Rainer Werner Fassbinder
38 films · 1965 to 1982 · 7 on TSPDT
Born 31 May 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Germany · Died 10 June 1982
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.
Defining films
In their own words
I love the way Fassbinder makes films. I try to make my films in the same spirit as Fassbinder.
We're trying to achieve something like that, where everything has this artificial look and feel, but it's still telling a human story.
His great influence, he said, was the German director Douglas Sirk, who fled Hitler and in Hollywood made a series of silky melodramas ('Imitation of Life,' 'Written on the Wind,' 'All That Heaven Allows').
I love the way Fassbinder makes films. I love how he directs the actresses. I try to make my films in the same spirit as Fassbinder.
Films by decade
Fox and his Friends
The Third Generation
Germany in Autumn
Women in New York
Despair
Bolweiser
Bolweiser
I Only Want You to Love Me
Satan’s Brew
Chinese Roulette
Fear of Fear
Mother K ü sters’ Trip to Heaven
Mother K ü sters’ Trip to Heaven
Like a Bird on the Wire
Like a Bird on the Wire
Fear Eats the Soul
World on a Wire
Wild Game
Bremen Coffee
Bremen Coffee
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (“ Acht Stunden sind kein Tag “)
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (“ Acht Stunden sind kein Tag “)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
The American Soldier
The Coffee House
Beware of a Holy Whore
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The Nicklashausen Journey
The Nicklashausen Journey
Martha
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
