Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Looking for reviews of films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder? Cinafilm has a total of 560 reviews across 16 movies directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 70%.

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 6 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Rainer Werner Fassbinder is Rio das Mortes, with a score of 49% based on 4 reviews.

Director Biography

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Cooper what is prolific; in a professional career that lasted 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.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has directed films starring Ingrid Caven, Lilo Pempeit, Irm Hermann and Kurt Raab.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has collaborated with these film directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé and Alexander Kluge.