Directing · Bad Wörishofen, Germany · Born May 31, 1945
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature-length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays. He had tortured, personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.
MovieSukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
MovieWim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePhotographer "Eise"
2019
as Self
MovieA German Youth
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFassbinder
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAlfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MovieOnce Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMy Name Is Not Ali
2011
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDaniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCounter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Atlètic Club Banyoles
2007
as self
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2006
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005
as Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFassbinder in Hollywood
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFassbinder's Women
2000
as Self (Archive footage)
MovieI Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
as Self (archive footage)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
1987
as Self
MovieRoom 666
1985
as Self
MovieThe Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
MovieThe Wizard of Babylon
1982
as Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982
as Self
MovieKamikaze '89
1982
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
MovieVeronika Voss
1982
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Polnischer Sommer
1981
as Babiuch
MovieCinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981
as Self
MovieLili Marleen
1981
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
TVBerlin Alexanderplatz
1980
as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980
as Self
MovieNotes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
1980
as Self
MovieThe Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
as Peddler
MovieBourbon Street Blues
1979
as Writer
TVNDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
MovieIn a Year with 13 Moons
1978
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieLife Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
1978
as Self
Little Godard
1978
as Second Director
MovieGermany in Autumn
1978
as Self (uncredited)
Biographies
1978
as Self
MovieAdolf and Marlene
1977
as Hermann
MovieSigns of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
MovieThe American Soldier
1976
as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
MovieShadow of Angels
1976
as Raoul
MovieThe Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976
as Self
MovieFox and His Friends
1975
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Die Wohngenossin
1975
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
1975
as Self
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self
MovieEffi Briest
1974
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
TVAm laufenden Band
1974
as Self - Guest
MovieAli: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
as Eugen
Movie1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
as Self
MovieTenderness of the Wolves
1973
as Wittowski
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
MovieBremen Freedom
1972
as Rumpf
MovieThe Merchant of Four Seasons
1972
as Zucker
MovieThe Ancestress
1971
as Jaromir
MovieBeware of a Holy Whore
1971
as Sascha
MovieWhity
1971
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
MovieMathias Kneißl
1971
as Flecklbauer
MovieSupergirl
1971
as Man in Front of Shop Window
TVDalli Dalli
1971
as Self
MovieThe Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971
as Bauer
MovieRio das Mortes
1971
as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971
as Self
MovieHaytabo
1971
as Courier
MovieThe Niklashausen Journey
1970
as Schwarzer Mönch
MovieGods of the Plague
1970
as Pornokunde
MovieEnd of the Commune?
1970
as Self (uncredited)
MovieLove Is Colder Than Death
1970
as Franz
MovieBaal
1970
as Baal
MovieKatzelmacher
1969
as Jorgos
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
1969
as Heini
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
1969
as Mechaniker
Tonys Freunde
1969
as Mallard
MovieThe Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968
as the pimp
MovieMit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
1968
as Soldier
MovieThe Little Chaos
1966
as Franz
MovieThe City Tramp
1966
as Man #1 on Toilet
aspekte
1965
as Self
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
TVStars in the Ring
1959
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
