Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director · Born 31 May 1945 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany · Died 10 June 1982 · 19 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

7 of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 5 on Cineasterna and 2 on Netflix. Highest rated available: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) ★ 8.0.

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.

Acting

• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)
• The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)

Directing

• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
• Querelle (1982)
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
• Martha (1974)
• Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)

Writing

• Querelle (1982)
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
• Martha (1974)
• Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)

Producing

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Music

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

As self

• Room 666 (1985)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Veronika Voss (1982)
• Fox and His Friends (1975)
• Lola (1981)
• Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
• Chinese Roulette (1977)
• Lili Marleen (1981)
• In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
• The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)