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1997
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The title of this documentary on Rainer Maria Fassbinder is just slightly changed from the title of a film that director made...
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1993
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Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the...
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1988
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During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate...
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1987
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This West German film was first released in 1985 under the title Bittere Ernte. Armin-Mueller Stahl plays a Polish farmer...
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1986
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aka: Flies in the Light Although it is stylistically developed and refined, this thriller does not live up to its name since...
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1986
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A televised music show could be the opportunity that a female mechanic needs to break into the music world. ~ Iotis...
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1986
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1986
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In an entertaining though slightly uneven comedy drama that includes documentary clips, two young, look-alike women decide to...
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1986
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The Guiness Book of World Records inspired this mix of black, social comedy and barbed satire by providing the motivation for...
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P.K. Witrích
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1985
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Partly parody and partly imitation underground film (Walter Bockmayer appears in drag), this mixed cinematic bag starts out...
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1985
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The last days in the life of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his family are told from the point of view of his...
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Adolf Hitler
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1985
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A stuck elevator is used as an allegory for modern German society in this provocative drama. Within the motionless box are...
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1984
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Like a glossy wrapping around an empty box, this film about sophisticated gamblers with nothing deeper than their gambling...
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Jorg
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1984
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In this suspenseful thriller, David Parker (Bryan Brown) is a married businessman with three children, a mistress in Germany,...
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Inspector Haag
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1984
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This talkative melodrama concerns a self-absorbed songwriter, his wife who runs an art gallery, and their dreams for the...
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1983
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This is the tenth film in eight years from writer and director Herbert Achternbusch and is radically out on its own limb. The...
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Poli
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1983
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This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a...
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1983
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A young guard and a beautiful native girl plot to take back a South Pacific from a former concentration camp commandant in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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A rendition of the classic tale of Tristan and Isolde, this drama revolves around the dilemma of a medieval knight who is...
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1982
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Hans Castrop (Christoph Eichhorn) goes to visit a cousin in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, intending to stay for about...
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1982
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1982
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1981
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The director Veith von Fuerstenberg has added some fictional elements to the story of Tristan and Isolde, a tale of...
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1981
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Everyone from Heloise and Abelard, Christ and the Devil, the Virgin Mary and Salome, is represented in this film of a play...
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Judge
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1981
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The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of...
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1981
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Two bit players in the movies share a home together, spend their days getting as much work as they can, and keep scrapbooks...
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Screenwriter
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1981
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1981
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The doctors and patients in a psychiatric clinic are the subject of this hard-hitting docudrama by director Wilma Kottusch....
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1980
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This low-budget, off-the-wall comedy by Hans Noever relies on improvisation for some of its 80-minute running time, and on a...
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1980
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The script for this true-life crime film by New German Cinema director Reinhard Hauff was written by the criminal,...
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Beekenbrandt
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1980
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Anyone interested in why UFOs might be stealing our lettuce deserves to sit through this film. The plot, not a regular...
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Film-Hitler
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1979
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A sartorially resplendent woman (Tabea Blumenschein) arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a...
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1979
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1978
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Originally released in 1977 as Passion Flower Hotel, the German Boarding School offers viewers Nastassja Kinski in one of her...
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Production Designer
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1977
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Based on a novel by the exiled German writer Heinrich Mann, Belcanto forsakes the normal conception of a plot and unfolds...
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1977
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A group of unsuspecting small-time crooks stumble on an apparently abandoned cache of heroin. This gives them big-time...
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1977
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In this scandalous film, footage from Marlene Dietrich's early films is combined with documentary footage of Adolf Hitler,...
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1977
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A housewife's slow descent into suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director...
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1976
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs this bleak morality tale about a young Bavarian bricklayer who longs for love. Raised in a...
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Art Director
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1976
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This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and...
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Set Designer, Walter Kranz
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1976
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This drama is set in Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs of a stationmaster's bored...
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1976
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Angela is the crippled daughter of two separated but still-feuding parents. In this Rainer Werner Fassbinder film, the...
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1976
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Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of the many films in the short, but prolific, career of German auteur...
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Production Designer
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1975
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Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son....
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Art Director, Screenwriter, Set Designer
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1975
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Production Designer
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1974
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be...
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Art Director
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1974
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This dark horror film from director Ulli Lommel was based on the real-life crimes of Fritz Haarman (Kurt Raab), the so-called...
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Screenwriter, Haarmann
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1973
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A scientist in charge of a project that could usher in a bold new era of technology begins experiencing signs of mental...
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Production Designer
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1973
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Martha is a wealthy and totally self-involved woman -- so much so that on a trip during which her father dies, she does...
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1973
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This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and is the 13th of the 33 films he made in...
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Art Director
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1972
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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...
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Art Director
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1972
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German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by...
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1971
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1971
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Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor...
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Costume Designer, Set Designer
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1971
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This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the...
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Production Designer
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1971
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1970
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A technical designer enjoys a comfortable life with his wife and child. He has the approval of his boss and is in good health...
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Production Designer, Herr R
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1970
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American Soldier (originally Der Amerikanische Soldat) was the third of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "gangster trilogy." The...
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Producer, Production Designer
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1970
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Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder uses a 15th century legend as an allegory to the political situation in late-'60s Germany...
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1970
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