Direction: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Plot TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man,...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Plot TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Barbara Valentin · Irm Hermann

Plot Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry,...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Karlheinz Böhm · Gisela Fackeldey · Ingrid Caven

Plot A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Hanna Schygulla · Irm Hermann · Eva Mattes

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Klaus Löwitsch · Ivan Desny · Gisela Uhlen

Plot While bombs are fall ing all over the place during World War II , Hermann Braun and Maria get married. One night is all they have before Herrmann has to...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Peter Chatel · Karlheinz Böhm · Rudolf Lenz

Plot Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth. In need of cash for his weekly lottery...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Karlheinz Böhm

Plot Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Rosel Zech · Hilmar Thate · Cornelia Froboess · Annemarie Düringer

Plot Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Kart, supplying...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Vitus Zeplichal · Elke Aberle · Alexander Allerson · Erni Mangold

Plot A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother....

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Volker Spengler · Ingrid Caven · Gottfried John · Elisabeth Trissenaar

Plot When his wealthy male lover dumps him, Erwin Weishaupt makes a desperate attempt to win his man back by having a sex change operation. But the sacrifice is doomed to...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Klaus Löwitsch · Barbara Valentin · Mascha Rabben · Karl Heinz Vosgerau

Plot Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Ulrich Faulhaber · Brigitte Mira · Irm Hermann

Plot Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Mario Adorf · Mathias Fuchs

Plot Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute (Barbara Sukowa) exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Wolfgang Schenck · Ulli Lommel · Karlheinz Böhm

Plot Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hans Hirschmüller · Irm Hermann · Hanna Schygulla · Gusti Kreisal

Plot Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's several "bourgeois films" that depict and critique middle-class society. The film deceptively unfolds like...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Anna Karina · Margit Carstensen · Brigitte Mira · Ulli Lommel

Plot A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Lilith Ungerer · Rudolf Waldemar Brem · Elga Sorbas

Plot Jorgos is a young Greek guest worker in Germany, known pejoratively as a “Katzelmacher,” Bavarian slang for “cat screwer,” referring to the supposed sexual habits of foreigners. He rents a...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Joachim Hansen · Barbara Valentin · Ulli Lommel

Plot Nora Helmer is childishly innocent, despite eight years of marriage and two children. She is protected from all responsibility and kept ignorant of even the most rudimentary knowledge of worldly...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Lilith Ungerer · Kurt Raab · Lilo Pempeit · Franz Maron

Plot With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to...