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Born May 31, 1945 · 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.

Querelle
1982

Veronika Voss
1982

Lola
1981

Theater in Trance
1981

Lili Marleen
1981

The Third Generation
1979

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979

In a Year with 13 Moons
1978

Despair
1978

Germany in Autumn
1978

The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977

Women in New York
1977

Chinese Roulette
1977

The American Soldier
1976

Satan’s Brew
1976

I Only Want You to Love Me
1976

Fear of Fear
1975

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975

Fox and His Friends
1975

Like a Bird on a Wire
1975

Effi Briest
1974

Martha
1974

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974

Nora Helmer
1974

Jail Bait
1973

Bremen Freedom
1972

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972

Beware of a Holy Whore
1971

Whity
1971

Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971

Rio das Mortes
1971

The Niklashausen Journey
1970

Gods of the Plague
1970

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970

The Coffee House
1970

Love Is Colder Than Death
1970

Katzelmacher
1969

The Little Chaos
1966

This Night
1966

The City Tramp
1966

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Photographer "Eise"
2019

A German Youth
2015

Fassbinder
2015

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012

My Name Is Not Ali
2011

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
Back to Room 666
2008
Atlètic Club Banyoles
2007

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
2002

Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002

Fassbinder's Women
2000

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
1987

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984

The Wizard of Babylon
1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982

Kamikaze '89
1982

Room 666
1982

Veronika Voss
1982
Polnischer Sommer
1981

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981

Lili Marleen
1981
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980