Karl Scheydt

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes. One sociable day, while toasting his friends and family, he decides to drink himself to death. (IMDB)

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 (imdb)

After series of bad events in her life, Elvira, a transsexual, undergoes an emotional journey to reexamine her life and sexual identity.

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas... (imdb)

Ricky is a cold-blooded German-American contract killer. After serving in Vietnam 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 accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However she falls for the killer. (imdb)

A total of five episodes were aired. Fassbinder actually wrote eight episodes, but the show was cancelled and the last three were never shot. (KG)

An American in Holland teaching a film class falls for a young Dutch student/athlete. (imdb)