Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Known for: Directing
Born: May 31, 1945
Died: June 10, 1982
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
101 movies · 14 TV shows, newest first
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
5.8
Peter von Kant
2022
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
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Photographer "Eise"
2019
7.1
A German Youth
2015
6.2
Fassbinder
2015
6.4
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
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Frogman Katzelmacher
2013
2.7
Garbage, the City and Death
2012
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012
6.3
My Name Is Not Ali
2011
5.8
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010
6.7
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
20085.5
Back to Room 666
2008
8.0
The Marriage of Maria Braun
2008NR
Atlètic Club Banyoles
20078.0
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2006
5.3
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005NR
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
2002
6.1
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
5.3
Fassbinder's Women
2000
6.4
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
2000
6.5
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992NR
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
1987
6.6
Room 666
1985
6.7
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
6.6
Querelle
1982
4.5
The Wizard of Babylon
1982
6.2
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982
5.4
Kamikaze '89
1982
7.2
Veronika Voss
1982
6.9
Lola
1981
6.8
Theater in Trance
19817.0
Polnischer Sommer
1981
6.0
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981
6.5
Lili Marleen
1981
7.5
Berlin Alexanderplatz
198010.0
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980
6.4
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
1980
6.0
The Third Generation
1979
7.4
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
6.1
Bourbon Street Blues
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
1979
6.6
In a Year with 13 Moons
19788.0
Spiel der Verlierer
1978
6.5
Despair
1978
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Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
197810.0
Little Godard
1978
6.4
Germany in Autumn
19788.0
Biographies
1978
5.6
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977
6.0
Women in New York
1977
7.0
Adolf and Marlene
1977
7.1
Chinese Roulette
1977
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
6.3
The American Soldier
1976
6.4
Satan’s Brew
1976
4.4
Shadow of Angels
1976
7.3
I Only Want You to Love Me
1976
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976
6.3
Fear of Fear
1975
7.7
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975
7.2
Fox and His Friends
19755.5
Die Wohngenossin
1975
5.9
Like a Bird on a Wire
1975NR
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
1975
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
6.1
La Paloma
1974
6.6
Effi Briest
1974
7.0
Martha
1974
7.0
Am laufenden Band
1974
7.7
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
7.1
Nora Helmer
1974
3.0
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
7.3
World on a Wire
1973
5.7
Tenderness of the Wolves
19737.0
Je später der Abend
1973
6.2
Jail Bait
1973
6.3
Bremen Freedom
1972
7.7
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972
7.4
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972
6.7
The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972
9.0
The Ancestress
1971
6.2
Beware of a Holy Whore
1971
5.4
Whity
1971
6.5
Mathias Kneißl
1971
5.4
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971
4.4
Supergirl
1971
9.3
Dalli Dalli
1971
6.5
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971
5.3
Rio das Mortes
19717.0
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971
6.8
Haytabo
1971
5.8
The Niklashausen Journey
1970
5.5
Gods of the Plague
1970
7.4
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970
8.0
End of the Commune?
1970
6.5
The Coffee House
1970
6.2
Love Is Colder Than Death
1970
5.5
Baal
1970
6.4
Katzelmacher
19699.0
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
19699.0
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
196910.0
Tonys Freunde
1969
4.5
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968
8.5
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
1968
6.3
The Little Chaos
1966
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This Night
1966
6.1
The City Tramp
1966NR
Ein Platz für Günter
19668.5
aspekte
1965NR
Grimme Award
1964
5.3
Stars in der Manege
19596.0
German Film Award
1951