
Directing
Community Rating
5.8
TMDB estimate
Born
May 31, 1945
Died
June 10, 1982 (age 37)
Born in
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature-length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays. He had tortured, personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024

Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
2020

Photographer "Eise"
Self
2019

A German Youth
Self (archive footage)
2015

Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
2015

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
2015

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Self (archive footage)
2012

My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
2011

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Self (archive footage)
2010

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (archive footage)
2008
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
2008
Atlètic Club Banyoles
self
2007

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Self
2005
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Self (archive footage)
2002

Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2002

Fassbinder's Women
Self (Archive footage)
2000

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self (archive footage)
1992
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Self
1987

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1984

Querelle
Director
1982

Veronika Voss
Director
1982

Lola
Director
1981

Theater in Trance
Director
1981

Lili Marleen
Director
1981

The Third Generation
Director
1979

The Marriage of Maria Braun
Director
1979

In a Year with 13 Moons
Director
1978

Despair
Director
1978

Germany in Autumn
Director
1978

The Stationmaster’s Wife
Director
1977

Women in New York
Director
1977

Chinese Roulette
Director
1977

The American Soldier
Director
1976

Satan’s Brew
Director
1976

I Only Want You to Love Me
Director
1976

Fear of Fear
Director
1975

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Director
1975

Fox and His Friends
Director
1975

Like a Bird on a Wire
Director
1975