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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Germany · b. May 31, 1945 – d. June 10, 1982
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →
In Their Own Words

I love the way Fassbinder makes films. I try to make my films in the same spirit as Fassbinder.

On Martha (, WGer, 112 mins  ·  Las Películas de Pedro Almodóvar: 1980-2007 by Agustín Lardín (cited in Nuria Vidal's 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Master of Melodrama')
Filmography (45)
Querelle (, WGer/France, 106 mins 1982
Querelle 1982
Veronika Voss 1982
Theatre in a Trance (, WGer, 91 mins 1981
Lola (, WGer, 113 mins 1981
Lili Marleen (, WGer/Italy, 120 mins 1980
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1979
The Third Generation 1979
Germany in Autumn 1978
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1978
In a Year with 13 Moons 1978
Despair 1977
Women in New York 1977
Bolweiser 1977
I Only Want You to Love Me 1976
Satan’s Brew 1976
Chinese Roulette 1976
Fear of Fear 1975
Mother K ü sters’ Trip to Heaven 1975
Like a Bird on the Wire 1974
Effi Briest (, WGer, 141 mins 1974
Fox and his Friends 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
Nora Helmer (, WGer, 101 mins 1973
Martha (, WGer, 112 mins 1973
Fear Eats the Soul 1973
World on a Wire 1973
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (“ Acht Stunden sind kein Tag “) 1972
Wild Game 1972
Bremen Coffee 1972
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons 1971
Rios Das Mortes (, WGer, 84 mins 1970
The American Soldier 1970
The Coffee House 1970
Beware of a Holy Whore 1970
The Nicklashausen Journey 1970
Whitey (, WGer, 95 mins 1970
Pioneers in Ingolstadt 1970
Gods of the Plague 1969
Katzelmacher 1969
Why does Herr R. Run Amok? 1969
Love is Colder Than Death 1969
The Little Chaos 1966
The City Tramp 1965