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.

Querelle

1982

English

6.6

♡ 20

65%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Werner Asam as Arbeiter

Franco Nero as Lieutenant Seblon

Roger Fritz as Marcellin

Günther Kaufmann as Nono

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.

Rio das Mortes

1971

German

6.2

♡ 1

35%

Action

Comedy

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as Günther

Hanna Schygulla as Hanna

Michael König as Michel

Kurt Raab as Tankwart

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Veronika Voss

1982

German

7.6

♡ 14

76%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Volker Spengler as 1. Regisseur

Günther Kaufmann as G.I. / Dealer

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Max Rehbein

Hilmar Thate as Robert Krohn

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.

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 Third Generation

1979

German

6.7

♡ 11

92%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as Franz Walsch

Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Himself

Claus Holm as Opa Gast

Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Killing is My Business, Honey

2009

German

5.7

♡ 3

52%

woman between two men

Sebastian Niemann Director

Doris Kunstmann as Frau Eisenstein

Wolf Roth as Paolo Rossi

Bud Spencer as Pepe

Günther Kaufmann as Salvatore Marino

A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.

In a Year with 13 Moons

1978

German

7.3

♡ 10

76%

frankfurt am main, germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Volker Spengler as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Himself

Günther Kaufmann as J. Smolik, Chauffeur

Walter Bockmayer as Seelenfrieda

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

German

7.7

♡ 19

93%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as American on train

Claus Holm as Doctor

Hanna Schygulla as Maria Braun

Volker Spengler as Train conductor

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

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.

Lola

♡ 16

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as GI

Mario Adorf as Schuckert

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Von Bohm

Udo Kier as Waiter

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Holly - The Movie

6.4

Xaver Schwarzenberger Director

Klaus Dahlen as (credit only)

Tilly Lauenstein as Dame

Andreas Mannkopff as Haenlein

Günther Kaufmann as US-Soldat

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

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Querelle

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In a Year with 13 Moons

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Baal

Lola

Holly - The Movie