jail Bait
  • 1970
    The Coffee House

    The Coffee House (1970)

    The Coffee House

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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....

    The Coffee House
  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

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    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
    The Niklashausen Journey

    The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

    The Niklashausen Journey

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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...

    The Niklashausen Journey
  • 1971
    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt

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

    Pioneers in Ingolstadt
  • 2002
    Fassbinder in Hollywood

    Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)

    Fassbinder in Hollywood

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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)....

    Fassbinder in Hollywood
  • 1992
    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

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    A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
  • 1966
    The Little Chaos

    The Little Chaos (1966)

    The Little Chaos

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    Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery....

    The Little Chaos
  • 1971
    The Ancestress

    The Ancestress (1971)

    The Ancestress

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    The Ancestress
  • 1976
    Shadow of Angels

    Shadow of Angels (1976)

    Shadow of Angels

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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...

    Shadow of Angels
  • 1978
    Spiel der Verlierer

    Spiel der Verlierer (1978)

    Spiel der Verlierer

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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...

    Spiel der Verlierer
  • 2008
    Back to Room 666

    Back to Room 666 (2008)

    Back to Room 666

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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....

    Back to Room 666
  • 1971
    Mathias Kneißl

    Mathias Kneißl (1971)

    Mathias Kneißl

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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...

    Mathias Kneißl
  • 1971
    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

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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 ...

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
  • 1966
    The City Tramp

    The City Tramp (1966)

    The City Tramp

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    A tramp finds a gun lying in the street....

    The City Tramp
  • 1975
    Like a Bird on a Wire

    Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)

    Like a Bird on a Wire

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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....

    Like a Bird on a Wire
  • 2014
    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

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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....

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance