Fassbinder

2015

German

6.7

♡ 7

Annekatrin Hendel Director

Claus Holm as Doctor

Hanna Schygulla as Herself

Irm Hermann as Herself

Günther Kaufmann as Himself

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers all the important stages from Action-Theater to the director's early death, supplemented with anecdotes.

Fox and His Friends

1975

German

7.6

♡ 14

86%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Peter Chatel as Eugen Thiess

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Franz Biberkopf

Irm Hermann as Madame Cherie / Bar Singer

Kurt Raab as Wodka-Peter

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.

Five Last Days

1982

German

6.8

♡ 3

Percy Adlon Director

Irm Hermann as Else Gebel

Michael Cornelius as Hans Scholl

Philip Arp as Philip

Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972

German

7.5

♡ 13

85%

australia

based on play or musical

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Eva Mattes as Gabriele von Kant

Hanna Schygulla as Karin Thimm

Irm Hermann as Marlene

Katrin Schaake as Sidonie von Grasenabb

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

Welcome to Germany

1988

German

6.5

Drama

Thomas Brasch Director

Anna Thalbach as 1. Mädchen

Leslie Malton as Freundin

Gedeon Burkhard as Janko

Irm Hermann as KZ-Kommandantin

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

1975

German

7.5

♡ 3

100%

parent child relationship

suicide

widow

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Kurt Raab as Barbesitzer Gustav

Irm Hermann as Helene

Volker Spengler as Photograph

Peter Chatel as Photograph

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

The Swing

6.2

Percy Adlon Director

Irm Hermann as Frau Erlendicht

Lena Stolze as Gervaise

Ulrich Tukur as Lhombre

Marianne Sägebrecht as Tandlerin

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

1984

German

6.5

♡ 1

Drama

Horror

woman director

Ulrike Ottinger Director

Hanno Jochimsen as

Veruschka von Lehndorff as Dorian Gray

Delphine Seyrig as Frau Dr. Mabuse

Irm Hermann as Passat

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.

Joan of Arc of Mongolia

6.8

Ulrike Ottinger Director

Amadeus Flössner as

Inés Sastre as Giovanna

Delphine Seyrig as Lady Windermere

Irm Hermann as Secondary-school teacher Mueller-Vohwinkel

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

German

8.0

♡ 17

100%

husband wife relationship

parent child relationship

Romance

unsociability

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

El Hedi ben Salem as Ali

Kurt Raab as Car Mechanic

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Eugen, Krista's husband

Irm Hermann as Krista

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Gods of the Plague

1970

German

6.4

♡ 2

83%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Irm Hermann as Barfrau

Kurt Raab as Gast in der Kneipe

Günther Kaufmann as Günther, 'Gorilla'

Hanna Schygulla as Johanna Reiher

A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

The American Soldier

1970

German

6.5

♡ 5

79%

55%

Action

Drama

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Franz Walsch

Irm Hermann as Hure

Karl Scheydt as Ricky

Kurt Raab as Rickys Bruder

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Katzelmacher

1969

German

6.8

♡ 2

100%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Irm Hermann as Elisabeth

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Jorgos

Hanna Schygulla as Marie

Peter Moland as Peter

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.

Woyzeck

1979

German

7.0

♡ 14

86%

Werner Herzog Director

Wolfgang Bächler as Jew

Irm Hermann as Margret

Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier

Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Baal

1970

German

6.3

♡ 2

80%

based on play or musical

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Baal

Irm Hermann as Hausfrau

Günther Kaufmann as Kutscher Orgauer

Hanna Schygulla as Luise

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an antiheroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Love Is Colder Than Death

1969

German

6.4

♡ 3

70%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Kurt Raab as Aufsichtsperson im Kaufhaus

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Franz Walsch

Hanna Schygulla as Johanna

Irm Hermann as Sonnenbrillenverkäuferin

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.

Fear of Fear

1975

German

7.4

♡ 6

85%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Herbert Steinmetz as Dr. Auer

Kurt Raab as Herr Bauer

Irm Hermann as Lore

Brigitte Mira as Mutter

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

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Fassbinder

Fox and His Friends

Five Last Days

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Welcome to Germany

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

The Swing

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

Joan of Arc of Mongolia

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Gods of the Plague

The American Soldier

Katzelmacher

Woyzeck

Baal

Love Is Colder Than Death

Fear of Fear