Top Rainer Werner Fassbinder films

Una vedova sola incontra un lavoratore arabo molto più giovane in un bar durante un temporale. Si innamorano, causando una grande sorpresa alle loro famiglie, colleghi e amici bevitori.

Un giovane della classe operaia della Germania occidentale vince la lotteria e inizia una relazione con un uomo.

Uno stilista di moda abbandona una relazione sadomaso con la sua assistente per una storia d'amore con una bellissima giovane donna.

Maria sposa Hermann Braun alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale e lui sparisce. Da sola, Maria sfrutta la sua bellezza e ambizione e trova prosperità durante il "miracolo economico" della Germania degli anni '50.

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best out of the situation. When the material finally arrives all folks involved into the film find themselves in a weird situation. Jealousy, competition and despair are ruling. Nobody seems to be able to break through this atmosphere, so they all still try to make the best out of the situation, but this is probably not the way to finish the film.

A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works--and followed that by committing suicide.

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However, she falls for the killer.

Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family's country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette."

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Un bel marinaio è trascinato in un vortice di rivalità tra fratelli, omicidi e sessualità esplosiva.

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to Valium and drink and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.

Nel diciannovesimo secolo, la diciassettenne Effi Briest si sposa con il barone von Instetten più anziano e si trasferisce in una casa, che crede abbia un fantasma, in una piccola cittadina isolata del Baltico.

Nel futuro c'è un progetto informatico chiamato Simulacron, capace di simulare una realtà completa, ma muore all'improvviso il capo del progetto Henry Vollmer. Il suo successore, il dottore Fred Stiller, fa l'esperienza di fenomeni strani.

Berlino, tardi anni venti. Franz Biberkopf, colpevole dell'omicidio della sua amante, esce di prigione e decide di condurre una vita onesta. Presto però comincia a bere, si chiude in se stesso e precipita in un mondo di malaffare.

In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.

Nella Germania occidentale del dopoguerra, l'affascinante Von Bohm è nominato nuovo commissario per l'edilizia di una città. La sua moralità viene messa alla prova quando si innamora di Lola, l'amante di un uomo corrotto.

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 problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?

Parzialmente basato sulla vita di Sybille Schmitz, che trovò fama sotto il regime nazista, ma la cui carriera fu poi distrutta.

Una donna transgender cerca di salvare qualcosa dalla sua vita confrontandosi con il suo passato angoscioso, sperando di trovare la massima accettazione tra i suoi conoscenti e se stessa.