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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Summary: A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Release Date: October 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 260,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 8,103

20 - Rotten Tomatoes

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Summary: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

Release Date: February 02, 1976

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Christian Hohoff

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: City Film, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, New Yorker Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 450,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

17 - Rotten Tomatoes

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Summary: On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...

Release Date: July 15, 1983

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Nova International Films

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 961

16 - Rotten Tomatoes

Veronika Voss (1982)

Summary: Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...

Release Date: May 13, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

13 - Rotten Tomatoes

The American Soldier (1970)

Summary: Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...

Release Date: July 23, 1971

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 280,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

12 - Rotten Tomatoes

Lili Marleen (1981)

Summary: In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Manfred Purzer

, Joshua Sinclair

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), CIP Filmproduktion GmbH, Rialto Film, Roxy Films, Roxy-Film GmbH & Co. KG

Distributor: United Artists Classics

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

10 - Rotten Tomatoes

Katzelmacher (1969)

Summary: Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...

Release Date: November 22, 1969

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Antiteater-X-Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 80,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

8 - Rotten Tomatoes

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

Summary: Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

Release Date: July 12, 1973

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Ulli Lommel

Writer: Kurt Raab

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: Arrow Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 250,000

6 - Rotten Tomatoes

The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

Summary: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the ...

Release Date: October 26, 1970

Genre: Drama

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Michael Fengler

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Michael Fengler

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Janus Film und Fernsehen, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 550,000

5 - Rotten Tomatoes

Whity (1971)

Summary: Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and th...

Release Date: June 02, 1971

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Atlantis Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 680,000

5 - Rotten Tomatoes

Gods of the Plague (1970)

Summary: A man is released from prison and finds the 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.

Release Date: July 24, 1970

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 180,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

4 - Rotten Tomatoes

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Summary: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a g...

Genre: Drama

Director: Daniel Schmid

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Daniel Schmid

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Artco-Film

Distributor: Leisure Time Features

Countries: Switzerland, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 600,000

3 - Rotten Tomatoes

Rio das Mortes (1971)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: February 15, 1971

Genre: Comedy

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Janus Film und Fernsehen

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 125,000

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Release Date: March 23, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Fengler Films, Filmverlag der Autoren, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,975,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 3,711

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

Kamikaze 89 (1982)

Summary: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Release Date: July 16, 1982

Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Wolf Gremm

Writers: Robert Katz

, Wolf Gremm

, Per Wahlöö

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Trio Film, Oase Film Essen, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Film Movement Classics, Film Movement, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, TeleCulture

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 22,440

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Summary: In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

Release Date: August 10, 1983

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bavaria Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

TV Series budget: $ 13,000,000

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

Summary: Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Release Date: February 10, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, New Yorker Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 325,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

Adolf und Marlene (1977)

Summary: When Hitler sees Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bi...

Release Date: March 15, 1977

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ulli Lommel

Writer: Ulli Lommel

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Trio Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

0 - Rotten Tomatoes

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Summary: A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.

Release Date: June 11, 1980

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder