Summary: Includes several interviews with the women who formed part of the professional and personal lives of the German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Release Date: June 17, 2001

Genre: Documentary

Director: Rosa von Praunheim

Writer: Rosa von Praunheim

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Die Zeit TV, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 160,854

Germany Pale Mother (1980)

Summary: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Ber...

Release Date: September 26, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

Production: Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, Literarisches Colloquium, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Demons (1985)

Summary: A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.

Release Date: May 30, 1986

Genre: Horror

Director: Lamberto Bava

Writers: Dardano Sacchetti

, Dario Argento

, Lamberto Bava

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: DACFILM Rome

Distributor: Ascot Entertainment Group, New World Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Home Entertainment, Best Film & Video, Synapse Films

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Summary: A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Release Date: October 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 260,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 8,103

The Legend of Rita (2000)

Summary: The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unifica...

Release Date: September 14, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writers: Wolfgang Kohlhaase

, Volker Schlöndorff

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: ARTE, Babelsberg Film, MDR, ARTE, Mitteldeutsches Filmkontor (MDF)

Distributor: Kino International, Eurochannel, Filmwerte, Kino Video

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 671,565

Lola (1981)

Summary: A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.

Release Date: August 04, 1982

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rialto Film, Trio Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: United Artists Classics, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 1,186

Das wilde Leben (2007)

Summary: Uschi Obermeier, a German cover model from the 1960s who embodied the dreams of the hippie generation - joins a commune, begins a modelling career, meets rock stars, and travels the world in a bus, enjoying love, drugs and freedom.

Release Date: February 01, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Akiz

Writers: Olaf Kraemer

, Akiz

, Claus Peter Hant

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Babelsberg Film, Neue Bioskop Film, On the Road, Studio Babelsberg

Distributor: MPI Home Video

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 2,616

International: $ 955,128

The Nasty Girl (1990)

Summary: When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Michael Verhoeven

Writer: Michael Verhoeven

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Sentana Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Miramax, National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 2,281,569

International: $ 12,056

Alice in the Cities (1974)

Summary: A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Release Date: May 17, 1974

Genre: Drama

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Wim Wenders

, Veith von Fürstenberg

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Filmverlag der Autoren, Produktion 1 im Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: Bauer International, Pacific Arts

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 500,000

The Tunnel (2001)

Summary: During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.

Release Date: January 21, 2001

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Roland Suso Richter

Writer: Johannes W. Betz

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

Production: Sat.1, teamWorx Television & Film

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 7,100,000

Domestic: $ 46,296

International: $ 68,816

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

Summary: Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following th...

Release Date: January 20, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writer: Jean-Luc Godard

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

Production: France 2 (FR2), Production Brainstorm, Gaumont

Country: France

Language: French

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Summary: 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 p...

Release Date: January 02, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Kurt Raab

, Heinrich Zille

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Filmverlag der Autoren, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Night Crossing (1982)

Summary: True tale about two men planning to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.

Release Date: February 05, 1982

Genres: Drama, Family, History

Director: Delbert Mann

Writer: John McGreevey

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Productions, Bavaria Film

Distributor: Disney Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,000,000

Never Look Away (2018)

Summary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

Release Date: October 03, 2018

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 3 h 09 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Pergamon Film, Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Beta Cinema, Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Sky Deutschland, Rai Cinema, Sony Pictures Classics, ARTE, W.o.A. Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Beta Cinema, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Germany, Italy, United States

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,304,042

International: $ 4,889,192

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Release Date: March 23, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Fengler Films, Filmverlag der Autoren, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,975,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 3,715

Baader (2002)

Summary: Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.

Release Date: October 17, 2002

Genres: Action, Crime, Biography

Director: Christopher Roth

Writers: Christopher Roth

, Moritz von Uslar

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Production: 72 Film, Leading Edge Producciones, SellOutPictures

Countries: Germany, United Kingdom

Language: German

The Third Generation (1979)

Summary: A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Release Date: September 09, 1980

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 800,000

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Summary: During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Release Date: October 16, 2015

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Matt Charman

, Ethan Coen

, Joel Coen

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant, TSG Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Studio Babelsberg

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, India, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 72,313,754

International: $ 93,164,594

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Summary: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Release Date: June 30, 1971

Genres: Family, Musical, Fantasy

Director: Mel Stuart