Fear Eats the Soul
(1974) [PG]

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Angst Essen Seele Auf, (1974) a young Moroccan mechanic, "Ali," (El Hedi ben Salem) falls in love with an older German woman. The story takes off when Emmi, (Brigitte Mira) a widowed cleaning woman, is asked to dance by Ali at a local bar. Soon after Ali walks...  More

In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1978) [MA]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

In a Year with 13 Moons:...  More

Fear of Fear (Fassbinder on Melodrama)
[M]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, drew much of his inspiration from the work of his idol, the German-born king of Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk. Each of these three films is centred on a woman who is under pressure from those around her to conform, and...  More

Gods Of the Plague (RW Fassbinder: The Gangster Films)
(1970) [R]

Three of RW Fassbinder's early works united together in a single release. Each reworking the gangster noir genre, a la the French New Wave, these three Fassbinder films are some of the most interesting and intriguing of the New German Cinema movement. The loose trilogy of Love is Colder Than...  More

The Merchant of Four Seasons
(1972) [MA]

Hans is a born loser. After returning from a year in the Foreign Legion, his aspirations of becoming an engineer cave in to his reality as a humble street fruit peddler, a career choice which upsets both his domineering wife and his middle-class family. Due to his family's lack of respect and...  More

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder on Terror)
(1975) [MA]

Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots. Later, Mother is "adopted" by a Communist couple who wish to...  More

The Third Generation (Fassbinder on Terror)
(1979) [MA]

Made during the 2nd Generation of the violent left-wing West German group, Red Army Faction, the film speculates on what lay behind increased security and domestic terrorism in Germany. The first third of the movie plays as a comedy of the inside shenanigans of how such a group would behave. The...  More