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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actor · 97 credits · 50 in highly-rated films

Best known for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Frequent collaborators: Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Ulli Lommel, Ingrid Caven

Best Rainer Werner Fassbinder movies by genre

Movies (56 total, ranked by score)

  1. Fox and His Friends

    1975 · ★ 7.2 (153 votes)

    Drama

    1

  2. Veronika Voss

    1982 · ★ 7.2 (154 votes)

    Drama

    2

  3. Katzelmacher

    1969 · ★ 6.3 (56 votes)

    Drama

    3

  4. Fassbinder's Women

    2000 · ★ 5.0 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Back to Room 666

    2008 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. A German Youth

    2015 · ★ 7.1 (26 votes)

    Documentary, History

    6

  7. Love Is Colder Than Death

    1970 · ★ 6.2 (59 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    7

  8. Room 666

    1985 · ★ 6.6 (57 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    2015 · ★ 6.4 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. Beware of a Holy Whore

    1971 · ★ 6.2 (63 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    10

  11. Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

    1968 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Comedy

    11

  12. The Ancestress

    1971

    TV Movie

    12

  13. The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    1971 · ★ 6.5 (17 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    13

  14. Baal

    1970 · ★ 5.7 (19 votes)

    Drama

    14

  15. Haytabo

    1971 · ★ 6.8 (5 votes)

    Drama, Science Fiction

    15

  16. Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    2010 · ★ 5.8 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

    1982 · ★ 6.2 (4 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    17

  18. Kamikaze '89

    1982 · ★ 5.3 (26 votes)

    Science Fiction, Thriller

    18

  19. I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    1992 · ★ 6.5 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. The Little Chaos

    1966 · ★ 6.3 (30 votes)

    Comedy, Crime

    20

  21. Bourbon Street Blues

    1979 · ★ 5.9 (7 votes)

    Drama

    21

  22. Fassbinder

    2015 · ★ 6.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    1976

    Documentary

    23

  24. Bremen Freedom

    1972 · ★ 6.2 (6 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    24

  25. End of the Commune?

    1970

    Documentary

    25

  26. Gods of the Plague

    1970 · ★ 5.6 (31 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    26

  27. The City Tramp

    1966 · ★ 6.0 (25 votes)

    Drama

    27

  28. The Niklashausen Journey

    1970 · ★ 5.8 (9 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    28

  29. Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

    1980 · ★ 6.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    29

  30. Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

    1971

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.