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1	Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sweeping 16-hour-long drama Berlin Alexanderplatz is an adaptation of the novel by Alfred Doblin. Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) is released from prison as the film opens; he had been jailed for four years after killing his girlfriend Ida. Franz becomes involved with Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar) and promises to no ... see all copies from $61.90! new only from $61.90!
2	Fox and His Friends (1975) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Harry Baer, Adrian Hoven Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of the many films in the short, but prolific, career of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Franz Biberkopf, a financially poor gay man who performs in a traveling circus as Fox the Talking Head. One day, he lucks into winning half a million marks in a lottery. This ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.81!
3	The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and is the 13th of the 33 films he made in his short life. It explores the universal dynamics present in close human relationships, even lesbian ones. Petra Von Kant (Margit Carstensen) is a fashion designer. Some time ago, she divorced the husband she no longer loved ... see all copies from $15.02! new only from $15.02!
4	In a Year With 13 Moons (1978) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes This Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama centers around the lonely quest for love of Elvira Weishaupt, a man who became a woman to please his/her man. Just prior to that, Elivira had been jilted by her previous live-in partner, a man. She does the operation to win the heart of another, Anton. Unfortunately, the sex-change operation does not change the ... see all copies from $2.19! new only from $18.14!
5	Querelle (1982) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering with his customers. Win a throw of the dice, and they ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.14!
6	Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Lou Castel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the critics to have succeeded both technically and as drama. In it, a German film crew sits in their Italian hotel, waiting for the arrival of their director (Lou Castel), their star (Eddie Constantine) and more money. While they ... see all copies from $5.00!
7	Fear of Fear (1976) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier A housewife's slow descent into suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide see all copies from $5.85! new only from $18.70!
8	Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots. Later, Mother is "adopted" by a Communist couple who wish to exploit her husband's "act of defiance" for their ... see all copies from $5.88! new only from $5.88!
9	The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gottfried John, Gisela Uhlen, Günter Lamprecht, Hark Bohm The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The Marriage of Maria Braun stars the director's on-and-off favorite actress Hanna Schygulla in the title role. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria's new husband (Klaus Löwitsch) is shipped off to ... see all copies from $27.42! new only from $38.90!
10	Die Dritte Generation (1979) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation). Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides, the director demonstrates how the terrorists are ... see all copies from $12.54! new only from $14.02!
11 view cover	The American Soldier (1970) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Ingrid Caven American Soldier (originally Der Amerikanische Soldat) was the third of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "gangster trilogy." The film stars Karl Scheid as a German/American Vietnam veteran who takes a job as a hired assassin on behalf of the Munich crime lords. Scheid works both sides of the fence when three policemen engage him to knock off some ... see all copies from $2.62! new only from $16.11!
12 view cover	Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and ... see all copies from $13.83! new only from $13.83!
13 view cover	The Stationmaster's Wife (1976) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gustav Bayrhammer, Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier This drama is set in Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs of a stationmaster's bored wife. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide see all copies from $7.75! new only from $21.51!
14 view cover	Katzelmacher (1969) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hanna Schygulla, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas Jorgos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is a Greek immigrant in Germany who encounters the intolerance of the locals against foreign workers. Open hostility turns to violence when he is beaten up by the authoritarian thugs after dating a German woman. Male and female nudity along with hetero and homosexual sex scenes are shown in this searing indictment ... see all copies from $19.73!
15 view cover	Deutschland im Herbst (1978) more movies like this directed by Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Hans Peter Cloos, Katja Rupé, Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Schubert, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff featuring Caroline Chaniolleau, Lisi Mangold This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include ... see all copies from $67.72!
16 view cover	Effi Briest (1974) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films. The titular heroine, played by Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla, is a 17-year-old girl forced into a loveless marriage with an old count. Living as the aristocrat's ... see all copies from $34.99!
17 view cover	Rio das Mortes (1971) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Michael König Aimlessness and misplaced ambition take two friends in unexpected directions in this made-for-TV drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Michel (Michael Konig) and Gunther (Gunther Kauffmann) are two friends who feel trapped in Germany and are trying to decide what to do with their lives; Gunther has recently gotten out of the Army and is ... see all copies from $17.04! new only from $17.98!
18	Lola (1981) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs, Helga Feddersen Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy, Lola stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s who is romantically involved with Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a straight-as-an-arrow building inspector. Recently appointed Building Commissioner, Von Bohm ... see all copies from $37.11! new only from $37.11!
19 view cover	The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hans Hirschmuller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor Hans (Hans Hirschmüller) cannot please his family. His mother harps on his failures. His wife is openly discontent. He must peddle produce to his beloved ex-girlfriend, and he is mocked by his customers for being shorter and ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $11.50!
20 view cover	Gods of the Plague (1969) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film one-upping each other with a brace of scheming females ... see all copies from $16.31! new only from $16.31!
21 view cover	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Peter Gauhe Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an affair with equally lonely--and much, much younger--Moroccan mechanic El Hedi Ben Salem. They marry, despite the ... see all copies from $27.99! new only from $27.99!
22 view cover	Despair (1978) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set in 1930s Germany, is in English. It received mixed ... see all copies from $25.00!
23 view cover	Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) more movies like this directed by Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer, Amadeus Fengler A technical designer enjoys a comfortable life with his wife and child. He has the approval of his boss and is in good health except for smoking too much according to his doctor. His wife is visited by a girlfriend one Sunday afternoon. The man is bored watching television and grabs a chandelier and kills the conversing women and his child. In a ... see all copies from $13.83! new only from $13.83!
24 view cover	Martha (1973) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Martha is a wealthy and totally self-involved woman -- so much so that on a trip during which her father dies, she does indeed cry, but only because she lost her purse. She marries a stranger who claims not to be at all attracted to her, and their wedding is only the beginning of a battle between them to determine who will get the upper hand over ... see all copies from $13.83! new only from $13.83!
25 view cover	Whity (1971) more movies like this directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder featuring Günther Kaufmann, Ron Randell In his 36-year life, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some 40 films. He is perhaps best known to American audiences for his 1978 period drama, The Marriage of Maria Braun. A theme he examined repeatedly in his films was the unreasonable meanness of people, which he shows in a stark, relentless fashion. This early film, Whity, is set in the ... see all copies from $13.83! new only from $13.83!

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