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, 2h3
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Karlheinz Böhm,
Peter Chatel,
Kurt Raab,
El Hedi ben Salem,
Adrian HovenRating75%




Franz Bieberkopf is a sweet and unsophisticated working-class homosexual who works in a carnival as "Fox, the Talking Head". He finds himself without a job when his
, 2h4
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
BDSM in films,
LGBT-related films,
Films based on plays,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Margit Carstensen,
Hanna Schygulla,
Irm Hermann,
Eva Mattes,
Lída Baarová,
Katrin SchaakeRating74%




Petra von Kant (Carstersen) is a prominent fashion designer based in Bremen. The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men. The room also contains numerous life-size mannequins for her work, though only her assistant Marlene (Hermann) is shown using them. 
, 1h28
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about immigration,
Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Hanna Schygulla,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Harry Baer,
Irm Hermann,
Katrin SchaakeRating67%




Jorgos, émigrant grec, rejoint une communeauté très soudée. Dès son arrivée, il suscite la jalousie et songe à repartir chez lui.
, 1h28
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Gangster filmsActors Ulli Lommel,
Hanna Schygulla,
Ingrid Caven,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Katrin Schaake,
Irm HermannRating64%




Petty hood Franz (Fassbinder), who at the start of the movie refuses to join the Syndicate. He then meets the handsome young thug Bruno (Lommel), who has been ordered by the Syndicate to follow him, and gives him his Munich address (Heßstraße 129). 
, 2h20
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about sexualityActors Hanna Schygulla,
Wolfgang Schenck,
Karlheinz Böhm,
Ulli Lommel,
Lilo Pempeit,
Irm HermannRating68%




The film begins with Effi Briest using a swing set in her family’s back yard, where her mother, Louise Briest, comments on her wild nature, saying that she has an aerial spirit. Later, Effi is seen talking to some of the other teenage girls outside her house about when Baron Instetten was younger. She recalls a story her mother had told her about Instetten visiting her at her family estate while he was still a soldier. However, the man who would become Effi’s father was already in the council of nobles and owned Hohen-Cremmen, so when he asked to marry Effi’s mother she chose to accept. Afterward, Instetten chose to resign from the army and study law. When Effi returns inside, Effi’s mother informs her that Baron Instetten has asked for her hand. With her parent’s encouragement, along with her own desire for prestige, she accepts the proposal.
, 14h54
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about prostitution,
Films about psychiatry,
Political films,
Erotic thriller films,
Films set in psychiatric hospitals,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Hanna Schygulla,
Barbara Sukowa,
Bata Kameni,
Elisabeth Trissenaar,
Gottfried John,
Karin BaalRating83%




1: The Punishment Begins
Berlin, 1928. Franz Biberkopf is released after serving four years in Tegel prison for killing his girlfriend Ida. After settling into his old apartment he visits Minna, Ida’s sister. Minna succumbs to his forceful advances. In a flashback we see Franz kill Ida with a cream whip after correctly suspecting she was about to leave him. Franz later runs into his old friend Meck and has a drink with him in Max’s bar, a local place. There he meets Lina Przybilla, a young Polish woman, who moves in with him. He receives notification from the Berlin Police that he is barred from living in certain Berlin districts and surrounding municipalities, under the threat of a fine or imprisonment, Biberkopf places himself under the supervision of a charity called Prisoners' Aid, to which he must report once a month, and remain in employment. By doing this, he is able to remain in Berlin.

, 2h4
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about prostitution,
Transgender in film,
Erotic thriller films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Volker Spengler,
Ingrid Caven,
Gottfried John,
Karl Scheydt,
Eva Mattes,
Günther KaufmannRating73%




The film recounts the last few days in the life of Elvira (Volker Spengler), a transsexual woman formerly known as Erwin. After being beat up for trying to buy sex in a park, she returns home to her longtime lover Christoph (Karl Scheydt), who's been away for six weeks. Christoph abuses her verbally and physically, and when he announces he's leaving for good, she desperately tries to stop him, only to be rescued by her friend Zora (Ingrid Caven). We watch as Elvira and Zora visit a slaughterhouse and the orphanage where Elvira grew up, and her later contacts with her family and former lover Anton Saitz (Gottfried John), as she attempts to come to terms with the consequences of her decision to change her sex.
, 1h53
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Barbara Sukowa,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Mario Adorf,
Karin Baal,
Ivan Desny,
Hark BohmRating73%




In 1957–1958 in Coburg, in post-World War II West Germany, Schuckert (Mario Adorf) is a local construction entrepreneur whose methods of gaining wealth include shady business practices such as bribing the local officials. His latest scheme is endangered with the arrival of von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a high-minded building commissioner.
, 1h47
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about prostitution,
Serial killer films,
Erotic thriller films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Brad Davis,
Franco Nero,
Jeanne Moreau,
Laurent Malet,
Günther Kaufmann,
Hanno PöschlRating65%




The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. When his ship, the Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he visits the Feria, a bar and brothel for sailors run by the madame Lysiane, whose lover Robert is Querelle's brother. Querelle has a love/hate relationship with his brother; when they meet at La Feria, they embrace, but also punch one another slowly and repeatedly in the belly. Lysiane's husband Nono tends bar and manages La Feria's underhanded affairs with the assistance of his friend, the corrupt police captain Mario.
, 1h31
Directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about sexuality,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Gangster films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Harry Baer,
Hanna Schygulla,
Margarethe von Trotta,
Ingrid Caven,
Irm Hermann,
Rainer Werner FassbinderRating63%




After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch surely finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld and also finds that his attentions are meanwhile torn now between two women, Joanna and Margarethe, as well as by Günther, his friend who earlier shot his brother.