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Lili Marleen (1981)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Manfred Purzer

, Joshua Sinclair

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), CIP Filmproduktion GmbH, Rialto Film, Roxy Films, Roxy-Film GmbH & Co. KG

Distributor: United Artists Classics

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Despair (1978)

Summary: In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep...

Release Date: September 20, 1978

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, Vladimir Nabokov

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

Production: Bavaria Atelier, Bavaria Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: Olive Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Querelle (1982)

Summary: A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.

Release Date: September 08, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Jean Genet

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Burkhard Driest

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Planet Film, Albatros Filmproduktion, Gaumont

Distributor: Triumph Films, California Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,400,000

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

Veronika Voss (1982)

Summary: Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...

Release Date: May 13, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

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

The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)

Summary: Lackluster, plodding stationmaster Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

Release Date: July 31, 1977

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Oskar Maria Graf

Runtime: 3 h 21 min

Production: Bavaria Atelier, Bavaria Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Summary: 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...

Release Date: July 15, 1983

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Nova International Films

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

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 961

Chinese Roulette (1976)

Summary: 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."

Release Date: March 30, 1977

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Les Films du Losange

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

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

I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)

Summary: A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house. Instead of offering their flat t...

Release Date: March 23, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Klaus Antes

, Christiane Erhardt

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bavaria Atelier, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Olive Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 800,000

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

Effi Briest (1974)

Summary: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi...

Release Date: June 16, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Theodor Fontane

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Summary: A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.

Release Date: June 11, 1980

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

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

Distributor: Fantoma, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Whity (1971)

Summary: Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and th...

Release Date: June 02, 1971

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Atlantis Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 680,000

Satan's Brew (1976)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: March 02, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Trio Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Summary: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a g...

Genre: Drama

Director: Daniel Schmid

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Daniel Schmid

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Artco-Film

Distributor: Leisure Time Features

Countries: Switzerland, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 600,000

The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

Summary: 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 ...

Release Date: October 26, 1970

Genre: Drama

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Michael Fengler

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Michael Fengler

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Janus Film und Fernsehen, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 550,000

Nora Helmer (1974)

Summary: A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder's interpretation of "A dolls house".

Release Date: February 03, 1974

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Henrik Ibsen

, Bernhard Schulze

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), Telefilm Saar GmbH

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 550,000

Martha (1974)

Summary: After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.

Release Date: May 28, 1974

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Cornell Woolrich

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Production: Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Fantoma

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

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